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Genre:  Romance

Subject:  A school dance

Character:  A janitor

 

Top 5 Stories

The top 5 stories are listed below!  Congratulations to everyone that rose to the challenge this year, there were so many great stories and narrowing down the top 5 was incredibly difficult. Good luck to the 5 writers below that will be participating against 120 other writers in the 2nd Round kicking off tonight at 11:59PM ET!

 

#1 'Post' by Jamie Campbell SYNOPSIS - Separated from his family at the start of a nuclear war, a janitor escapes to the safety of a neighbor’s fallout shelter and occupies himself writing letters to his wife and daughter, who may or may have survived.


#2 'Reflections on Romance' by Sophie Dutton SYNOPSIS - A caretaker receives a mysterious love note from a student, but will he respond?


#3 'Quoting Shakespeare' by Suzanne Fleming SYNOPSIS - Claymore Stanton liked being the janitor at Forrester High, because it allowed him to escape from his former merchant banker life. When biology teacher, Carmel Simpson, leads him on the dance floor he realises that he’ll never again call the glass-tower city home.


#4 'Ishtar Terra' by Victoria LaCorte SYNOPSIS - Sandrina arrives on Venus to study xenology at Ishtar Terra University, and discovers her passion runs deeper than classroom lectures and slideshows.


#5 'Bullet and a Bluebird' by Stephanie Cycak SYNOPSIS - A girl learns what that janitor at her high school means about love. She must clean away who she wants in order to get to who she really needs.  

 

 

Group Participants

Heat Last Name First Name City State / Province Country
9 Anthony Jennifer  San Bruno CA US
9 Ayers Benjamin Fernandina Beach FL US
9 Campbell Jamie San Francisco CA US
9 Clarence Judith Berkeley CA US
9 Cycak Stephanie New York NY US
9 Dutton Sophie Newport Newport GB
9 Eaton Kristin San Diego CA US
9 Fleming Suzanne Stanmore NSW AU
9 Frketic Allen Wiesbaden Rhineland-Pfalz DE
9 Gidley Apple  Houston TX US
9 Hikota Riyako Tokyo   JP
9 Joshi Anjana Palo Alto CA US
9 Keane Catherine New York NY US
9 Kobb Shawn Arlington VA US
9 LaChapelle Laura Joppa MD US
9 LaCorte Victoria Derry NH US
9 MacDuff Brad Kaohsiung   TW
9 Maiya Lauren Alexandria VA US
9 Matros Matt Brooklyn NY US
9 Mendoza Jim OAKLEY CA US
9 Noviello Ben Fairfax VA US
9 Odell Richard Phoenic AZ US
9 Salavon Ian Fort Worth TX US
9 Wiltshire Shari  Frederiksted VI VI
9 worley susan austin TX US

 

 


 

 

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