It's D-Day, and you know what that means!

[pensnest]

*FANFARE*

I am delighted to announce that the Dragons, Dwarves and Dolphins Challenge stories are now available for your reading pleasure.

Caveat lector.

The Index is here.

A big thank-you to all the participating authors: catviret, chalcopyrite, cocoalatte, joshysleo, llamabitchyo, ninjetti75, pensnest, phaballa, syncalot and turps33. The astute among you will realise that two of the above went beyond the call of duty and produced two stories each, as we have a total of twelve.


Please send feedback!

If you decide to give your reactions to any or all of the stories in your own LJ, do post a link here so that the participating authors can be sure of seeing what you say.

The email links *all* come to me, so don't assume that you know who the author is when you get my name at the top of the email, hah! I will forward all feedback as appropriate, and the author names will be revealed in a week's time.

ENJOY.

NB: If you checked this out on June 6th, note that an extra story has been added to the list!

Comments

[buddleia.livejournal.com]

Hooray! Thank you for running this, even though I couldn't take part this time. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

[pensnest]

I get fancy new stories to read - it's a fine thing to do on one's birthday. :-)

[solariana.livejournal.com]

YAY! Dragons, Dwarves & Dolphins, oh my!

Happy Birthday!

[pensnest]

I'd respond with a wizard-of-ozzish quote, but I have music in my ears and can't think of one!

:-)

[llamabitchyo.livejournal.com]

Thank you, Pen, and happy birthday!

[pensnest]

Thank you.

[ninjetti75.livejournal.com]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, PEN!!!

It's lovely to have another year of Dragon Stories. I love medieval fantasy, so the Dwarves last year were a welcome addition, and even if Diamonds or Demons might have been more "in theme", the Dolphins have proven wonderfully entertaining.


It's just a pity "Lava Lamp" starts with L, not D.

:D

[pensnest]

One never needs an excuse to write Lamp, though! ;->

It amazes me how many variations on the fantasy theme we can come up with, collectively.

[ninjetti75.livejournal.com]

HAH.

Should I attempt a list? (and do you think it would fit in a comment?)

[justhitstatic.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday!

Yay! New fic to read!

[pensnest]

Thanks - and, yay, indeed!

[bellamyrose.livejournal.com]

*scratches head* Either my math is off or I'm losing my mind, but shouldn't there be another author's name listed. 8 authors, 2 who wrote two, total of ten there, but 11 stories?

But Yay for Dragons, Dwarves and Dolphins! I'm going to start reading them all in just a bit. :D Thank you for hosting this again.

PS. Happy Birthday to you!

[pensnest]

You are quite right - and I would have *SWORN* I had included joshysleo when I posted! Grr. I shall remedy this at once.

And thank you!

[bellamyrose.livejournal.com]

You're very welcome. Have a wonderful day.

[pensnest]

Even *more* bizarrely - I have got joshysleo in the list, I just went to edit the post and it is there! WTF?

[bellamyrose.livejournal.com]

Hmm, that is bizarre. Of course, LJ's coding is wonky for me sometimes, especially when listing usernames, so that might be what the problem was.

[ravenbat.livejournal.com]

It's because lj doesn't like me *sniffles*

[pensnest]

It is *very* odd! In fact, I extracted your name from the list, put it out of alphabetical order, and it appeared - but the name in front of it went. I poked and poked, but... I've never had this happen before, it is most peculiar.

[puszysty.livejournal.com]

WOOT

[pensnest]

Yay!

[puszysty.livejournal.com]

my reviews of the fics :)

[pensnest]

Thanks for the link! :-)

[rikes]

Happy birthday! I see you've arranged yourself some very nice presents right there. :D

[pensnest]

Indeed I have, it's a very cool wheeze and I'm glad I thought of it! :-)

[nopseud]

Yay! Well done for another year! (You, and the challenge :-)

I'm sorry I didn't have a story this year, but inspiration failed to strike. Can I claim to have aided and abetted turps33?

[pensnest]

'aided and abetted' being just the right phrase, I think!

Now, if it had been dogs instead of dolphins, you'd have had the perfect story! Never mind.