Semifinalist in Bruce Schneier’s Fifth Annual Movie-Plot Threat Contest
Hey-hey! So Bruce Schneier runs a Movie Plot Terrorism Threat contest, in which people submit short stories that depict Terrorist events of the kind that don’t really happen (ie, the sort that scare people a lot, and which Governments therefore like lots.)
Here is found the blog post which announced this year’s contest, in which entries have to be styled after a short story for children, max. 400 words.
Five semifinalists have now been announced:
- Untitled story about polar bears, by Mike Ferguson.
- “The Gashlycrumb Terrors,” by Laura.
- Untitled Little Red Riding Hood parody, by Isti.
- “The Boy who Didn’t Cry Wolf,” by yt.
- Untitled story about exploding imps, by Mister JTA.
Yeah, that Mister JTA.
You can vote for the winners – by leaving a comment to state which number you preffer – at this page. So, y’know, please do.
Note that I’m not demanding that you vote for my entry specifically*, but I won’t say no if you do. I could win a book out of this…
Cheers!
*It could’ve been a lot better: apart from anything else, it really suffered from the word limit (have you any idea how often a story designed to be told to children repeats itself as part of the natural form? I cut about five instances of “down the long years” so “back up the long years” loses a lot of it’s impact). I might return a full version of it once the voting is over, because I much preffered the 868-word version before I had to cut it down!