Nowhere has it ever been said… that our greatness can be but a shiny idea that grows from our humble finger taps, upon a dirty old keyboard, spiralling outward and touching thousands of minds with an impact akin to a ENF superhero!
And so it starts… Here be where all the 2k awards will be collected. Where writers can shine, and readers can heap praise. May the most creatively written award win! Wait, what?
Nun-thing to Worry About (2k) – by Tenyari
Cool Blade Runner-like Sci-fi Award. Cute Elf-like Alien Award. Immersive Dialog Award. Positively Granny Panties Award. The Chocolate Surprise Award. First Public Orgasm Award. Nun Dreams Up in Smoke Award. The Future Blanke Schande Award. Brief Glimpse of a Larger World Award. Creative Space Galore Award.
Cherry Bomb (2K) – by ReaderMan
The most imaginative plot Award. The innovative use of IT technology Award. The erotic visuals award. Free your mind / It’s all in your head – Award. You’re your own worst enemy Award. Just a friendship? Award. Rollercoaster ride Award. Every bit as badass as her reputation indicates Award. Pushing the limits of 2000 words Award. Foolish Leap Award. Twisty Twists Award. Public Demand Prequel Award. What a pity you didn’t answer the Seven Chapters Award. You’re your own worst enemy Award. Vanilla Submission Award. Zero to Sixty Award.
Are You Sick? (2K) – by Dimitrii
Unexpected Guest Award. Easy to Read Writing Style Award. Funny Left Alone Award. Simultaneous Apologetic Hand Award. Great Realism Award. Classy ENM Award. Good Humour Award. Fun Ending Award. The Partially True Story Award. This Could Happen to Anyone Award. Reality Turns into Imagination Award. Something I Need to Make Use of someday Award. Such a Great Excuse for Helping Bathe a Naked Man Award. Help Me Like That Award!
Phryne before the Areopagus (2k) – by Anon Moose
Story Based upon 1861 French Painting Award. Clear Sentences Award. Lively Dialog Award. Surprise Reveal Award. Patiently waiting Nude for Jury Award. Short and Sweet Award. Fun little story award. Inspired by art award. Oldest totally new story Award. Cultural exposure Award. Blushy Historical Precedent Award.
Real Estate (2k) – by arthwys
Strong Moody Atmospheric Opening Award. Hiding wet and naked without Clothes Award. Mysterious Steaming Bathtub Award. Curious Tension Buildup Award. Suspicious Footprint Analysis Award. Shocking Hair Grabbing Award. Excellent Slow Reveal Award. The Clever Repeating Loop Award. Great Closing Curtain Award. Forgetting to bring a towel to the bathroom award. Efficient writing award. POV switch done well award. Engaging writing award. Intriguing mystery award. Intriguing Back Story Award. Extraordinary Potential Award. A Writer Who Can Take Us Places Award. Sub-genre that this Near and Dear to My Heart Award. Three POVs in a Short Story Award. Gothic Horror Award. Endless Ethereal Engineering Award.
Magic Glasses – A tale is set in the Twilight Zone (2k) – by Barelin
The Creative Foreshadowing Award. The Topless Anchorwoman Award. Fun twilight Zone Award. The Blurry Vision Award. The helpful Friend Award. The Good Memory of the Topless Anchorwoman Award. Air-dry after a shower award. A good friend’s unconditional help Award. Was it the lenses or psychological? Award. Best way to go blind Award.
Closing time (2k) – by Cave
Best Supportive Boyfriend/Husband Award (or should it be) Best Supportive Girlfriend/Wife Award? Best Surprise Ending Award. Fun Atmosphere Award. Most fun I’ve had in 9 minutes in a long time Award. Double Standard Award. The “I pretended to ignore her” Award. The “I had no choice” Award. The ‘why did they decide to trust her and let her leave with a bikini?’ Award. A second vote for Best Surprise Ending Award. Brazen Perverted Stalker Award. Un-lucky Kim Award? Three Happy Jerks Award. Sneaky Cubicle Thief Award. Delightful Skimpy Bikini Award. Not your Imagination, yes she’s enjoying it, Award. The Considerate Robber Award. The Last Minute Panic Award. The Awesome Unexpected Bikini Purchase Security Tag Problem Award. The Three Videos Award. The Wonderfully Bare Usher To The Gate Award. The Smirking Tease of an Employee Award. The Great ENF Mall Dressing Area Award. The Fun and Clever Surprise Ending Award. Surprise twist award. Foreshadowing? Award. I know you are but what am I Award. This is not the stalker you are looking for award. Most Amount of Public Nudity Award. Second Read is even better Award. Unexpectedly Delicious Escalation Award.
At The Office (2k) – by StoryboardAnon
Good Start Award. Fitting Location Award. Fun Situation Award. Interesting Dialog Award. Great Realism Award. Fun Situation Award Good Dialog Award. Best Photocopier Abuse Award. The uncertain ending-cliff-hanger award requiring the reader to use his/her imagination of what happens next. Bottomless Zoom meeting Award. Topless Zoom meeting Award. Caught nude at the office Award. Teaser ending Award. Adult Fun and Hesitation Award.
This is awesome! Six stories so far, plus I wrote one myself. Just needs a few more edits but should be able to get it out this weekend. I hope a few more of you squeeze in something. Don’t be afraid. Don’t be keeping all those shy naked imaginations to yourself, expose them to the world! Try it, it’s fun. 🙂
Eight stories so far! This is going very well. In a day or two I’ll enjoy posting a special summary comment about this writing challenge.
If you are currently in the middle of writing a 2k story, don’t sweat it. This new more fun and friendly, Award System, is a lot more flexible and forgiving for late stragglers. So don’t be alarmed if you are a few days late, or if the next writing challenge starts before you post. The primary goal here is to enjoy the creative process, get some fun feedback and help grow our community.
No story will be left behind!
Real life has hit me a bit hard this week, so any remaining Awards not showing up in the Award Bucket post yet will likely be added on the weekend. Likewise, I will get to that summary and start our next contest. In the meantime, if you have not yet read all the stories, you still have time to make some writers day.
And so ends our brave foray into brevity. Brave, because short stories are a wonderful place to experiment with risky ideas and take chances. All of our writers did so and that makes me happy. This was a great writing challenge and we got to test out the new awards system, which I think has earned a pass. I’ll conclude with a single award for each story.
At the Office – Adult Fun and Hesitation Award.
I like how Edith realistically goes a little far with casual Friday with almost everyone out of the office due to covid. Likewise I like that she doesn’t freak out too much being caught, and that she is torn if she wants to put them back on after getting them back. No blackmail or anything. Just plain adult fun and sexy human hesitation.
Closing Time – Unexpectedly Delicious Escalation Award.
Kim drew in our attention quickly as the hapless victim of a funny yet seemingly dangerous stalker. It was a brilliant setup. This story took risks, and we were all well rewarded with LOTS of ENF. The cool part is that Kim and the mysterious main character (stalker) were both also rewarded with everything that happened. But because we didn’t know that initially, the story is boosted with an exciting undercurrent. And if that wasn’t enough, our secret couple gets a big surprise in the end that was a-kin to a cherry on top. This story impossibly, eats the cake and keeps it as well!
Magic Glasses – Best way to go blind Award.
This short story was well written in that we believe what Dave believes. The long version of the title emphasizes that something might be unbelievable (twilight zone style), and that was perfect. At the end we are again in sync with Dave wishing that the anchorwoman was really topless.
Real Estate – Endless Ethereal Engineering Award.
Why Engineering? Because this story is in such sync that it is technically amazing. Like a blast into to ethereal time loop. We just needed three well-calibrated episodes, executed just right, to imagine the momentum from this going for all eternity. Toss in the ENF, the horror, the gothic feel and we have a very slick, original experiment in writing, that never really ends!
Phryne before the Areopagus – Blushy Historical Precedent Award.
This super short story focused on a single dramatic moment. It was brief, but fun and the historical aspect was another layer that we all could enjoy.
Are You Sick? – Help Me Like That Award!
Personally, I often struggle with male ENM stories, and yet this one somehow pulled me in. More than that, I really enjoyed it. The cascading escalations were enjoyable, realistic, and I could totally imagine the scenario. Makes one wish we could have been sick in his place!
Cherry Bomb – Zero to Sixty Award.
Yes, that’s right – I awarded myself. What I like most about this story was that it opened up my appetite for short stories, boosted my creativity and wet my appetite for experimentation. I was left unsatisfied with not enough stuff that I wanted to try ( which is ideal ). So I’m just going to have to keep writing these short stories, and that feeling carries over to my Emi story as well. My mindset was always, what can I do to maximize one thing, say… hit the gas, and go — zero-to-sixty — with something, anything. Just pick something, and go go go!
Nun-thing to Worry About – Creative Space Galore Award.
Nobody goes full throttle like Tenyari. I mean, talk about powerful contrasts. From Shy Teen Nun Wannabe to genetic clothing allergy victim, and chocolate induced horniness (in public no less) – in the blink of an eye. With a backdrop setting that is a sexy ENF mix of Star Wars and Blade Runner. How all on earth was all this packed into 2k? Regardless, it’s a hell of a setting that will require poor Jacaranda to attend school naked! Fortunately, she has a plan, find a school where naked is normal – and own the nudity. Considering her elf-like ears, that shouldn’t be a problem.
There were some shockingly good stories in there. I liked all of them actually.
I hope my first foray into writing after 14 years wasn’t too bad…
I’d probably edit that thing a few hundred times more given time and a larger word count. I just might make a longer version of it…
I’m on the 3rd prequel story right now – and once done those 3 go into ‘consistency editing’. They take place in the modern day, so it’s like “Aliens are there, but the Sci-Fi mostly isn’t”. And the shortest of them is already more than twice as long as this story and only in it’s first scene still…
Hopefully the prequels will be better than the short here was. And then I have to write the story where she goes to B.S.C. and finds things not exactly as she expected, but in fun ways.
Several of the other stories other people wrote beg for more expanded sequels. Well maybe the story doesn’t beg for it, but I do. 🙂
Yes, a great batch of stories. Sorry for the 2k limit – I’m sure it cramped your style and made you rush. Still, I believe the exercise has made us better writers. I hope with your prequels that you take your time and flesh things out nicely. Glad to see you making a comeback after 14 years. That’s huge!
I agree, this was yet another fun contest that brought us good and enjoyable stories. Regarding the rules:
When readers want to see more chapters, and the writers are eager to write more, I hope we can all agree that additional chapters are allowed now that the contest has finished, right?
Yes of course. Extra chapters are always welcome. That temporary (2k) rule was just there to help us focus on making a strong start and a solid ending. We don’t get much practice with those things in larger stories. That said, some writers like to think of a scene (in a larger story) as a complete story, from a structural perspective. And so the start, ending and middle are all sharply focused on some particular thing that is important to the main character. This amps up the drama, milks the conflict and can have a stronger concluding feeling than if we just write organically.