Suspense and Fear

October is the month of Halloween and everything that comes with it. In keeping with the season, this challenge is all about creating suspense and harnessing fear.

The theme of this month's challenge, Suspense and Fear, means your challenge is to write a piece of prose centered around these two sensations. The subject of your work can be anything you wish, as long as you work to invoke these emotions.

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Submission Guidelines

Your story must be based on the monthly challenge theme: "Suspense and Fear". Write your journal entry in 1000 words or less. No poetry for this contest will be accepted unless the poetry is used as a part of your entry. A separate poetry contest is available. Ignore the 5 line limit on the box when you upload - that limit is only for "image contests." Double space between paragraphs. Type directly in the upload box or copy/paste from Notepad (or similar editing program). IMPORTANT: Copy/Pasting from complex word processing programs, such as MS Word, can change certain characters. If you use MS Word: Copy/Paste from Word into Notepad, then Copy/Paste into the contest upload box. Do not insert html formating

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Image Submission

You may use your own image but must supply a matching thumbnail with your entry. Before uploading your text: right click on the following images and save to your hard drive. Rename the image: thumb.jpg or main.jpg

Thumbnail: contest image created by midrael Use this image as your thumbnail image

Full Image: Use this as your Full Image

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Contest Rules:

Challenge Theme - "Suspense and Fear". Contest begins October 12, 2005 - and - ends November 4, 2005 at midnight Renderosity server time.
(Entries MUST be timestamped by the contest ending date and time.) All members, coordinators, and moderators can enter except the challenge manager(s). No sexual or extreme violence - stories/images must be suitable for all audiences and abide by Renderosity's Terms of Service. Only one story per member allowed (this includes member clones - that is, even if you have multiple accounts, only one entry per PERSON). By uploading your story/poem you are agreeing that this is your original work. Authors will remain the intellectual property holder of their entries.

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Commenting: Unlike previous contests, there will not be voting at the end of the contest. In place of voting, a comment thread in the Writer's Forum will be in place for you to leave comments on your favorite entries. Use your comments to compliment your favorites or to provide constructive criticism to help those that enter improve their writing. You may leave a comment regarding any of the entries at any time during the challenge. There are no winners or losers in this challenge. This is a challenge to our writer community and not a contest. Posting of the entries is anonymous. When commenting, refer to the entry number and title.

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Artists grant permission to Renderosity for the use of submitted stories/poems/images for an undetermined period of time. This is strictly for posting within the contest archives. The Artist will remain the intellectual property holder.

All Entries are copyright, and cannot be copied, reprinted, or linked to, without written permission of the author/artist.