Thanks to all the wonderful writers who entered this challenge. You out did yourselves again and created hours of reading enjoyment for the members of RFF. A special thanks also goes to those who read…and especially those who offered their encouragement in the form of posting comments.

The voting was fast and furious and quite tight and you will find the results below. Please feel free to show your appreciation to all our authors in this thread.

Best First Person Point of View

One Kind Word – Oreolover

Best Short Short
(1000 words or less)

Warm Memories -- Bell

Best Short Story
(under 7000 words)

Silent Night – learningtosign

Best Full-Length Story
(7000+ words)

One Kind Word – Oreolover

Best Missing Scene
(from the Silent Night episode only)

Silent Night – Someone Else’s Star

Best Drama

One Kind Word – Oreolover

Best Comedy

One Kind Word -- Mionebristow

Best Romance

Jack/Sue:

Laughter – Ivory

Bobby/Tara:

One Kind Word -- Mionebristow

Other:

One Kind Word – Oreolover (Myles/Alex)

Best Original Character

One Kind Word – Oreolover – Alex

Best Novice Writer
(has not entered a challenge more than once before)

Warm Memories – JennaLouise

Best Use of a Seasonal Theme

a tie!

Silent Night – learningtosign
Warm Memories – Tracyfbeye

Exemplary Body of Work
(authors who have entered more than one story)

Tracyfbeye

Highlighted scenes:

Best First Kiss

a tie!

One Kind Word – Mionebristow – page 5, post 74 cont on page 6 post 81

One Kind Word – Oreolover – page 8, post 117

Most Romantic scene

a tie!

Laughter – Ivory – page 4, post 53

One Kind Word – Mionebristow page 9, post 135

Most Suspenseful scene

One Kind Word – Oreolover – page 7, post 103

Most Inspirational scene

One Kind Word – Oreolover – page 8 post 116

Congratulations one and all!!

Tracy

Congratulations to everyone! Way to go!

Congrats, girls! You all did a wonderful work with your stories!

Congratulations on a job well done!!!!!!!!!!!!

What a wonderful job by all of you! Congratulations to the winners, and thanks to everyone who participated in making this such a great challenge. You're all the best!!

Janet

Congatulations to all those who won and to everyone who took part! I certainly had a great time reading.

Thanks to everyone,

Sairs

Congratulations to all the winners, and thank you to all who entered!! You have definitely given us hours and hours of reading enjoyment, and stories we will want to read again and again!!!

Joy

Congratulations to all, and thank you for sharing these wonderful stories.

Congratulations

I thoroughly enjoyed all of the stories. Congratulations to each and every writer!

Congratulations to all the winnners and a big thank you to all of you for sharing such wonderful stories with us.

Congratulations to the winners, and thanks to everyone who shared their story with us!

Congratulations to the talented winners!

Great job, everyone!

Kim

Wahoo! Well done and congratulations to everyone who took part.




Jenna