May-June Short Story Voting

[MLSawyer]

Here are your frightful stories for the month.

Eating Private Simms - Slaad

Barc's Butcher- tmso

Sowing the Seeds of Hate - AZimmer23

We Have Been Rip Van Winkled! - D. R. Stevenson

Myopia - D-Doc

The Foreboding Presage - Slynt

last but not least

Fractured Pulse - Caedus

For the voting, I'm asking all to give a score of 1-5 and if you haven't done so already, please leave a comment as I always found that helpful.

Voting will close on the 30th of June 12 Midnight GMT standard time so that the winner can be announced on the 1st and the new comp can begin!

Please post your votes in this thread and if you've already made comments in the story thread, no need to post them here. You are excluded from rating your own story

(Hope I've done all this right )

[tmso]

Are we excluded from rating our own story? Also, rate here in a post on this thread or rate the story thread? Or both?

[tmso]

Hey Michelle,

I believe we have a late entry:
http://sffworld.com/forums/showthread.php?t=34676

Caedus, did you want to petition the czar for your submission?

[tmso]

Five Stars for Eating Private Simms - Slaad

Four Stars for Sowing the Seeds of Hate - AZimmer23

Three Stars for We Have Been Rip Van Winkled! - D. R. Stevenson

Three Stars for Myopia - D-Doc

Four Stars for The Foreboding Presage - Slynt

Three Stars for Fractured Pulse - Caedus

Dang, that was hard. But there it is. For my own...TWO STARS!

[norm]

I've really meant to get around to reading all of these but I've just been busy busy busy. I might still read/comment on each of them after the voting is done.

[norm]

Well, I read them all! I'll try to comment on each story tomorrow, but for now here's my rating for each. There were a lot of interesting and unique stories, but many of them had a few rough spots.

The Foreboding Presage - Slynt: 4

Sowing the Seeds of Hate - AZimmer23: 4

Eating Private Simms - Slaad: 3

Barc's Butcher- tmso: 3

We Have Been Rip Van Winkled! - D. R. Stevenson: 2

Myopia - D-Doc: 2

Fractured Pulse - Caedus: 1

I hate to give ratings without explaining why I ranked each story as I did, but comments and critique will have to wait until tomorrow. Each story had redeeming qualities, some were just rougher than others.

[MLSawyer]

I'm sure it's still the 30th somewhere in the world so I'll count the votes tomorrow in the hope that those who submitted will also put their votes in (it's only fair)

4 Stars for Eating Private Simms - Slaad (yum yum)

3 Stars for Sowing the Seeds of Hate - AZimmer23 (good writing, but not enough fear for me)

3 Stars for We Have Been Rip Van Winkled! - D. R. Stevenson (had the potential for great fear, but struggled a little with the pov changes)

4 Stars for Myopia - D-Doc (poor Orc)

5 Stars for The Foreboding Presage - Slynt (best ending)

4 Stars for Fractured Pulse - Caedus (a crazy guy, but there didn't seem to be much fear involved... but I could be wrong)

5 Stars for Barc's Butcher - tsmo (Liked the fear)