BF Short Story Competition 2007

[Andrew Curnow]

And...

"Magenta Souls"
"Magic Bullet Theory"
"Make A Wish"
"Making Literary History with help from a Doctor!"
"Manipulations"
"Marching Off to War"
"Marching on Empty"
"Marital Bliss"
"Marvels"
"Marwood"
"Matches"
"Math's"
"M-Day"
"Me Who or You Who"
"Memento Mori"
"Men At Work"
"Messengers of the Gods"
"Metamorphosis"
"Mick and the Ants"
"Miles to Go Before I Sleep"
"Miles to Go"
"Mind Games"
"Mind, Body and Soul-less"
"Minority of One"
"Miss Lightowler's Peculiar April"
"Missing In Action"
"Mistaken Identity"
"Mocha-ed"
"Monday Morning"
"Monster from the Deep"
"Monsters"
"Monsters"
"Monstrous, Terrible Things"
"Moonlight and Monsters"
"More Time"
"Movie Format"
"Moving On"
"Mr. C. Pays a Visit"
"Muse of Ages"
"Music of the Spheres"
"Musings and Quarrels"
"Musings"
"Mutatus"
"My Achievements"
"My Brother's An Alien"
"My Customer Was An Alien"
"My Future"
"MyWar"
"Nearly Light"
"Necessary Evil"
"Neighbours"
"Never Fear the Dark"
"Never Give A Child A Sword"
"Never Had A Lot of Cabinets To Put Up?"
"Never Know The Minute"
"New, Improved Daz!"
"Nice Curtains!"
"Night of the Zugzwang"
"Night Shift"
"Nixoph Rising"
"No one ever comes here....almost"
"No Risk of Monsters"
"No Time At All"
"No Universes were Destroyed in the Writing of this Paper"
"Noise Annoys"
"Not All Things Happen For A Reason"
"Numb"
"Numbered"
"Nurse Who"
"Of Maniacs and Men"
"Of Wolf and Man"
"Old Friends"
"Old Girl"
"Old Memories"
"Old Wounds and New"
"On Location"
"On the Brink"
"On the Road"
"On the Run"
"On The Steps of the Palace"
"Once in Royal David's City"
"One After 909"
"One and One Make Three"
"One Big Joke"
"One Careful Owner"
"One Day"
"One For The Road"
"One Life"
"One Man's Footprints"
"One Single Traveller"
"One Voice in the Dark"
"One Word"
"Only Following Orders"
"Only the Lonely"
"Opposite Thinking"
"Oracle Prophecy"
"Other Reasons"
"Out of the Blue"
"Outstanding Balance"
"Over The Horizon"
"Panacea"
"Pantomime of Death"
"Paper Cranes & Sweet Tea"
"Paradox of Pardise"
"Past Imperfect"
"Past Mistakes"
"Pathogenicity"
"Patience"
"Pawn Again"
"Peace To The World"
"Peaceful Chaos"
"Peak Performance"
"Pen Pal"
"Perhaps"
"Peri, in the Sky with Monsters"
"Pet Project"
"Plaques and Tangles"
"PoeZest"
"Polaris Rising"
"Police Box"
"Potential"
"Power Play"
"Powerdreams"
"Precious Time On The Orient"
"Preseedings"
"Prison Duty"
"Prisoner 16"
"Prisoner of Time"
"Prometheus"
"Quake"
"Radar of Fear"
"Radiation Sickness"
"Ragged Remembrances"
"Random Acts of Kindness"
"Random Acts of Nature"
"Random Acts"
"Randoms"
"Recycling Day"
"Reflections"
"Rejected"
"Relative Time"
"Relativity"
"Renegade Child"
"Renewal"
"Requiem For A Songbird"
"Rescue Mission"
"Reunion on Esor"
"Revelations"
"Riders of the Wasteland"
"Riding to Justice"
"River Land"
"Road to Forever"
"Running on Empty"
"Salaris"
"Santa and Saturn"
"Saved by a Picnic"
"Saving Sarah"
"Scavengers"
"Seaside Special"
"Sea-Sky"
"Second Chances"
"Second Cousins"
"Second Hand"
"Secrets of the Storm"
"Seedbomb"
"Send in the Clowns"
"Servant of Vol"
"Shadowscreamers"
"Sheep Finder General"
"Shelf Life"
"Shining Star"
"Shipping Hazard"
"Since You've Been Gone"
"Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast"
"Skunks"
"Small Beginnings"
"Small Change"
"Small Changes"
"Small Miracles"
"Smoke and Flames"
"Smythe's Resignation"
"Snakes and Seaweed"
"So Far From Home"
"Social Deferment Number 28"
"Solar Doom!"
"Soliloquy"
"Solitaire"
"Sombreros!"
"Something borrowed, something blue"
"Something Changed"
"Something Nasty In The Wood Shed"
"Something Old, Something Who"
"Sonic Screwdriver, Ambulance Chaser"
"Soul Stealers"
"Soulhunter"
"Space Flotsam"
"Spectacular Feats of Illusion"
"Spoiling The Illusion"
"Springs Eternal"
"Stardust"
"Stenkarti"
"Stitch in Time"
"Stolen Days"
"Stone-Age!"
"Stop Him"
"Stories My Mother Told Me"
"Storm Debris"
"Stow Away"
"Stowaways"
"Straight on Till Morning"
"Stranger in the Night"
"Stranger on a Train"
"Strength Through Peace"
"Suburban Sunday"
"Sunday Stroll"
"Suns and Mothers"
"Survivor"
"Susan - The Day My Grandfather Left"
"Susan and the Time War"
"Susan"
"T is for TARDIS"
"Taking The Cure"
"Taking to the Bottle"
"Tea & Heisenberg"
"Tea With The Doctor"
"Tealeaves"
"That Sunday Feeling"
"The Amazing Doctor!"
"The Amazonians"
"The Angel and the Key"
"The Apparition"
"The Apprentice"
"The Art of Love"
"The Assassin"
"The Augustus"
"The Autistic Factor"
"The Awakening"
"The Banshee's Wail"
"The Barber"
"The Battle for Earth"
"The Beheading of Cecily Barnet"
"The Best Way to Die"
"The Best/First/Last Day of My Life"
"The Biographer"
"The Birds and the Bees"
"The Birth of Evil"
"The Blight"
"The Blue Box Club"
"The Blue Box"
"The Boat Maker"
"The Bones of Archas"
"The Boxro Monster"
"The Boy Who Believed In Stan Lee"
"The Bridge of Fear"
"The Bringer of Change"
"The Butterfly Net"
"The Button"
"The Cage"
"The Call of the Mansion"
"The Calling"
"The Cartographer"
"The Changing Tide"
"The Checklist"
"The Chimera"
"The Clock on the Stairs"
"The Companion Who Never Was"
"The Conductor"
"The Cricket Man"
"The Cruel T"
"The Crystals of Evil"
"The Curse of the Rainbow Master"
"The Curse of the Riven"
"The Dagamites"
"The Dance of Death"
"The Dance"
"The Dangers of Living Alone"
"The Danmasn"
"The Daughter of Evil"
"The Day I Became A Spaceman"
"The Day I Met The Doctor's Evil Self"
"The Day of the Doctor"
"The Death of Tutankhamen"
"The Defence of Fort McHenry"
"The Demon and the Composer"
"The Descendants of the Dragon"
"The Destiny of the Doctors"
"The Dino's"
"The Diplomat's Wife"
"The Disciple"
"The Doctor And I"
"The Doctor and the Asylum"
"The Doctor and the Lawyer"
"The Doctor Dies"
"The Doctor Effect"
"The Doctor Wears Valentino"
"The Doctor Who Changed My Life"
"The Doctor, the Psychoanalyst and the Time Lady"
"The Doctor's Prescription"
"The Doctor's Wake"
"The Dodo Scenario"
"The Dream Finders"
"The Dream Keeper"
"The Dreams of Children"
"The Duchess of Easy Street"
"The Duet"
"The Dust Has Settled"
"The Echo of its Passing"
"The End of Civilisation"
"The End Of His Assignments"
"The End of Natural Order"
"The Eternity Legacy"
"The Evil of Chronotude"
"The Executioner's Hand"
"The Executive"
"The Eye-Opener"
"The Fall of Arcadia"
"The Fan"
"The Fear and the Dark"
"The fear of present and future things"
"The Fear of Reaching Fifty"
"The Fifth"
"The Final Chapter"
"The Final Countdown"
"The Final Star"
"The Fire"
"The First Refusal"
"The Five Battles of Time"
"The Flesh Eater Encounter"
"The Forgotten One"
"The Fourth Companion"
"The Frozen Ones"
"The Gap Dragon"
"The Garden of Merging Paths"
"The Ghost Behind My Eyes"
"The Ghost of Christmas Past"
"The Ghost of the Eagle X2"
"The Gift"
"The Girl of My Dreams"
"The Gloaming"
"The God Platform"
"The Good Soldier"
"The Gorge"
"The Grandfather Clause"
"The Grandfather Paradox"
"The Greenhouse Effect"
"The Haffordland Head"
"The Hand of God"
"The Harvester of Life"
"The Harvester Wars"
"The Head & The Hole"
"The Hero of Time"
"The Hero"
"The Hoop"
"The Hunted"
"The Interrupted War"
"The Invasion of the Forgan"
"The Jewel of Apollo"

[Andrew Curnow]

And finally...

"The Journals of Otayuna:'How we prevented the Urbertron colonisation of Earth'"
"The Joven Conspiracy"
"The Joys of Telemarketing"
"The King of Marigold"
"The Kingmaker"
"The King's Seal"
"The Koovari Way"
"The Labyrinth Plague"
"The Last Goodbye"
"The Last Goodbye"
"The Last Howl of the Thylacine"
"The Last Post"
"The Last Terra-Cruiser"
"The Last Thing You Ever See"
"The Ledge"
"The Light of Reason"
"The Little Boy That Did"
"The Living Engine"
"The Lonely God"
"The Long Count"
"The Long Men"
"The Long Watch"
"The Lonliness"
"The Lost Chapel of Bones"
"The Lost Emerald"
"The Lost Machine"
"The Lotus-Eater"
"The Lure"
"The Madness of Georgie King"
"The Madness Stone"
"The Magic Man"
"The Magician of Traegus Station"
"The Magick World"
"The Making of the Weekend King"
"The Man in the Box"
"The Man of her Dreams"
"The Man on the Ice"
"The Man on the Phone"
"The Man Who Appeared"
"The Man, the Robot Dog, and the Blue Box"
"The Many Colours In-Between"
"The Marriage Of Inconvenience"
"The Meddlesome Man"
"The memoirs of Dosric the 3rd High Overlord of the planet Bellulon"
"The Memory Thief"
"The Merry Widow"
"The Mind Prison"
"The Moles of Bournemouth"
"The Monster in the Wardrobe"
"The Morpheus Frequency"
"The Mother Planet"
"The M'Quash Uprising"
"The Music Makers"
"The Mutants"
"The Mystery Of The Ocean"
"The Night of the Ripper"
"The Night Watchmen"
"The Nightmare Dreamer"
"The Nutter"
"The Oncoming Storm"
"The Other Patient"
"The Other Side Of Nine"
"The Peripheral People"
"The Persistent Passenger"
"The Phantom of Coal Hill"
"The Phyllmonese Favour"
"The Potato Field Incident"
"The Price"
"The Prisoner's Tale"
"The Prize"
"The Project Planet"
"The Prometheus Effect"
"The Promise"
"The Promise"
"The Quiet Town"
"The Real Reason"
"The Replacement Company"
"The Right Thing To Do"
"The Right Track"
"The Rime of the TARDIS"
"The Rings of Saturn"
"The Sacrifice"
"The Saviour of Humanity"
"The Scavengers"
"The Schoolboy and the TARDIS"
"The Science of Compassion"
"The Script That Was Doctored"
"The Sepulchre of Lokrus"
"The Sever"
"The Shopping Trolleys of Doom"
"The Signal"
"The Silent Assembly"
"The Silver Ambassador"
"The Singing Tree"
"The Sixth Apocalypse"
"The Smell of Old Clothes"
"The Smoke Monster"
"The Sonic Screwdriver Salesman"
"The Sonusid And The Fury"
"The Soul Eaters"
"The Souvenir"
"The Space Station"
"The Spiders of the Amazon"
"The Star of Fear"
"The Star Pendant"
"The Start of an Adventure"
"The Stolen Paradox"
"The Stowaway"
"The Straight and Narrow"
"The Summer of '85"
"The Survivor"
"The Talonites"
"The Thames Tributary of Terror"
"The Thaw"
"The Three Gifts"
"The Time Gauge"
"The Tomb of Shadows"
"The Touch of Death"
"The Tourist"
"The Trail of a Time Lord"
"The Traveller's Caravan"
"The Treasure Hunt of Whychaven Isle"
"The Treasured Rose"
"The Tunnel"
"The Tunnel"
"The Twisters"
"The Uncertain Week"
"The Unemployment Quandary"
"The Universe is Singing"
"The Vanguard"
"The Vision of St Alice of Winchester"
"The Visitor"
"The Visitor"
"The Water Of Life"
"The Waterfalls of Time"
"The Weight Of Guilt"
"The White Light"
"The Widow"
"The Witch of November"
"The Witch's Curse"
"The Worst Sort of Nothing"
"The Wraithes"
"THE"
"TheDoctor7"
"There's Always One"
"They're Coming"
"Things That Go Squeak In The Night"
"This Guy I Met Online"
"This Is When I Was And Where I Am"
"This Side of Hope"
"This Space Deliberately Left Blank"
"Those Left Behind"
"Those Left Behind"
"Three Thieves"
"Thus All Things Are Presented By Shadows"
"Thyme and Time Again"
"Tide and Time"
"Tightrope Simians"
"Time and Relative Dimensions In Sea"
"Time Blurred"
"Time Fire"
"Time for a Treat"
"Time Is NOT On My Side"
"Time Lag"
"Time Law"
"Time Management"
"Time Shear"
"Time's Child"
"Time's Roses"
"Timeservers"
"Tinkering"
"To Be Or Not To Be?"
"To Be Saved From Drowning"
"To Cut A Long Story Short"
"To the Left of Love"
"Tommy Who"
"Transference"
"Transgression"
"Trillions"
"Trouble Brewing"
"Trouble With Guns and Jelly Babies"
"Trouble with the Rani"
"True Names"
"Trusting Humans"
"Truth Soup"
"Try Walking In My Shoes"
"Turning Points"
"Twelve Hungry Men"
"Two Shreddings and a Funeral"
"Two Sides of the Coin"
"Uncivil Service"
"Underneath the Pipala Tree"
"Unguarded Moments"
"United in Hatred"
"Universal Matters"
"Unmenschlichkeit"
"Unspiration"
"Unused Power"
"Uphill Struggle"
"Utsuro-fune"
"Valentine's Day Blues"
"Vaults of Terror"
"Very Wrong Number"
"Veterans"
"Victims of Circumstance"
"Viral"
"Viva Las Vegas"
"Waiting for Gadot"
"Walking in Dark Places"
"We All Make Mistakes Sometimes"
"We Would Have To Invent Him"
"What Goes Around"
"What happen to the people in the london"
"What Have You Ever Done For Me?"
"What I Did On My Summer Holidays"
"What She Found"
"What's In a Name?"
"What's Up?"
"When Albion Burned"
"When Destinies Collide"
"When Great Leaves Fall"
"When The Day Is Short"
"Where Opposites Meet"
"Whispers of Truth"
"Who Coshed Joseph Jackson?"
"Who Has The Time?"
"Who is the Doctor"
"Who Would Believe"
"Who's Calling"
"Who's the Barbarian"
"Why I Married Your Mother"
"Wine and Dine"
"Wishful Thinking"
"With A Handshake"
"With My Own Eyes"
"With Thanks"
"Without Wings"
"Wolves at Bay"
"Words of Wisdom"
"World of Wonder"
"Writer's Block"
"Writer's Block"
"Wrongs Turned Right"
"You Are Not Alone"
"You Have One New Message"
"You Like I Scream"
"Your Fake Family"
"Your Lucky Day"
"Zombie Seems to be the Hardest Word"
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[Pip Madeley]

"Who Coshed Joseph Jackson?" sounds like a winner.

[Rob McCow]

"Time Shear"

Hurrah! They got it.

"Zombie Seems to be the Hardest Word"

Good title!

I can't wait for the 'Quality was so high' comments from the poor souls who had to read them all.

[Andrew Curnow]

There are some great titles in there, aren't there. I quite like "THE" (no, it's not mine).

[Andrew Curnow]

"en.fictipedia.org/Elizabeth_Shaw" is rather good too.

[Rob McCow]

"Susan and the Time War"
"The Fall of Arcadia"

Oh fantastic!

"Trouble with the Rani"

Is this your one?

[Andrew Curnow]

Good thinking, but no. Mine is "Never Had A Lot of Cabinets To Put Up?"

[Pip Madeley]

"What happen to the people in the london"

Did a six year old write that one?

[Andrew Curnow]

Maybe it's deliberate? I can believe a child missing off 's' from 'happens' but 'the london'?

Curiouser and curiouser.

[Andrew Curnow]

"Mr. C. Pays a Visit"

That's mine too. It's a semi-autobiographical tale of me going to the toilet only to find that the Doctor had nicked the U-Bend.

Or not.

[Andrew Curnow]

"The Boy Who Believed In Stan Lee"

I know they say don't judge a book by its cover, and similarly you should never judge a story by its title, but there are some really good titles in that list - including the above, which I really like.

[Rob McCow]

Today's challenge is to write 1,000 word stories based on each of the titles above.

[Jon Masters]

Mine was 'Fight the Good Fight ' - the first in a 20 story cycle based on Methodist hymn favourites

[Paul Clement]

And day now for the announcement. They said by the end of this month, and Simon Guerrier is just waiting for final approval.

[Pip Madeley]

The winner's been announced:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/news/...19/46091.shtml

Michael Coen's What I Did On My Holidays has won the Big Finish Doctor Who short story competition, launched on our website and aimed at previously unpublished new writers. The story – which features the second Doctor and his friends Jamie and Zoe – will be published in the Defining Patterns anthology, in September of this year.

But BIG congrats to Mr McCow for coming in the runner's up list!

What's more, though the competition was aimed at finding just one winner, the judges were so impressed with the quality of many entries they've decided to extend the prize.

"We had an incredibly strong shortlist of the best 25 entries," explains Guerrier. "Defining Patterns will see Michael's story published alongside many established and well-known writers. But we felt our shortlist was of such quality that it deserved a whole book of its own."

This special anthology, deftly titled How The Doctor Changed My Life, will be published in late 2008. The 24 runners up are:

Violet Addison; Steven Alexander; Mike Amberry; Arnold T Blumberg; Anna Bratton; John Callaghan; Dann Chinn; Stephen Dunn; Richard Goff; Peter Hallbright; Tim Lambert; JR Loflin; Nick May; James C McFetridge; Simon Moore; Michael Montoure; LM Myles; Einar Olgeirsson; Bernard O'Toole; Andrew K Purvis; Michael Rees; Mark Smith; Chris Wing; Caleb Woodbridge.

So Steve's story will be published!

[Rob McCow]

Shhh! Keep it under your hat.

I got an email from Simon last week about this. Suffice to say, I nearly had a heart attack. It's all quite pleasing really. Coming in the top 100, never mind the top 25 of the 1,000 or so entries would be astounding, but I can't say I'm anything but delighted.

'Hi Sis!' published on PS is a better story though and would easily have won.

In any case, I wanna read Paul, Jon and Andrew's stories now!

And after September 2008, I'll put the exploding frog excerpt up as a bonus for PS! (if it still exists in any form!)

[Jon Masters]

Congratulations Rob

Will you be doing a Tenth Planet book signing, and can we bring PS meet photos to get signed as well ?

[Paul Clement]

Well done Steve, I really pleased for you.

[Paul Clement]

In any case, I wanna read Paul, Jon and Andrew's stories now!

What are we dong with them? Posting them on the forum or putting them on the main site?

[Wayne]

Hey, Good one Steve!

[Si Hunt]

Well done Steve! You deserve it after putting in the effort!

Si.

[Dirk Gently]

Well done Steve.
Don't forget, they still might want to publish your story in the future so don't show your story to everyone or they'll let it go.



The other name I recognise on that list is Caleb Woodbridge, he used to be on the old P.S but only posted a couple of times.

[SiHart]

He's clever isn't he? I'm very proud!

Si xx

[Pip Madeley]

The other name I recognise on that list is Caleb Woodbridge, he used to be on the old P.S but only posted a couple of times.

J.R Loflin was also a member of PS for a time, ISTR.