Official Crime and Punishment 2025 Story Event Support Thread

[BryanRichardson]

“Stories are to be submitted between September 8, 2025 and September 19, 2025, with a posting date of September 22, 2025.”

This seems to indicate all will be published on Sept 22. I would assume that to be the case and then maybe be pleasantly surprised if they are published as submitted.

 

[Candy_Kane54]

In the past, the stories were published as submitted with the final list of all entries published on the posting date. However, things can change. I'll be submitting mine on 08SEP25 and see what happens ...

 

[Aoife_from_Ulster]

In the past, the stories were published as submitted with the final list of all entries published on the posting date. However, things can change. I'll be submitting mine on 08SEP25 and see what happens ...

I plan to follow your thought process and submit early September as well. Thanks

 

[MillieDynamite]

I wonder if I have anything already, ready that I can post this year. I don't think I can have another Vengence story ready in time.

 

[SmilingLez]

Hopefully, my prose will be accepted for this challenge

 

[Dreamerman77]

Almost finished. My story needs just one more 'read aloud' -edit and its done. 32k words, editing while listening, it's hours of work, after work.

 

[Aoife_from_Ulster]

It really looks like we will have a good amount of stories. I am super excited

 

[SmilingLez]

What I enjoyed most in this challenge is the fact that I could go non fiction dark with my prose

 

[soflabbwlvr]

BTW, is there a rule that the story has to be completely new? I have an old one that I've been wanting to touch up and it might qualify.... But if that's not the spirit of the competition, I'll dream up some other characters to kill off.

No rule, actually, the idea is really for new stories.

 

[soflabbwlvr]

In the past, the stories were published as submitted with the final list of all entries published on the posting date. However, things can change. I'll be submitting mine on 08SEP25 and see what happens ...

This is how it was done last year, and I imagine it will be the same this year.

 

[Sapphira_Vex]

Hmmm just when I think I have an idea I don't! This is the toughest one so far that I've joined in with!

 

[BryanRichardson]

I’m about halfway done with the story, I’ve just got to decide how much sex to add in during the second pass.

 

[iwatchus]

So, I am definitely submitting my story to the event. The Cupcake Caper is a farce based on a joke in the AH coffee house a few weeks ago. It is my first attempt here at humor. It is an image to Thomas Crown Affair (the 1999 one not the original from the 60's) and To Catch a Thief as they would have been done by folks from the Little Mischief Theater with some flavors from FireSign Theater (predates almost all of you, I know, but they were a big influence on my teenaged humor). With an all lesbian cast. I don;t expect much from it, but it has been fun to write.

 

[Actingup]

So, I am definitely submitting my story to the event. The Cupcake Caper is a farce based on a joke in the AH coffee house a few weeks ago. It is my first attempt here at humor. It is an image to Thomas Crown Affair (the 1999 one not the original from the 60's) and To Catch a Thief as they would have been done by folks from the Little Mischief Theater with some flavors from FireSign Theater (predates almost all of you, I know, but they were a big influence on my teenaged humor). With an all lesbian cast. I don;t expect much from it, but it has been fun to write.

An all-lesbian cast only raises expectations...

 

[iwatchus]

An all-lesbian cast only raises expectations...

Don't get them too high. I fully expect this to be my new worst story. Comedy is hard and it is thick and heavy with groaners, and I mean bad jokes, not orgasming lesbians, although it does have a few of those.

 

[latent_heat]

I think I'll write something for this event. It will be my first submission for a challenge, but I like the prompt. I'm experimenting with the idea of a gorgeous party girl seducing a nerdy and horny chemist (male) to get some high quality drugs for a rave. Obviously things will get out of hand Hopefully not leaning too hard on tired tropes.

 

[SmilingLez]

So, I am definitely submitting my story to the event. The Cupcake Caper is a farce based on a joke in the AH coffee house a few weeks ago. It is my first attempt here at humor. It is an image to Thomas Crown Affair (the 1999 one not the original from the 60's) and To Catch a Thief as they would have been done by folks from the Little Mischief Theater with some flavors from FireSign Theater (predates almost all of you, I know, but they were a big influence on my teenaged humor). With an all lesbian cast. I don;t expect much from it, but it has been fun to write.

I can't wait to read your story.

 

[MillieDynamite]

It's a crime I've been punished so much in my life.

 

[SmilingLez]

will works be published individually (when approved) or will all works be published when the deadline has passed?

 

[MillieDynamite]

@SmilingLez Yes, and no. Usually, they go up as soon as they are approved, but I don't know what this year's protocol is.

 

[vanmyers86]

Funny - a stupid-crook incident from my days as a crime reporter just popped into my head as the basis for a story, and my imagination supplied two additional characters (besides the idiotic would-be criminal) to make it a comic romance. Grad school and work are eating up most of my time, but maybe I can make some time to write for this challenge!

 

[iwatchus]

I'm not sure if I screwed up something on my submission, but my submission is live as of this morning. I know for Geek Pride event, Laurel managed to hold the release.

Anyway, it's live, so that's happened. The Great Cupcake Caper.

 

[Candy_Kane54]

I'm going through the final edit on my entry and hope to submit it tomorrow for publication on the 8th.

 

[iwatchus]

Laurel apparently noticed that my story (Cupcake Caper) got published early, so sometime in the last hour or so, it got pulled back into pending with a publication date of 9/22. It seems to be keeping its votes, views and comments that it already had.

Not a problem, just surprised to see it disappear from the stories list

 

[Actingup]

Laurel apparently noticed that my story (Cupcake Caper) got published early, so sometime in the last hour or so, it got pulled back into pending with a publication date of 9/22. It seems to be keeping its votes, views and comments that it already had.

Not a problem, just surprised to see it disappear from the stories list

Interesting- it’s still visible to me.