And the Search Term Winner Is…

The results are in! The poll is closed! This is the moment you’ve all been waiting for! We received over 100 votes, and the top three have been picked. (Confused? Bewildered? See the introductory post on the challenge here.)

An impressive 14 entries were up for voting, many disturbing, several fantastical, a few whimsical, and all entertaining.

Without further ado, here are the results for Ergofiction‘s first ever Search Term Challenge:

	In third place, we have Quota by MCM, a slightly humorous tale of rationing in the bedroom. MCM is a lover of left socks and largely responsible for the bizarre tales over on 1889 Labs.
	In second place is The Last Brother by Merrilee Faber. Merrilee, winner of all previous rounds, challenged everyone to try knock her crown off… and someone succeeded!

So who is it, you ask? Which story came first!? Okay, okay, I’ve prolonged this long enough:

In first place, it’s Long Way Home by Chris “ruzkin” H-K, who has (as his website states) written his way to eventual success! Congratulations!

Long Way Home particularly stood out from the other entries for it’s style: it is written as a series of letters from a man on an alien planet to his mother back on Earth. The voice is strong, the letters intriguing, and even though you know it’s going to end badly, there’s something compelling that forces you to keep reading.

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A big round of applause and effusive thanks to everyone who made this exciting challenge possible. All the entries are now being updated to include author information and bylines — below is a quick list so you readers can see whether you were able to guess their identities correctly!

Cleaning the Sty With a Jigsaw Homemaker by Zoe E Whitten
Stillborn by Allan T. Michaels
Sideshow Fables by MeiLin Miranda
The Last Brother by Merrilee Faber
Evil Wishes by Kerryn Angell
The Feud by J.C. Hart
A Silly Tale of Little-To-No Consequence by Tama Wise
A Second Chance by NewToWritingGirl
Long Way Home by Chris “Ruzkin” Hayes-Kossmann
The Carnival by John Slover
My Extra Sex by Eliza Hirsch
Medusa’s House by Pargeet Bhamra
Quota by MCM
The Subtle Profession by Tama Wise

http://tamawise.wordpress.com/2010/03/14/the-winners-are-in/ The winners are in! « letters from silent hill

[...] I didn’t place in the Search Term Word Challenge (by the way, the results are out … hence my ranting) I got something perhaps better than that [...]
merrilee

Hahaha, I knew it! Congratulations Ruzkin!
merrilee

Hahaha, I knew it! Congratulations Ruzkin!
http://ergofiction.com Jan Oda

So no despair that you DID loose your crown?
merrilee

Not at all! I'm glad to pass it on. Now I just have to find a suitably masculine crown for Ruzkin's head ;)
merrilee

Hey, can we have links to author pages for those writers we don't know?
http://jchart.wordpress.com/2010/03/14/and-the-winner-is-2/ And the winner is… « J. C. Hart

[...] you don’t know what I’m talking about, the results of the latest round of the Search Term Challenge are [...]
http://notenoughwords.wordpress.com/2010/03/14/defeated/ Defeated! « Not Enough Words

[...] Jump to Comments Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I have lost my crown! The new King of the Search Term Challenge is Chris Hayes-Kossman (aka Ruzkin). [...]
http://ergofiction.com Jan Oda

We are adding the links to the entries as we speak!
allantmichaels

Congrats to all!
jchart

yay Ruzzie! and well done Merrilee and MCM for 2nd and 3rd place!
mauipotiki

Crap! But _I_ knocked off her crown! Ah well,I knew Ruzzie was a sure shot for first. It really was a deserving first.
http://www.ruzkin.com/?p=840 Good lord, I won a competition? – Scribbles and Dreams

[...] party all smelly and covered in grime and logged onto my lappie only to find that I'd won the ergofiction Search Term Competition! My entry, Long Way Home, just nudged past Merrilee's The Last Brother to take the top [...]
http://grahamstorrs.cantalibre.com/ Graham Storrs

Congratulations Ruzkin! A well deserved win! You had tough competition.
ruzkin

Good lord!
http://www.ergofiction.com/2010/03/issue-7-editorial/ Issue 7 – Editorial | ErgoFiction

[...] first Search Term Challenge came to an end. I want to use this writing space to add my personal congratulations to the winner and runners up. [...]
http://newtowritinggirl.wordpress.com/2010/03/15/winning-and-loosing/ Winning and Losing « Newtowritinggirl’s Blog

[...] called ‘A Second Chance’ and you can see it here. You can read all other 13 stories here – if you’ve got time, I recommend you do – they’re really [...]

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