Literati!
An anguished filled night, indeed, at the Towers that are and forever so shall remain A Word with You Press.
Monday’s morning dilenema was that three of our finalists were tied in the number of votes for their story to take the prize. Surely (according to His Moiness) this would straighten itself out as votes trickled in. More of you chose to vote anonymously than in the comment box.
But rather than three of you teeter-tottering between fame and absolute failure and ruin, two more joined the surge, and by eight in the evening, we had a five-way tie. We had progressed/regressed from your basic menage a troi to a leave-the-toga-at-the-door orgie…
The hours ticked on, again. What’s an editor to do? Re-asses those generous offers (thanks for the wine and chocolate, by the way), those lascivious bribes of bounty and booty? Never! (at least, never again. I’ve reformed!)
The only solution that I could see was to pour that lovely syrah, go to sleep at ten, and see in the morning–which now it is–if the cyber faeries had delivered me from temptation, by giving us a clear winner, voters having had until midnight to make their intentions known.
And indeed they did.
Thank you all so much for participating so vigorously, for spreading the gospel of A Word with You Press, and for being such good citizens in this wonderful land of ours. We will post our next contest tomorrow, perhaps fine-tuninig our voting stipulations, and we’ll let the games begin, Again! A special thanks to Ed Coonce for creating our trophy, which, by the way, we’ll be sending to Sal Buttaci. Congratulations!
Hearty congratilations Sal!
You shoulda paid me! It coulda been YOU! (oh wait, can people read this?)
I sincerely send my congratulations Mr. Buttaci on your well deserved victory and a thank you to everyone who made this contest so spirited AWWYP horse race to the cyber finish line.
Well done Sal. If I had to lose to someone, I am honored it was you. Alas, I may never be a winner but I am among them. congratulations
Congrats, Sal!!
Well done my friend. If I had to lose, I am honored to lose to you and even though I can never profess to be a winner, I am among many. Congratulations.
Thorn, do you still offer proofreading? LOL
off coarse
Congrats to you Sal!!!!
Yippee – fabulous Sal.
Sal, it is fitting and proper that you should take the trophy. After all, your entry revovled around time and time again in a wounderous show. Your writing is better than ever. It is talent like yours that keeps my light turned on.
Way to go, Sal.
Mazel Sal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Congrats Sal! Enjoy the trophy!!!
Sal, I keep getting a message that my message is awaiting moderation.
Anyway, as I said on FB to everyone, go congratulate Sal for he is the master of Flash Fiction, and though I am not a winner, I am among many. Congratulations my friend.
Well done!
Well done, Sal!
Sal, you’re a mensch among fictioneers. Congratulations on bringing us a winning taste of Paradise – with bite!
Thank you all for your kind comments. I am so happy my flash “Redemption” won the AGAIN Contest, but I must say, I was expecting, not myself, but any one of you to win because of your exceptional flashes. It is a real honor to be counted among you!
… hehehe… you said exceptional flashes…
Your submission was phenomenal. It was worth it. And it was worth the win in light of all of the exceptional submissions… hehehe… I said submission… get it? GET IT?
His Moiness gets it…and that’s what counts!
And as far as the trophy goes, I get it too!
Enjoy, Sal! …I think we are all winners every time…It’s such a prize for us to have WWYP to post our work to the world, support and learn from each other with our comments! Looking forward to the next contest…The beer merman is the best prize yet!!