Happy Birthday ~WordCount!

It's hard to believe it's been an entire year since we at ~WordCount began our quest to expose prose on deviantART. We've had the pleasure of working with a lot of great people (see our full list of past and present staff at the bottom!). We've also seen a lot of great prose in our time, and we hope to see even more.

As part of our celebration, ~WordCount would like to welcome =BornBlitzed, *CrimsonThrenody, and ~DreamGirl303 to the family.

Not only that, we're thrilled to welcome back two of our original staff members: ~MeadowCress and ~oneangstychick.

Now on with the prose!



100 words or less

Revelation by ~duanya

Fictional Life Stories: This alibi is priceless.


Potato Confusion by ~celeocanth

Humor: Ever just stare at something, and blank out for hours? So has Freddy, with a potato.



101-300 words

Night Walk by *smacintyre

General Fiction: A short but lovingly crafted piece about walking alone at night.


Woman in the Chair by *Amalgamadora

Humor: A grandmother finds a bit of humour in a serious topic.



301-500 words

New Year's Eve, 1999 by ~JosephThomas

General Nonfiction: ~JosephThomas recalls the young woman he met in the station.


The Highway by ~Meridian-Grey

Science Fiction: The author of this story imagines connecting mentally to a computer.



501-1,000 words

just a feeling by ~vampire-kid

Horror: It's not just a feeling; it's a terrible reality.


Not really now in a setting by =DarkApple

Theatre & Scripts: =DarkApple exploits the taboo of racism with a mixture of dry humor and stark realism.



1,001-1,500 words

Thick Dark Stories by ~ErrantThought

Spiritual Fiction: Ghoulish imagery meets childhood tales, from bones to the blessings the narrator speaks against the tar.


Lucky by *MsCellanea

General Fiction: Just how far will luck follow us?



1,501 - 3,000 Words

Prime Cuts by ~Blinded-Artist

Transgressive: A brilliantly introspective story about city life.


heaven by ~Kerttu

Philosophical Fiction: This piece puts heaven in our hands, for good or for ill.



3,001 - 5,000 Words

One of Her Hostages by ~Danceswithwind

General Romantic Fiction: What if emotions were people?


My Lion by ~tricksyriver

Children's: A beautiful blend of contemporary fiction and the vintage fable.



5,001+ words

I need Avocados by ~ohfever

Fictional Life Stories: A story about teenagers, sex, and drugs--but so much more.


Published Works

The Voyage to Ruin by *CapnFlynn

A quarter-century has passed since the defeat of the dark sorcerer known as Baron Von Death, and peace reigns over the Quadra Terrarum. Airships sail the skies, friendship and amity flourish between nations, and war is but a distant memory. But is this peace a mere illusion? What dangers seethe beneath the surface of this placid calm?

Join the pirate Captain Franceline Drake for an adventure tale of "swashbuckling and scullduggery"!

Available in the deviantART storefront of Lulu.com in hardback, paperback, and downloadable versions.

ARR!

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April's Prose DDs

All of April's prose DDs are worth revisiting, we promise:

Me and Snoopy by `tangledweb
Finished by ~RevMEATZ
A girl in a boy's body by ~RexIdiotarum
Dragon Slayer by ~BladedSpear
An Evening With Sings-to-Trees by ~ursulav
An Interesting Concept: II by =Zmann966
Looking Up by *fense
G.C.W. - Chapter One, Pt. 1
Lucky by ~TheBunk
To the man I love by *baby-pengu
Wild Flower Crimes by ~DarlingDante
The Jesus Action Figure by *msklystron
The Curvature of Oh by ~fauxgravity
In a Bar Around Saturn by =BreakInTheSun
Marble Rose by =illuminara
Tuesday Afternoon by ~ementhal
The Fuguist by ~deadend-zenith
What Life We Had: SweetChile by ~Toph-Luvs-Zuko

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Meet Our Contributors:

Staff members have come and gone (and come back again!), and on this one-year anniversary, we'd like to take a moment to recognize all the staff members who have contributed their time and efforts to making ~WordCount the success that it is.


~AltoidAddict1517 | *Amberlouie
~apocathary | =Arkhein
`Beccalicious | *BerylAlexandros
=BornBlitzed | *CrimsonThrenody
=cut-devil4 | ~dawnnamira
*diamondie | ~Discgolf
~DreamGirl303 | *Iscariot-Priest
^LadyLincoln | ~lefttowrite
~LettersInExile | ~LostintheWhirlwind
*Madeleine-dA | ~Mantrith
~MeadowCress | ~morgantown
~Nihilio | ~oneangstychick
*PunknEra | ~raheel07
~TheNeuf | *ThornyEnglishRose

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