Marco Polo 100 x 100 Contest winners announced

Of the approximately 500 submissions, Darin Beasely of Marco Polo has made his calls. Check out #24 on that awesome list of 100

Prize:

Vincent Fino Mother’s Day Retreat

Honorable Mentions:

Ellen Azorin Dionisio
Mary Byrne Qa’id
Robbie Maakestad Seasick
Ellie Anglin Two Women
Anne Germanacos Language
Benjamin Zaban-Boylan You Are a Boat
Chris Sgro Ten Minutes Outside Kuriyama Hokkaido

100 X 100

1. Cameron Scott Un-drunk
2. Lindsay Garpestad The Gift of Silence
3. Patricia Richards She’s Stolen the Silver
4. Matthue Roth Adam
5. Goldie Kossow Leftovers
6. Susan Hodara Unwrapped Newspapers
7. Erika Pasquino Goodbye Means Hello Again
8. Dallas Woodburn Clink
9. Bobbi Owen A Valuable Lesson
10. James Sandham Living Small
11. Nedjo Rogers Long Story Short
12. Kyle Hemmings Not Far from a Very Small Town in Ohio
13. Allie Batts He Brought the Silver from Texas
14. Katherine Christensen The Greyhound Bus Depot
15. Len Kuntz Possessions
16. Benjamin Zaban-Boylan You Are a Boat
17. Lauri Maerov Church
18. Mishou De Champlain The Broken Song
19. Chris Sgro Ten Minutes outside Kuriyama, Hokkaido
20. Yorgo Douramarcos The Farm at Sunset
21. Zana Previti Husband
22. William Cordeiro Family Way
23. Rachel Turner Mr. Gurtle’s Roses
24. Madison Woods The Lover’s Return
25. Lea Menport Roots
26. Ellie Anglin Two Women
27. Anne Germanacos Language
28. Claude Clayton Smith The Great Water
29. Timothy Baker Hajji
30. Gabby Ercolani The Universal Hexagram
31. E. Louise Beach Post Modern
32. Alyx Johnson Sunday’s Walk
33. Howie Good Blind Man’s Bluff
34. Jonathan Divine A Doubter Amidst
35. Rob LaRocque The Gypsy and the Jester
36. Stefan Martin So, Like a Ship Past a Lighthouse, She Leaves Him Behind
37. Brett Davidson Gliding
38. Adele Annesi Falling Water
39. Oscar Rivera I Only Asked Him One Question
40. Katrina Pallop Elizabeth in the Desert
41. Robert Vaughan Forget It
42. Arlene Mandell Millenium + 20
43. Matthew Dexter Mango Deck
44. Ellen Azorin Dionisio
45. Emily K. Bright The Bunker
46. Zac Henderson His Two Weekends A Month
47. Marissa McNamara Unwrapped
48. Thom James Lips
49. Carol Smallwood How Things Really Are
50. Aaron Maltz Happy Hour
51. Adriana Fuentes Somewhere Between Arkansas and Oklahoma
52. Benjamin Norris Myth
53. Barbara Lovenheim On the Dock
54. Lydia Pyne A Fortune Not Fowl
55. David Bogdan Piquod
56. Amelia Hankins The Great Palace
57. Christina Murphy Bread
58. Mary Byrne Qa’id
59. Bobbi Lurie Je T’aime
60. Bonnie Ogle Souvenir
61. Nathan Alling Long My Father & I in Syria
62. Lynn Bey Not Both
63. Danielle Villano Predestine
64. Robert Wooten The Doe
65. Paul Hadella Pee
66. Jim O’Loughlin The Answer
67. Mieke Stoub When the Grass Grows Greener
68. Steve Kaminsky A Million Reasons
69. Gavin McCall Sap
70. Chris Wiewiora Again & Again & Again
71. Angela Hamilton The Simple Art of Pulling out One’s Own Hair
72. BH James Buckets
73. Gene Fairfield A Sunday to Remember
74. John Wilson Held Back
75. Gene Lempert Travels Abroad
76. Michael Walton In Honor of Dr. Strangelove
77. Lawrence Elliott The Man with the Photogenic Memory
78. Doug Bond Waiting and Half Asleep
79. Shellie Lempert A Future Complex
80. Nancy Boyce (J Boyce email) Anger
81. Marc Sheehan My Post-War Childhood
82. Erin Armstrong Backwards
83. Tara Masih The Red Door
84. Kenneth Pobo Spacker Railway
85. Jennifer Moffet On Not Saying Who Went to Paris
86. Thomas McColl S
87. Pedro Ponce The Rosary Killer
88. Deanna Morris Semi-Life
89. Michael K. Gause Hindsight
90. Robbie Maakestad Seasick
91. Lily Dodge Custom House Square
92. Joe L. Murr Process
93. Craig Calhoun What I Knew I’d Have to Do If Dogs Could Talk
94. Dawn Budge Darwinism, 9am
95. Vincent Fino Mother’s Day Retreat
96. Tendai Mwanaka You Must Also Run…Faster
97. Jaq Andrews Old Girlfriend
98. Eric Spears Flashback
99. Nate Worell The Open Box
100. Dorothee Lang Sometimes

Photo Prompt for 100-word Flash #FridayFictioneers

This week, if I get the software/app installed in time we’ll use a different way of leaving links. Keep your fingers crossed because it might make it a lot easier to visit each other’s blogs. Some of you have mentioned it to me in the past and I’m only just now getting around to researching it after Lora mentioned it this afternoon. No early linking this week until I get the software installed so we can all be on the same system. For now, here’s the photo for this week:

Procedure

• To make sure everyone gets at least several reads, let’s try this. When you post your link, come back to read the two before yours and the three after yours.
• If you are one of the first, then read back (if there is one behind you, if not consider mine to be the first) and read forward for a total of at least five reads.
• Likewise if you are last – just read backwards for a total of five reads.

I think if we start doing this, it won’t be too big a burden to read and comment, plus everyone should get read at least five times. Those who desire to read more are certainly welcome to read as many as they want. I generally cover more than that in my reading but I haven’t been able to get to them all.

If anyone has a suggestion they think will work better to ensure everyone gets enough reads from this, please share it with me. If you’ve participated in other memes like this, perhaps you’ve picked up some ideas from them. I think the A-to-Z Challenge works similar to what I’ve outlined.

A couple other things:

• If you have CAPTCHA (the word/letter scramble) enabled, please disable it at least on Friday and Saturday.
• If you want crit, be sure to specify that in your comment when you leave your link. We have some very good editor types in this group who have valuable advice to offer.
• If you do NOT want crit, it might be a good idea to specify that, too.

One more thing:

Don’t forget to join our Facebook page

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Put your best efforts on display for 100 words (more or less) and hop on board so we can all see what you’ve written this Friday (come back to my blog and follow the links).

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For those of you who want to pre-load your posts, here’s the link to where my story will be: (Pathways). The page is/will be there, the picture is/will be there, the link is/will be live. But there’s no story yet. I’ll add that Friday morning as usual. But this will allow those of you who have to be out of town, or for whatever reason want to get started early, to link to it so we can all find you more easily.

Why only 100 Words

100-words isn’t a *rule* and some of us write more than that. My goal is to have The Friday Fictioneers use 100-word stories as an exercise in choosing concise phrases and strong verbs. It’s an excellent way to show your stuff to the world without exposing too much. It’s okay if you use more words, but if it’s much more let us know in the comments so we’ll know how to allocate our time if we’re trying to read all the posts.

Put your best efforts on display for 100 words (more or less) and hop on board Friday with links back to your blog so we can all see what you’ve written. If you don’t have a blog of your own you are welcome to post your 100 words in the (Friday) story page. Go to the side-bar calendar and click on the current week’s Friday date. Then follow the link from there to the story page.

If you accidentally post your link here on this page today, you’ll miss out on a lot of the blog hopping because the action will be stemming from links on the story page.

How to become a Fictioneer

1. Write a 100-word story (more or less, and it’s okay if you didn’t use this picture for inspiration)
2. Post your story to your blog on Friday (or just link to it tomorrow if you wrote earlier)
3. If you’re a WordPress user, include “Friday Fictioneers” as one of your tags so you’ll show up on the tag search.
4. Comment on my story Friday and post a link to your story.
5. Tweet your link to me @madison_woods and include the tag #FridayFictioneers if you’re on Twitter.
6. Follow the read and comment schedule listed above the picture. If the comment forms allow, leave your link on all your comments, so others can find you and us later on.
7. Check back often because participants post throughout the day.
8. Get psyched up to do this again next week

Keep in mind that sometimes I can’t read or comment until late in the day and throughout the weekend because of the day job on Friday.

You can click the “Flash Fiction” tab at the top to read a little more about Friday Fictioneers.

I hope to see your creativity shining Friday!