**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:
Rachael Ritchey 
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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