Thank you all for wonderful entries!

The contest will be closed tomorrow, so write while you can! :)

sent :-)

I don't. Not mine, anyway. :-) I just entered because he wanted it via pm, but I'm generally not in the habit of just throwing my stuff out there. I have other boards for that. :-)

But what if I pointed out how obviously awesome you are, something everybody can agree on, and your work certainly can't be any less awesome than you are? Just think of the horrifically cruel punishment you put all of us through, knowing that somewhere out there, is a masterful paragraph written by you, something that we will all be denied the joy of reading, for the rest of our miserable, empty, paragraph-free lives??? Such a fate truly is terrifying.

Hey now... you're supposed to PM your nightmare scenarios to the OP. :p

It's Halloween; sometimes scary stuff will surprise you out of the "blue". Gotta be careful what you click on.

Don't read that next post!

I am excited to read everyone's entries!

Azah Lemur has had problems posting on the forums. He asked me to post on his behalf:

"the contest is closed and that I'll most likely announce the winner today evening or tomorrow."

OK, this is the time you've all been waiting for...

First of all I'd like to thank everyone who participated. I really loved your beginnings.

However there can be only one...well...two in this case, because I couldn't decide which is better. Both got me interested, both were quite creepy in their own way and both had something in them that I would like to read more about.

The winners are..................THESPIAN AND ANDANZAS

Since you both won I'll stretch my limited resources a bit and offer you both the same prize. ;p

I'll make a thread with all the entries as soon as I get the permissions to do so :)

Congrats to all on some very interesting stories, I had problems with choosing the winners. :D

BUMP, so everyone can see...double post I know :<

Thanks azah_lemur for your generosity, and congratulations Thespian* and Andanzas

Thank you very much for your generosity, azah_lemur! (two winners!) Also, congrats to Andanzas. :)

I really appreciate you liked my story. I enjoyed a great deal (in a creepy way) creating it. I was working on other possibilities, too, but they all seemed to require more extension to create the proper mood. It was difficult (but extremely rewarding) to limit myself to about 100 words, so I want to thank you also for the original rules you chose for the contest. ;)

I look forward to read all the other stories! :)

I can't believe I won! Yay! This is the first time I win a literary contest, lol.

I am not surprised to see that both winners are from Spain. Actually, in all honesty I think we should be disqualified. Spain right now is like a horror movie. We have way too much inspiration. :D

Congratulations to the winners and +2 to Azah, for doubling his/her gift.