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2009 Readers Fiction Competition Winner

30 June 2009

The winner of our 2009 Reader Fiction competition was Olson Greeton, with his short story “Watch Men”. Our jury were struck by the terse, economical power of Greeton’s prose, and by its evocative imagery, masterfully describing a universe which is at once totally unique, and tantalizingly distant, like a vision of a remarkable, nightmare world seen through the eyes of a drunken illiterate.

Watch Men

By Olson Greeton

A guy was in a fight but who is he? He got punched and punched even though he was very strong but he eventually got defeated and throwed out the window breaking the window and falling to the ground with BLOOD and it got on his happy face badge.

Rorshak later climbed up into the apartment wearing a mask which had black and white changing face shapes (v cool) but he didn’t find anything but he suspected the dead man was a Watch Man and later he look in the cupboard and press a button and bingo! it is his old equipment.

Later Rorshak his old friends join in. There was Doctor Mahatan and Owl Man and Silk Spectre. Rorschack try to go see them but he don’t like it and teleport him away outside. They were afraid that someone was a mask killer which mean killer of ex super heros.

They talk to Ozzy Mandius too but he’s rich now so he’s too busy to see them but he thanks them for letting him know what’s going on... OR IS HE?

Then Owl Man and Silk Spectre go in an ally and get surrounded by thugs and fight them and he crack the guys arm and the bones snap horribly. Eww so cool. Afterwards it was so exciting they fall in love and... you can probably guess.

Meanwhile Doctor Manhatan is perhaps the only person who can save the world, but he has left it and gone to Mars and made a giant watch (hint – Watch Man) and he think back to all the times in the past and Comedienne.

Then he take Silk lady to visit him and he knows exactly what she’s going to say next but then he realizes she’s the daughter of the other guy who is dead so it’s like a MIRACLE to him and he comes back to earth again but it’s all in ruins. They got to see their friend Ozzy but he’s behind it all and he destroys the big blue guy but it doesn’t work because reassembling himself is the first thing he learned he say.

And Rorshak get exploded, but the world is safe EXCEPT his journal got posted to that newspaper at the beginning which I forgot to mention.

THE END