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Mar 25Liked by Jon T, Jeff Kinnard

Congratulations everyone! Looking forward to reading your stories 😃

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Thank you! It was a pleasure to submit and an honor to be chosen.

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Mar 25·edited Mar 25Liked by Jon T, Jeff Kinnard

Congrats to Sam and all of the other wonderful writers. I look forward to reading all of your stories! Thank you Macabre Monday crew for putting on a super fun contest! Can't wait until the next one. :)

https://automaticwriter.substack.com/p/apple-snake

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Mar 25Liked by Jon T, Jeff Kinnard

Congrats Sam and all the other winners, and to everyone here: what a cool reference to connect with other writers, and to get a bunch of stuff to read.

Just to reiterate what I mentioned last week, I love the categories. That's a win/win.

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Mar 25Liked by Jon T, Jeff Kinnard

Thank you, I'm honored! This was an incredible challenge and a fun contest. Can't wait to read everybody's entries.

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Congratulations to Sam and all the other fantastic writers! This was such a fun prompt, and I now have lots of awesome reading material ( and probably some new music as well) to enjoy!

Here is “The Parable of Jimmy Grey”:

https://open.substack.com/pub/bridgetriley/p/the-parable-of-jimmy-grey?r=9e3cr&utm_medium=ios

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Mar 25Liked by Jon T, Jeff Kinnard

Congratulations!

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Mar 25Liked by Jon T, Jeff Kinnard

Congrats everyone! So excited to get reading!

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Mar 25Liked by Jon T, Jeff Kinnard

Thanks for this and at the same time is it possible to get direct links to the stories? I cannot find Judith or Nicholas -- or is it just me? Thanks anyway -- I liked discovering some of these writers!

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Mar 25Liked by Jon T, Jeff Kinnard

Thanks for the honorable mention!

You can read my story "The Music Shaped Hole" here

https://open.substack.com/pub/prosopon/p/the-music-shaped-hole?r=3hwnr4&utm_medium=ios

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Mar 25Liked by Jeff Kinnard

Thank you so much! I've read a few of the stories here so far, and am loving the very different & inventive directions people chose to take the theme. Looking forward to reading the rest!

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Congrats to Sam and everyone who entered.

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Thanks for the honourable mention. I definitely took a few liberties on the judging criteria for this one, so am not surprised I fell short of the top five this time around. In saying that the story I came up with is one of my new favourites among my short story catalogue. So worth any point deductions I might have copped.

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Congrats to the winners! Lots of talent on Substack

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I did have plans to bank my story for a later date, but seeing the quality of the other stories on here had me chomping at the bit. So here's my contribution, "Murder Ballad,"

https://open.substack.com/pub/hamishkavanagh/p/murder-ballad-a-short-story?r=yo86p&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Thanks again to the Macabre Monday team for a well thought out prompt. This one was fun to write.

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Congratulations to all the winners!! I'm very keen to check out your stories!!

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