The Brief

Invent your own myth! What moral drives it? Does it have a moral? What is the celestial hierarchy? Etc etc.

500 words maximum.




The Judge

Info:

Chris Farnell was born in Leicester in 1984. He’s been making up stories as far back as he can remember and started writing Mark II when he should have been revising for his A Levels. He continued writing Mark II while he studied English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia in Norwich – where he still lives, writes and works.

His novel 'Mark II' is available here and also from Amazon.





The Prizes

1st prize: $25 in lulu vouchers, 6 month subscription, $20 in Amazon gift vouchers.

2nd prize: $25 in lulu vouchers, 3 month subscription, $10 in Amazon gift vouchers.

3rd prize: 3 month subscription, $10 in Amazon gift vouchers.






The Shortlisted with Judge's comments



~lpowell – Godeater

The Godeater was a great villain, with a suitably chilling description. There was something haunting and nursery rhyme-like about the final line as well.





*oedipa - Tres Sorores

Some nicely drawn characters here, and some clever use of language.





*Picksy – A man and his cow

I chose this one because it read most like a traditional fable, but also had a neat sci-fi twist. I particularly liked the ambiguity of it, is this a straight forward morality tale, or a piece of dogma to scare children into being "networked"?





~365-leap - Sky Dog


I thought this was a great little creation myth, full of neat little explanations for the world we see around us. The idea of the sun as a "bright yellow rectum" made me smile.





~SirKuddles - Death Through Creation

I really liked the idea of Death having an origin story. Though I wish I knew what Death's brother's name was...





The Winners


1 *Picksy – A man and his cow

2 ~365-leap - Sky Dog

3 ~lpowell – Godeater