Sorry for the delay. Big thanks to everyone who entered! And an even bigger thanks to those who read without entering. :) Oh, and thank you, Don, for letting me fumble-hump my way through another challenge. I love hosting these. :) Congrats to Anthony!

3.56 Conception by Anthony Cawood (AnthonyCawood) writing as Luis Cyphyre - Short, Horror - Armageddon has to start somewhere.
3.33 Cursing in the Rain by Colin Sharp (ColinS) writing as Dawn Tilldusk - Short, Drama - When it rains it pours. Jeff and his home city of New York find that out. To the extreme. 6 pages
3.11 Splodge by Storey Matters (Storey_Matters) writing as Chris Atna - Short, Sci fi, Horror  - A close encounter of the sixth kind leaves the human race fighting for survival
3.11 Target Thy Enemy by Gary Kohatsu (Abe from LA) writing as Orson Wells - Short, Horror - At the outbreak of a global invasion, two soldiers on reconnaissance engage with a chilling new enemy.
The Consequences Of Your Actions by Lew Sherwood  (Big Lew) writing as J. E. Hova - Short, Drama, Disaster - After leaving earth in 2022, members of the Continued Mankind Colony on Mars return 37 years later to investigate what caused the sudden disappearance of mankind on earth. Or, is it, who caused it?
Beirut Vacation by Mbako Letlhomo (Mbako Letlhomo ) writing as tonali - Short, Drama, Suspense - The last phone call between four friends on vacation before the explosions in Beirut, Lebanon.
Nationwide Best Seller by Roland Jefferson (RolandJ) writing as Found Footage - Short, Drama - A group on Hazmat employees stumble on the last days in a library.

Quoted from Zack Oh, and thank you, Don, for letting me fumble-hump my way through another challenge. I love hosting these. :)

1. Thanks for running this challenge, Zack. I wish I had finished my script in time, but alas... life got in the way again.
   
2. I'm going to have to add "fumble-hump" to my repertoire of pithy sayings.
   

-Jordan

It's a great word, but do they go together? Fumbling and humping at the same time... on second thought, yeah, I've done it. It works!

I'm now very glad I battled through the jetlag and entered ;-)

Thanks Zach for running it!

Congrats, Ant!

Seems being jet-lagged suits the creative process.
I reckon you'd have enough SS mugs now to cater for a dinner party & after meal coffee and cake for a small African nation.

Thanks to Zack for a very creative challenge. And Don, of course.
And thanks to all who entered. Long live OWCs!

P.S. Shout out to Gary with Target thy Enemy, my personal favourite.

Well done Anthony.

Thanks to Zack for running.

Special mention though to Big Lew and Abe from LA for their positive and insightful feedback on everybody's entries. I was pretty humbled by it - My critique was a little grumpy, hung up on the found footage aspects. I think the feedback is half the challenge and you two guys won that hands down.

Thanks to everybody else who read and commented!

Think the next one should be either 1 pager or 100 pager!

Congratulations, Anthony and a big thank you to Zack and Don for running this event

Congratulations, Anthony!

While I found your story strange, your writing was clean and you painted a vivid image.

Well done.

-Jordan

Thanks all, and thanks Jordan - strange is good ;-)

This is late in coming, but I want to congratulate Anthony for taking the top spot
in this OWC. I gave my top vote to Colin Sharp's "Cursing in the Rain," which I
thought was novel and swimming with interesting possibilities.
But I did have "Conception" in my top 2.
Thanks to Libby for her shoutout of my horror script entry.
Despite heading back to the classroom for some refresher courses, I'm actually
now reading "Relentless." So, I hope to have a review posted soon.

Finally, thanks to Zack for the intriguing challenge, which has admitting that I still
don't quite know how the Found Footage works in a story.
And a big thanks to Don, who despite my long absences from the boards, continues to
send out reminders of upcoming OWCs. Very cool.
Good luck to all the writers who took part in the Summer Quickie Challenge.