A-Z+Horror+Competition

= The A-Z Horror Story Competition =

**The submission deadline has passed. The winner will be announced on Halloween.**

The Task Write a twenty-six-sentence horror story. Why twenty-six? Because each new sentence should begin with the next letter in the alphabet: A-Z.

The Prizes Runner Up: a pencil top eraser The Winner: a mini (5 minutes?) Socratic Circle focusing on the winning story. And a pencil top eraser. Something else?

Judges Wanted I need help judging these. Should the Veterans of Yesterwicky judge? My mom and dad can help me decide from the last three perhaps. Add your thoughts and questions in the discussion above.

Mr. D.

Caveats
 * For the "x" sentence, you may start with a word that includes an x (i.e. "Tex looked behind himself but no one was there" is OK).
 * You can start with any letter and go in either direction (forward or back) but you can't jump around the order of letters.
 * As you write, consciously try to create a mood for your reader, even though the mood might change.
 * Include //some// (all?) of the devices that good stories—like "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Monkey's Paw"—have: dialogue, foreshadowing, irony, great characters, setting which helps set the mood, and juxtaposition.
 * First or third person point of view? Your choice.
 * Use mine as an example in that if I did it, you can do it.

Your Hyperlinked Entries (In order of submission)
 * 1) Harrison- Harrison_The_Giant- The Man on the Other Line
 * 2) Lauren - Literally_Lauren - Five Knives Runner Up (and my mom's choice)
 * 3) Luke - Luke_Online - Punctual Party
 * 4) Emma- EmmatheInvader- Cameras
 * 5) Kyra loves rice-Chained Death
 * 6) Alexia - alexia_loves_rainbows - Green-Eyed Homicide The Winner (and my dad's choice)
 * 7) Luke - Luke_Online - Simple Sound *My favorite entry -L*
 * 8) Naira-naira_bookfreak- Envy can Kill
 * 9) Lisa- TigerLisa- The Placid Lake
 * 10) Nicole-NicoleTheGlorious-5 Year Old Terror
 * 11) Kyra loves rice-The hand I wanted to make another!
 * 12) caroline_funnynerd - So Lonely I made this for fun. Trying to get back in the writing mood. Not that good.
 * 13) Natalie - Natalie_Who - A Work of Art Meh . . . I need a better title :/ Hey, I tried . ..
 * 14) Emma-EmmatheInvader- Prison Food (nothing against two entries, right?)
 * 15) Mitchell - KingMitchellofBananas - Bears Are Bad
 * 16) Kevin - Lockdown
 * 17) Arman - Liar, Liar