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Winner: [chuchutrain]!

The Valediction Contest, a Flipside contest!

Hosted by [Mister Saint]

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Valediction Contest Judging

Please drop by this wikipage for the contest results.

From www.merriam-webster.com
Main Entry: val·e·dic·tion
Pronunciation: "va-le-'dik-shen
Function: noun
Etymology: Latin valedicere to say farewell, from vale farewell + dicere to say
1 : an act of bidding farewell
2 : VALEDICTORY.

I have designed this contest especially for the benefit of some of our 'dark' writers, but it should be fun for everyone. Get your flying shoes on!

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Theme

The idea of this contest is to write a farewell scene. However, this is no ordinary valediction. We will be writing a farewell scene with some very specific themes, so read this section very carefully!.

Here are the thematic rules for the story. If you do not adhere to these rules, I won't even judge your entry. The idea of this is to help you break away from dark writing, and/or expand your horizons into something you may not have done.

1. There shall be no killing, death, dying, blood, demons, illness, cutting, or other similar elements in this story.

2. The story is to be a romance.

3. Any genre, any race is okay.

4. Happy ending, happy progression. No tragedies.

5. Be creative! A valediction, in literature, is a farewell speech. Make sure that you imply to where your person is going.

6. The scene must have only two characters.

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Rules

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1. Both poetry and prose are allowed.

2. Submissions must involve the theme.

3. Original work only, please.

4. Spellcheck and grammar check your work. This time, grammar and spelling errors will hurt your entry's score, so check 'em!

5. 400-2000 words prose, or 8-50 lines of poetry.

6. Respect the work of others.

7. The deadline for this contest is January 25th, 2006. Late entries will not be accepted.

8. Content: Submissions should be clean enough for twelve year olds to read. So profanity, gore, and sexual content should be kept to reasonable levels (although if your entry has gore, you aren't winning anyway ^-^).

9. Entries will be judged on the following criteria: Creativity, adherence to the theme, grammar and spelling, and overall effect.

10. Entries should be in standard paragraph form.

Prizes

I haven't decided yet.

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Submissions!

Please give your username, a link to your story, and a word count if at all possible. For poems, a line count is preferable.

Submissions:

1. [chuchutrain]: 63.Valediction Entry Word Count - 631
2. [Burning Inside]: 233.Short Stories.Farewell 1,138 words
3. [Kuzco]: 212.Saudade 1513 words.

If you intend to enter, please place your name in this list. Thanks!

1. [chuchutrain]
2. [Burning Inside]
3. [Kuzco]

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The Valediction Contest, a Flipside contest, hosted by [Mister Saint], king of the world. Writer/Poet buttons by [Ash], courtesy of WritersCo Graphics. [Mister Saint] will see you in his trailer for the traffic mooning scene.

2006-01-17 [chuchutrain]: true true

2006-01-18 [Burning Inside]: yea a whole world.....well not for me....id like make it to the nearest city, and decide it was far enough.....if I'm lucky

2006-01-18 [chuchutrain]: that's not far enough

2006-01-18 [Burning Inside]: no but with how lazy I am I would stay there for a day or so before I wasn't to lazy to get a plane ticket, and all of that

2006-01-18 [chuchutrain]: yeah I guess...

2006-01-18 [Burning Inside]: oh well one day I am going to go over to Britian area, see that place, go to Hawaii hopefully, and most definatly going to Japan

2006-01-18 [chuchutrain]: I've gone to Japan :D:D

2006-01-18 [Burning Inside]: yea I know, its been the main place I have always wanted to go

2006-01-18 [chuchutrain]: it was cool

2006-01-18 [Kuzco]: You've gone to Japan? That's so cool. what area?

2006-01-18 [chuchutrain]: um....Tokyo...but I was on a tour so it could have been better but it still was totally cool :D

2006-01-18 [Burning Inside]: ah oh well I would still love to go there....and get CANDY lol....hehe i remember the candy

2006-01-18 [chuchutrain]: ...which candy? The snowmen? Or the Jelly Bellies?

2006-01-18 [Burning Inside]: the jelly bellies I never had a snowman

2006-01-18 [chuchutrain]: ooh the Jelly Bellies were from Hong Kong...there were these little gummie things that were like ducks and they were so cool lol you could bite their heads off and arms and everything!

2006-01-18 [Burning Inside]: lmao thats awesome I wish I had one

2006-01-18 [chuchutrain]: yeah...we threw them away because no one was eating them and there were going rock hard...

2006-01-18 [Burning Inside]: lol :P

2006-01-18 [chuchutrain]: ^^ yeah...candy was cheep in Hong Kong and fireworks were even cheeper in China...

2006-01-18 [Burning Inside]: u shold have gotten me some fireworks

2006-01-18 [chuchutrain]: ....no because it's illegal to bring them back...but I did set off these really loud thingys that set off car alarms and pissed off the owner of the parking lot :D

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