kdpierre:
I found something oddly coincidental in pre-reading/skimming the 40 stories: 22 of them......more than half.........all begin with a name. That, I thought, was an odd statistic. I guess I never noticed how many authors begin a story with a name until I saw so many side-by-side. Any thoughts on this?
IMHO this is a devilishly clever conspiracy, and in some way all those beginning-of-story names must be interrelated.
If all the winners end up being entries that begin with names, that may start a definite trend in future contests.
"Lessa woke, spanked." Hmmmm, yes... --C.K.