This announcement is rambling and late, so I added sections.
What’s required here?
Explain the Deluded Custodians challenge and my role. Try to entertain.
Introduce October’s challenge. Again, pretend I can write.
Identify writers, submissions, and try to make it engaging.
Name the winner and why they won.
Apologize. I should always do this.
September lasted a year. The first four days of October lasted three weeks.
Consider yourself forewarned and apologized to: Snarlcasm ahead.
The September 2026 DC Challenge asked writers to promote another piece as a Teaser Tale.
Queen Ann James allowed me to judge the September 2026 Deluded Custodians’ challenge. Each month, a lucky winner receives $10 and a Teaser Tale promotion written by May More. In honor of May, writers were challenged to create their own Teaser Tale and promote another story.
The inappropriate, playful, sometimes offensive, usually outrageous reptilian part of Patricia Jeanne's brain. Sweet snarlcasm balances absurd responsibility.
La Jolla will become Desert Fishy Smell after this heat melts the ocean.
Unless you make a lot of ice cubes, the heat is more likely to raise the ocean level a fair bit. Antarctica is shirking. And shrinks are overflowing the job market.
