Announcing our Festive Flash competition

** closing date 24th December 2024 **

The theme for this competition is Festive Flash. So named because we like alliteration and there's a strong possibility we were drunk when we dreamed it up. So, it's festive, and it's a flash. We also like a good double meaning and therefore the story rules are as follows:

1. Your story must be between 600 and 1,000 words.

2. Your story must be set around Christmas.

3. Your story must have someone flashing, or being flashed, either accidently or on purpose.

You can submit your story in any category (other than micro, novels or poetry) if it fits better in a category than in the flash category. Other than that, let your imagination run wild. Be silly. Be serious. But above all, be sexy. You have max 1,000 words, so if people aren't naked and writhing in mindless ecstasy by paragraph two, shame on you.

Usual competition rules also apply and are linked here. Note the extremely short timescales on this one, and get scribbling!

Closing Date 24th December 2024

Announcement date 12th Jan 2025

First place $150

Second place $100

Third Place $50

Fourth Place : Use of Canadian Boy Toy for 48 hours

What is the word limit for this? (Jen is not the only one drinking😜).

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What is the word limit for this?

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Kitty!❤️❤️❤️

Gonna have to try to come up with something creative here. 1000 words, huh? A challenge for Mr. "Can barely write anything under 6k" lmao

Like Godzilla on Tokyo

can we set it around Kwanza instead? what about Hannuka? Winter Solstice? Saturnalia?

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can we set it around Kwanza instead? what about Hannuka? Winter Solstice? Saturnalia?

Why don't you just write a story about that nice Canadian boy you met at the North Pole? Fucker will write itself. 😊

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Why don't you just write a story about that nice Canadian boy you met at the North Pole? Fucker will write itself. 😊

you mean the one who broke my heart? it's supposed to be festive, not heartbreaking. 😢

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Like Godzilla on Tokyo

Lighting the place on fire, the Lush you'll-regret-this log blazing.

A new competition ! Woo Hoo ! ...and with fewer words, the number of re-writes goes down while readership goes up. WIN/WIN

I'm amused. I think the mods got worn out reading all those 10k word stories last go round. LOL

And here i was, waiting for the write the Sex version of War and peace but with more words please....😇😜

A pictures worth 1000 words.......

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I'm amused. I think the mods got worn out reading all those 10k word stories last go round. LOL

I don't know about the mods, but I'm still recovering from writing a 10,000 word story! 😊

I like the theme for this competition, just hoping I have time to write something worthy. 🙄😜

Did reading all those 10,000-word stories drive you all to drink? I feel very guilty that I did not read so many of them. Reading English is my weakest skill, so my husband offered to read one of them to me. We needed a day to recover, and not from a sore head. 🤐

I fear that my idea will not fit into a thousand words. It is very filthy, though, and a crime to waste such a deviant thought.

I was writing a new story. I am easily distracted... 😉

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Lighting the place on fire, the Lush you'll-regret-this log blazing.

Hey, the missus is out of town, I’ve got nothing else to do.

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I don't know about the mods, but I'm still recovering from writing a 10,000 word story! 😊

I like the theme for this competition, just hoping I have time to write something worthy. 🙄😜

Real. I am recovering from writing TWO 10k stories since my first attempt for the last theme got rejected and I had to try again (but still submitted the other as a non-comp story). So maybe a Flash Festive contest is something we all need to help us recover? A "Rebound" Competition, as it were, to prevent the Writer's Block from getting its claws too deep in us.

what's the theme again? asking for a friend.

Took a crack at something between shoveling snow and meetings today. Might work but needs a hot twist at the end. Fortunately, I have one in mind.

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Took a crack at something between shoveling snow and meetings today. Might work but needs a hot twist at the end. Fortunately, I have one in mind.

I'm the opposite. Strong set-up, but no twist, and nowhere to go.

Are we allowed to post more than one entry for the competition?

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Are we allowed to post more than one entry for the competition?

No, just one per person please.

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what's the theme again? asking for a friend.

Rachel...

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Rachel...

Fine. If you don't want to tell me. I'll ask someone nicer.

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Fine. If you don't want to tell me. I'll ask someone nicer.

When is the last day we can submit our story? Can i submit it late if i send pix of me naked with it?

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Struggling with ideas myself, lol. I have to pick one and do the draft this weekend because I take ages to edit and need to leave room for that.

My fear is writing a story that feels too rushed because of the word limit.

I will not brag because I struggle so much to write. I have 999 words I am okay with, this is more than good, usually I hate what I write, so this is a first. Perhaps. I should write when I am not getting any sex (my husband is on business). He is back now, and already I have learned a new word.

Knock-kneed.

Which saved me a word, and he is having sex until I am that with my knees.