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OCTOBER SITE CONTEST
Character Prompt for October 2025: Write a story about a character who falls victim to one of the seven deadly sins. (i.e., envy, gluttony, greed, lust, pride, sloth, or wrath)
Excerpt: Captain John Boyd woke in the early chill of the morning, drenched in sweat. Dreams of blood and steel, of cannon-smoke, of dashed hopes and severed lives, had plagued him all night. Though it was well after dawn, the sun had not yet ascended high enough to spill over the snow-capped peaks to the east. That's how life was at Fort Spencer – short dull days and long, lonely nights.
Excerpt: The three put their ears up to the door to listen.
"Ok, now Kathryn," they heard Chakotay say, "Just spread 'em open and stuff it in."
"Oh, Chakotay!" Janeway moaned with delight. "It's wonderful! Let's not forget to add some oil."
Excerpt: Ron was happy to be a Hufflepuff. His flaming mop mismatched Hermione's carpet. Unfortunate that. Gryffindors were always a bit of a clash. He was totally out-matched but besotted.
Excerpt: Willem had just discovered that it takes about three seconds to fall from the top of the King’s Tower in the Kingdom of Pie. A sharp bolt of magic had zapped him from his perch atop the tower. A magician by trade, he was used to this kind of thing, but the whole experience had soured his mood a bit.
Excerpt: Annexation of Series – Sequel to “The Last Battle” (Book #7 by C.S. Lewis.
The house waited for a visitor, standing open and silent for the last seventy years, located in the middle of the English countryside far from the city of London. It was at this home, many years ago, an adventure had begun were four children named Peter Susan, Edmund, and Lucy had stepped through a wardrobe into a land called Narnia. The house they stayed in was where they were sent during the war away from London because of the Air raids and a famous house, known well everywhere throughout the countryside. It is here that it was used by a kindly professor during the last world war, a well-known scientist who was using his talents for the war effort of England. They had no expectations of where they were to end up, or knew of the portal that would lead them to Narnia. They had just been sent to their destination, as arranged, and had discovered great things that lie inside this house on their own./i}
Excerpt: Francis goes in the living room where Reese and Dewey are watching TV. He can feel Malcolm in his back pocket as the stench of his fart is still trapped with him.
With the shrink ray in hand he aims at Dewey first but hesitate.
“Should I shrink all of them?” Francis wonders.
Excerpt: Night crawled in nice and slow over the sun and doused the city in orange. A bleak and uninviting breeze picked up pace and drove most of the men inside. Nocturnal beings ventured out. A broomstick zoomed past the full moon, muggles unaware of its existence. It slowed down and dived steep towards the deserted street of Magnolia crescent and pulled up just in time. The diver relaxed his grip on the broom and glanced back with a boyish grin towards the small cluster of bushes, a grin stretched out from his battle-scarred face, like remembering something. Years ago a big black dog had been staring at him through the bushes, frightening Harry to his core. He later found out the big black dog to be his godfather. Love and friendship had meaning those days.
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Last month's "Action/Adventure Newsletter (September 24, 2025)" question: Do you have to wait for a new year to set new goals?
Detective  : No, you don't have to wait for the new year to set new goals. You can set new goals whenever you please. If you want to set new goals with the coming of a new year, that's ok. If you want to set them whenever, than that's ok too.
S🤦♂️ : Goals. My writing goal us to make a living as a writer. I make money but not enough to live on. All my other writing goals have been achieved.
Life goals? I reached mine and never saw a reason to find more. I don't do goal setting, not really anymore. I just try to be decent person.
Dorian Wordweaver  : Absolutely, unequivocally not! Set your goals. Try. Fail. Forgive yourself. Try again. Repeat. Then forget this advice yourself, so post it somewhere online to help remind yourself.
TheBusmanPoet : No, because I don't set goals. I only have one goal and that is to write whenever it comes to me. 
Jeffrey Meyer : Nope! I have a handy number of failed goals each week, no need to wait.
Rick Dean - Dinosaur : Goals help some people and don't help others, but even for those where they're beneficial, having an arbitrary day to "set goals" instead sets the person up for failure. Setting a goal when its fresh and you're motivated and you're much more likely to attain that goal.
Spudy Specter👻 : No but if you want to achieve it, there has to be measurable progress markers and steps consistently taken to achieve said goal. Even if it's slowly you don't have to run at the speed of light you just have to work towards the goal you want to achieve. Unless there's a deadline. Then try and meet the date set.
jackson : No, personally, I don't set goals. I just take it one day at a time to make progress.
Mousethyme : I have been known to set a new list of goals in the middle of the day.
Tannus : No. Sometimes my goals change in a day, or even within a minute.
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Action/Adventure: October 22, 2025 Issue [#13413]
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