A fun challenge

I dunno, what do you think it is?

I'm involved with a group of writers from HELIUM who get together for the occasional Author's Challenge in which we read and offer praise and gentle critiques on our work, this in an effort to improve our writing skills. We only just finished one, our 35th one in fact, which was particularly fun. We each wrote a story or poem from the point of view of an inanimate, unknown object. That is to say, everyone except the author wouldn't know what the object is. We had to guess by deciphering the clues within the story or poem.

Well, in some cases, this wasn't as easy as you'd think. Some of them really stumped us! All of these entries were good, but the winner of the competition was Terry Mahoney, who happened to guess each one correctly and rendered the most people clueless as to what his object was. Don Hancock came in a close second.



Well, I  enjoyed all of these so much that I thought I'd post links to all of them so you can enjoy them too.  I also thought you might want to join the fun and try your hand at guessing what each object is. Post your guesses in the comments and next week I'll post the answers so you can see how far off you may be or what a great guesser you are! All in fun, so I hope you like it.

Entries for Author's Challenge 35: The thing speaks!

1. Short story: Travel by Donald Hancock
2. Short story: Forest lake by Glory Lennon
3. Short story: You needed me by Olivia Bredbenner
4. Poetry: More than that by Jon Coe
5. Short story: Missing person by Terry Mahoney
6. Short stories: Human understanding by Mark Archibald
7. Short story: Lost and alone by Karyn B. Jules
8. Flash fiction: Confessions by April May Maple
9. Short Stories: Spring renewal by Jim Bessey
10. Journalism is fiction by EJ Young
11. Susquehanna cats by Raymond Alexander Kukkee
12. Tale of an Inanimate Object by R. Renee Bembry
13. Short story: You needed me by K. Richardson

I'll take this opportunity to thank everyone of my fellow writers once again for a fun challenge and especially Diane Quinn who helped immensely with this challenge, although she didn't actually enter a story. Clinking on any of these authors' names will take you to their vast collection of articles, stories and poems, and don't forget to check out their blogs, too! Most of us have at least one and others, several. Don't be afraid to follow them on Twitter and/or Facebook. They are a friendly bunch, after all.