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Finalists
The Brute
Becky and the Drifter
Trapped
The Vain Ruler and his Ambitious Manservant
Painfully Royal
An Assassin's Tale
From Death to Muerte
Henry & Grace
The Storyteller
Ever After
Trash
Witchwood
Sleeping Beauty
The Oak and the Willow Tree
The Creole Moon
.950–.974
A Father’s Fable
The Three Sisters and the Fishy Duke
The Collector
The Pendulum
.900–.949
Brave Little Ada
Film Blanc
To Grind or Not to Grind
The Throne
India Rose's Reality
.875–.899
Do Not Despair
Something Wicked This Way Comes
.850–.874
The Blind Princess
Happily Never After
.800–.849
Hannah and Gretchen
Severed
.750–.799
She Swallowed a God
Make Me Laugh
A Word of Caution
Finish the Story
Red
The Doll the Soldier and the Dragon
A Story in Two Parts
The Key
The Perfect Selfie
Fairy Tale Land
The Fiddler and the Nightingale
Greener
Stepsisters
Cohabitation
Moral
To Be or Not to Be
The Lost
Freedom of Choice
.749 and below are not listed.
Works within each score range
are in the order of submission.
FICTION WAR WINTER — 2017Q1
20-23 JANUARY 2017
PROMPT: Grimm's Fairy Tales
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