Constrained Writing Contest #14 + Winners of Constrained Writing Contest #13

Judge’s overall note: Thank you @svashta for letting me be the judge for week 13! Thank you to everyone that participated in the contest. This was a hard set of constraints and it was definitely interesting to see what everyone would come up with. For this contest, I decided to judge your entries based on creativity. Also, as @simgirl said last week, feel free to join The Writer's Block on discord. It's there to help you with your stories. They will proof read and help you prepare your stories for posting or publishing. It's a great tool to use. I joined last week!

The winners of this week’s Constrained Writing Contest are:

• 1st place : 0.270 SBD + 0.05 STEEM : @veganrabbit with the entry “Goodbye”.

Judge’s note: I liked the way you held off informing the reader that the conversation was between a dog and her owner. I think that added a nice twist to the story.

• 2nd place : 0.162 SBD + 0.03 STEEM : @simgirl with the entry “Shimmer’s Morning”.

Judge’s note: I thought you described the general actions of a cat really well. The movements and even Shimmer’s portion of the conversation was very believable. I would have liked for Shimmer to actually speak with her human owner or at least another animal. I think the lack of understanding between the two of them, takes away from the talking aspect. However, you worked the story nicely with the owner’s understanding of the cat even though they didn’t actually speak to each other.

• 3rd place : 0.108 SBD + 0.02 STEEM : @jessicakluthe with the entry “Tweet”.

Judge’s note: I know we spoke about this in the comments on your story, but I really liked the message you conveyed with your story. However, I think the overall message may have been stronger than what was actually happening with the grandmother and her bird.

Honorable mentions in no particular order:

• @spalatino with the entry “Decision”

Judge’s note: Your story had an interesting twist to it, but it felt a little choppy. I think the story needed to slow down a little so the reader could absorb what was happening. In order to do that, it would need to be more descriptive.

@svashta’s note: Thank you very much, to all of you who participated, and those who just stopped by, read the entries and dropped some upvotes!
Because this week the prizes were on the lower side, @foragingquietude and I decided to forgo our cut and instead spread that amongst the winners!
That means 1st place gets 50 % of the post’s payout, 2nd place 30 % and 3rd place 20 %.