My entry

Well, this is the one that started it all. Looks like a pretty sincere psuedo-spiritual take on the cyclical nature of history.

In response to the criticism that my story isn’t actually 87 words, I’d like to blame the UNIX programme, “wc” in conjuction with my usage of it (cat myawesomestory | wc -w).

6/10 at a pinch.

Award(s):
Most Arcane

Buck’s entry

Good use of appropriation here. I like the swearing at the end of the story because swearing is bad-ass and being bad-ass gets you chicks (for real).

I fucking hate the IRD as well! Buck, you are speaking to my heart of hearts!

7/10 Good jobbie.

Award(s):
Appropriation Is Way Better Than Creation
Good Swears

T’Nealle’s entry

Solid concept, great execution, mixed-media presentation.

10/10

Award(s):
Overall Winner
Best Concept
Windows 7

Ally’s first entry

Old people are gross, scary, depressing and kind of cute at the same time. This story shows us the scary/depressing side of them.

7/10

Award(s):
Human Condition
Old People Freak Me Out

Ally’s second entry

Obviously there were no actual rules, not even the word count really mattered. Ally’s second entry kind of looks like it was written by a different person (not my observation but I’ve included it because sometimes I’m boring). This story is about love and sisters.

8/10

Award(s):
Made Me Feel Uncomfortable For Some Reason
Second Entry Steez

Dove’s entry

At first it seems that this post is derivative of T’Nealle’s due to the screen shot. Dove asked 4chan to write a story for him but 4chan are shity at that kind of thing so he just cobbled some shit together then wrote on it in MS Paint. Dove’s entry is derivative of Buck’s in the sense that he didn’t actually want to create anything (not even swears) so he just fed stimuli into a machine.

8/10

Award(s):
Most Derivative
MS Paint
Windows XP

Kim’s entry

This is what a thesaurus is for, I guess.

3/10

Award(s):
Poor Word Choice
Small Vocabulary
Yeah, I Bet You Use Those Words In Bed

Hamish’s entry

Loses a point for the punctuation mishap at the end but otherwise this is a perfect post. Nice use of repetition. Nice use of repetition.

9/10

Award(s):
The Das Racist Award For Repetition
Good Swears
Violent Sex

Shakespeare’s entry

I don’t have too much to say about this except all of the links go to the page where you can read/download the plays. I think he intended to actually link to the texts but Project Gutenberg does some strange stuff with links and I didn’t want to go back through the list correcting them.

9.5/10

Award(s):
From Beyond The Grave
What’s Better Than One Shitty Monarch? Like, Eleven Of Them

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Thanks to all who entered.

T’Nealle – for winning I have desolved that pact we made on some aeroplane when you were drunk. That one about you giving me head if I grew my beard thing back again.

Written by: Zach.
Tags: 87 word short story.