Shame I gave away that free telltale game code yesterday.

Oh I meant more time to read them, not write one. I read Tik Tok and then got sidetracked and didn't read anything else. I guess now is as good a time as any.
TIK TOK gets my vote.

never heard of either, can you explain?
People are already complaining the thing is too long and you want them to read a whole play?

I don't get it, why would a play be better? If the writing sucks, it will still suck in play form.

Stephanie Meyer is the Twilight lady. Never heard of the other douche (I'm assuming he's a douche since I have no idea who he is, people I don't know are douches).

Isn't twilight that pg vampire porn for sad 13 year old girls?

Yep. I'm just glad that, around where I live, the hype has pretty much blown over.

I heard the last book gets R-rated, b/c once Bella and Edward get married, they have tons of rough sex where she blacks out.
I would never read more past the first--which I had to read for a class on adolescent literature. It was disgusting, both how terrible the writing was--and OK, OK, I may have exaggerated a bit: these stories are mostly better than Twilight--and how disturbingly sexist and misogynistic the themes were. It's basically Mormon propaganda, seemingly written by a 12-year-old whose only familiarity with literature are the Bible stories her mother read to her years earlier.
BTW Thomas Pynchon is a goddamn baller. One of my favorite writers, tho notorious for being "impossible" and overly complex. IMO that's BS. Everyone should enjoy some Pynchon. King of mixing the highbrow with the low. Very important literary themes and ideas mixing it up with dick 'n' fart jokes and Groucho Marx slapstick.

Could you recommend some of Pynchon's works? Because right now he's just a name nobody's heard of that you're praising...
As for the stories, Tick Tock gets my vote because it kept me wanting to read more; the other stories just didn't give me the same need to see what happened next.
I did think that all three of them were quite good, though. :-)

Tick Tock.
The tock-talk-creepy talking play stood out to me, and I liked it.

Oh I will gladly give the next prize, if enough people will join the contest.

So far as i've counted ( I think this is right, Alias just double check)
TT- 4 votes
Lighthouse- 3 votes (including mine)
EE- 6 votes
TT was good, however it felt more like a Mark Twain novel where the descriptions are so long and unnecessary. The idea and some of the bits were brilliant, but I think it would've been better to reveal a major part at the end.
The Lighthouse was the best for me because firstly I can't vote for EE, but also because it kept me wondering what the hell was happening, then unloadd it on me. The end was also cleverly written. It won by an extreemly close margin though, because I think it needed to be a bit more clear

What am I? Some kind of returning officer here to count votes? Is that what I am to you?
Sorry I seem to have been channeling joe pesci there for a second
So far I have 5 for echidna empire, 4 for tick tock & 3 for lighthouse
It would have been 6 if I could understand what on earth RSHabroptilus meant when he said "I'll just agree with the general consensus on "Echidna Empire," but truthfully, I couldn't finish any of these stories. They make Stephenie Meyer look like Thomas Pynchon" but not finishing them implies that nothing gets the vote. Also I still can't decide if th author comparison was meant to be insulting or not (not that it'd work anyway, I'm immune to insults)

Lol. Maybe if there are future contests, we should wait til there are more entries? Also, I recall there being a theme (discovery?) which might have been helpful to mention for people reading who had different expectations.
Not finishing any of the stories and still voting = should disregarded in my view. He should go back and finish reading them, then come back with a vote. If he liked EE enough to finish it and thus vote for it, but not the other two - fair enough...but his words suggest he didn't.

Heh, yeah, I kinda forgot about the whole theme thing while reading those, it was stretched to the broadest meaning possible :D