Can confirm! Excited to read them out ☺️

“Yes” is still a very strong score, so you never know… you could be in the mix!

Either category would have been acceptable, so I guess it comes down to the main vibe of the story!

This is the totals from “my half” of the stories.

Each story is initially read by a guest judge and either Ed or me. After initial judging, we swap our top picks and go from there!

🙌🏻

I'm not sure, but if you find out, please share with the class!

Oh, I hear ya!!

Erotic Comedy (71 stories)
Fav 1
Y 5
M+ 14
M 16
N 35

Erotic Romance (54)
Fav 0
Y 3
M+ 11
M 8
N 32

Fantasy & Supernatural (34)
Fav 1
Y 3
M+ 10
M 5
N 15

Kink & Taboo (34)
Fav 0
Y 0
M+ 10
M 9
N 15

Literary Erotica (46)
Fav 0
Y 2
M+ 9
M 11
N 24

Other Genre (26)
Fav 2
Y 2
M+ 2
M 4
N 16

Do iiitttt

I believe in you! (Even though writing a novel is borderline impossible!)

I’ve chained him to his desk and he can’t leave until he’s tripled his vague posting output 😂

Naturally, I *had* to look it up and bahahahahaha

Any competition can be a FLESH Fiction competition if you believe in yourself!

Yep! Without our assistant judges' help, I think we would well and truly drown.

Ed and I are each reading half the stories, Dean reads them all, then Ed and I compare notes on those initial scores to finalise the LL, SL and winner.
So, each story will be read by at least 2 judges. I've read my half so just waiting for them to catch up so I can start looking at LL contenders!

Yeah @quitewriteed.bsky.social! Get on that!

I have it on good authority he’ll be judging this weekend so maybe some vague tweets will be forthcoming?

I wouldn’t hold my breath…

Personally, I'm on Team Anything But Ed 😁