Congratulations Winter Holiday Competition Winners!

[English Lady]

First Place ($700 Cash Prize Winner):
Endless by Daniellekitten

Second Place ($250 Cash Prize Winner):
Norman the Cat by davidwatts

Third Place ($100 Cash Prize Winner):
The Bell Ringer Ch. 02 by Dynamite Jack

Fourth through Seventh Places (Special Bonus Prize):
Another Lonely Christmas by Aurora Black
All I Want for Christmas by sachiaiko
The Circle of Love by CrossCountryLover
Christmas Eve by cookiejar


All entries get a big congrats from me, special well done's go to those who won -yay!!! Lots of AH'ers in there too!

 

[impressive]

Congrats, everyone!

 

[ABSTRUSE]

HOORAY!!!!

Congrats Danielle

And to all the rest....great job and Merry Christmas!

 

[Guest]

Wow Danielle, Aurora and CookieJar (the one's I know).

Way to go!

 

[cookiejar]

 

[sophia jane]

Congrats!

 

[hugo_sam]

I said it on the other thread but:
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE WINNERS!!!

 

[cloudy]

Congratulations, all!

There were so many really wonderful stories in the contest this year - y'all should be proud.

 

[dysphemist]

Congrats to all the winners!

 

[R. Richard]

Congrats to all the winners! For that matter, congrats to all the participants.

 

[Guest]

And Ted my fellow NY upstater davidwatts won once again. Nice to see his talent being recognized.

Yeah, congrats too to David & Dynamite Jack, sachiaiko, and CrossCountryLover. Wasn't slighting them, just don't know them, but maybe they do lurk here.

Good going everyone.

 

[OhMissScarlett]

Congrats everyone!

 

[lil_elvis]

Cudos to all, even those who only entered. There was a wealth of worthy submissions.

 

[rgraham666]

Congratulations, everyone!

 

[Aurora Black]

Thank you.

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Grats to all

 

[Guest]

 

[Roxanne Appleby]

I am honored to have been in a competition with you winners, and with all the rest of the entrants as well. Yay! for you, and yay! for all of us.

Come Valentine's Day, boy, I'm gonna win for sure!
And watch out for the Chicago Cubs in 2006, too - this is gonna be THE year . . .

 

[davidwatts]

Yeah, congrats too to David & Dynamite Jack, sachiaiko, and CrossCountryLover. Wasn't slighting them, just don't know them, but maybe they do lurk here.

Good going everyone.

I lurk and I thank you.

 

[davidwatts]

Absurd!

I spent much of last Saturday reading some of the contest entries. I started out pretty smug that my "Norman the Cat" was a worthy contender for honors, and that feeling soon evaporated.

Every story I read, I got more and more discouraged. What beautiful work was entered in this contest, and how ludicrous it is that somehow Norman ended up ahead of all but one of them. Norman was certainly no better, just luckier.

Not only the stories that were also selected (and I had the pleasure of reading and agreeing with the community on daniellekitten, cookiejar and aurorablack' s contributions), but also the stories that did not win prizes, but were so more deserving than mine.

Rhys' Pyotr Iliych was a masterpiece, and I'm sure it was only as a result of the haters out there that it didn't get honors. Cloudy, sack, selenakittyn, RRichard, hugosam, AlexdeKok, vella, impressive and Rumple created work that was certainly deserving as well, and I know I forgot some others (sorry, you know who you are).

As for oggbashan, Colleen Thomas and dr. mabeuse, whom I consider my literotica writing heroes, any list that has anything of mine above them is suspect at best. Doc's grocery lists have more literary value than anything I have yet cranked out. Norman the Cat has the word 'wonderfulful' in it, for crying out loud!

Before I go into Sally Field hyper-drive, let me wrap this up by thanking everyone who played, and played the game fairly, without whom I would not be writing this. It's easy to be honorable around honorable people, and I think that the AH fits that description.

The "W" I'll keep and treasure. The money I think I'll spread around a little, in the spirit of the holiday season. Cloudy's Pine Ridge Propane, the Electronic Frontier Foundation as well as the Salvation Army, who many years ago handed this agnostic a donut and a cup of coffee out of the back of a truck at the lowest time of my life that I'll always remember, come to mind first.


Happy holidays to one and all!

 

[sophia jane]

Before I go into Sally Field hyper-drive, let me wrap this up by thanking everyone who played, and played the game fairly, without whom I would not be writing this. It's easy to be honorable around honorable people, and I think that the AH fits that description.

The "W" I'll keep and treasure. The money I think I'll spread around a little, in the spirit of the holiday season. Cloudy's Pine Ridge Propane, the Electronic Frontier Foundation as well as the Salvation Army, who many years ago handed this agnostic a donut and a cup of coffee out of the back of a truck at the lowest time of my life that I'll always remember, come to mind first.


Happy holidays to one and all!

You're good people! Congrats, again, on your win.

 

[velvetpie]

Congrats, Danielle! Marvelous work!

 

[Bridget69]

Congrats, everyone!

 

[Guest]

Congrats to all!

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

COLOSSAL CONGRATULATIONS TO:

First Place ($700 Cash Prize Winner):
Endless by Daniellekitten

Second Place ($250 Cash Prize Winner):
Norman the Cat by davidwatts

Third Place ($100 Cash Prize Winner):
The Bell Ringer Ch. 02 by Dynamite Jack

Fourth through Seventh Places (Special Bonus Prize):
Another Lonely Christmas by Aurora Black
All I Want for Christmas by sachiaiko
The Circle of Love by CrossCountryLover
Christmas Eve by cookiejar

The quality of your stories made those of us who finished out of the money look good.

Rumple Foreskin