Binder

I enjoyed your story tremendously.

It just makes me wonder.

Not trying to be harsh, but in all honesty, I cannot possibly fathom the rationale behind making this image. I must be missing something.

Q, you're the best. I'm sorry I was not able to vote on this.

Mussolini? I probably deserve that. I promise I will stop emailing you fascist propaganda now. :)

Nice idea, but three times you used there incorrectly.

their (the first time) and they're (the last two times) would have been the proper words to use in those cases. It's an easy mistake to make, so keep it in mind on future entries if you can.

I totally love it! This is amongst my favorites in a contest that has many very good entries. Sadly, I had to deduct a point for the use of piers where it should have been peers.

Unforunate, but hopefully it will not hurt your score too much when the final votes are cast. Good luck.

Decent job on the writing as far as grammar/spelling/pacing etc.

But a Bush joke? Really? Yeah, those never get old.

--not a republican, and not a politics zealot. Just tired of Bush jokes.

Well done. I like this one a lot. Kooky concept.

"...her presence proceeded her..."

You are probably looking for the word preceded in that case.

Nice job overall - I particularly liked the black as the tires line, but the ending was kind of jarring. Perhaps more info on her impending interaction with Mr. Watterton would have revealed more depth to her character. As it is now, I don't know what her purpose is at his place, what kind of deal she is proposing, or why she might want to kill him.

Nice.

Nice one.

I'm thinking that your switch from third person to first person is intentional, but I'm not sure I totally get it. Small complaint, but thought it worth mentioning.

Good approach and well written.

Short but sweet.

Does a tyrannosaurus really have feathers?

"I wonder if his wife can sleep through that snoring. I wonder if he has a wife."

Yeah, I liked that a lot.

Not sure how well this one fits the theme of homecoming, but I really enjoyed reading this.

Nice one.

Creative take on the theme and an excellent final phrase. Nice job.

You jumped back and forth on the tenses a little bit, and the POV is third person nearly until the end when you switch to first person. In the future, be aware of these things as they can hurt your score.

Those things aside, a story well told all the same.

You left the "1000" part out of the url for worth1000.com in your link. Hopefully most people will know how to fix that, since the original truly reveals all the work you put into this entry.

Seamless! Excellent job on the skin texture overall and especially on the crows' feet near the eyes. Thoroughly convincing. Great choice of subject as well.

That bicyclist looks familiar. Nice job.

The blur on the phone is an excellent indicator of the vibration ringer, but the soft focus of the source pic almost takes away from it a little bit. If it were a little sharper in the foreground, the vibration blur would stand out better.

Nice job all the same. I don't comment much, but just wanted to point that out. You get a good score from me.

So I was thinking about Murphy's Law, and I live in an area where a lot of people surf, so I made some connection between Murphy and "surfy" so I thought it would be funny...

Yeah. I'm about to throw my computer into the paper shredder. Apologies to fellow texties for my sub-par effort on this one. Good luck to everyone.

Your link to the original gives me a Forbidden access error, just so you know.