The 2022 Prompt Selection Ballot: "A tan'll do you some good. What's a little sunshine?"

[brightknightie]

We have 18 total nominated prompts! Thank you! Now, which 3 do you most want to write and read? (Stories come due on May 29. Minimum 500 words.)

• Vote below by 11:59pm (Pacific Time) on Saturday, March 19. All community members may vote.


• Rank all the prompts in the order you prefer them. (1 is most-wanted, 18 least-wanted.)


• The top 3, by ranked-choice eliminations, become our common prompt pool, from which to use at least 1 in each story.

As previously posted, I'm hoping that this method helps us find the broadest appeal. Any prompt that gets 25% of the first-place votes outright wins 1 of our 3 slots. Any prompts that get 0 first-place votes get removed. Then, the prompt with the fewest first-place votes is eliminated, lifting the second-place preference from those voters. Repeat until 3 prompts each have 25%+ of the votes (or only 3 prompts remain). In case of ties, any "surplus" higher-place votes (above 25%) tip the scales.

Important: We have only 1 voting round this year (unlike previous years in which we had both primary and final rounds).

Poll #26750 2022FKFicFestPromptElection

This poll is closed.
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: Just the Poll Creator, participants: 9

"Still she haunts me, phantomwise...."—Lewis Carroll

When everything changed

a disturbing photograph

"Honor wears different coats to different eyes."—Barbara Tuchman

A cop, a priest, and a vampire walk into a bar…

The Observer Effect (Wikipedia)

"long time passing"—Pete Seeger, "Where Have All the Flowers Gone"

bearer of bad news

A murder investigation leads Nick and Schanke to Chicago to find the perpetrator. Can Nick keep Schanke from finding out the truth of his past? Should he?

"You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time."—Charles Kettering

Second chance

LaCroix owes Janette a favor

"Men are more sentimental than women. It blurs their thinking."—The Notebooks of Lazarus Long, Robert A. Heinlein

First flight

In the moonless dark beyond the firelight, the eyes of predators shone, two by two. Tracy threw the last bit of wood on the fire, and waited.

"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth"—Arthur Conan Doyle

hidden witness

"Although they are / only breath, words / which I command / are immortal"—"Fragments of Sappho," Sappho