With great excitement, it’s time at last to announce the winners of my flash fiction contest, Travel With A Twist. Thank you so much for your support here and at the Rodeo and for a fantastic response to this and all the contests. My co-judges, Mike and Hugh, and I, greatly enjoyed every story, which made our task that much harder. Read on for the three winning and three highly commended flashes, travel stories with a fantastic twist in just 99 words. Huge congratulations one and all!
By Sherri Matthews
Well, we asked for travel stories with a twist, and we got ‘em. Thank you so much to all who entered, 29 in all. You’ve taken us around the world (twice), to Rome and through most of Europe, to Morocco, Lima, on sun-drenched holidays including the Caribbean and Hawaii, up mountains, along the coast, to a Harry Potter conference in San Francisco, a monastery, Lake Michigan, Key West, Rock Springs and the weird and wonderful Garbled Creese. We’ve walked, ran and hiked, and travelled by car, cruise ship, plane, bus, motorhome, and broomstick.
The high quality and enjoyment of every story, however, did not make it easy for the judges. I don’t like this part of the job! First, I verified every story’s word count and sadly had to eliminate 2, one just under, one just below 99 words. Then we narrowed it down with each of…
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A View From My Summerhouse 
What a fun Rodeo contest with a travel twist! Much obliged to you and your judges for the final results, Sherri! ❤
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It was a fun ride and a tough call! Thanks so much, Charli, and to Mike and Hugh too, couldn’t have asked for better judges! 🙂 ❤
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How fun! Yet how hard to be a judge!! Counting words seems tedious!
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Not an easy task at all, Melinda, all stories had great merit, an honour to read each one. Thanks so much for your great support of the Rodeo! And counting words was the easy part using Microsoft Word’s word count…phew! 😀 ❤
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My pleasure, Sherri!
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🙂 ❤ 🙂
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What a fabulous contest, Sherri. You and your judges did well to choose a winner from the roundup of stories you fitted into the case.
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Thanks so much, Norah, and for entering too! It was one tough ride. I loved your round the world twist. So glad we get to read them all thanks to Charli’s collection for every contest. There is some very tough competition out there! ❤
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It was my pleasure, both to enter and to share, Sherri. There are a lot of wonderful writers out there. I’m always impressed.
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There certainly are, Norah…and now to yours… 🙂
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