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  <title>twitterfic contest poll</title>
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  <description>I got second place in the ninth Book View Cafe twitterfic contest!  Hurrah.  (You can see all the winning entries &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bookviewcafe.com/index.php/News/BVC-Twitter-Fic-Contest-9-Winners&quot;&gt;on their website&lt;/a&gt;.  Congrats to several of my friends who also got honorable mentions!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The theme was Monsters and Machines, in conjunction with the release of their steampunk anthology, &lt;i&gt;The Shadow Conspiracy&lt;/i&gt;, including stories from Irene Radford, Brenda Clough, and Judith Tarr.  I haven&apos;t read it yet, but I&apos;m looking forward to it, and will review here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I entered four twitterfics; one of them got an honorable mention and the other got second place.  I thought I&apos;d create a poll to see which of them you&apos;d most like to see expanded into a full story.  (I&apos;m putting the info about which ones got honorable mention/second place below the poll, so if you want to vote first before you see that info, you can.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;A&lt;/b&gt;: Some black sheep could be hidden in the attic, but not Caroline. She leapt; her brass wings arced her upward across the moon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;B&lt;/b&gt;: &quot;We offer spring-loaded claws in a variety of materials and -- &quot; &quot;Silver,&quot; Irina interrupted. &quot;My brothers are werewolves.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;C&lt;/b&gt;: The Beast&apos;s daughter had her father&apos;s fangs, her mother&apos;s eyes. Hidden in her workshop, she did not cry, lest her works rust.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;D&lt;/b&gt;: &quot;Do not call me monstrous,&quot; she said, &quot;just because my heart is crystal and not flesh. My sharp edges are no fault of my own.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/poll/?id=1917&quot;&gt;View Poll: #1917&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And thank you for indulging me.  :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;small&gt;The honorable mention was A, and the second-place runner-up was D.&lt;/small&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=coraa&amp;ditemid=335830&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 01:10:05 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>I&apos;m going to try using my Twitter account for actual, you know, communication.  It&apos;s coraa, if you&apos;re interested.  (And if you have a Twitter account -- or know of anything or anyone else useful/interesting to follow -- please let me know!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=coraa&amp;ditemid=333359&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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