He Always Wants to Go Home!
My unofficial challenge results
The challenge ended and I am sending the tips out to the stories I liked, which is every one of them. I was completely blown away by this collective creativity and the different takes the authors provided on the prompt.
A small tip is finding its way to all the stories submitted. Please let me know if you haven't received one, I feel like a couple of payments could have fallen through the cracks. I wish Vocal had an "Activity" button where you could see recent actions on Vocal, including tips.
Here are all the challenge stories, in the order they were submitted, from first to last:
1. "Elon's Space Force" by Stephanie Hoogstad (Stephanie has taken this to the next level and published a series of wonderful Drabbles that might make a great novella or even a novel if she continues with them)
2. "Home" by Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred
3. "Blueprints to Solitude" by Paul Stewart, with an original illustration
4. "Exile from Teslaris" by Pamela Williams
5. "We Don't Want Him!" by Sam Spinelli
6. "Lost on Mars" by Archibald Thorne in the form of a poem
7. "Grounded" by Cristal S.
8. "Blue Eggs and Wormholes" by Diane Foster
9. "Rats and Elon's Magic Hat" by Novel Allen
10. "The Canada Debacle" by Antoni De'Leon
11. "Construction Drabble" by Cindy Calder
12. "Oh.. er.. my name's Elon" by Raymond G. Taylor
13. "Lone Skum" by A. J. Schoenfeld
14. "Alien Odyssey" by Michelle Liew Tsui-Lin
15. "Katie Can't Cut It" by Andrea Corwin (late entry but I encouraged her to submit as she missed the deadline, being on Vocal irregularly lately for health reasons; please give her some love and reads).
16. "Phone Home" by L.C. Schäfer. She forgot to link her story to my challenge but it was written before the deadline, so I'm including it here.
Please read these great entries, I promise you a lot of fun.
I enjoyed this challenge a lot and am thinking about putting something like this out again when Elon does something alien-like, which is basically every day of the week.
And I am including my own Drabble that started this challenge. Should I send a tip to myself?
Thanks, everyone, for playing along and reading!
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Lana V Lynx
Avid reader and occasional writer of satire and short fiction. For my own sanity and security, I write under a pen name. My books: Moscow Calling - 2017 and President & Psychiatrist
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Hi! I just published a new story and would love your thoughts on it. I’d really appreciate it if you could give it a read 😊. beginner need your support by reading my stories!
Top story! Yay!!
Wonderful, Congratulations on Top story and great challenge, so many new to read :)
Back to say congratulations on your Top Story! 🎉💖🎊🎉💖🎊
That’s a lot of tips to send out, Lana. That is very nice of you. Some of these stories I did see the titles here and there but I don’t think I’ve read any of them. This last week has been very tough on me. But there’s a few that I definitely want to read and will be reading in the next day or two as I am back on track with vocal.
Thank you for hosting the challenge! I had so much fun writing my own entry and reading others’!
Oh wow, that was so fast! Thank youuuu for having this challenge because I had soooo much fun reading all the stories hehehehe
Lana, this was fun, and thank you for allowing me to enter! I plan to read all of these entries - they all look so interesting!
Thanks for hosting such a fun and novel challenge Lana :) This was a great prompt!
Thank you so much, Lana. This was a lot of fun! ❤️😁
Thank you for the tip, quite right that they all deserved a win!
I think I forgot to leave the link on your challenge post. Oops! https://shopping-feedback.today/fiction/phone-home-ulkiq00ah%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3Cdiv class="css-w4qknv-Replies">
So many drabbles to catch up on! Thank you for hosting this challenge; I’ve had a lot of fun with the drabble series that I’ve spawned from it, and it couldn’t have happened without your inspiration. And, of course, the tip is much appreciated!
Thank you Lana. This was absolutely hilarious fun to take part in and I've loved the entries I've read especially Stephanie's mini saga. Will do my best to read the rest too. Well done all and you too, my friend.
Thanks so much, Lana, I enjoyed this challenge. I now can't imagine Elon in any other form.