Secrets and Lies Story Challenge 2013

Congratulations to all the winners and runners up. Your stories were all very enjoyable and well deserving of such recognition. I appreciated the opportunity to read them. Thank you for your efforts.

Congratulations to the winners and the runners up — I enjoyed all their stories, and also a lot of the stories that did not get into the top six. The quality was surprisingly high throughout this time, I thought — even for a quality site like this

Congratulations to all the winners and the runners-up. I too enjoyed their stories as well as many of the others. I must be a strict grader because my average was not quite 6 out of 10.

Apologies also for the length of my story. Believe it or not, it would have been longer but I ran out of time and, subsequently, the ability to edit it. Next time I'll try to exercize more self-control. It sometimes seems that the story has a mind of its own and goes off the side of the road a bit and I have to wrestle it back on track.

Well done everyone, special well done to the top six

Who told me the Challenge finished at midnight on the 31st of August? Come on own up!. Apologies to those authors whose stories I haven't yet read.

Congratulations Ryan Rowland and the other winners and runners up. As I said before, I read almost all the stories and was so impressed with the great quality of all the stories. It was a great challenge. Thanks to the writers and the staff who did such a great job.

Congrats to the winners and to all those authors that wrote a special piece that really resonated with their own reader segments.

I was quite interested to see how few of the authors I could identify based on the writing style - in fact, I only got two right. That either shows that I don't know the author styles as well as i thought, or that there was an amazing versatility shown by the authors.

As others have mentioned, there were many excellent stories entered in this round; continuing the trend of the last few challenges. I found myself awarding more higher scores than ever before.

My thanks to everyone who took the time to read, vote and comment on the stories. And congratulations to Ryan for his excellent piece. It truly deserved the top prize!

Congrats to all the winners. The stories were really out there this time and I found a pleasure to read. It's tough to come out on top all the time with so many polished authors. Well done.

This was the first time I had participated in a story writing challenge. I found it a great experience as author, reader and commenter. The sheer versatility of some of the authors here is wonderful to behold.