Featured Work
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For Star Twisters Challenge #62 / Prompt – Water Word Count – 341
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Twisted tales challenge Prompt 61 – set up Have not written a twister for a while…thanks to KM for a great prompt :)
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Twisted Tales Star Twister #59 – Prompt: Eyes
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For Star Twister’s #58 Word Count – 349 Prompt – Signified
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My entry for the Star Twister 54 – prompt was spring. Max 350 words.
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For Twisted Tales Star Twister 53 / Prompt = “Broken Silence” / Word Count = 350 © Matthew Penfold 2009 TTST53
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For Star Twister 52 – Ladder
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For Twisted Tales Star Twister 51 / Prompt = “Shadow” / Word Count = 350 This is a true story © Matthew Penfold 2009
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For Star Twister 49 – Door Ajar 345 Words
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Who knows what twisted torments the mind can survive? So far, it has proven to be remarkably resilient. But as we are born to this world, so we must in the end die. Unbelievably, its the most natural thing in our world. JH
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Written for Twisted tales, Star twister 47-Catastrophe
Recent Work
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I thought I’d try my hand on writing a short story once again. This is an idea I’ve had of a series of short stories, following the life of an assassin and femme fatale called “enigma”. The style is a cross between Sin City, Mr and Mrs Smith, James Bond, Kill Bill and The Crow. I have been watching too many movies….....
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"The Others" (2) by SteveOhlsen
I love Photoshop CS2. You can have so much fun with it, though I’ve a lot to learn yet. What used to be two young boys standing at the end of a school walkover has now become a “close encounter” of some kind. Whether they call themselves “The Others” or “The Visitors” who knows? This is imagination, and can be whatever we want them to be.
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It’s fun to be someone else sometimes as long as you don’t do any harm. Me; an ariel photgrapher of possible building sites, a dominatrix off for the night, a journalist (my fave) a food critic, a pyschologist, a commercial diver, a psychic and a true survivor….........
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When a couple starts getting strange periodic visits by an unknown car in the middle of the night they start to sense something not right. As more clues pile up they realize they’re in real danger, even a fight for their very lives, though they can’t begin to fathom why!
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For Star Twister #63 / Prompt – Underneath / Word Count – 350 It has been a long time since I did a vampire tale, and this is only an extract, I thought it was time to do another, focusing on the victim instead of the vampires.
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My entrant for the Star Twister 63- Underneath. I hope it is not considered too light a take on the recent calamity in Haiti, that is in no way my intention, just my rather literal take on the prompt. I don’t know if Henry’s are found in your part of the world…so I’m sorry if this twist is a little unclear…
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short story
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“I NEED AN ARTIST FOR THIS STORY PLEASE!!” / I wrote this for the bedtime story challenge, since I’m not a visual artist, I decided to twist up a bedtime story instead.
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Open for entries. Voting will start for this challenge in 13 days The Challenge Ladies and Gentlemen, artists of all ages – the time has come for the First Imaginative Skulls Art Competition. (Trumpets – fanfare – general cheering and hoopla). THEME: We thought long and hard and decided on: Bedtime Story with a Twist Basically take any Grimms Tale, fairy tale, bedtime story, folk story, children’s story, or nursery rhyme and ADD a 20th-21st CENTURY element. Give Dorothy an ipod, or put Alice in Cyberland – let your imagination run. TIME: Since it’s the first competition, Two weeks should be sufficient. Therefore the competition will end at 2:00PM EST on Sunday Feb 14th (ooh Valentine’s day). PRIZE: As we are a poor Blue Collar working class group from the wrong side of the tracks – all we can offer is recognition of your achievement. You will be featured in our ranks – and of course there will be a notice on the message board attached to your winning entry declaring that you are the Cat’s Meow (the bee’s knees as it were) of Imaginative Skull artists! Thank you and we look forward to your entries!!! Love&Peace, / hosts
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Benjamin Franklin said, “Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What’s a sundial in the shade?”, We have a great talent on RB but I just noticed one of them is missing! ...Just noticed someone very talented got disappeared from RB all of sudden, I was wondered while I couldn’t find him on RB! where’s our friend Jono83?
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WARNING: Contains adult language, violence and scenes of a sexual nature. This is a re-edited and re-worked version of a story that was originally commissioned for a publishing company’s in-house magazine, but which was eventually rejected as being “too dark and gritty”. I like to call it “noir erotica”and it’s certainly not for the feint hearted or those offended by scenes of violence or a sexual nature.
About This Group
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Twisted Tournoi
To celebrate and promote the launch of Micky’s publishing concern, Gibboncore, Twisted Tales will be running an exciting new competition, to run alongside the weekly Star Twister Competition, called Twisted Tournoi.
Twisted Tournoi will be a monthly competition for gritty short stories of between 500 and 1500 words and will run throughout 2009.
The story must comply with the Twisted Tales group rules, beyond those rules you are free to write what you want: there is no prompt.
The current competition runs from the 1st of May until Midnight GMT on the 31st of May.
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Our weekly Star Twisters writing challenge is still going strong but we have decided to change it to fortnightly to give more people the chance to join in . Each challenge asks for stories of 350 words (or less) based on some form of prompt. The winning entries go into a grand monthly final and we choose a winner.
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We at Twisted Tales would like to create as meritocratic, encouraging, and supportive environment as possible for all budding writers. Twisted Tales is the place on Red Bubble for short stories of no more than 1500 words, with a definite twist in the tail. Any genre welcome, all we ask is the writing constitutes a story and surprises us with a twist.
- Remember a story must have a protagonist, a tension/conflict within it, a set up/context and a resolution (with a twist for the purpose of this group). We do not want extracts, excerpts, descriptive prose where nothing much happens or poetry masquerading as a story.
- Members must allow one story after theirs to be posted before posting another. For each story posted the writer must comment on the stories immediately before and after his/her (to encourage member participation). Constructive feedback is encouraged as long as it is polite. If you don’t like a piece of work please explain why and offer suggestions as to how it can be improved. Equally, don’t just “wow” and “awesome” everything – if you like something explain why. Good constructive feedback is the lifeblood of writing. Keep it honest. Keep it real. Keep it polite.
- No art or poetry allowed. Journals are only permitted for Host use or journals from members about writing opportunities and competitions elsewhere. We will consider journal entries which we feel are relevant, or about issues we support.
So get writing, participate, read, support and most of all get twisted! And remember this group is all about QUALITY rather than quantity. Only submit your very best stories to us, not everything you write.
If you need more help on understand a twist, here is some useful guidance on twist endings
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