#BlogBattle 23 Story Theme: Oasis
(basic rules at the bottom of the post)
Look for everyone’s stories using #BlogBattle on Twitter, too! Wednesday, the poll gets added. Be sure to read them all. All the links will open in a new window so that you can easily navigate back to this list.
RULES for VOTING: Anyone can vote as long as you’ve read ALL the stories for this week by 10 PM PDT, SUNDAY. Vote for your TOP 3 favorites. Winner announced on Monday! (With as many great stories as get submitted, I think we all need just a little more time to read them and vote!)
**** Of Castles in the Sand by Beatonm @ Becoming the Muse
**** Roots by Sarah B. @ Lemon Shark Reef
**** The Unfulfilled Thirst by Kristin @ Pursuit of a New Adventure
The Garden by Blonde(Lucy)WriteMore
Water Jumper by Claire Banschbach
The Gutter Sprite’s Oasis by Tracey @ What’s for Dinner, Doc?
Oasis by PhoenixGrey85
Oasis of Mars by Rachael Ritchey
Hope by Melissa Barker-Simpson
A Place by Kassi G.
Waters of Oasis by Candice Coates
No Escape by E. Rawls
A Human Oasis by Andrew @ Blessed are the Pure in Heart
PS If I’m missing your story, just leave me a comment to let me know!
Anyone, regardless of participation, who reads ALL the stories for the week may vote.
PLEASE VOTE for your top THREE favorites (not all for the same, though!).
Vote by 10 PM PST on Sunday so I can announce the winner on Monday Thank you so much. I enjoy our weekly stories a great deal, and I hope you do, too!
Rules:
- 1000 words max
- fictional tale (or true if you really want)
- PG (no more than PG-13) Content – let’s keep this family friendly!
- Your story must contain the word(s) from the theme and/or be centered around the theme in a way that shows it is clearly related
- Go for the entertainment value!
- Post your story on Tuesday, by 11:59 PM PST
- Use the hashtag #BlogBattle when tweeting your story, put a linkback to your #BlogBattle Short Story in the comments section of this page, and/orinclude a link to this page in your own blog post(it creates a “ping-back” which will alert me and our friends to your #BlogBattle post)
- Have fun!
Each winner will receive this awesome #BlogBattle Winner Badge to display with their winning story on their webpage:
Rachael Ritchey 
Good morning Rachael! Did you announce the winner yet? I’m so new to all this!
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Nope! Sorry, but I can tell you. I just haven’t been to my computer yet to update and announce. It’s to tune consuming and complicated on my phone. The winner is Blonde (Lucy)WriteMore!
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Yay! Her story was lovely and she deserves it!
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There were so many great stories. BlondeLucy just seems to always resonate with people. She wins a lot! Haha
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I agree, many great stories!
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Sorry I didn’t manage to get one in this week. *Sniffle* The prompt was great, too!
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Some weeks just seem to overwhelm and fly by! Sorry, but at least there’s this week. 🙂
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🙂 That’s true. Plus, I did get a story idea from last week’s anyway. 🙂
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That’s a plus! 🙂
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I hope I wasn’t too late with my votes! Somehow I forgot until just now. lol!!
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Nope. You still had plenty of time! 🙂 thanks for reading them all and voting! 🙂
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Lots of new stories this week. 🙂 It keeps getting better and better. 😀 (And harder to vote…)
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Yes, it does. I’m glad it’s the votes each now, though, since it’s hard to even choose only that many.
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The Dude brought a friend. You’ll never guess who…
http://blessed-are-the-pure-of-heart.blogspot.com/2015/08/a-human-oasis-blogbattle.html
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Yay! Any friend of The Dude’s is a friend of mine. 🙂
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Wow, so many new people are joining! The Blog Battle will be famous soon.
Happy bday to your son. 🙂
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I know! Love it! 🙂
Thanks! We are having dinner at Red Robin (his choice) to celebrate. I’ll add your story to the list when I get home! 🙂
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It’s been so long since I’ve been to Red Robin, they don’t have them near here. Hope you had a good time!
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We sure did. I had a yummy salad. It was spicy, just like I like. 🙂 My now-eight-year-old got a sundae to enjoy, too. 🙂
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Spicy salad, that’s one I haven’t heard of–or maybe that’s because I shy away from spicy. 🙂
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Here is my story. It took me a minute to pluck out, but I am finally finished. Cheers! http://icameforthesoup.com/2015/08/18/waters-of-oasis-a-short-story-blogbattle/
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I didn’t make it for this week’s edition, I blame the altitude and the fact that it would be written on my phone (I actually started a story for this week’s word, but ran out of time)..So hopefully I’ll join in once again next week.
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I totally understand, Solveig. It’s always difficult to write on your phone! If you change your mind, you can still enter anytime in the next ten hours! 🙂
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So I finally found my guts, they were in a large book labeled Cats ^_^
~B
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LOL It’s always interesting where we find stuff. And it’s always the last place we look. At least I hope it’s the last place. haha Welcome! Pleasure to have you join the battle, Beaton! ❤
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Thats because, when you find what you are looking for you stop looking, so it becomes the last place you look but if you had thought to look there first…. hahahaha
thank you
~B
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Exactly. 🙂 haha and Welcome!
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New blog battlers joining all the time IBFF! This is the start of something big!
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Boy I guess! 🙂 Love it! Thanks for all you do. ❤
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What like moan to you via Twitter?
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Sure. I’m just happy you talk to me!
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Always – even when we are in our nursing homes!
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That’s what I like to hear. Brightens my days with hopes for a very pleasant future.
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Hi! I don’t see links to some of the stories, just the authors. Am I missing something?
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Nope! Not missing anything! They haven’t submitted their stories yet. Everyone has untik midnight tonight (PST) to post for this week. I copy and paste from week to week so that I can save some time. 🙂 Oh, do you have a name other than your blog title we can call you? Welcome to the battle! 🙂
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Thanks for the welcome! 🙂 My name is Kristin. I’m very excited about the battle!
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😀 Thanks, Kristin! It’s a real pleasure to have you join. I’m looking forward to reading your story. If you want to start thinking about next week, the word will be ‘Troop!’ My son turns eight today, and he picked the word for us. 🙂
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Well happy bday to him. Thx for the heads up for next week. Is it too late to change my title for this week now that I understand how this all works haha?
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Nope! Change away. I will fix it on the battle post, too. 🙂
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Thanks friend! *Changed
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changed on the page here, too! 🙂 You’re most welcome!
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