I know you didn't write it to the spec. So let me tell you what's going on.

Last year we had @Zeldacroft who ran the contests by offering her prompts every week. This year she got sick and then very busy in her school and there were no contests. A couple of weeks ago I asked @wasco to run one and she did by tweaking a little bit her daily freewrite entry. I think everybody was happy with that contest. I certainly was.

That gave me an idea to run the contests by selecting entries from daily freewtites. I talked to @mariannewest and she agreed to conduct a contest for a best future contest prompt. She agreed to try it out and possibly soon, once she will decide on the format, she will make an announcement.

My task was to select several existing freewrites as a possible contest prompts. I did select six of them and looked at your entries, but they weren't written to that spec. :)

You might ask me why am I so enthusiastic about the "finish the story contests"? Two reasons

1. I don't have a popular account and the same story posted for the purpose of contest would have much more reads than posted otherwise.
2. A more complex one. I am an immigrant I don't have insider knowledge of American culture and of the English language. I can write in English but a trained eye would immediately categorize me as an outsider to the culture and to the language. American English has so many shadows, slangs, and drolls and one has to truly feel the language to be able to take advantage of them. More importantly, I don't have a true feeling for what "my fellow American" feels and thinks and when I write I make a wild guess. However, when I have a beginning written by someone else, I just need to understand the character and the narrative and follow along. Usually, that is a much simpler task. )))

Cheers!