The voting for Battle of Words VI is open, for seven days until February 16 at 3pm, GMT London.
(Note: At this stage, the participating authors are not allowed to edit their stories and we will count only one vote per IP address.)
_____ These are the stories to vote for:
1) "Dear Haiti" by Petra Michelle 2) "Underground" by Timmi Milson 3) "A Ray of Hope" by S. M. Bowes 4) "Chen An Yo Pale!" by Paula Shene 5) "A Prayer For the Common Grave" by Robin Loving 6) "Send In the Dogs" by Robin Loving 7) "NATURAL DISASTER" by Shobana 8) "Friends Forever" by Aditi Das Bhowmik 9) "The Day of the Killer Tornadoes" by John Reeves 10) "An Incomplete tale" by Avisek Bandyopadyay 11 Story removed 12) "de-Genesis" by Nic Toongi 13) "Choices" by Belinda Slider-Baker 14) "Gone" by Allanah Hunt 15) "Chaos!" by CactusRose 16) "Teddy Tears" by CactusRose
Please consider content, style and spelling: Voters are asked to name their top three stories at least. It would be even better if voters listed all 16 stories in a hierarchy.
Voting example:
1st place: story 6 2nd place: story 3 3rd place: story 1 4th place: story 5 5th place: story 4
1) "Dear Haiti" by Petra Michelle
2) "Underground" by Timmi Milson
3) "A Ray of Hope" by S. M. Bowes
4) "Chen An Yo Pale!" by Paula Shene
5) "A Prayer For the Common Grave" by Robin Loving
6) "Send In the Dogs" by Robin Loving
7) "NATURAL DISASTER" by Shobana
8) "Friends Forever" by Aditi Das Bhowmik
9) "The Day of the Killer Tornadoes" by John Reeves
rebekahjennings
Total: 328 forum posts
Posted: Feb 10th 2010 at 05:08:26 AM
My vote.
1st: "Fleeing Callignee" by Rebekah Jennings 2nd: "Chaos!" by CactusRose 3rd: "Friends Forever" by Aditi Das Bhowmik 4th: "A Prayer For the Common Grave" by Robin Loving 5th: "Teddy Tears" by CactusRose 6th: "Gone" by Allanah Hunt
mardijuel
Total: 6 forum posts
Posted: Feb 10th 2010 at 08:52:35 AM
Votes
1st: Fleeing Callignee: by Rebekah Jennings 2nd: Chaos!: by CactusRose 3rd: Friends Forever: by Aditi Das Bhowmik 4th: A Prayer For the Common Grave: by Robin Loving 5th: Gone: by Allanah Hunt 6th: Teddy Tears: by CactusRose
ayelet Community Manager
Total: 148 forum posts
Posted: Feb 10th 2010 at 12:56:25 PM
How to Vote
Totemks, just add a comment to this thread (by clicking the "Answer" button) with your top three choices (at least). You're welcome to place all 16 stories if you like.
If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, please feel free to contact me as the BookRix Community Moderator via personal message.
mirandabm
Total: 300 forum posts
Posted: Feb 10th 2010 at 02:31:11 PM
1. Underground by Timmi Milsom 2. de-Genesis...
1. Underground by Timmi Milsom 2. de-Genesis by Nic Toongi 3. Fleeing Calignee by Rebekah Jennings 4. Chaos by Cactus Rose 5. Send in the Dogs by Robin Loving 6. Friends Forever by Aditi Das Bhowmik
bookrix.com Administrator
Total: 1.361 forum posts
Posted: Feb 10th 2010 at 02:59:14 PM
BoW Stories in Both Contests
Due to the reason the story, “Fleeing Callignee,” is running in both the Battle of Words VI and the Family Stories contest, the story will not be eligible to win this Battle of Words. Please note that votes will not be tallied for this story in the BoW.
However, it still will add to the page count donation to the American Red Cross effort in Haiti.
grandmacas
Total: 113 forum posts
Posted: Feb 10th 2010 at 04:24:28 PM
My Vote
1) "Underground" by Timmi Milson 2) "Send In the Dogs" by Robin Loving 3) "Choices" by Belinda Slider-Baker 4) "de-Genesis" by Nic Toongi 5) "A Prayer For the Common Grave" by Robin Loving
"Do or do not - There is no try." Yoda to Luke from the movie "The Empire Strikes Back."
cleopeace
Total: 343 forum posts
Posted: Feb 10th 2010 at 08:24:30 PM Changed: Feb 10th 2010 at 08:32:51 PM
Wonderful diversity!
1) Chaos #15 2) A Prayer for the Common Grave #5 3) Natural Disaster: Candles for Haiti #7 4) A Ray of Hope #3 5) Friends Forever #8 6) Chen An Yo Pale! #4
1st place: story 5 2nd place: story 7 3rd place: story 6 4th place: story 1 5th place: story 8 6th place: story 14 7th place: story 15 8th place: story 4
Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a workman who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth. The Bible
footsteps
Total: 31 forum posts
Posted: Feb 11th 2010 at 10:04:55 AM
Natural Disaster - My votes.
1st place: Story 2. "Underground" by Timmi Milson. Although I thought the over use of 4-letter words devalued some of the characters (crudeness can be illustrated more creatively), the pace of this story and astute observations made it my favourite.
2nd place: Story 4. "Chen An Yo Pale!" by Paula Shene. I loved the naturalness of this story.
3rd place: Story 15. "Chaos!" by CactusRose. This would have come higher in my voting but I felt there were too many characters for such a short story. The author was trying to be true to historical events but this resulted in a lot of repetition.
paulashene
Total: 482 forum posts
Posted: Feb 14th 2010 at 06:37:42 PM
Voting the Haitian Contest
has been extremely hard for me - I read all the entries and they all have merit in my opinion so to narrow the field in my picking, I eliminated past winners though I was moved deeply by their poems. I also eliminated everything that did not have to do with an earthquake. I will only name the top three. I also did not put my own story in the line up even though I would like to:
1. Underground by Timmi Milson - I also agree that the 'f' words were jarring but felt they fit the characterization of the storyline which really reflects our headlines.
2. Natural Disaster: Candles for Haiti by Shobana - This set of poems seemed to cover every aspect from despair to Hope. 'Mom, sing me a song' made me weep.
3. Friends Forever by Aditi Das Bhowmik was a charming, well written narrative with smooth transition to dialogue with a few grammatical mistakes as English is not first language. This did not take away from the story which started with a parable and ended with...
Yesterday is already a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision. But today, well lived, makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of Hope.
thegling
Total: 1 forum post
Posted: Feb 15th 2010 at 12:21:15 PM
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