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Chessiecon 2022November 25-27, 2022Delta Hunt Valley Hotel, Maryland |
TSFS, Inc.
P.O. Box 83032
Gaithersburg, MD 20883-3032
Attn: Turkey Award Submission(s).
Dishonorable Mention:
Mirabelle mounted her giant racing millepede and held tight to the harness straps as Millie reared up, twisting her twelve-foot length into a passable, if tottering, music clef. "Bravo girl!" Mirabelle whooped, a human tick on Millie's back as she unspooled her two-ton body. Millie's 240 pink silk pointe shoes flashed like pistons to music only the arthropod could hear as, like a glossy black Daimler semi-truck, she danced en pointe to the starting line of the Legs Up Challenge.Entry by Katy Lewis
3rd-Worst Place:
"DEATH TO ALL WHO OPPOSE US!" bellowed Space Pirate Veqirhin as he boarded the orbital station, pre-splattered blood clinging to the blade of his laser cutlass. A grey-hued hologram abruptly appeared before him and declared, "Fleet Accounting now calculates a mere 7.39234 (repeating) % chance your raid will be profitable. We are accordingly revoking your oxygen supply, effective immediately. Goodbye." "NOOOOOO--" bellowed Vekkrin, but the rest of his words disappeared along with his breathable air.Entry by Rodger Burns
2nd-Worst Place:
Caroline squinted at the stocky figures deliberating outside in the rain that gushed from the guacamole-colored sky like blood from a bad nosebleed. She whispered, "Are students really cutting class while tornado sirens wail?" As they stomped closer, Caroline realized, "Wait, that's a group of little men... wearing armor!" She watched in horror as a funnel cloud formed and the frantically flailing forms were sucked into the twister like hairballs into a vacuum. -Thorin and Company Travel to OzEntry by Laura Wenham
Worst Place:
She was violently aware of all his golden blue eyes on her. And his lying tongue. And sharp ears. Because she had gouged them all out with her mind and now it was all a mess like a nebular swirl of stickiness and she regretted nothing and everything and none of it and all all at once. It all started when he had asked for her hand in marriage. But that's not where our story begins -- it begins in Prague.Entry by Jo Hogan
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