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Topic: Final round titles and summaries
Posted By: taaaylor
Subject: Final round titles and summaries
Date Posted: 16 Dec 2019 at 12:15am
I am crazy excited to see what you guys came up with!! The forums are still closed, so titles and summaries only please <3

The Lightning Boy

The lightning boy is a spirit child born doomed to die--unless he refuses to be born at all.


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https://t.ly/JlEAs" rel="nofollow - SSC R1
https://t.ly/XFj6f" rel="nofollow - 250 Micro R2

SSC 2021 winner



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Posted By: Mumser
Date Posted: 16 Dec 2019 at 12:17am

The Spirit Cloud

 

Lachlan has negotiated the deal of a lifetime, and retirement is just one step away. But getting the goods isn’t as easy as he had thought.



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https://forums.nycmidnight.com/topic57914_post624663.html#624663" rel="nofollow - R1SSC The Bellegartin Quest (Fairy Tale)


Posted By: Mystic Platypus
Date Posted: 16 Dec 2019 at 12:25am

The Cloudbreather


When clouds that reveal a person’s deepest secrets enshroud Ophelia’s town, she must either hide herself from the world or seek the help of the mysterious Cloudbreather.



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FFC Ch3: https://bit.ly/3jiJjwt" rel="nofollow - There in Treetop Tower


Posted By: justmel
Date Posted: 16 Dec 2019 at 12:26am

As Close as Your Heart

 

 

After her mama dies, Shelby goes to live with a man

who reminds her of someone, but she can’t quite place him.



Posted By: pash
Date Posted: 16 Dec 2019 at 12:33am
Inside The Cloud 

When you die, it’s possible to have ten minutes of brain activity before consciousness catches up to your dead heart— If in those minutes you could conjure infinite lives and chances while awaiting death, how could you ever know what’s real?


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FF2020
https://tinyurl.com/y983byqm" rel="nofollow - R1H102: Icelandic Honeygate Scandal(Com)

Screenplay2020
https://tinyurl.com/yc8ks79c" rel="nofollow - R2H7: Dream Come True


Posted By: northernwriter
Date Posted: 16 Dec 2019 at 12:34am

Clouded Memories 

A leading neuroscientist has created technology that can separate pain from memories. But which memory, if removed, would lead one to live an entirely different life?



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Microfiction 2021: 4th place overall
Flash Fiction 2020: 8th place overall


Posted By: ruagray
Date Posted: 16 Dec 2019 at 1:05am

When All Your Dreams Become Memories

A man revisits the castle he built out of childhood dreams and comes face-to-face with how he's changed. Can his childhood self rekindle hope for the future?



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FFC#1 - https://tinyurl.com/r27ruy36" rel="nofollow - He Just Needs Another Drink (horror)


Posted By: Suave
Date Posted: 16 Dec 2019 at 1:24am
Originally posted by pash pash wrote:

Inside The Cloud 

When you die, it’s possible to have ten minutes of brain activity before consciousness catches up to your dead heart— If in those minutes you could conjure infinite lives and chances while awaiting death, how could you ever know what’s real?


Looking forward to reading this one!


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https://shorturl.at/oFHX0" rel="nofollow - SP Butterflies and Bumblebees
https://shorturl.at/sxQU6" rel="nofollow - SS Drama/ A Touch of Humanity


Posted By: Anansi
Date Posted: 16 Dec 2019 at 6:16am

When Maapa Came


The last active combatant in WW2 was Terou Nakamura, an indigenous soldier of the Amis tribe, conscripted by the Imperial Japanese Army from his native Taiwan. 

Unaware that the war was over, he finally surrendered in 1974 after thirty years surviving

 alone in the jungles of the Indonesian Archipelago.





I think I might have accidentally written a similar story to last round ... 


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https://bit.ly/3r8Uopx" rel="nofollow - FF21 - R1: Lost Gods of New Orleans

https://bit.ly/3x7Zund" rel="nofollow - MF100 - R2: Star Crossed

Will return all reads. Thanks!


Posted By: Steve I
Date Posted: 16 Dec 2019 at 8:44am

Atop Edward’s Hill

Eloise drifts, remembering things lost and found.


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FF2020 C1: https://tinyurl.com/yddrp3q5" rel="nofollow - The Town Pavilion, Great Springs, NY


Posted By: Lisa_Who
Date Posted: 16 Dec 2019 at 9:51am


Posted By: regannoelle
Date Posted: 16 Dec 2019 at 10:08am

Taking Flight

After her death, a mother must watch her husband and daughter learn to survive without her wing to guide them.



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https://tinyurl.com/2m3fkkf3" rel="nofollow - 2020 100 Final "The Old Man and the Moon" (2nd Place)
https://forums.nycmidnight.com/r4-fissures-drama_topic45147.html" rel="nofollow - 2021 Flash Final "Fissures"


Posted By: northernwriter
Date Posted: 16 Dec 2019 at 10:14am
Originally posted by regannoelle regannoelle wrote:


Taking Flight

After her death, a mother must watch her husband and daughter learn to survive without her wing to guide them.


My first idea was to do something like this, but with a mother and son! I’m glad I went in a different direction. You are great with writing drama and I wouldn’t have wanted to have a similar story against yours! Good luck!

-Alex


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Microfiction 2021: 4th place overall
Flash Fiction 2020: 8th place overall


Posted By: Lisa_Who
Date Posted: 16 Dec 2019 at 10:25am
Originally posted by Anansi Anansi wrote:

When Maapa Came


The last active combatant in WW2 was Terou Nakamura, an indigenous soldier of the Amis tribe, conscripted by the Imperial Japanese Army from his native Taiwan. 

Unaware that the war was over, he finally surrendered in 1974 after thirty years surviving

 alone in the jungles of the Indonesian Archipelago.






This sounds so amazing!!


Posted By: ideallyowlish
Date Posted: 16 Dec 2019 at 10:26am

Detachment

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Two mountaineer brothers are struck by crippling visibility issues during their descent of Everest.


Posted By: Daphne
Date Posted: 16 Dec 2019 at 10:45am

Memory’s “Second Coming”


When the data cloud tried to reconcile memory and reality, it had always 

come up just short of real life.

T. 



Posted By: thee_gray_lady
Date Posted: 16 Dec 2019 at 12:14pm
I hated this story. And then I kinda liked this story. And now I have no idea how I feel about this story. But it's done THANK GOD. 

Afraid

 When Leah’s professor accuses her of cowardice, she goes to irrational lengths to prove him wrong. 



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- thee_gray_lady
https://forums.nycmidnight.com/topic53868_post573655.html#573655" rel="nofollow - Flash Fiction, CH1 G23, Ruby Ghost


Posted By: Timdelizza
Date Posted: 16 Dec 2019 at 12:40pm

Franca, Dario & Franca


Ziggurat tower.




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Posted By: Anansi
Date Posted: 16 Dec 2019 at 1:20pm
Originally posted by Lisa_Who Lisa_Who wrote:


Something similar sounding to this was my first idea. Something about the cloud location spoke to sci - fi off-world colonies. 

Good title too.

Look forward to reading!


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https://bit.ly/3r8Uopx" rel="nofollow - FF21 - R1: Lost Gods of New Orleans

https://bit.ly/3x7Zund" rel="nofollow - MF100 - R2: Star Crossed

Will return all reads. Thanks!


Posted By: thebrokegamer
Date Posted: 16 Dec 2019 at 1:32pm
So many amazing ideas! It'll be an absolute privilege to read the stories this round, and a terrifying honor to compete with them. Good job, all!

Like Mist on Metal

We’ve been harvesting our water for those Earthsiders for years, and now it’s all dried up like spittle in the sun. Now us Cloudfolk gotta make a decision: to save them, or ourselves?



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2019 FFC:
C4: https://bit.ly/2S6xiAq" rel="nofollow - Like Mist on Metal (3rd Overall)

2020 MF:
A Note Found in a Sleek and Ticking Suitcase


Posted By: Talia
Date Posted: 16 Dec 2019 at 5:12pm

The Edge

The end of the world as we know it is inevitable.  It’s how we choose to live after coming to the end that creates the new world



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SSC (Mystery)
https://forums.nycmidnight.com/topic57853_post623575.html#623575" rel="nofollow - What My World Spins Around


Posted By: gretchasketch
Date Posted: 16 Dec 2019 at 5:16pm



STARLIGHT

 

 

Stranded on the edge of the universe, siblings look for deliverance in the birth of a star.



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FFC R3 https://tinyurl.com/y6g6jqxv" rel="nofollow - This Gymnasium Dedicated to the Memory Of


Posted By: Helou
Date Posted: 16 Dec 2019 at 8:29pm
Operation Pareidolia

Why should compassion only come to those who experience hardship?

[If there’s one thing I’ve learnt over the course of FFC, it would be that I don’t know how to write these loglines]


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FF Finals(!): https://tinyurl.com/uouqqsz" rel="nofollow - Operation Pareidolia
CH3: https://tinyurl.com/yx8b2bz3" rel="nofollow - Man's Best Friend (Sci Fi)


Posted By: blobfish
Date Posted: 16 Dec 2019 at 9:42pm
Flight 1021
Two strangers bond 30,000 feet above catastrophe.


Posted By: JLynne
Date Posted: 16 Dec 2019 at 10:15pm
Disconnected

After an AI residing in The Cloud interrupts modern technology infrastructure, humans are desperate for connection. 



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Read my story (hist fic) "A Calamity of the Heart" https://forums.nycmidnight.com/topic53897_post573696.html#573696


Posted By: JLynne
Date Posted: 16 Dec 2019 at 10:20pm
Wow, these all sound so good! I would hate to be a judge for this last round. I look forward to reading your stories.

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Read my story (hist fic) "A Calamity of the Heart" https://forums.nycmidnight.com/topic53897_post573696.html#573696


Posted By: ellynmfx
Date Posted: 17 Dec 2019 at 9:29am

GIFT FROM THE SKY

In futuristic Tokyo, one object still holds the power to ruin a life.



(And it's not the Ring. Sleepy)



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https://forums.nycmidnight.com/ch4-gift-from-the-sky_topic31180.html" rel="nofollow - FF4: Gift from the Sky




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