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**Last Week’s Winner: Silhouette by Carl Bystrom**
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This Week’s Story WORD theme: Pirate
This week’s Story GENRE style: Crime/Detective/Mystery
STORIES:
Cool Customer by The Urban Spaceman
A Quiet Beat by Carl Bystrom
Downloading on the Down-low by David Williamson
Wrongfully Accused by Rachael Ritchey
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Read all the stories & PLEASE VOTE for your favorite.
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You have until the next Monday at midnight EST (9 PM PST / 5 AM GMT Tues) to read the submitted stories & vote for your top three. Please consider the expert use of the theme word when choosing.
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Reblogged this on Fiction by Rachael Ritchey and commented:
Here’s a few stories to wet the reading whistle this week! Enjoy some Pirate yarns of crime and mystery! 😉 #BlogBattle 14
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I sooooo… Wish i could take part!
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Me too, me bucko! 🙂
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😊
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So much gratitude to everyone for enjoying my story! Honored and humbled once again.
Something a bit different from me this week – thanks to Rachel (et al) for the inspiration!
http://www.carlbystrom.com/2017/04/11/a-quiet-beat/
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🙂
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Here’s my timber-shivering story!
https://theurbanspaceman.net/2017/04/11/cool-customer-flash-fiction/
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Ha! Awesome. 🙂
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