Short Story Contest
Welcome to the Otori Week XXI Writing Contest!
You have been tasked with putting pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard) to craft a short story. For those brave enough to dive into the darkest corners of their imagination, you will, of course, be handsomely rewarded for your endeavours... assuming your writing chops are up to the task.
Sticking with the World Events theme for our 21st anniversary, we want you to explore the alternate realities of the Crimbo in the Kingdom.
Through the years, we have narrowly avoided catastrophic disasters time and time again. But what if our luck ran out? Your prompt is simple, yet terrifying: What if the Crimbo big bad actually won?
We want to see your vision of a doomed Kingdom. Would we all be assimilated into the collective, working endlessly on Crimborg manufacturing lines? Would we be scraping by as mutants in a radioactive wasteland? Or perhaps we would all be trapped in invisible boxes, silently judged for eternity by the Great Silent Nightmare?
The choices, the timeline, and the impending doom are entirely yours. Make us believe it.
I know, right? It's pretty cool getting paid just for using your imagination and putting it into word form. The authors of the top three stories will walk away with the following:
Sharpen your wit, tap into the multiverse, and let the grim storytelling begin!