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If your story is listed in the top 5 below, congratulations, you are among the 125 writers moving on to the 2nd Round kicking off at 11:59PM EDT this Thursday, April 11th!   Congratulations to everyone that submitted a story, narrowing down a top 5 in each heat was incredibly difficult and everyone should be proud for rising to the challenge and creating a story outside your comfort zone from scratch in 8 days.  We hope the challenge was inspiring and hope to see you in our next challenge!

#1 'Mind Over Matter' by Geoff Hahn SYNOPSIS - A group of four strangers are invited to a reclusive billionaire inventor's mansion for a party.

#2 'My Online Friend' by Lauren Lindsey SYNOPSIS - A friendship that began online becomes more impersonal than she ever imagined.

#3 'Angels with Dirty Facebook Posts' by Kelly Hansen SYNOPSIS - Melvin Epstein is a 13-year-old tech geek who solves crimes through the use of his ingenious inventions. He is hired by the most popular girl in school to find out who has been taking embarrassing pictures of her friends and posting them on Facebook, forcing him to survive inside the belly of the beast – a slumber party!

#4 'Nerds Revenge' by Dennis Baggarley SYNOPSIS - What do you do when other nerds come along and threaten you and your organisation’s place as the leading global player? You set them up, leave them thinking that they have got one over on you and then you wipe them out at your leisure.

#5 'Cold Brew' by Zachary Mann SYNOPSIS - When his daughter doesn’t come home as expected from her sleepover party, Barry Townsend goes looking for her, eventually confronting rival inventor Martin Salazar.

#Honorable Mention 'Helpful House' by Monica Neumann SYNOPSIS - Five friends celebrate a birthday in a cabin in the woods, but who or what is behind all the strange goings on within?

#Honorable Mention 'Liquid Gold' by Craig Horsley SYNOPSIS - Anonymous checks are being received by Ginny, a single mother. Who is sending them? Its all thanks to a long ago sleepover and an invention that was inspired by that night.

#Honorable Mention 'Portrait of a Boy' by Raghib Siddiqui SYNOPSIS - Lloyd brilliant schizophrenic man believes that his son Calvin has been kidnapped by a neighboring family using a sleepover as a ruse, an incident being investigated by a policeman who is interviewing Lloyd's psychiatrist before carrying out a search warrant and possible arrest of Lloyd on the grounds that he had illegally ransacked the neighboring family's home in search of his son. During the interview, it is revealed that Lloyd is a unique schizophrenic whose “son” is actually a hallucinated younger version of himself that never existed in the first place, whose “disappearance” was a symbolic product of abandonment of Lloyd by his own parents; but in a twist, it is subsequently revealed that the psychiatrist himself is Lloyd, and that Lloyd and Calvin as described to the officer were both hallucinated by this psychiatrist.

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