Thread: Literary Maneuvers Competition 05/23/2010-New Monsters and Double-Blind

Literary Maneuvers Competition 05/23/2010-New Monsters and Double-Blind

This time around we're ringing more changes on the standard procedure. Last time we did a blind judging, and that seems to have gone well. Given the wide disparity of writing styles, you can probably tell who wrote what, but that's okay. The anonymous judges are Like A Fox, moderan, Non Serviam, and vangoghsear.
For this round, in addition to the blind judging, we'll have anonymous authors. Simply pm me your story once it is finished, and I'll post it in the WW thread, linking to it from the official contest thread on the LM board. Judges will pm me their scores, and I will post them in the contest thread also. Double-Blind. Okay? Got it so far? Excellent.
The prompt for this round is to "create a new inhuman monster; nothing out of traditional folklore, fantasy, mythology, or pop culture". We can thank the inimitable alanmt for the prompt and the quote. It's a difficult challenge if you think about it. No vampires, werewolves, ghosts, zombies. No Cthulhu or orc or Dark Lord. No Coyote or Loki or Mephistopheles. No Pan, no centaur. No afrit or genie from a bottle. No rewrite of Son of Celluloid. Let's be creative, original, and brief.
500 words or less. The competition begins one day early, today, Saturday 5/22/10, and ends at midnight EST Sunday, 06/06/2010.
Are you ready, Dr, Frankenstein?

Now getting ready for a second week of competition, things that go bumpity-bump on a Saturday morning.

From ghoulies and ghosties
And things that go bump in the night
Good Laird preserve us

Come one, come all! 500 words about the created monster of your choice, as long as it is inhuman and has never been heard of before. What strange peoples your dreams? Put it down on paper or in glorious electronic pulses and send it to moderan the moderator so that he may paste it into the official thread and we all may be thereby enlightened.
The blind judges are looking forward to their lasik surgery.
One more week to go!

Arrghhh! I'm still working on mine. lol!

Five more days to submit a contest entry. Plenty of time to dust off the ol' thinking cap and come up with a monster nobody's ever heard of before. Perhaps something out of a nightmare, or something living under your bed. A dustbunny predator, maybe? An odd-sock collector? Who knows?

Four more days til the Monsters competition ends. You have time to get down to the lab and create one or two or fifteen. Six stories in so far. Keep em coming!

Two more days! Have a nice weekend, write a story. What could be more enjoyable?

Last day of competition. There's still time-the deadline for submissions is midnight EST. 6 1/2 hours from now.