A Very Short Story – one of tweetups and… zombies mostly

“Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple.” — Willy Wonka

Today, as our brave twitter-fictioners explored a galaxy far far away at the  Star Wars Celebration 5 #tfe tweetup, those of us left behind stretched our brains (or should that be compressed our brains) to produce 140 character creativity. Our Very Short Story (#vss) competition asked you to write a fictional tweet containing the word ‘tweetup’ – and BOY did you deliver.

Everything from Viagra for birds, to zombie apocalypse graced the hashtag. Poetry, prose, haiku, programming code, even a limerick in perfect meter (hard to do in 136 usable characters!), and there were some marvellously clever and imaginative uses of ‘tweetup’  the required word.   You made us laugh, you made us cry, you… freaked us out a little, (Chicken cannibalism? Srsly?!). And I’m not gonna lie to you, Marge; it was VERY hard to pick a winner.

Our top finalists are as follows:

drkbish “Perhaps we should’ve cancelled the tweetup,” he said, as he emptied his gun at the advancing zombie hordes.

JankHank @thinkgeek cout << “Pop quiz, hotshot. You’re on a boat for a tweetup.” <<endl;
If (boatSpeed <50) {boatKaboom = true} //Wut do? Wut do?

tuckercummings “Did he really just ask if we could schedule a tweetup?” “I didn’t even know there was a word for that in Latin.” “He’s a young pope.”

lindsjer A masked avian flew into a Pet Shop, leveled his gun at the owner, and tweeted. “THIS IS A TWEETUP, gimme the seeds & no 1 gets hurt!”

DanChappa Detective Jenkins had seen a lot in his day. He had never seen anything like the Tweetup of ’09. So much screaming. So many monkeys

Laura_Micek I went to the tweetup today only to find out the cake is a lie! But the pie isn’t. It was cherry.

The_Gun_Moll “Tweetup! The once-a-day pill for those who can’t make their little bird fly!” the announcer chirped. Robin’s heart was all a-flutter.

JDMcIntyre Tweetup”, he said, in between sneezes, “Tan you bet me anodor aspin? I doped it down da zink.” “That was the last one,” she replied.

jzeitler Tragedy was averted when the bomb went off at the Precognitive Society Tweetup. Nobody was there, you see…

TomZer0 And his dieing words hung in the stale air around his now still head, “I’ll see you at the great tweetup in the sky. Bring beer.”

alxf9 500 days from now, a man will jump off a cliff and discover he can fly. Nobody believes him. But at least he made it to the tweetup.

elitistczar wtf is a tweetup? No worries, We’ll solve this using Science!

CaraDeCosta Accidentally stumbled into the Sorcerers Order tweetup. Made a comment about silly robes. Woke up hours later as a sheep! Baaaaaad Day!

hmmay A pirate, a ninja, ten stormtroopers, and Superman walk into a bar. What… a punchline? No, that was the con tweetup!

KarmaAster The world ended in a firey apocalypse following the comic book supervillian tweetup. The survivors were only slightly surprised.

Beanalby His kingdom was spared by the deal forged at the tweetup, but his subjects were turned to wild animals. Would they mind? Could they?

genobeba24 The peace of the tweetup was the only peace left on a blasted planet, bereft of any other hope. We gathered there for a moment’s rest.

wesleysarti ” Tweetup” dearie. Keyboards will be extinct in 3 seconds. Dearie began: “Hey, ya’ll!–” Blip! All keyboards suddenly popped out of exis

TheNerdPatrol Haiku: When Zombies Tweet up – Harmoanious Hunger for – BraaaaaAaaaaaAaaaaaAaains (yes, that’s a 5 syllable version of “brains”

golux13: “I know you left the tweetup for a — a tryst with Juliet,” she sobbed, packing her bag. “You checked in with foursquare at the motel.”

There were so many more that we loved, we wish we could retweet them all. We’re compiling a doc of all entries for your reading pleasure.

Thank you so much to ThinkGeek, that purveyor of all things wondrous – and bacon flavoured envelopes, mmm bacony goodness. #homerdrool – for promoting the competition and for being the source of Epic Prizes Of Awesomeness™

Prizes!

The winner will get a $20 Think Geek gift voucher and a Star Trek plush toy! Runner up The First wins 30th Anniversary Empire Strikes Back playing cards, and some crackhead candy, and Runner up The Second will win a Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock mug!

And the winner is…..

• Third prize goes to: KarmaAster

• Second prize goes to: JDMcIntyre

• Overall winner: tuckercummings!

congratulations!

~ by masstwitfic on August 12, 2010.