Thunderdome Archive

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Week #35: Pictures and Books

(893 words) Suspended Without Pay

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Dishonorable Mention

Week #36: Polishing Turds

(557 words) Yard Work 2: The Reworkening

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Week #37: Professional Excellence

(1237 words) The Case of the Elusive Keymasher

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Week #38: Mandatory Thunderbrawls

(1057 words) There's Nothing You Could Have Done

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Honorable Mention

Week #39: Lurid & Astounding Tales of Pulp Submissions

(1227 words) The Electrocat Purrs All Night

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Redemption

Week #40: Poor Richard's Thundervision

(1101 words) Queen of the Mist

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Week #41: Get Everybody and the Stuff Together

(996 words) Bee for Two

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Winner

Week #42: Been Called Worse by Better

(1720 words) It's Hard to Get By Just Upon a Smile

Week #43: *judge* He's dead, Horatio

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Redemption

Week #44: Old Testament Studies with Chairchucker

(1183 words) A bunch of misogynists and racists could technically nominate this for a Hugo award

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Week #45: That Prisoners call the Sky

(1167 words) Manual of a Dream

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Week #47: The Rule of Three

(789 words) The Hunger

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Dishonorable Mention

Week #48: Sitting Here is a Lazy Stoner

(642 words) No Reason To

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Honorable Mention

Week #51: We Told You So

(917 words) Two Enourmous Fat Men Fuck Me

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Week #52: Cyberblaxploitation Anniversary

(1013 words) The Wrench in the Cycle

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Week #53: The Horrors of History!

(1214 words) Sweet Temptations

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Honorable Mention

Week #54: Petty Local Politics

(1195 words) Sleeping Dogs Lie

Week #55: *judge* Weird Trade Schools

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Honorable Mention

Week #56: Keyhole views

(777 words) Nice Old Lady

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Honorable Mention

Week #57: No characters allowed

(394 words) The Things They Left Behind

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Week #58: Seeing vs. Seen

(789 words) The Lady in the Recliner

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Week #59: WRITE ABOUT WHERE YOU CURRENTLY LIVE

(859 words) Snips and Snails

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Week #60: The Case of the Regrettable Entries

(962 words) Track 2: Topless Hoes on a Cigarette Boat

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Winner

Week #61: Twisted Traditions

(860 words) Functional Notation

Week #62: *judge* Thunderdome Against Humanity

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Week #63: Who finds short shorts unbearably depressing?

(478 words) The Best Day Ever

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Week #64: Dead or Alive

(1022 words) The Mechanopig’s Gift

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Week #66: Know When to Fold 'Em

(923 words) Storm

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Honorable Mention

Week #67: Lions and Tigers and Bears

(983 words) It's All Happening

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Week #69: Good, Giving and Game

(732 words) The Challenge

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Week #70: "And what did you see, my darling young one?"

(1841 words) In One Hand and the Other

Week #71: *judge* A way with words

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Winner

Week #72: big as shit

(826 words) The Legend of Earl Hammerton

Week #73: *judge* My God It's Full of Starfish

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Honorable Mention

Week #74: Y Tu Thunderdome!?

(1155 words) Last Words

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Week #75: He's Not Quite Dead

(222 words) neverstop

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Week #76: The Mysteries of the Finite

(936 words) The Bottom of the Barrel

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Honorable Mention

Week #77: Well gee, that's certainly something

(897 words) The Sooterkin Affair

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Week #78: Past Glories

(577 words) I am the Phoenix

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Honorable Mention

Week #79: Periodic Stories of the Elements

(860 words) Growing Cold Together

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Honorable Mention

Week #80: "Why don't you ask your huge cock?"

(886 words) My Life in Knots

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Week #82: Captain Thunderdome

(1584 words) A Likeness Captured in Stone

Week #83: *judge* Comma, Noun, Verb

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Week #84: Who You Gonna Call?

(866 words) Things That Die

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Disqualified

Week #85: Ground Control to Major Tom

(1186 words) Memoria Mia Faba

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Week #86: Have You Seen My Trophy?

(1099 words) Sweet Dreams

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Week #87: Touched by a Thunderdome

(1191 words) Angelic

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Honorable Mention

Week #88: The Wise Fool

(943 words) Get What's Coming

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Week #89: We Don't Need No Water, Let The Damn Roof Burn

(1197 words) The High Ground

Week #90: *judge* Down With the Sickness

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Week #91: OUR FINEST HOUR

(996 words) Just One More Thing Before I Leave

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Disqualified

Week #92: The Great White Elephant Gift Exchange!

(862 words) Lovers

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Honorable Mention

Week #93: The wind is rising, so we must try to live

(1232 words) And the stars look very different today

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Week #95: Inhuman Centipede

(750 words) Hiding in the Foxhole

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Redemption

Week #96: Free to a good home!

(1008 words) The Midway Solution

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Honorable Mention

Week #98: Music of the Night

(1024 words) Things Heard in the Woods

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Winner

Week #99: COME TO YOUR SENSES!

(903 words) The Guardian

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Week #100: The Black Attache Case

(1007 words) The Collector

Week #101: *judge* WAR

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Week #103: Pacifist Run

(1169 words) The Ends

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Honorable Mention

Week #104: THE VERY 'BEST' OF THUNDERDOME

(8718 words) You Are Invisible

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Week #105: Book One

(1087 words) Let My Whiskey Flow, Chapter 1

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Honorable Mention

Week #107: STAY OUT OF THE MARSH

(1086 words) A Castle if She's Willing

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Week #108: The Dewey Decimal System

(1403 words) The Glass House

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Week #109: Attack of the Clones

(1119 words) When It Knocks

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Week #110: cleaning up the streets

(1199 words) A Thunder in the Canyon

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Week #111: FOLK ALL Y'ALL

(1002 words) The Babe with the Power

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Week #112: Attack of the Graphophobes

(1249 words) If You Want to Be Happy for the Rest of Your Life

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Winner

Week #113: OK YOU ASKED FOR IT SUCKERS

(950 words) Novalust

Week #114: *judge* Missed Catnections

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Week #115: The Eleventh Hour

(1095 words) My First Break

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Winner

Week #116: Today in Technicolor

(834 words) Blessed

Week #117: *judge* Tired of your shit

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Week #118: If on a Winter's Night a Fire

(831 words) A Dirge for Lost Flowers

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Honorable Mention

Week #120: KNOW WHERE THE SUN SETS

(1482 words) Of Boys and Blinds

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Week #121: Pet Words

(1185 words) For Want of a Bird’s Eye View

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Honorable Mention

Week #122: Bar-back

(963 words) excerpts my shame journal

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Week #123: Ceci N'est Pas une Nouvelle

(1199 words) Painted Lady

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Honorable Mention

Week #124: god have mercy

(1093 words) We Are What We Are

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Honorable Mention

Week #125: Thunderdome is Coming to Town

(1507 words) Treasure Mountain

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Week #126: Auld Lang Syne

(1204 words) Waves

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Winner

Week #128: BLACK METAL WEEK

(940 words) Some Artificial Raspberry Flavoring Comes From the Anal Gland of a Beaver

Week #129: *judge* Those We Loved

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Honorable Mention

Week #130: Twice Told Tales of Magic and Sparkles

(1546 words) The Leftover Girl

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Honorable Mention

Week #131: At the Crossroads

(997 words) The Wizard

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Week #132: economy of prompt

(493 words) Murder Beneath the Mountain

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Winner

Week #134: Run Domer Run

(1208 words) Falling and Falling

Week #135: *judge* THEY MIGHT BE FULL OF REGRET

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Honorable Mention

Week #136: Famous Last Words

(1257 words) I Don't Feel All Turned On and Starry Eyed

Week #142: *judge* BUT MOM, A WIZARD DID IT

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Winner

Week #144: Doming Lasha Tumbai

(1378 words) A Probabilistic Route to Happiness

Week #145: *judge* "You gonna finish that?"

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Week #146: The Ones You Hate to Love

(1547 words) The Wrath of Wasp

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Week #147: The Tragedy of Shakespeare Descending

(1465 words) My New Church

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Week #152: Rhymes with Red, White, and Blue

(1339 words) The THWUMP

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Week #153: Gather Your Party

(1182 words) On The Pulse

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Week #154: Naturally Unnatural

(1003 words) Guillotine-Shaped Holes

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Week #156: LET'S GET FUCKED UP ON LOVE

(840 words) The Look Down

Week #157: *judge* BOW BEFORE THE BUZZSAW OF PROGRESS

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Week #159: SINNERS ORGY

(797 words) The Maskless Man

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Honorable Mention

Week #161: Negative Exponents

(1133 words) nos cedamus Amori

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Week #162: The best of the worst and the worst of the best

(1074 words) Sol Invictus

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Week #163: YOUR STUPID SHIT BELONGS IN A MUSEUM

(1259 words) Grumpy and the Witch

Week #165: *judge* Back to School

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Honorable Mention

Week #168: She Stole My Wallet and My Heart

(1364 words) Though throwing a treat into a ventilation shaft doesn’t work for Terry

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Winner

Week #169: Thunderdome o' Bedlam

(1290 words) Piggie Steps

Week #170: *judge* Cities & Kaiju

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Winner

Week #171: The Honorable THUNDERDOME CLXXI

(1352 words) Filling Up

Week #172: *judge* Thunderdome Startup

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Week #173: Pilgrim's Progress

(1205 words) The Hackney Comet

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Honorable Mention

Week #175: Speels of Magic

(1400 words) Unrequited Love

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Honorable Mention

Week #176: Florida Man and/or Woman

(1190 words) Dare To Be You

Week #177: FAILURE Sparkly Mermen 2: Electric Merman Boogaloo

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Honorable Mention

Week #180: Maybe I'm a Maze

(1278 words) Sounds in the Forest Portend Evil Within

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Week #181: We like bloodsports and we don't care who knows!

(770 words) La Petite Roche

Name Change to crabrock2

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Week #181: We like bloodsports and we don't care who knows!

(554 words) La Petite Roche cont.

Week #183: *judge* Sorry Dad, I Was Late To The Riots

Name Change to crabrock

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Honorable Mention

Week #184: The 2015teen/Year of the Ram Great White Elephant Prompt Exchange

(1234 words) The Train to Charlotte

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Winner

Week #185: Music of the Night, Vol. II

(1387 words) Whispers

Week #186: *judge* Giving away prizes for doing f'd-up things

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Week #187: Lost In Translation

(912 words) The Unlikeliness of Two Identical Snowflakes

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Winner

Week #190: Three-Course Tale

(1423 words) Loaded Up and Trucked Away

Week #191: *judge* We Talk Good

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Week #192: Really Entertaining Minific

(1209 words) but not me in

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Ock!

Week #193: the worst week

(1652 words) I Didn't Start the Fire

Week #200: *judge* Taters Gonna Tate Fuckers

Week #207: *judge* Bottle Your Rage

Week #216: *judge* Historical Redemption (or: Sin, Lizzie)

Week #238: *judge* Lie to Me

Week #243: FAILURE We Are the Heroes of Our Time

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Dishonorable Mention

Week #244: Unspecified Word Disorder

(620 words) Hook, Line, and Sinker

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Redemption

Week #245: it's all about me, fuckers

(677 words) Belonging

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Week #252: Your Cardboard Protagonist Was Here

(1005 words) The Wall of Rejected Classes

Week #253: FAILURE The road to shitty fiction is paved with good intentions

Week #255: FAILURE RAY-LORDS FROM BEYOND GALAXY 9!

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Week #260: Empty Spaces

(736 words) Human Sacrifice

Week #261: FAILURE You Are Cordially Invited to the Dome of a Thousand Doors

Week #271: FAILURE Reality Doesn't Care What You Think

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Honorable Mention

Week #274: I Scream, You Scream

(1137 words) Acceptance

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Honorable Mention

Week #275: Bring on the Lovers, Liars and Clowns

(1983 words) The Man Who Liked Fish

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Winner

Week #276: Little Man History

(1189 words) The Winter Palace

Week #277: *judge* Rewrite Mashup

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Week #278: Get Your (Self-Improving) Freak On

(994 words) The man in the room

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Honorable Mention

Week #279: How to Write a Story

(1489 words) Weird Yoga Pose

Week #280: FAILURE Let’s Play Thunderdome: Entenzahn’s Bad Idea

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Honorable Mention

Week #285: Tempus Fuckit

(1698 words) The Men Who Lived Forever

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Week #286: Picturesque Picaresque

(1553 words) Alternates

Week #291: *judge* You are Such a Loser, Good for You

Week #293: FAILURE These Sainted Days of Spring

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Week #295: DO YOUR WORST!

(1719 words) A Horse Called Bob

Week #297: FAILURE And Now for Something Completely Different

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Week #299: Aqua Teen Thunder Force

(1095 words) We all make mistakes

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Dishonorable Mention

Week #302: Invisible Bartertowns

(1010 words) 987 words

Week #306: FAILURE Strange, Familiar Intelligence (corvids vs cephalopods)

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Disqualified

Week #311: It's a poor craftsman that blames his tools

(719 words) Please don't ban me :(

Week #312: *judge* Family Motto

Week #313: FAILURE (Were-creatures and) Vampires are Alive

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Honorable Mention

Week #325: The Horror is Capitalism

(1407 words) This is my life now

Week #326: FAILURE LET'S MAKE A PLAYLIST!

Week #333: FAILURE A Sparkly Merman Holiday Special

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Week #336: Best of the Bestiary

(999 words) Elephant Stone

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Disqualified

Week #337: A Dark and Stormy 2019

(882 words) This is dumb

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Redemption

Week #340: Beyond the Murder of the Dolls

(1131 words) Water In, Water Out, Water In and Shaken All About

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Honorable Mention

Week #349: A Stroll Through the Archives

(1105 words) A Prince on Any Other Day: A Hero's Tale

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Honorable Mention

Week #350: This is the line of division

(1385 words) In the Tube

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Week #351: Rat-a-tat-tat, Thunderdome

(1113 words) You didn't see this coming

Week #352: FAILURE Do You Know? 나쁜 글쓰기!

Week #354: *judge* S'moreDome

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Honorable Mention

Week #355: Top Ten Hundred Words

(992 words) Book It! then cheese it

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Week #356: THE WAR & ARTHUR C. CLARKE

(997 words) Magic Use Resistance Education

Week #365: FAILURE Leo Season

Week #385: FAILURE Getting a Reaction

Week #398: *judge* at the end of the tunnel

Week #411: FAILURE One More Than Y'all Deserve

Week #416: FAILURE Taboo!

Week #417: FAILURE Long Road to a Little House.

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Honorable Mention

Week #418: Ancillary Action!

(990 words) Jurassic Park

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Week #419: The Thunder Chef!

(1595 words) Three Alarm Chili

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Honorable Mention

Week #420: Guys we made the weed number

(2091 words) Not All is Cricket in Cricketsburg

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Week #421: The Only Two Good Webcomics

(1033 words) Extra Good News

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Honorable Mention

Week #423: Mystery Seeds

(1004 words) Zero Stars

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Week #424: Convicted of Doming and Driving

(1121 words) Somewhere on the the 70

Week #425: FAILURE THE AGONY OF CASTRATION/THE BLUE LANDSCAPE OF THE BLISS

Week #427: *judge* We are in control.

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Week #428: Objects may be smaller than they appear

(468 words) The Sad State of A Fair

Victory

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Brawl #28: Invisible Cities - Cities & Identity (514 words)

Victory

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Brawl #30: THE SPECTACULAR CRABROCK V. FUMBLEMOUSE V. NIKAER DREKIN DUEL FOR THE HONOR OF NOT BEING DISQUALIFIED - Goalposts (508 words)

Defeat

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Brawl #38: The Scents of Battle - Ferment (479 words)

Victory

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Brawl #43: Mermen at Work - Shark Week (1068 words)

Victory

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Brawl #63: Crab Here Sittingrock Brawl - Mom, (748 words)

Victory

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Brawl #75: Fightbrawl - Dr. Michael Reid (761 words)

Victory

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Brawl #150: Brawlbowl II - It Never Rains Indoors (1017 words)

Victory

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Brawl #226: Jerks of a Bygone Age: Solitair vs. crabrock - Reasons to Burn (807 words)

Victory

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Brawl #227: Genre Mixing: crabrock vs. Jitzu_the_Monk - We've all done bad things (2137 words)

Victory

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Brawl #231: Loveless, Deathless Prose: crabrock vs. Tyrannosaurus - balance (311 words)

Defeat

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Brawl #233: Talk to Me: crabrock vs. SurreptitiousMuffin - Two men on a bridge after dark (609 words)

Defeat

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Brawl #301: Thranrock Brawlhalla - LATERAL INHIBITION (994 words)

Off-Prompt: This Cereal Sucks

(97 words) Maze Time!

Off-Prompt: This Cereal Sucks

(93 words) One Step Back, Two Steps Forward!

Off-Prompt: This Cereal Sucks

(98 words) Heart Health!

Off-Prompt: Weasels, Pudding

(147 words) Untitled

Off-Prompt: GIS Birth Year Roulette

(780 words) The Lunar and Planetary Institute Internship

Off-Prompt: GRIMDARKNESS OF SKULLS AND BLOOD AND GORE

(182 words) Grimdark sentences loosely tied together or Things I'm writing in hopes that TDbot uses them for horoscopes later

Off-Prompt: Broenheim's Dog Fetish Continues Unchecked

(110 words) a dog

Off-Prompt: Very Unsexy Somethings

(302 words) Untitled

Off-Prompt: Pet Romance

(100 words) Pet Romance

Off-Prompt: The Sauropod In The Room

(93 words) Bullyosaurus

Off-Prompt: At World's End

(96 words) probably not what you meant

Off-Prompt: April Fools

(244 words) It's a coincidence that it's dick shaped

Erotica

Off-Prompt: Into the Closet

(168 words) Five-Fingered Switch

Off-Prompt: Into the Closet

(174 words) In Orbit Above Planet H0-M0

Off-Prompt: Bee Wizards

(194 words) Riding the Cloud Slug

Off-Prompt: Loot, Plunder, and Party Hats

(247 words) Viking Party

Off-Prompt: 150-Word Myths

(149 words) Consequences

Off-Prompt: 150-Word Myths

(149 words) Shortcuts

Off-Prompt: 100-Word Epics

(104 words) The Wolf-Rider-Sword Industrial Complex

Off-Prompt: Interprompt Assortment

(294 words) Fruit Gone Bad

Off-Prompt: Interprompt Assortment

(134 words) Untitled

Off-Prompt: Interprompt Assortment

(52 words) Untitled

Off-Prompt: In Its Twilight Days, Thunderdome Writes of Manmeat; Muffin Rejoices

(42 words) Untitled

Off-Prompt: Erogenous Beef Eats a Dick

(311 words) So Many Dicks For EBeef To Eat, But So Little Time

Off-Prompt: Erogenous Beef Eats a Dick

(406 words) Just Beef It. Beef It. Beef Takes a Dick and Eats It

Off-Prompt: Miscellaneous

(527 words) Flores de las Meurtos

Off-Prompt: Miscellaneous

(625 words) The Brawler