WINNER of Carol's Writing Contest #1: Mad Cow, Mad Heifers From Hell - $25 SBD

We have a winner!

All the entries are fantastic, but we had to pick just one.

Congratulations , @thinknzombie!

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I like BBQ, but not when I’m the main course. They hung me by my toenails over a fire, and as bad as that sounds, believe me, it was worse in person. The weekend was looking crispy unless I thought fast.
“Speak! You must tell us everything or we lower you into the flames.”

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Read the rest of the story here: https://steemit.com/fiction/@thinknzombie/mad-cow-meets-scheherazade

Honorable Mention

to @guytmartland for the most creative interpretation of the story prompt. His bossy old "heifer" is an organic spaceship, The Mad Cow. Pressganged into hard labor in the ship's bowels (udderly horrible work!), our protagonist plots revenge. Double honors, Guy, for thinking of the recently reported blue dogs of Mumbai. I love seeing real-life news stories transformed in fiction. https://steemit.com/writing/@guytmartland/space-cold

Another Honorable Mention

to @jrhughes for finding inspiration in the Book of the Heavenly Cow (first discovered in part in the tomb of Tutankhamen). I love a fresh twist on an ancient myth. See https://steemit.com/fiction/@jrhughes/larry-harry-and-the-heifer

I love @Jhagi's gentle approach to the Mad Cow, who tries makes everyone at the office miserable, because she herself ... well, these stories are short, so see for yourself. You'll also see how hard it is to pick just one winner: https://steemit.com/writing/@jhagi.bhai/the-office-bully

Our esteemed and hard-working author/editor @bex-dk

recused her entry from the contest. Why? So she could critique submissions from others before they entered the contest. Her story is authentic, all too familiar to all too many people, and wickedly satisfying.
https://steemit.com/fiction/@bex-dk/mad-cow-medical

As the winner himself writes in a preface to his story:

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This particular entry was written hastily and with the awesome prodding and some last-minute line-editing by @bex-dk. You can see @bex-dk's awesome entry here: https://steemit.com/fiction/@bex-dk/mad-cow-medical. I definitely would like some more time to work on this further (hint hint).
Big thanks to @cristof for his review as well. I am, as always, in awe my friend. Thank you.

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Thank you, Bex, and @rhondak for help with judging, and for help with so many, many things behind the scenes. Thanks also to @jrhughes for more roles than I can list, and all workshop members for reading and evaluating each other's writing.

THANK YOU to all who donated SBD $ to the prize pool, and to all who submitted a Mad Cow story, that we might laugh and commiserate with each other.

More entries, all good:

@marcoagarcia3rd38 - submitted as a reply to the post (but not disqualifed for it!)
@arbitrarykitten - didn't post link at contest site, but we found her worthy entry
@deltatrek42- https://steemit.com/fiction/@deltatrek/the-nurse-cow
@darxide40355 - https://steemit.com/writing/@darxide403/submission-for-the-mad-cow-short-fiction-contest
@lordmok - https://steemit.com/story/@lordmok/that-grumpy-lady-at-the-office

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