THE WINNERS

Judge's Choice: Deep Thoughts by itsjustme1217

People's Choice: Night On the Town by One of Eddie's Girls

People's Choice Runner-up: Two by MizzFrance

Thank you to all who entered!!

A special thanks to my team of awesome judges: Edward's Chipper, Jasper's Izzy and Twisted Type.

A very special thank you and heaps of love to The Mistress (Breath-of-Twilight) for taking the time out of her BUSY schedule to validate the entries and, in some cases, write involved comments to help the writers out. She is truly a goddess, even if she's a fuck-scary one. lol. MWHA, baby.

Last but not least, thanks to those of you who voted!!

If you would like to have a peek at the sweet banners each winner received, then please go to my blog at:

[email protected]

HOST NOTE: The contest entry entitled, Welcome to Hell, has been deleted and disqualified from the contest for (word-for-word) plagiarism. It was brought to my attention via PM, and I was given a link to the site where the original work has been published since 2001.

I will not stand for plagiarism in any of my contests. It's very unfortunate that this has happened in the very first one I decided to host. However, it will not keep me from hosting another; even though I'm fairly cross about it.

I do know that people who do these types of things are in the minority. Most of the authors I've come to know here, and in other places, are wonderful, honest people who work hard to hone their craft.

But I would say to those who are not so honest: The web might be a big place, and you may think you can get away with it (it's possible you will), but it's also very possible that you won't, like in this case. And then, I'll find out you ripped some poor, struggling author (like myself) off, just so you can fraudulently win a contest I'm hosting for whatever sad and pathetic reason you feel you need to, and you'll be ban from ever entering one again.

Which is what has happened to this author.

DurtyNelly

HOST NOTE: Butcher's Smock has just been deleted for the same thing. PLAGIARISM.

I really don't know what to say. Actually, I do, but you'll have to wait until I finish the blog post.

RUTHLESS: A HARD-CORE HORROR ONE-SHOT CONTEST ... Will be my last.

Thank you, DurtyNelly

Give me your depraved, your wicked, your ravenous masses yearning to disembowel freely.

I've decided to host my first ever contest! I do plan on doing more of these if this one is successful. Next one will probably be Bizaro Horror, but we'll get to that in the months to come.

But If you're unsure of what hardcore horror is, please see below.

Hardcore/Shock/Extreme/Splatterpunk Horror - A literary sub-genre characterized by the explicit description of horrific, violent, horror without limits, often containing licentious pornographic scenes.

My fellow judges and I really are dying to see what sick, twisted and horrendous things you can do with the sweet and beloved characters of Twilight!

Shock us! Horrify and terrify us! Make us gag! We love it!

Your goal is to make us squirm. A little vomit would be nice too!

There will be FOUR winning stories chosen:

1) First place will be chosen by the judging panel.

2) Second and third places will be chosen by popular vote.

3) And a Special Award will be given by DurtyNelly.

All winners will receive a Splattertastic banner and the right to call themselves hardcore.

The Judging Panel

EdwardsChipper - Dark Temptations Blog Mistress and writer.

JaspersIzzy - Dark Temptations Blog Madam and dark fiction writer

TwistedType - Historical fiction and Horror writer. Formally rparkerp.

And DurtyNelly - Extreme Horror and Bizarro Fiction writer.

The Rules:

All entries must be beta'd. This is an important one! All entries will have to make it past our gate keeper, The Mistress. And she is a cruel, whip-cranking harpy! So make sure your work is as error-free as possible. If she deems it unworthy, she will send it back to you with an evil cackle and demand that you fix it. You can then re-submit once the errors are taken care of.

Entries can be canon, all-human, or alternate universe, and main characters must be from the Twilight fandom.

All entries must be one-shots, wholly original, and previously unpublished. No outtakes of or additions to other posted stories.

During the contest, authors may not say or imply that a story will be continued later, and no entries may be continued until after the winners are announced.

All entries must be between 2,500 and 7,500 words in length. If you're a little over or under, we're not going to spaz, or send it back.

Collaborations welcome.

Crossovers welcome.

Two entries max. per author; including collaborations.

Wait? No rules condemning inappropriate content, like: no rape, incest, pedophilia, violence, beastiality, necrophilia, sadistic torture, midgets hammering nails into Edward's genitals, rabid chipmunks eating the eyeballs out of Emmett's rotting corpses, or The Mistress flaying authors alive for putting commas in the wrong place?

Nope. The only content rule is that there are no rules! This is an EXTREMEHORROR contest, so be extreme, and either horrify, shock or disgust us.

* HOWEVER *

Be very cautious of just throwing gore, rape and violence in for the hell of it. If it's just put in there for no reason other than to classify the story as 'extreme' ... we'll know ... and hiss at it like it's a Danielle Steel novel.

Submissions:

Disclaimer:

Word Count:

Rating:

Content Warning:

Pairing (if applicable):

Crossover Book/Series Title and author (if applicable):

Summary:

Ruthless: A Hardcore One-Shot Contest

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by Pin-name

Submit entries via email to [email protected]by August 29th.

Dates:

29, August – Submission closes.

30, August – Voting Poll opens.

8, September – Voting closes.

9, September – Winners Announced!

If you have any questions about the contest, or need further clarification as to what hardcore horror is, then please feel free to contact DurtyNelly at: [email protected] OR, go to her blog at: http://m