Quote Originally Posted by Mjollnir View Post
Wow 500 words is SHORT. I'm really struggling editing mine down from around 1,000.

This is a great competition, and I understand that you can't very well read a ton of long short stories, but if (hopefully when!) you run a competition of this kind again, could you please consider upping your word allowance to 1,000?
Hehe, I know what you mean. Within half an hour of writing mine, I was already three times over the limit. I had to spend the next hour and a half painstakingly trying to decide which parts to remove. No matter, my entry's in now. ^-^