 :: Contest Number Seven! ::, The Women / contest now closed |
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  Feb 10 2009, 03:16 PM
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 :: the code crew ::  Group: moderators Posts: 88 Joined: 21-March 03 Member No.: 8  |
 CONTEST NUMBER SEVEN The Women This is a creative writing contest, and TC is choosing the winners. You have one week to read the book, conjure the muse, and answer the question. So shake this story out of your sleeve:  What did Miriam dream of the night she received the telegraph at Leora's house?  1. Your entry must be 500 words or less. 2. You must submit your entry to taliesinfellowship@gmail.com by 12 PM pacific standard time on Tuesday February 17th 2009.  The first place winner will receive a review of his or her story from T.C. Boyle himself, as well as a signed, personalized first edition hardcover of The Women. The first place winner as well as the two runners up will have their entries published here on TCBoyle.com Good Luck! **THIS CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED** link -------------------- :: the posse ::
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Feb 10 2009, 07:03 PM
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 Immortal Messagista Group: members Posts: 1,799 Joined: 1-October 04 From: western NY Member No.: 576 |
HOLY THE WOMEN!!! This is great! I have to somehow get the friggin' book!!! yikes and God help me skim, I mean read it and waitress too and oh wow I am so excited...off to Borders asap...yahoo!!! 17th? oh boy...
500 words? piece of cake...now, as far as the content...well, there's the challenge. THANKS FOR THIS wonderful contest, TCB! -------------------- Each story is a gift from a place we can't fathom--what I'm doing is digging them out.
-TC Boyle The trick of my sort of fiction is that I’m just [in my office], making it up.” -TC Boyle |
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Feb 10 2009, 08:41 PM
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Immortal Messagista Group: members Posts: 733 Joined: 23-July 06 Member No.: 1,196 |
I'm wringing my hands like Uriah Heep. Oh, Mahster TCB! Mahster TCB!
My to do list: 1. Purchase book today, even tho I've already got one coming by pony express. 2. Read The Women. 3. Laugh and cry. 4. Shake head in amazement and lap up last page. 5. Take a ride out to Oak Park. 6. Walk past favorite FLLW house (his Japanese period one with pointed gables - are there seven?) 7. Go home, go to sleep. 8. Dream. 9. Get up and feed the dog. 10. Be afraid! Very afraid! But try and write creatively for contest anyway. 11. Submit. 12. The rest is history! -------------------- |
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Feb 10 2009, 09:04 PM
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Immortal Messagista Group: members Posts: 1,799 Joined: 1-October 04 From: western NY Member No.: 576 |
PANIC ATTACKEROO...we HAVE no credit cards...we HAVE a debit card but the numbers on the back must be rubbed off so I was having no luck even ordering it online since they needed those CW numbers. I tried e-books next...thought I could at least read it on the computer...WHY you ask? Because I live in middle-of-friggin'-nowhere in western NY and when I went online to check the stores out here... nada zip... not here yet, I guess...have to drive to Syracuse three hours away to buy the book...well, I got panicky and tried Barnes and Noble and they had my info in their system so I hope and pray it gets here ASAP so I have time to read it and write my 500 words or less...before the 17th! If not, I will summon up my mysterious magical made-up-stuff maker and maybe the words will come to me and then I can read the book afterwards when it finally arrives...nah, not a good idea...okay BOOK! BOOK! BOOK! Get here!
MIZ MIZ...you're on! -------------------- Each story is a gift from a place we can't fathom--what I'm doing is digging them out.
-TC Boyle The trick of my sort of fiction is that I’m just [in my office], making it up.” -TC Boyle |
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Feb 11 2009, 04:18 AM
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"even tho I've already got one coming by pony express."
Dear Miz, I hope, Kevin will be The Postman... Good Luck and enjoy, Yours, Moni 
-------------------- "We've always been human. It's the sheen of immortality that's wearing thin."
TCB to Maslovat in 2010 "I said, all right, then the thing for us to do was to go for the magicians." Huckleberry Finn to Tom Sawyer in "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain. www.rauchscafe.de |
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Feb 11 2009, 11:04 AM
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Immortal Messagista Group: members Posts: 1,799 Joined: 1-October 04 From: western NY Member No.: 576 |
Nervous Nellie reporting in...I ordered online yesterday then today I panicked thinking it would take days to get here and it would not give me much time to read and be able to enter the contest...any ways, it says OUT OF STOCK on the Internet for the Border's an hour from my house but I called and THEY DO HAVE IT!!! yeah...I can drive there and back tomorrow before diner duty...THEY ARE HOLDING A COPY FOR ME!!!! When I get the other one I will have a spare or better yet use it as a gift for someone else...HAPPY WEDNESDAY!
-------------------- Each story is a gift from a place we can't fathom--what I'm doing is digging them out.
-TC Boyle The trick of my sort of fiction is that I’m just [in my office], making it up.” -TC Boyle |
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Feb 11 2009, 01:44 PM
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I have a copy on hold also, at my Local Library. The book is at the Library, but still in "cataloging" and not in circulation yet-- as of today, 4:30 pm. I have my name down for the first person to check it out. Hopefully,The Women, will be out of cataloging by tomorrow a.m. and I can start reading.
-------------------- ...."you'll never know the blues until you live 'em" Our Own Robb |
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Feb 11 2009, 02:06 PM
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Immortal Messagista Group: members Posts: 733 Joined: 23-July 06 Member No.: 1,196 |
QUOTE (maccoffee @ Feb 11 2009, 04:18 AM)  "even tho I've already got one coming by pony express." Dear Miz, I hope, Kevin will be The Postman... Good Luck and enjoy, Yours, Moni Thanks Moni and good luck-enjoy to you too! Miz -------------------- |
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Feb 11 2009, 06:21 PM
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Immortal Messagista Group: members Posts: 1,799 Joined: 1-October 04 From: western NY Member No.: 576 |
Miz,
I drove an hour to get the book...an hour back...will also still be getting one in the mail. LET THE GAMES BEGIN! Good luck...may the best woman win...just kidding...happy reading, dear MB friend. And then happy writing. PS Now maybe the publisher can afford another box of matches for his daughter.
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-------------------- Each story is a gift from a place we can't fathom--what I'm doing is digging them out.
-TC Boyle The trick of my sort of fiction is that I’m just [in my office], making it up.” -TC Boyle |
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Feb 12 2009, 09:09 AM
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Immortal Messagista Group: members Posts: 733 Joined: 23-July 06 Member No.: 1,196 |
E-Yah, now I have a pair. (re: The Women - not new D-cups) Might I receive a spare? Hm.
Yes! That was quite crafty thinking on the part of the posse! Order one on Amazon and then because 'some people' suffer from OCD and are competitive, they are mentally forced to walk to Borders on Michigan Avenue yesterday, in a torrential downpour of cold wind and wet, to purchase ANOTHER copy of The Women! It's okay though, because they will share their copies with the neighbors, etc. PS: The Women was in the new fiction release section located in the front-north stack of the store, way up high! On the top shelf! Where I had to tippy toe to knock one down onto the ground with my umbrella! Prior to purchasing it! "Do you have a Borders card? Would you like to open an account so you can get 15% off your next purchase?" No! When are these guys, who are robotic cashiers, going to get it throught their thick, metal, skulls that if I don't whip a Borders card out of my purse, I probably am using a different card to rack AA miles! Gaw! Quit asking me the same question over and over! That's why I like being an Amazonian. Miz -------------------- |
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 Feb 12 2009, 11:37 PM
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 Messagista Supreme Group: members Posts: 310 Joined: 24-April 05 From: Quantum Continuum Member No.: 757 |
QUOTE (Mizterious @ Feb 12 2009, 09:09 AM) E-Yah, now I have a pair. (re: The Women - not new D-cups) Might I receive a spare? Hm. ... That's why I like being an Amazonian. Miz That connotation has so many wonderful possibilities... a story can germinate out of this... |
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Feb 12 2009, 11:45 PM
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Q, you know about my poor English! What's those cups Miz is mentioning?
-------------------- "No, this is the Great Theatre of Life. Admission is free but the taxation is mortal. You come when you can, and leave when you must. The show is continuous. Good-night."
Robertson Davies.The ending lines of his last novel "The Cunning Man". |
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Feb 13 2009, 08:15 AM
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QUOTE (Q-Force @ Feb 12 2009, 11:37 PM) That connotation has so many wonderful possibilities... a story can germinate out of this... Oh Q-Force! Are you skimming again? Ha! Dear Fons: D-Cups refers to breast size. Hope that helps. (I was trying to be a jokster.) Good Luck, U-all! Miz PS:...He knelt down and licked her Amazonian boot straps made of soft suede, a fashionable cobalt blue. The straps were a lucsious pink at the tips. They were Jimmy Choo's from the Oak Street store in Chicago's Gold Coast. (next paragraph) The strapping man quit licking the Amazonian's boot staps. The activity was drying out his tongue. Lifted himself up by his personal, very own boot straps (made of manly brown rawhide from the Western Store on Speedway, Tucson AZ) and pulled out his girthy sword (the reader is not given anymore info on the sword, let them use their imaginations). The Valentine couple were located in the Black Forest of The Rhineland. Many, many years ago. (backstory) Hm. there's a lot of boot strapping going on...Needs work. -------------------- |
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Feb 16 2009, 12:04 AM
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Messagista Supreme Group: members Posts: 310 Joined: 24-April 05 From: Quantum Continuum Member No.: 757 |
Skim this!!! (nyuk, nyuk, nyuk...)
 The memories of long love, |
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Feb 16 2009, 05:38 AM
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Doctor Boyle*: On Thursday February 12th, I was disapoointed when I learned that the deadline for Contest # 7 was one week from the release date of February 10th. Initially, my plan was to purchase "The Women" on Sunday, February 15th and start reading it that very night. Much to my delight - and I held this out as a very real possibility - I received the book as a Valentine's gift. And what I've read thus far, I've enjoyed. But my schedule hasn't afforded me the time to read as often as I would like. And I simply thought that a one week deadline was too narrow a window, given the many obstacles(pronounced ob-STACK-alls a la "O Brother Where Art Thou") in people's daily lives.
I read slowly, and as I read, I write down the many new words and their definitions, which I eventually share with other readers. So I will not be submitting a contest entry. I just can't squeeze it in. Thanks just the same for all of the enjoyment I've experienced while reading your work. Time to go. Gotta....RUNNOFT ... to the woodpile !! *Boyle-san ff. This post has been edited by PhilaMDG: Feb 16 2009, 05:51 AM |
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