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Topic: Round 3 - Titles & Synopses
Posted By: JennC
Subject: Round 3 - Titles & Synopses
Date Posted: 07 May 2017 at 12:46am
Wow! I've never been the one to start one of these threads before, but here goes... 

Title:
Rise and Set, and Rise Again

Synopsis: 

An undertaker contemplates selling the family business. 

A chance friendship with a high school student causes her to rethink her position.



Congratulations to you all for making R3. Best of luck!


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Posted By: roccapia
Date Posted: 07 May 2017 at 1:39am
Here's mine:

ROAD TO SOMEWHERE

When her husband opts for a new career over a retirement full of travel and adventure, Ellen must take her future into her own hands and make the ultimate decision.


Yes, this does actually have undertakers and a sunrise in it :P

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Posted By: Snarkmaiden
Date Posted: 07 May 2017 at 6:17am
Venturing in for the first time to post my final round title and synopsis:

Waiting For The Sun
I tell people I'm a funeral director. It's almost the truth.



Posted By: Trails
Date Posted: 07 May 2017 at 8:45am
A Warning

The old king is dead and passing into the halls of his fathers. The rising of the sun will herald the dawn of a new age.


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Posted By: Tricksie
Date Posted: 07 May 2017 at 9:02am
Find the Light

Sole survivor of a virulent plague, Carika ritually prepares her cremates on the mining station for their last resting place in the sun. 

Edited to add: I chose science fiction as my genre (probably obvious from the synopsis).


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Posted By: Tricksie
Date Posted: 07 May 2017 at 9:17am
I'm wondering if we will have many stories posted this round. I think it's possible we'll only see a very small number of the 80--doesn't seem like many folks in this round are in the forums. 

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Posted By: DocDrummer
Date Posted: 07 May 2017 at 9:17am
Hi. I'd like to know what genres you all chose, too.

I chose Horror/Suspense.

Elia

Elia is a young woman on the run from danger. After the object of her fear catches up with her, she pins her hopes on a potential savior arriving at sunrise


Looking forward to reading your stories. .

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Thanks for reading!


Posted By: BlackGate
Date Posted: 07 May 2017 at 9:58am
I went fantasy/ghost:

Mrs Pendleton’s Corpse


A village undertaker is awoken in the night by an unexpected demand.






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Posted By: Laura
Date Posted: 07 May 2017 at 10:07am
Coda

"Life is eternal, and love is immortal, and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight."    

-
Rossiter Worthington Raymond


Posted By: JennC
Date Posted: 07 May 2017 at 10:20am
Originally posted by DocDrummer DocDrummer wrote:

Hi. I'd like to know what genres you all chose, too.  

I would say my story's genre is kind of Drama / General Fiction.  
 




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Posted By: awayatpost
Date Posted: 07 May 2017 at 11:18am
Fantasy/humor:

 

FIRST LIGHT

 

Young Fran needs to find her way home before sunrise, but the failsafe her mother gave her is gone. Help comes in an unexpected and somewhat…odd…form.



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Posted By: LyndaD
Date Posted: 07 May 2017 at 11:52am
Mine ended up being a ghost story, something I've never written.

The Night’s Work

Alex’s usually quiet night at the morgue is interrupted by a mother’s desperate search

for her lost child.



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Posted By: fistofcurry
Date Posted: 07 May 2017 at 12:06pm
Drama/General Fiction

The Sky Burial

On a remote mountain in Tibet Donny awaits an unusual funeral rite. As the sunrise approaches he wonders if his father would have wanted to be buried this way.



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Posted By: Imaginative Insanity
Date Posted: 07 May 2017 at 12:19pm
Horror

Six Feet Under Coyote Bluff

The only thing more terrifying than an undertaker is the mother of the boy he hurt.


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Posted By: Fionars
Date Posted: 07 May 2017 at 12:20pm
Still Blue

One man takes responsibility for giving Earth its final send off.

(Science fiction/drama)

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Posted By: sinister
Date Posted: 07 May 2017 at 8:18pm
I usually write cross-genre sci/fantasy stuff, but here, given an open genre, I went with straight literary drama.


In the Rising of the Sun

 

 

Synopsis: Six months after losing the man he loved, Steve looks for a breakthrough, and finds it in the clear waters of Crater Lake.  



Posted By: telera
Date Posted: 07 May 2017 at 9:50pm

Thrice Three, and Thrice Again

A druid priestess seeks mercy from her goddess to avert foreign invasion. 


While it has a sort of fantasy feel we did have druids and we don't know all that much about their practices, so I just went with Drama. And really pushed the envelope on "undertaker"! 


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Posted By: patsy
Date Posted: 07 May 2017 at 10:15pm
Here's mine!  Genre: Open (I went with Ghost Story), Undertaker, Sunrise


The Little Bird

            As an undertaker, Amanda tried very hard not to bring her work home with her, but it often had other ideas. Though she could lay the bodies of the dead to rest, their spirits weren't always so willing to sleep.  



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Posted By: bethgoeswriting
Date Posted: 07 May 2017 at 10:34pm
I had no idea what to put as genre so I left it blank, lol. 

TRANSCENDENTIA

Lila’s search for perfection and fame takes her down a dangerous path.



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Posted By: AllisonM
Date Posted: 08 May 2017 at 2:23pm
"To Be Set Free"

After confronting a terrible childhood trauma, Alex does what he must to be set free.

Drama/Psychological Horror

I turned this contest into a trilogy based around this character, Alex. Definitely wasn't planned, but it was interesting nonetheless.


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Posted By: readingrid
Date Posted: 08 May 2017 at 5:52pm
Did anyone else really biff this one? Mine is so terrible that I honestly don't even want to post it in the review thread or even copy/paste my synopsis. It has to do with "luxury death tourism." Sleepy

I was deleting whole chunks of text literally seconds before 11:59, didn't even do a final re-read. 

Oh well, I learned a valuable lesson about being too ambitious plot-wise in <1,500 words. And I am proud of myself for actually getting something in!


Posted By: borntorun
Date Posted: 08 May 2017 at 10:14pm

Solace and Solstice

 An undertaker searches for meaning in his demanding life on an island where one person dies each morning.



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Posted By: Trails
Date Posted: 09 May 2017 at 4:07am
Yeah I feel pretty much the same. I think it's my weakest offering so far, which doesn't bode well!

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Posted By: BlackGate
Date Posted: 09 May 2017 at 9:57am
We all had the 24 hour crunch! 

 I'm fairly sure none of these will be our best work, but they'll still be great to read. I hope as many post as possible.


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Posted By: fistofcurry
Date Posted: 09 May 2017 at 11:31am
Originally posted by readingrid readingrid wrote:

Did anyone else really biff this one? Mine is so terrible that I honestly don't even want to post it in the review thread or even copy/paste my synopsis. It has to do with "luxury death tourism." Sleepy

I was deleting whole chunks of text literally seconds before 11:59, didn't even do a final re-read. 

Oh well, I learned a valuable lesson about being too ambitious plot-wise in <1,500 words. And I am proud of myself for actually getting something in!

 
I was definitely feeling burned out near the end. I put mine in probably 40 minutes before it was due, without a final proofread. It's not my best work but I think almost everyone feels that way.


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