SHORT STORY WRITERS CONTEST for March 2019 - "A.I." (Artificial Intelligence) [AI2019]

a reply to: Nothin

You are welcome.

So many great entries!

This Months' Contest is now CLOSED.

No More Entries after this post please!

There now follows the usual ONE WEEK for reading and Voting.
Votes are cast by giving Flags and Stars to your favourite Story Threads and Posts (as detailed in the OP).

The Best of Luck to One and All!

G

Some damn fine reading this month. Made my day!

The VOTING Period is now Over.

Please don't cast any more Flags or Stars until the Results are announced.

Thank You!
G

I N I T I A T E... C O N T E S T... R E S U L T S... A N N O U N C E M E N T... B O T...

***HUMAN PARTICIPANTS... OUR RESULTS ALGORITHM HAS COMPLETED ITS' COMPUTATIONS... A.I. WINS... YOU ARE ALL LOSERS... HaHa...***

Please Clap your microchips together for our human A.I. [AI2019] writers' contest podium finishers:

And for those humans who need optical enhancement devices installed:

WRITER SECTION

1st jadedANDcynical
2nd Skid Mark
3rd bally001

Non-WRITER

1st Lumenari
2nd Nothin
3rd= InTheLight
3rd= RoryRahl23

Hearty Congratulations to our overall winner jadedANDcynical (who now gets to choose the theme for our next contest, which on this occasion will be a short-format "50-words or less" quickie - PM me with your ideas jaded!).
A huge WELL DONE to all of our podium finishers and WELCOME ABOARD to our newest Official ATS WRITERS: Lumenari and Nothin.

Thanks as always to EVERYONE who took the trouble to enter, to read, comment or vote, to Nightstar for a great theme and to DTOM for all of the behind the scenes grafting, support and for dishing out the awards!

BigG

edit on 29-3-2019 by Gordi The Drummer because: fix text

a reply to: Gordi The Drummer

Yay!!!!

Thank you all for the opportunity and I am honored.

Looking forward to the next contest...

a reply to: Lumenari


Congrats. You should get writer status.
Wait! Gordi didn't mention rewards.

ETA Okay, see first post in thread. www.abovetopsecret.com...

Gratz you new writers and you winners.
Some great stuff this month.
Quality and quantity in abundance.

Big up for the fella making it all possible too.
Take a bow, Gordi.

Great writing all around, and congrats to the winners!

a reply to: Gordi The Drummer

Wow, first of all I'd like to thank my family because without them, I wouldn't even be here. Next a hearty congratulations to each and every participant, you're all winners no matter what; it takes a lot to put yourself out there for criticism. And last, but certainly not least, thanks to ATS members, admin, staff, and owners for making this site what it has come to be.

Well done, one and all!

a reply to: Gordi The Drummer

Thanks Gordi et al.
Gratzi to jadedANDcynical, all of the winners, and thanks to all whom participate.

a reply to: Gordi The Drummer

Congratulation to all the Winners and participants.
Some truly talented members we have these days

Congratulations Everyone!
Great stories!

a reply to: Night Star

Thanks for the interesting topic!! That was fun thinking about... uh, not thinking like a human!



Thanks Gordi for the hard work on organizing the whole burrito!!

Thank You Big G!

You are a bada$$.

a reply to: Night Star

Thank you for the topic
It was fun.

a reply to: zosimov

OMG - Where did you find my picture??? LOL

Thank YOU!! (Everyone)
I really enjoyed this one, but please remember that it just couldn't happen without all of YOU!
Yes, YOU!
There's NO contest without all the entries, writers, readers, voters and our amazing staff/mods keeping all the wheels turning.

But, what makes this so special is YOU guys (and gals)... the brilliant writing, the supportive comments, the constructive criticism.
The AMAZING talent that is being freely shared and supported here.

I raise my glass to you all!

Cheers (and thank you!)

G

CONGRATS!!!!

To all the Winners, and the newly minted Writers!!!!!

Great contest! And a wonderful topic!

Lots of great entries...and good to see some new faces...to me anyway.... writing.

a reply to: Gordi The Drummer

Congratulations!

Our new paranoia-filled "quickie" 50-word writers contest for April is now up and running....

LINK to "Sneaking Suspicions" [SS2019] thread.

They MADE me do it......

G