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Thank you to Kathleen for allowing us to post these notices on the board.
The Liberty Hall 500-word Flash Challenge is open for reading, commenting and voting. You must read ALL stories before voting. This is only slightly onerous.
Authors are not to comment until Tuesday. This is a change from the original rules and resulted from much abject pleading by the authors.
But you must register as a member of Liberty Hall in order to read them. This is so that the stories are not considered to have been published by appearing on the web.
Registering is fairly easy, but you must send me an email telling me who you are, where I am likely to know you from, and what your username will be, before I approve the registration and let you in. This helps to keep spammers out.
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I'm really impressed with the stories everyone came up with this time. I've been reading stories from some of the writers for months now, and they've outdone themselves.
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i agree, as a story on its own merits. unfortunately, it must also meet the editors wants and needs (which it may)
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True, true. I just thought, from the impression I have so far of Shimmer and the Shimmer people (did I just coin a phrase?) that this would be right up their alley.
Maybe I'm wrong about what I think Shimmer is going to be.
Guess I'll just have to wait for issue 1 to find out.
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Well, yes, Shimmery people are nice. However, she submitted it to Glimmertrain, which is a well-established literary magazine that (I'm sure) gets a lot of submissions. I have a story in their pile as well.
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Well, I thought if we called it "Shimmer Train" that would be too obvious, so the "Train" had to go.
No, no, I'm KIDDING.
The real story? LDS used "Shimmer" as the title of a flash, way back when. I was on a serious name search at that point and it caught my eye and I kept coming back to it. I did wonder if it sounded too similar to "Glimmer Train" but figured it wouldn't be a significant problem.