**Stories are updated! Please have a good time reading 🙂 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR PATIENCE!** (if I missed your story stilll, please message me so I can correct it while I have wifi). 🙂
**due to power outage, which started Tuesday afternoon for me, I haven’t had access to computer or wifi. It is too battery & time-consuming to update links on my phone. I will update the entries as soon as I can! I apologize for the inconvenience! In the meantime, you can find links to most of the stories in the comments section below & battlers pages using the “BlogBattlers” menu tab above! 🙂 Thanks for your patience and understanding. *****
#BlogBattle 36 Story Theme: Bottle
(basic rules at the bottom of the post)
Look for 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 PST, SUNDAY. Vote for your TOP 3 favorites. Winner announced on Monday!
Western:
- I’ll Drink to That by Candice Coates
Mystery/Crime:
- Of a Message in a Bottle by Beaton M.
Inspirational/Contemporary:
- Charlie’s Bottle by Andrew Budek-Schmeisser
Romance:
- The Sun Will Rise by Carrie Ann
Fantasy:
- Minecraft Steve and the Phantom Presence by Simon Farnell
- Bottled Up by Rachael Ritchey
- Life in a Bottle by Lauren Gunter
- Searching by E. Rawls
- **** Don’t Miss: The Bottle & the Fairy by PhoenixGrey85
Science Fiction:
Drama:
- Tardiness by Miss Mona
- **** Don’t miss!!! The Decision by Kristin Elise Garrett
Action/Thriller/Suspense:
Comedy/Humor:
Non-Fiction:
- 10 Writing Fears I Bottle Up by Blonde(Lucy)WriteMore
- Message in a Bottle for 2020 by Cathleen Townsend
PS If I’m missing your story, just leave me a comment to let me know!
Read all the stories & PLEASE VOTE for your top THREE favorites (not all for the same, though!).
Vote by Midnight 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!
****NEXT WEEK’S PROMPT WORD: ARRIVAL
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!
- State the Genre of your story at the top of your post.
- 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:
Hi, not sure what’s happening with the power situation, but just wanted to let you know my story’s still missing from the list. Without meaning to nag, or anything.
https://phoenixgrey85.wordpress.com/2015/11/17/blogbattle-the-bottle-and-the-fairy/
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OOOOHHHH NOOOOOoooooooo! I’m at a coffee shop with three crazy kids. WILL FIX it ASAP! Thanks for letting me know.
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Thanks. 🙂 The fun of chaos….
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Hi Rachael. 🙂
You seem to have missed my entry this week. It’s here: http://cathleentownsend.com/2015/11/17/message-in-a-bottle-for-2020/.
And it’s nonfiction.
Cathleen
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Sorry. I haven’t missed it. We live in Spokane WA area and had a huge wind storm last night. I have no power so cannot do updates quite yet. Kids have no school, so I also can’t go to a local coffee shop to use their WiFi. Will hopefully update this afternoon.
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Here’s my romance http://wp.me/pgklb-Mm dropping my entry off again just after E. Rawls, LOL.
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I will add this as soon as I have power and/or wifi access! Sorry!
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I’m late but here, yay! 😀
https://rawlse.wordpress.com/2015/11/17/searching-madnessolver/
Did you have stormy weather at your place today, Rachael? You mentioned high winds and electricity.
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I will add this as soon as I have power and/or wifi access! Sorry!
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Okay, it would probably help is I included the link! Take two. Message in a Bottle–nonfiction. http://cathleentownsend.com/2015/11/17/message-in-a-bottle-for-2020/
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I will add this as soon as I have power and/or wifi access! Sorry!
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Here’s mine: Message in a Bottle. Nonfiction again. 🙂
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For once I managed to get mine in at a reasonable time!!! *does celebratory jig, is penalized for excessive celebration. Goes back to the bench and resumes impression of fairly sane human being* 🙂
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Haha, who wants to be a sane human being? 😛
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None of the best people are!! (But sometimes it’s helpful to be able to do a decent imitation of one. 😉 )
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Mwuahahaa!–ahem, I mean, erm, yes, I will try to be a decent imitation of one now.
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I will add it as soon as I have power and/or wifi access. Sorry!
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No worries, you mentioned storm trouble, so I was prepared! 🙂
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🙂 we are still w/o power. Almost 24 hrs, but they are saying it could be several days without power while they do repairs. We have more than 60% local population w/o power right now.
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I will add this as soon as I have power and/or wifi access!
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Here is my story! http://icameforthesoup.com/2015/11/17/ill-drink-to-that-part-2-of-a-horse-called-shenanigans-blogbattle/
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Woohoo! More western. 🙂
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We can’t leave this genre all alone while others get the love 😉
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Will post your story as soon as I can. Got high winds and the electricity is flickering so no computers! Ugh.
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oh Rats! Well all things work together for our good so you should do one of two things; Rebuke the winds OR abide in rest 😉
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Aw, I may have messed up. Here it is again, sorry…
http://blessed-are-the-pure-of-heart.blogspot.com/2015/11/charlies-bottle-blogbattle.html
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Sorry I have missed a couple of weeks; I’ve been very ill.
But without further ado, the adventure of The Dude go on…inspirationally, I think.
http://blessed-are-the-pure-of-heart.blogspot.com/2015/11/charlies-bottle-blogbattle.html
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I’ve been thinking of you and praying, Andrew. I hope you’re feeling improved! We are happy The Dude has returned. ♡
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Thanks, Rachael…it has been rough. But it’s good to be back.
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I keep forgetting to enter this. It looks like a great excuse to do some fun creative writing. When does the theme become available each week?
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I temry to post it no later than the Wednesday before. Next week is Arrival. 🙂
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