This competition finished without any conclusion because Daren left Red Bubble.
What Daren is proposing to do is run Twisted Karaoke as an annual competition on his dbalehane.com website”; from November 2008.
All those who have entered on RB should send their entries, again, to him at competition@dbalehane.com
and they will be considered there.

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I am delighted to announce the start of the second Twisted Tales prize short story competition.

This one is entitled: Twisted Karaoke

The aim here is write a story with a twist where the title of the story is also the title of a song. It can be in any genre, on any theme. As long as it is titled after and inspired by the name of a song. (We don’t want stories where the song is simply playing in the background – the title and/or the song itself should be central to the plot).

Stories can be up to a 1000 words in total and the closing date is midnight (BST) on 13 June.

There is only one entry per member allowed. All stories should be linked here in the competition thread and contain the tag “TTC2”. In the “description” section of your written work please ensure to tell us who the song is by.

The judges will then pick one winner and two runners up, using our usual voting system.

First prize is at least a £25 Amazon gift voucher. However, we will attempt to gain prize donations from other sources and will notify you if this is the case. We are keen that 2nd and 3rd place should also be rewarded, so will do our best.

So you have two months to get yourselves twisting in a music inspired way! Any questions, then please do contact me.

Best of luck!

Blimey! Our “reigning” champion is swiftly off the mark! Thanks Paul!

Forgive me for being less competent at making links look good. In fact, I’ll have cross my fingers that this works:

In Every Dream Home A Heartache

My Entry Gallows Pole

Microsoft word count was exactly 1000 for the content of the story, but RB word count has it at 10036??!!
Should I chop?

Don’t worry Alison, the Red Bubble word count is totally unreliable.

Okay, so here is my contribution…a nice little crime story with a twist:

This One’s For You

enjoy

~ bchris

Here’s mine, my best to everyone else.

My Tears

‘You’re My Light: Adelaide Rain’ is from the song by Justin Timberlake ‘You’re my light’

Bat Out of Hell

Not sure if this is how you do it. Trying to adhere to the ‘all stories should be linked here in the competion thread’.

Here’s my go
Somebody Told Me

First ever writing on RB. hope it works out.

Sakina