WELCOME TO Bevelled Edge!

Club Founder:

Club Activation Date: June 16, 2003

BE President:

BE Vice President:

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For information on
CLUB ORIGIN
MEMBERSHIP PROCESS
STORY SUBMISSIONS
NEWBIE INFORMATION

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TO THE MEMBERS - volunteerism, member list, news
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Wanna Volunteer?
Want to have that warm, tingly feeling for free? Help out YOUR club!
[Donations!]
This is most important. If you would like to donate ANY prizes at all for the contest: illustrations, commission, journal feature, even a subscription, note the club!!! Also, if you want to help extend bevelled-edge's subscription, we'd really appreciate it.
[Advertising!]
You know short storyoholics? Tell them about Bevelled Edge!
[Critiquing!]
You have opinions? Give BE's members the extra humph they need to make their stories masterpieces!
[Idealists!]
You have ideas about the club? Send a note to =darkdescartes or ~AnaisCortland

BE's Latest News

BE is looking for new leadership. If you'd be interested in restoring this club to the glory days of high activity that it enjoyed under ~jades-n-rubies, please note the club with the following application filled out:

1) How will you make members more interested in participating in BE activities?

2) What new features would you add to BE?

3) List three writing prompts you would use for the Assignment or Almighty BE Challenge in the future.


March Madness is done. But on the bright side, we've got a monthly and a new BE Challenge. Enter them or you shall be smitten.

We have a Writer's Resource Center! Anyone with an article or tutorial they want to contribute that is related to writing can just add it to the thred with a short explanation.

~*~

A new revolution has come to my attention - "the comment revolution", that is. Do you want better criticism for your works? Are you tired of vague, one word comments? Visit the this page to find out how you can help people provide more efficient and effective critiques.

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The Monthly Assignment

Describe a descent into madness with an unusual cause.

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[MEMBERS: You are allowed to submit to both the monthly and the BE Challenge!]

The Almighty BE CHALLENGE

Supply the rest of the story, given the following start: "I will always regret falling asleep that night. When I awoke, everything was different." Send your entry in a note, the subject of which should indicate that it is a BE Challenege submission.

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WELCOME TO Bevelled Edge!

Club Founder:

Club Activation Date: June 16, 2003

BE President:

BE Vice President:

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For information on
CLUB ORIGIN
MEMBERSHIP PROCESS
STORY SUBMISSIONS
NEWBIE INFORMATION

Please visit BE'S INFORMATION PAGE!

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TO THE MEMBERS - volunteerism, member list, news
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Wanna Volunteer?
Want to have that warm, tingly feeling for free? Help out YOUR club!
[Donations!]
This is most important. If you would like to donate ANY prizes at all for the contest: illustrations, commission, journal feature, even a subscription, note the club!!! Also, if you want to help extend bevelled-edge's subscription, we'd really appreciate it.
[Advertising!]
You know short storyoholics? Tell them about Bevelled Edge!
[Critiquing!]
You have opinions? Give BE's members the extra humph they need to make their stories masterpieces!
[Idealists!]
You have ideas about the club? Send a note to =darkdescartes or ~AnaisCortland

As you may have noticed, there have been some drastic changes to the memberlist. As we near the hundred-member mark, the number of active members shrinks smaller and smaller. In the ~jades-n-rubies era, it wan't uncommon to see seven to ten people submit to the Assignment and three to six submissions to the BE Challenge. ~AnaisCortland and I have tried our best to keep the intimate and high-energy feel of BE alive, and to encourage you, the members, to write, but all we can do is lead a horse to water and try to convince him that the water isn't poisonous.

SO the memberlist is not a list of all members, but a list of "active members." Thus, all members who have not been active for the past six months have been removed. A removed member can ONLY get back on the memberlist by:

~Leaving a RELEVANT comment in a RECENT journal
~Adding to the Writer's Resource Center in the forum
~Suggesting (via note) a plausible new idea for BE (which would make people want to visit BE more and make the community more useful to them)
~Donating a contest prize
~Referring a friend to BE (friend must mention referrer's name in "Join" note)
~Entering the contest (scroll down - it's the same as the BE Challenge)

I especially encourage the suggestions for improvement option. It would be great if you could tell us how to better feed your excitement about writing.

Note: In October there will be another contest. It will be a multi-part contest, and the winner will get to be BEVELLED-EDGE PRESIDENT FOR A MONTH (this is out of necessity since I'll be very very busy with NaNoWriMo). All may participate, but only members on the active memberlist will be eligible for the prize.

Thanks for putting up with me,
=darkdescartes

March Madness is probably dead.


1) In Anticipation of Her Thirtieth Birthday [link]
2) Untitled [link]
3) Runaway [link]
4) The Wausau Library[link]
5) The Royal Familay [link]
6) The Crash [link]

WELCOME TO Bevelled Edge!

Club Founder:
Club Activation Date: June 16, 2003

BE President:
BE Vice President:

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For information on
CLUB ORIGIN
MEMBERSHIP PROCESS
STORY SUBMISSIONS
NEWBIE INFORMATION

Please visit BE'S INFORMATION PAGE!


Affiliations/Acknowledgements:

[Prose]
[Art]
[Etc.]


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TO THE MEMBERS - volunteerism, member list, news
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Wanna Volunteer?
Want to have that warm, tingly feeling for free? Help out YOUR club!
[Advertising!]
You know short storyoholics? Tell them about Bevelled Edge!
[Critiquing!]
You have opinions? Give BE's members the extra humph they need to make their stories masterpieces!
[Idealists!]
You have ideas about the club?
Send a note to ~darkdescartes or =Alezandrane

BE's Latest News

Remember - Submit to *LostCauseMagazine! They're accepting submissions for the April edition!

WHY ARE WE NOT GETTING ANY SUBMISSIONS FOR THE ASSIGNMENT OR THE CHALLENGE????? *tears hair out*

A new revolution has come to my attention - "the comment revolution", that is. Do you want better criticism for your works? Are you tired of vague, one word comments? Visit the this page to find out how you can help people provide more efficient and effective critiques.

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MARCH MADNESS
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1) During the month of March, there will be no Assignment or Challenge.
2) Instead, BE members participating in March Madness must write FIFTEEN polished short stories. By polished I mean they should have no spelling or grammatical mistakes. (This is to ensure that a little time is spent on these so that they have at least some quality).
3) If you think 15 is a little harsh, this is supposed to be very challenging and a big committment. The idea is to mimic NaNoWriMo, except for short stories instead of a novel.
4) AT LEAST ONE of these stories must be a collaboration with another deviant. This other deviant does not have to be a BE member or a prose writer. You could collab with a poet to produce a prose-poem or with an artist for character sketches or illustrations!
5) BE members who want to participate in March Madness should note the club before March 1 to sign up. I ENCOURAGE EVERY SERIOUS SHORT STORYIST TO DO THIS. IT IS GREAT FOR DISCIPLINE!

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ASSIGNMENT-BE What Submissions I Want Now!
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Members! START SUBMITTING WORK NOW!!!
[Note: As a member you are not obligated to send in a story every time there is a monthly. Also, be sure to label your note to me according to the theme of the the monthly...so that I know what you are submitting.]

Assignment:

The first assignment of the new order! Well, it's not quite that overpowering, but it is the first assignment that =Alezandrane is working on, so it is a tad new. Here it is:

Pick up the nearest dictionary and flip to the following pages:

* 24

*28

*56

*90

*3

On each of these pages, find the word that is the first, third, and fifth. In any order in the course of your story, you need to use at least 12 of these 15 words.

I am seriously curious what this will end up bringing about. Good luck to all and please send in your links A.S.A.P.!

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[MEMBERS: You are allowed to submit to both the monthly and the BE Challenge!]

The Almighty BE CHALLENGE:
[Will be closed until 2 + 2 = 4. Which means it's open. Hurrah.]

Give a prominent place in your story to something that many people do, but that no one likes to admit doing. For example, spitting out the window onto the street, or rubbing Clorox Wipes under your arms (or unusual sex pratices, as long as you keep it elegant and not R-rated. For examples of how to do this, see all writing by ~nerdWithAWhip). AND since no one is submitting, I decided to make this one a little easier. You do NOT have to begin one out of every six words with the same letter. The idea behind doing that was to create a theme in sound, so that the whole story, depending on the letter you chose, sounded violent, sad, mellow, jubilant, etc. This mirrored a writing exercise I once did in English class. Now, however, I decree that as long as a "sound theme" is established, you do not have to worry about counting words that begin with a certain letter. Thank you, have a nice write.

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Assignment
The Rockfish
by ~Redattore
Road Trip by ~lyeshea

BE Challenge
Fransesca's Fart by ~lyeshea

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Freestyle BE Challenge 2006-2007

"Dhampir" by ~Budda28
[link] -- Part One
[link] -- Part Two

"Nights" by *venusmantrap [link]

"Overcast" by =angelsarefascists
[link]

"Cold Square" by ~Azaelus
[link]

"4:48 a.m." by *venusmantrap
[link]

Assignment for April/May 2006
Book Em Both by =yatsu

Weather BE Challenge for April/May 2006

Hardly Any Challenge At All by =yatsu

Odd Weather We're Having by ~Rydia-Warrior


March Madness 2006:


1) Hope
2) Castle Mutter
3) Seki-ray
4) Memory
5) Oisin Rescues Cuchulain
6) Enuma Elish
7) Willow View Cemetary
8) Just Like I Remembered
9) Immortality
10) Epilogue
11) The Key
12) To Points Unknown
13) The Silos
14) Initial Static
15) The Library at Alexandria



1) Funeral


1) My Lost Art
2) Well-Founded Disappointment


1) Music Box
2) The Death of Frags
3) Collaboration: Loop with ~Bel-oviel
4) I Only Got One Eye
5) The Nymph
6) Wearing Purple: Soft Cheeses
7) Wearing Purple: This is Music


Submissions from the Assignment (February 2006)

The Rockfish by ~Redattore
Road Trip by ~lyeshea

BE Challenge
Fransesca's Fart by ~lyeshea



August's Freestyle:
(1) Angelles' -> The Black Rain
(2) Ithica's -> <London Burger (With Cheese)
(3) Budda28's -> Ezekiel Barnaby
(4) Dystopia74's -> The Web Of Truth, Part 1
(5) Darkdescartes' -> My Painful Guilty Pleasure
(6) IfrozenspiritI's -> Lost in Moments
(7) Ninja-librarian's -> Conscious Sedation



July's Is It Better To Have Love And Lost, Then To Have Never Loved At All?:
(1) Budda28's -> Nothin's Changed
(2) Dedoublya's -> I Was Wrong
(3) Shadow-child's -> Instant Attraction
(4) Angelles' -> Purple Tears
(5) Darkdescartes' -> Wasted Away
(6) Dystopia74's -> Reflection on Times Past



June Freestyle:
(1) Venusmantrap's -> The Streetcar Number Four
(2) BlissfulBlue's -> Jane
(3) Yatsu's -> Crescent Moon
(4) Budda28's -> Hath No Fury, Ch 1, Ep 3
(5) Angelles' -> The Memory of Cole
(6) Thebigartist's -> I'm Somebody Now
(7) Darkdescartes' -> From High Cide
(8)Crazylady's -> Service
(9)Magicalgirl's -> The Psychedelicist, Part Two


May Pictures and Prose Submissions:
Lyeshea's -> Let's Fly
Angelles' -> To Long Away
Demonlight's -> Loved By Moonlight



April Freestyle Submissions:
WomanlyPanther's -> Satan's Dance
Budda28's -> Hath No Fury
DaNoodleBox's -> Nunc Dimittis
QueenAlatariel's -> The Power In The Crystal
Angelles' -> Leaving Eden
Rufus-Kain's -> The Things I Do
Crazylady's -> Unfaithful
Yakitate-art's -> The Matter Pt 1 and The Matter Pt 2 [Please note: these are not two separate submissions, Yakitate-art couldn't fit all of the submission in one form]
Sam-V's -> Hidden Dominance
Princemi6kin's -> Emoticon Madness



March BE Challenge Submissions:
Dolphinryder's -> Satan's Dance
Marcaisa's -> Suicides and Cocktails


March "Darkness" Assignment:
Leftomaniac's -> Occ+Sec+ult+ret
Alezandrane's -> My Suicide
Palmer-eldritch's -> Beyond the End of Time
Defade's -> Shattered Dreams
Eccentro's -> Life Without Parole
Demonlight's -> BreakDown - Part One


February Assignment Submissions:
Leopardivory's -> Windows To My Soul
Childlikefaith's -> Of Morgana and Guinevere
Alezandrane's -> When Comes The Hour - Prologue (Alezandrane wants me to note that this is only the prologue of a novel she is now working on.)
QueenAlatariel's -> The Ghosts In The Attic
IfrozenspiritI's -> The Iceshifter
Budda28's -> My First
Crazylady's -> The Ex
Kittensoft's -> Angel
Yakitate-Art's -> Interview A-62, Act I
CalebTGordan's -> Lola
Lyeshea's -> The Bleacher Troll


January "Be The Lyricist" Almighty Challenge Submissions
Yakitate-art's -> T-Rex's Ankle -Machiavelli-
IfrozenspiritI's -> Merging
Leftomaniac's -> The Sound Of Mi Go


January "Love Of Lyrics" Submissions
Prompt 6) Yakitate-art's -> Feather-back and Leather-back
Prompt 4,6) Lyeshea's -> College Rush



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December's Belief Submissions
Shadow-child's -> A Calling
Magicalgirl's -> The Black Willows
Yakitate-art's -> December 7th, 2004
Rachabelle's -> Wrapping Up
Lunalopus' -> A Christmas Present
Dark0Dark's -> The Genesis
Laidbackinsanity's -> Dismissed Souls
Lyeshea's -> To Thine Own Self, Right?


November's Freestyles:
Semantic's -> Taming The Beast, Chapter 1 (~Semantic also wants me to note that this is not the only chapter of this - please check his gallery for the others.)
Xabie's -> Harold
Demonlight's -> Grufflehog
Oedipa's -> The Grassy Knoll
Shadow-Child's -> Tainted Eyes, Part 1
TouchVanDerBoom's -> Laila My Lolita
WomanlyPanther's -> Awakenings
ClutteredKaputnik's -> Split
Alezandrane's -> My Name Was Rose
Abandonedpyro's -> Obvious
Lunalopus' -> Please Mommy
Corsac's -> In Still Waters Waiting


October's "BaSeMeNt" Submissions:
Dolphinryder's -> The Stairs
Xabie's -> Fish Food For The Scared Soul
Shadow-child's -> Behind Closed Doors


September's Freestyles
Faithdivine88's -> A Flavor I Could Never Define
Venusmantrap's -> To Love A Beast
TehGodfather's -> Calm Summer Drive
Leopardivory's -> One Night Job
MrDave's -> Angelic Murder


August and September's Almightly BE Challenge
Raspil's -> 48 Hours In The Desert


Quadtopical: 2nd Round
[Full Use Of Quadtopical]
BoscoVonTokerTheIV's ->
The City of Angels


[#4: who killed the exotic dancer?]
Xabie's -> The Exotic Dancer
Dolphinryder's The Gemini Conspiracy


Freestyle It!
Xabie's -> Potato Chips
After-All's -> Emery's Visit
Nilocnag's -> Raindrops Have Shadows Too
CalebTGordan's -> The Gifted Ones: Hydra And Ben
Leopardivory's -> Chained
Childlikefaith's -> 3 am
Corsac's -> The Interview
Tommymalkavian's -> Good for the Soul
Revere's -> S.H.E.
Peakiew's -> Frozen Princess
Leftomaniac's -> The Subtlest Of Beasts
Dolphinryder's -> Destiny of Ssarassthine
Venusmantrap's -> Bits and Pieces


Quadtopical Submissions
[conquerers of both challenge and quadtopical (either combo of 2 or more topics with challenge included)]
Corsac's -> When the Apricots Bloom
CalebTGordan's -> Bar Room Story Of Revenge


[conquerers of full use of quadtopical]
Kwazo's -> A Game Between Friends
Semantic's -> Another Night At The Scarab


[#1) tale of occupants in a late night bar]
Revere's -> Little Bitch

[#2) revenge on the boss from hell]
Xabie's -> Relatively Poisonous
Tommymalkavian's -> Best Served Cold
Leftomaniac's -> D.O.A.

[#4) fallen egyptian dynasty and their empire]
Leopardivory's -> Shadows of Lost Glory


First BE Challenge Submissions =
Tommymalkavian's -> Second Chances
Leopardivory's -> Taste Of Ice
Celestiality's -> Soul-Searching
Revere's -> Castles
Leftomaniac's -> Remember Me?


Freestyle It!
Jades-n-rubies' -> Bound
Corsac's -> Dip Myself in Holy Waters
Chiroptera's -> Kill One Bird With Two Stones
Nilocrag's -> Planting Day
Childlikefaith's -> Morgan
Yaotl's -> Paranoia
KaiserWarrior's -> Area 51
AngelJunkie's -> Angel
Venusmantrap's -> The Hunt
Xabie's -> Birth
Reirioakensheild's -> Imagery Test
Tommymalkavian's -> A Thousand Miles
Virginqueen's -> Cinderella's Never, Neverland


Childhood Memories/Experiences
nilocnag's -> For The Swallows
jades-n-rubies' -> Postcards
reirioakensheild's -> The Cardboard Tube
Griffinlady's -> AugustHaze


Freestyle Submissions
Nekrosys' -> Waiting For The Bus
AngelJunkie's -> London's 12 Steps
Woxul's -> This Is Our Mess
Lunalopus' -> An Important Day
Corsac's -> Becoming The Ant
Chiroptera's -> Misplaced
Rachabelle's -> Waiting For Annabelle
KaiserWarrior's -> Irunq:Book--Part ??
Runewitch's -> All For Nothing
Mistseeker's -> Beyond Humanity
Jades-n-rubies's -> A Dear John Letter
Celestiality's -> Friendship In Grief


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