Thank you to everyone who submitted something for BrevityQuest and made this year's version more successful than the 2007 incarnation. Bounty will be has been awarded shortly. But please, more than anything, keep writing. Short can be good.
Straight to the point...
In short...
Briefly...
...BrevityQuest09 wants your writeups of 300 words or fewer.
00:00:00 Sunday 1 February — 23:59:59 Saturday 28 February 2009, server time
- Fact or fiction; poetry or continuous prose
- New writeups only, please
- As many submissions as you want, but flooding new writeups is far from groovy
- Notify either Junkill or The Debutante of your minora opera
- Bounty is awarded at 10GP per writeup, and something fun landing through the mailbox of the entrant we judge to have contributed the most to e2 and the quest (and that's entirely arbitrary)
- Some BQ07 favourites, for the record: 17 ~ 195 ~ 222 ~ 259 ~ 278 ~ 294
Something Fast
- Ellen McLain - Junkill
- Small World - Sinepyriah
- Profits are made at purchase, not at sale - croakery
- Filéshiô - Feli_the_Cat
- COGAS - The Custodian
- Dunbar's number - DiscoStan
- primary source - hapax
- Everything2 hacks - mnky
- A Slave to Simple Pleasures - dichotomyboi
- It couldn't hurt - teleny
- biohacker - Phaedo
- Finding fossils - Bitriot
- Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth - GhettoAardvark
- spelunky - BaronWR
- love/0=infinity - teleny
- Can I play with your breasts? Yes, but don't get out of the yard. - Feli_the_Cat
- Dreams where your teeth fall out - hapax
- Creamed spinach and peas with cheese - gin soaked (Ineligible for bounty or prizes)
- Nuka-Cola - DiscoStan
- command line options - Terry O'Nolley
- dime - smartalix
- Mike Murphy - sam512
- Seph Baird - sam512
- regret - Terry O'Nolley
- Trucker's atlas - kanoodle
- adjunct - hapax
- Cotillions-German - teleny
- fragmentation sleeve - The Custodian
- Brief Lives - Glowing Fish
- Worker Ant and what the kids get up to these days - Glowing Fish
- Leucochloridium varidae - kanoodle
- Dove Award - kanoodle
- desk copy - hapax
- US Highway 630 - joer
- orchidometer - mauler
- tv tropes - colonelmustard
- Even as he watched the sea rise up like anger - The Custodian
- strip cropping - EnochRoot
- glider kit - kanoodle
- Chlorodifluoromethane - Croakery
- tricorder - wertperch
- Saddle soap - The Debutante (Ineligible for bounty or prizes)
- it's expensive to be poor - hapax
- Kunzite - kanoodle
- CODAG - The Custodian
- EMALS - The Custodian
- Faslane - The Custodian
- bullrack - kanoodle
- Photon Sphere - silentrebel
- Coordinate conjunction - Sinepyriah
- United States Postmaster General - Glowing Fish
- chafing dish - The Custodian
- Eurotunnel - The Custodian
- tatsoi - mauler
- Brazilian bikini wax - avalyn
- The comic strip presents - fondue
- Algebra Earl - EnochRoot
- Japanese spider crab - Bitriot
- Amazing Spider-man #573 (with Stephen Colbert) - Timeshredder
- February 11, 2009 - jessicaj
- Off the grid - mkb
- When the dead poets mobilize, they'll paint your picture on their planes - The Custodian
- apud - hapax
- Augusta, Georgia - EnochRoot
- Restaurant Week - mkb
- Seven Wonders of Wales - Wntrmute
- Plan towards aspiration, and marvel at its destruction - silentrebel
- Avoid getting screwed by contractors - Croakery
- Manchurian Candidate - Aerobe
- Cubello - fondue
- Pixelblocks - fondue
- fur ball - The Custodian
- paradichlorobenzene - The Custodian
- F-22 Raptor - Noung
- psychoceramic - Ancientsnow
- GBU-28 - The Custodian
- launch pad - The Custodian
- historicity - hapax
- President's emergency plan for AIDS relief - Noung
- United Nations Security Council - Noung
- Merarites - kanoodle
- Reflex - joer
- wadcutter - The Custodian
- When we have reached the end of time and light - Bitriot
- NACA - The Custodian
- Scholar's Mate - Phyrkrakr
- tactical brevity code - The Custodian
- jibe - milkfish
- seized drug money - Sinepyriah
- beer joint - EnochRoot
- Robert McCloskey - The Custodian
- Stella coin - cruxfau
- Why religion is bad - TheLady
- Still Alive - Junkill
- Café Bustelo - The Custodian
- Quarterdeck - The Custodian
- February 10, 2009 - mkb
- A brief history of briefs - wertperch
- U.N. Security Council Resolution 242 - Noung
- Shotput - ledeiablerouge
- OGC - lediablerouge
- GLaDOS - Junkill
- fermentation lock - mkb
- environmental test chamber - mkb
- chloral hydrate - The Custodian
- flesh-eating virus - sinepyriah
- Dream Log: December 26, 2008 - easterner
- Life Story - tifrap
- incubation - hapax
- dead heat - lucychili
- UPG - hapax
- Tetractys - AspieDad
- Polish prefix notation - bewilderbeast
- half-track - The Custodian
- imposter syndrome - hapax
- Planetfall - The Custodian
- fixed - TedBronson
- shoo-in - TedBronson
- Twenty-cent piece - lucychili
- Mushroom sauce with port - mauler
- oil cooler - The Custodian
- Nebelwerfer - The Custodian
- Twenty-cent piece - cruxfau
- Missile Mail - The Custodian
- WZBC - mkb
- Morley - TedBronson
- Weighted Companion Cube - The Custodian
- Festung Europa - The Custodian
- pants role - EnochRoot
- Operation Goodwood - The Custodian
- sunscreen - TedBronson
- Is it a happy ending or a broken heart? - waverider37
- Aframax - The Custodian
- Bacon Salt - The Custodian
- Clearwing butterfly - Bitriot
- Phoenix - Eniteris
- North and South - sauth
- A+ Certification - TedBronson
- Two-cent piece - cruxfau
- bubble - artman2003
- tahona - e2reneta
- 93 - mauler
- 93 - hapax
- EP - Serial Number
- eurotophobia - Apollyon
- Love of my life - Demeter
- tailing pond - hapax
- Différance - eien_meru
Honourable mentions