Winner, Winner, Chicken Lunch

I realized when I posted the short story writing contest that I forgot to put a time limit on the entries.
For the official contest (of which the prize is a picture and bio on my blog), the deadline is right now. BUT I would like to hear any more stories you can come up with - either on these posts or on Facebook.

What fun eh? It's really hard to come up with a story in just six words. Hemingway was a crazy genius, so I'm declaring his hauntingly emotional story unbeatable in our hearts.

But as for the winner of the contest: [pause for effect...]

Scott Keller!

"Alien peace talks fail. Draft initiated."

Bio in Haiku
Best friend from high school.
Brilliant computer geek smarts.
Been too long since borscht.

I picked Scott's story because I felt it had a great beginning, middle, and end - plus you get an awesome twist ending.

This sort of writing exercise makes you think about how to organize and execute longer pieces. When going about writing a feature screenplay or a novel, it's good to think about how you want to set up your audience, grip them with emotion, then shock them with the final daring end.

It's so hard to do this in just six words, but if you can't do it in six, how can you do it in a virtually limitless amount?

Honorable Mentions
Spencer Holt: "FORSALE:Typewriterwithbrokenspacebar" (I liked this a lot, but I'm pretty sure I've seen it somewhere else...)
Tiffany Anderson: "Disneyland at 25, a first childhood." (this probably would have won if I didn't think it was about me... sorry babe)
Phil Monson: "Double Rainbow, what does it mean?" (because I laughed out loud)
Josh Cobb: "Whoa! *SPLASH* "Help!" *SPLASH* "guuurrggggle" Silence." (nice sound effects!)

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McDonalds Chances

The chances you can win at McDonald's Monopoly are slim to none. Hate to break it to you.

I've commented on this before, waaaay back in the year Two Thousand and Eight.

Here is a chart explaining the amount of winning pieces that have been put out into the world for the 2009 game (out of hundreds of thousands of McDonald's and billions of game pieces):
If you don't get these rare pieces, everything else you get is worthless.

So here's the trick: Keep a list of the most rare pieces with you. When you happen upon one of the lucky rare pieces, hold on to it. You can get the other pieces no problem. If you took all your friends out to lunch you would most likely find the pieces you are looking for. Or you can look on craigslist.

Oh, and also, apparently you need to be white to win (but one in six of you can be of a different ethnicity):

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Tied! No!!

The results are in for the first day of Spencer and I's blog contest.

Our report:

Nooooooo! This cannot be! How is it possible for a man with a blog so inferior to mine to have the same amount of viewers in one day?

That's it folks, it's time to get ugly. Read my blog as much as you possibly can.
Then send it to all your friends and family and have them send it on and so forth.

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