The Suitcase: contest submissions

11pm GMT has come and gone, and so has the deadline for entering the short story competition I launched here last week. In total, there were nine submissions, which I’ll be reading and jerking off to carefully evaluating over the next four days. The winner will be announced on Friday: in the meantime, please take a look at some of the fantastically creative ways in which the various authors decided to tackle the brief (hyperlinks to be added as/when pieces are made publicly available).

1. Open Me, by Malin James (@MadeleineMalin)

2. Miss-Taken Identity, by Oleander Plume (@OleanderPlume)

3. Emotional Baggage, by Charlie J Forrest (@CJForrestauthor)

4. Madam Madonna’s House of Pain, by Cherrie Jubilee (@cherriedelights)

5. Happy Consequences, by Septimus Warren Smith (@SeptimusReviews)

6. Lost, by Charlie Powell (@sexblogofsorts)

7. The Suitcase, by Vida Bailey (@vidabailey2)

8. No Hope, by John D Stories (@johndstories)

9. Butterfly, by Anna Sky (@IAmAnnaSky)

Many thanks to all of you who took the time to write something. I hope I can do justice to the effort you put into these stories by picking a worthy winner.