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Not Quite Right features discussions that
are unfiltered and uncensored,

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and may include themes that are
inappropriate for younger listeners.

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Also, I swear a lot.

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Something doesn't seem quite right.

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Welcome to not quite right.

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My name's Ed and I'm Amanda and we are
here for the shortlist for the July 2026

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Not Quite right prize for flash fiction.

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It is your favourite episode?

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It is my favourite episode.

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It is my favourite episode.

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And in honour of the theme,
we have a lovely yin Yang trinket plate,

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I believe was the description of this
plate Kit plate with a a sun and moon

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candle.

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And because you're in your candle era,
my candle era, I am, he thought, why not?

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You're going to purchase that.

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I didn't actually,
I purchased other candles and these came

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free.

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These are free bonuses,
which is nice because you got to take

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your wins where they come.

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Now let's get into it.

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So let's get into it, the shortlist.

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But firstly,
a big welcome to our Patreon supporters.

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We'll be listening to this a little bit
early and we want to make it fair because

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we know that everyone is a paying entry
into this competition.

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So we want to make sure that the results
are available at the same time for

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everyone.

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And so we will be posting the results of
each round to our Patreon under the free

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tier.

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Yeah.

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So that means that all you need to do is
sign up to any of the tiers on Patreon,

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including the free tier.

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And at the time that the early episode
drops for the shortlist,

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you'll have access to a post listing the
names of all the winners.

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And that will include the wild card
winners, of course,

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and the bonus prize winner as well.

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So if you cannot wait to hear the news,
then you can log on at that time and

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you'll be able to see who won.

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But our supporters will receive early
access to the episodes.

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That's the extra content here.

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That's the story readings,
the long list and the shortlist episodes,

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as well as all of our other not quite
right episodes.

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So for the long list and the shortlist
episodes,

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we will be posting those 12 hours earlier.

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Yeah.

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Because I feel like any more than that
and people will explode.

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Yeah, exactly.

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But for our other episodes that aren't so
time sensitive,

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our Daredevils and our regular episodes,
it could be longer.

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So yeah, be a few days.

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Yeah.

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And so look,
if you missed the memo on that this round,

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just make sure you head over to Patreon
and like I said,

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subscribe to any of the tiers,
including the free tier,

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and you'll be able to access the post
when we drop those results.

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But enough about that.

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Let's get into it, shall we?

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Let's shall What have our listeners got
to look forward to in this episode?

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Well, let me tell you, firstly, we will.

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We've your job, mate.

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Firstly we will announce the wild card
winners.

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We've got four wild cards to award,
2 from our assistant judges and two from

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Amanda and I.

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Then we will be revealing the top 6,
the shortlist as it were for this round.

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Six stories and $4000 of prizes.

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Yeah,
over $4000 when you factor in the wild

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cards and, of course,
the illustrious winner who'll be

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receiving the pointy trophy.

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And of course,
all of our shortlists will be published

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in our anthology at the end of the year.

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We're building up the books now.

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I've had a little bit of a hiatus,
I must confess, on the flesh fiction.

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We've got to get back into that and and
get that published.

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But I'm very excited as well for this
year's anthology.

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And at the end of the episode,
we will be drawing the bonus prize for

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this round.

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So Team Amanda,
I'm going to spoil it right now.

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Team Amanda wins the points.

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All right, fine.

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Get your gloating out of the way.

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Oh, it's not gonna end.

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So 1 lucky person from team Amanda,
we'll be pulling that name out of a hat

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and that person will win a hoodie,
which was by popular demand, by the way.

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I asked what do people want?

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They wanted a hoodie.

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Which I've got my hoodie and I've worn
mine to death.

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I've had it now for four years or
something like that,

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and it's the cosiest hoodie that I own
and it gets a lot of love.

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So I can see why you would covet A hoodie.

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So we have the hoodie and we also have a
coaching session with me and you know,

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I get lovely positive feedback about that.

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People feeling like they grow as writers
as a result of that time.

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So hopefully you feel the same way and
I'm looking forward to chatting and

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online meeting whoever wins that prize.

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Absolutely.

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So we got wild cards, we got shortlist,
we got the winner,

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we got a prize draw and lots of stories
to read.

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My favourite thing is reading out these
stories,

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like the six best stories out of 300
stories.

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Let's get into it, shall we?

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Let's not beat around the Bush.

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Let's cease to beat around the
metaphorical Bush.

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I didn't start, but OK.

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On that note,
why don't we call our assistant judges?

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Starting with a lease?

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Sounds good.

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Lease a call.

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So thanks for joining us, Elise.

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Yeah, thanks for having me.

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We did the judging a little bit
differently this round because last round

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we split it on team basis.

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But this round of course was a bit of a
landslide.

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So we did it a little bit more randomly.

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We just gave you 1/2 and we gave Dean the
other half.

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So you got a taste of both teams this
time around?

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I liked that.

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That was a lot of fun for me,
getting to see what was on both teams.

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I always enjoy reading the stories
because I feel like the quality we get is

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so high and I think so deeply about them
that not only I get that enjoyment,

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but I also think about craft a lot.

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And then I grow as a writer as a result.

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So I have a lot of gratitude for that
part of the process.

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Absolutely.

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I couldn't agree more.

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Like I've learned so much from reading
these stories.

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I definitely noticed that people leaned
super hard into the prompts this time.

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And you know, that's valid, but I also,
when I think back on the times that I've

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entered the quite right prize,
the two times that I placed, both times,

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I like lightly caressed the prompts as I
went by.

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And when I whenever I went hard at them,
like I would get very excited about them

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sometimes and I would go really hard.

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I never even longlisted when I did that.

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So I thought that was kind of interesting.

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Like one of the things about craft that I
really thought a lot about this time is

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the question of like passive versus
active and how that relates to the

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question of like quiet versus propulsive
storytelling or prose.

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And how, for me,
the distinction really lands in whether

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or not there's character drive and stakes
in the story,

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and therefore whether there's conflict
and change in the story.

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So for me,
that was something that I got to spend a

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lot of time thinking about as I was
reading.

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And did you notice differences between
the two teams in that respect?

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I noticed more of a tendency towards like
a more passive character or storytelling

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style in the Amanda side,
which makes sense because of the yin and

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Yang.

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But I felt like interestingly in both
sides,

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maybe because of the sort of meditative
nature of leaning into like a philosophy

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that's all about balance.

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There was a lot of more passive
storytelling on both sides.

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And so I spent a lot of time asking
myself like,

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this is a really quiet story and it's not
that propulsive.

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So is there some kind of character
driving it or this is a really propulsive

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story, even though it's quiet,
and that's why it might be really working

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for me.

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Yeah, I found the same thing, Elise.

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Like even though the team in prompts sort
of spelled out passivity,

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when I moved over to reading the team Ed
stories,

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I didn't notice actually a huge
difference between like,

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the passivity and so on.

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And I did wonder whether it was the
conceal slash reveal prompt that was

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actually creating stories in which there
wasn't a lot of action per SE.

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There was a lot of sort of inaction.

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So apart from that,
did you have any other thoughts that you

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wanted to share about this round of the
competition?

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I guess my other really big thought that
I had as an overarching thought was one

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of the things I noticed again and again
about stories that were really landing

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for me was I could really clearly answer
why the moment we were seeing in that

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story was the important moment that we
needed as opposed to just a moment for

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that character.

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I had a editor at one point ask me like,
why this character and why this moment?

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Why is this what you're making us look at?

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And I felt like the stories that answered
that question for me,

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I intended to really love those stories.

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It's definitely a question worth asking
yourself.

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And these are the kinds of things that
I've been personally learning by reading

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these stories like and now reflect on
when I go to write a story myself.

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Like,
what is it that makes this particular

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scene interesting, relevant, impactful,
more so than just.

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Yeah, a moment.

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So tell us some of the stories that did
stand out to you.

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OK.

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So the very,
very first thing when I first got the

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whole, you know, list of all the stories,
and I just kind of was scrolling,

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the very first thing that caught my eye
was the title **** Nugget Boys.

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I saw that title and I laughed and
laughed and I thought, wait, wait,

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hang on.

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Are we in flesh fiction?

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Here we go back.

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That was the team Ed one very memorable
yes, yes, it was very memorable.

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And that's the thing,
you know with titles,

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and I know I've heard you guys say this
before,

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is when you see the title and it
immediately calls to mind the story for

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me, that's a really good title.

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There was another title that did that for
me too,

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which was the time my daughter came out
to me in the plumbing aisle at Bunnings

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by Julia Knuf.

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You familiar with Bunnings, Elise?

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I am not I was like,
is this sort of like Home Depot or is it

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more like Walmart?

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No, it's a Depot.

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Home Depot.

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For those familiar with Bluey,
it's Hammer Barn.

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Yes, I do know Bluey.

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So Hammer Barn makes sense to me.

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Yes.

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So then there were two lines that I
really loved.

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The first is in Phases by Chad Frame,
and it goes you're left wonderstruck in

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the cul de SAC,
wanting nothing more than to bottle her

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name like Starlight.

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Beautiful.

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I just thought so lovely.

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That was just saying to me.

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And then the other one said it was from
Return to the Sea by Madeleine Don and it

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said Iland reached into his chest and
picked the lock of his heart.

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Beautiful.

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Very evocative in the word prompts.

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I picked one from team Ed and one from
team Amanda that were my favourites for

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team Amanda.

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My favourite was Simoon the poison wind
from the names of all you're dead by

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James Bushel.

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Sorry I lied,
I picked 2 from team Amanda and none from

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team Ed Sorry Ed.

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So the other one I had was moon glade,
which is a really uncommon word that

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means moonlight that's brightly reflected
on a body of water.

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That was from The Woman at the Lake by
Freya Bjornsen.

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For the action prompt,
I actually only wrote one down because,

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well,
I'll just read you exactly what I have.

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The first bit is exactly what the author
wrote into the action prompt explanation

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box and that says, oh God, I'm so sorry.

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The reveal is that the serpent has a
*****.

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And then I wrote.

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I have a feeling this is going to be my
favourite action prompt response.

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I'll be surprised if anyone can top it.

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And they did not top it.

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No, they did not.

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And that was very early on.

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That was in my first batch of stories.

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Amazing.

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So that was the historic battle at
Tadcaster of Sir David and the River

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Serpent in the year of Our Lord 1351 by
Holly Sadowski.

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And there was nothing about the Lord in
that story?

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No, there was clearly absent in that one.

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It was great fun.

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And then for kickers I have two and the
first one is Little Treats by Catherine

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Cook.

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And the kicker prompt in that one was
Catherine explored the duality of yin and

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Yang in how someone can be two different
things at once.

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So main character of the story was both a
carer for a woman who was losing access

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to her mental faculties and also he was
financial abusing her.

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And I thought that was a really nuanced
exploration of the concept of yin and

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Yang.

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Plus,
I guess Catherine could have decided at

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the last moment whether she wanted to be
on Team Amanda or team.

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And then the other one that I picked was
from Nothing Like the Sun by Heather I'd.

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And in that one,
Heather actually listed a bunch of stuff

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in the kicker box that was much more
specific and concrete and did not say

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this about her kicker.

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But the thing that I really admired was
that in Heather's story,

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the gendered element of the traditional
yin Yang binary is subverted because

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Heather chose to feature a female female
romance that had in the relationship

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plenty of Yang elements.

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So I thought it was neat for her to be
like,

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I'm busting the whole gender of this all
together.

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There were a couple other people who
played with that as well,

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but I really love the version idea.

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Absolutely.

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So tell us Elise,
what was your wild card pick for this

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round?

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OK,
so my wild card for this round is Broken

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Dreams and Butterfly Cakes by Joe Skinner.

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I could not resist picking this story.

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It is a really compelling,
stark exploration of the narrator

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character's restricted eating,
and it explores stuff like puberal

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dysphoria and body dysmorphia and calorie
in,

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calorie out toxicity and the line between
those kinds of issues and the character

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surviving assault.

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And I felt like it was handled in a
really complex,

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nuanced and engageable way.

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This is definitely one of those stories
that had a passive protagonist and very

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little action.

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Essentially a character.

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There's working out and thinking and then
looking at her phone and then looking at

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a cookbook and that's it.

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That's the story.

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But for me, it was propulsive,
even though there wasn't much action

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because the desire is obvious from early
on,

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which is to be out from under the control
of her abuser who's forcing her into

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silence and the trauma that's destroying
her.

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And that is woven through the narrative
and braided into this metaphor of this

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butterfly that loses its lightness and
its ability to fly and eventually it's

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wings.

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And at the end of the story,
she makes a decision and says,

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when they come for me,
I'll let them turn me back into a

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butterfly.

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Which is essentially like she's aware
that she's so sick that she's going to be

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hospitalised.

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And once she is hospitalised,
she's going to choose to heal.

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And the power in that moment of decision
gave me not just a sense of resolution

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and a sense of that moment of change,
but it gave me a whole story that

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unfolded in my mind all on its own of
what happened after the last.

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So to me,
that's what brought this story above

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everything else.

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That's really impactful.

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When someone can leave you thinking after
the story ends,

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that's always deeply satisfying reading
experience and definitely a very complex

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and sad story as well.

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Yeah.

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And another win for Team Amanda.

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So congratulations, Joe Skinner on that.

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Well,
I'm not sure that we we award points on

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that basis, but, you know,
hi to Joe Joe's been entering the comp

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since the beginning and Joe is up there
on the leaderboard,

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consists instantly hitting long list
level and demonstrating her ability to

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tell an impactful story every single time.

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So well done, Joe, and thank you, Elise.

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Thank you.

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And Elise,
you have a book that's come out,

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so I want you to plug that to our
audience as well.

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Tell us about your book.

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Thank you.

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OK, Yeah.

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So my book is called The Black Cat
Detectives, and my pet name is Kit Grey.

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So it's The Black Cat Detectives by Kit
Grey,

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and it is a cosy murder mystery starring
3 kittens who can subtly bend the laws of

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physics and they have to clear the name
of their human,

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who's a stage magician when she is
accused of murdering her unpleasant

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boyfriend.

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It is not like high literary prose by any
stretch of the imagination.

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It is a lighthearted romp, kind of a book.

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It's meant to be accessible and fun,
the kind of thing you pick up at the end

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of a long day.

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But my hope is that it will bring people
joy.

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So amazing.

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Well, we've got it here on on our shelf.

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It's been hoarding it,
but I look forward to reading it myself.

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Absolutely.

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Well, thank you so much, Elise,
and thank you for all the time and a lot

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of care that you put into your judging.

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I love reading your comments.

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You always expand a story for me and help
me to look deeper into it.

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And I'm sure the authors would be very
honoured to see how carefully you handle

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their stories.

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And we really appreciate you.

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It's a real honour for me.

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So thank you Elise, and congratulations,
Jo Skinner on your wild card win.

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We've got $100 Australian coming your way,
$100 redos.

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So Jo's actually published a couple of
books now.

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The Truth About My Daughter was her debut
novel and she's since published A World

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of Silence.

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I don't know if you call it women's
fiction or sexist.

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Well,
you're welcome as a man to enjoy women's

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fiction,
but I would encourage everyone to check

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out those books, so please do.

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Joe is a very talented author and has
done very well in our competition,

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so it's really nice to see Joe rewarded
for her talents in this way.

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Absolutely a worthy recipient of the wild
card from Elise for this round.

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But we do have another assistant judge by
the name of Dean.

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Couldn't forget Dean.

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So shall we give him a call?

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Sure, why not?

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Hi, Amanda.

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Hi Ed,
So this time around we split up the

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stories just at random, not on team line,
so you got a good taste of both teams.

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What were your thoughts on the theme this
round?

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Thanks Ed, that was fun to read,
both team and team Amanda, actually.

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It was nice to break out of the cage.

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We ended up with quite different stories
I thought, which kind of seems obvious,

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I guess when you've got yin and Yang,
if you're going to have opposites.

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Some stories probably had more energy
than other stories and you could probably

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guess which ones the the yangy ones,
whereas the, you know one,

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the uni ones were often a lot more
interior so then took place inside

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people's heads a lot.

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Or just we're a little bit more passive.

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So sometimes it was good and sometimes it
needed a little bit more from some of

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those stories.

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But same thing with the Team Ed ones.

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Yeah, it it was the usual mix.

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Look,
I always love reading how people

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interpret prompts.

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This one, I do believe,
gave us two very distinct sets of Yeah,

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but Dean, which one was better?

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Which team was better?

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Well, look,
my wild card was from your team,

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so I don't know and so and I don't,
I don't know.

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I guess you guys will have to decide and
when you do your little adding up,

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00:19:04.180 --> 00:19:09.380
I think stories with more energy may have
ended up being a little bit easier to

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write maybe.

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But having said that,
everyone went for Team Amanda,

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so maybe it's a time.

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Not everyone come on, I'd say like that.

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Look.

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I'll tell you what though,
when I went through and looked at the mix

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of ones that I rated highly,
there was still heaps of Team Amanda ones

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and heaps of team.

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And so it was people find a way,
nature finds a way,

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as Jeff Goldblum once said.

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I've got a couple of shout outs actually
before we get into the wild card,

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if that's all right.

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Some that I love to have made the long
list so great for them and they've had

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00:19:37.922 --> 00:19:42.151
the little moment of the sun and they and
a couple more I'm sure are making the

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00:19:42.151 --> 00:19:42.679
shortlist.

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But I just wanted to shout out a couple
that I liked that didn't end up on the

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00:19:47.011 --> 00:19:47.560
long list.

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One of them is called Last Night of the
Wolf Bros by Malta Springer.

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It's essentially about men sort of going
wild under the moon.

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But I really loved this line,
which was lately I've been wondering,

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are we wolves or just men drinking beer
and making animal noises,

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00:20:03.824 --> 00:20:08.136
which I just thought was I could just
imagine a bunch of guys sitting around

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00:20:08.136 --> 00:20:11.720
going, oh, actually,
is that what we're doing or are we wolves?

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So it's an unwanted moment of self
reflection that we all avoid.

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And that was one of those ones where
because there was a lot of on Team Amanda

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because of the nature of that sort of yin
nature of the stories.

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There was often fewer that took the light
side of it in terms of having a little

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bit of fun with it.

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Sometimes they just got a little bit more
serious and introspective.

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So it was nice every now and then to find
ones that weren't taking themselves too

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00:20:35.551 --> 00:20:35.960
seriously.

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So that was really good.

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The another one which used the moon name
quite hilariously was Simoon, not Simon,

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and that was by Karosh.

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And that one had a little bit of fun with
it as well.

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Just found a way to actually put the moon
into the name as the wrong spelling.

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Socked by Ryan Fleming was another one
that I enjoyed as someone who has far too

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many, well,
far too many pairs of socks in general,

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but a lot of mismatched socks.

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So that was very cute.

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Thank you, Ryan.

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And I'm just going to shout out three
other names from stories that I saw did

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not make the long list,
but it would have made my, you know,

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theoretical long list.

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And they were from Claire Austin,
Maddie Loggerman and Deirdre Witt Lovgren.

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So thank you for your stories and to
everyone else who entered.

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Look,
I always do enjoy reading them because

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it's amazing what comes out of your
brains,

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some of the weird and wonderful ways and
places that you go to.

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It's always a pleasure and a privilege.

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Fantastic.

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Well,
I'm keen to find out who your wild card

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is, seeing that they come from my team.

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Yes, they do.

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Thank you Ed The the wild card drumroll
please is final departure by Michelle

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Ryan.

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Congratulations Michelle.

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This story tells the journey of someone
who's racing the clock basically to

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travel home to Australia to be by their
father's bedside before he passes away.

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The opening line in this one was a great
little master class in telling you

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everything you needed to know and if I
can indulge be indulged, I will read it.

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And the opening line was simply +61
interrupts the 1:00 AM silence and I

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immediately know it's bad.

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So there's a few things going on there.

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+61 being the pulling code of someone's
calling from Australia.

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It's a straight away that tells you
someone's overseas.

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That's so relatable.

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When you see that pop up,
you know that it's breaking the 11 AM

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silence.

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There's you know, without saying anything,
you know that it's an emergency.

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It's at home.

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You know that this character is away from
home.

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So there was just a lot going on and the
writing was real top notch from there on.

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And there was some other lovely moments
where it was a bit of a sort of a show

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don't tell.

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We don't really ever get told the father
is in hospital as such.

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But just all the little ways that this
protagonist has to sort of calculate then

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navigate their way to get home,
like this 30 hour journey and the reveal

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being that they trying to reveal
themselves to their, you know,

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to their dad who's in hospital.

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And this other line.

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I just want to sums it up as well,
which was a great one.

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I'm out of the car before it's even
stopped rolling.

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I've travelled from darkness to a light
moon to sun,

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across continents and oceans and through
countless time zones,

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but still this stretch feels by far the
longest.

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That was really beautiful because it
really does just so step by step through

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the process of trying to get home
desperately and and fighting the the

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character capital T time.

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You're racing against time and she's got
an 11 hour advantage.

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And a lot of us can all,
even if we haven't been in that exact

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situation,
we know that feeling of trying to,

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you know,
get back to and some would have been in

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exactly that situation,
trying to get somewhere and just feeling

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like everything's on slow motion.

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And and I thought that just used the
prompts really well.

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So congratulations, Michelle,
final departure.

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That was my wild card pick.

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I've done that journey,
actually the rush home to the father.

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In my case, it was driving,
but similar amount of hours,

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unfortunately,
because Australia is a big place,

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driving from Melbourne back to the
Central Coast.

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But yes, thank you so much, Dean.

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That's an excellent pick and a memorable
story.

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Thank you guys.

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This again for the privilege and everyone
else listening.

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Thank you for entering.

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It's always a delight, even if, yeah,
some of the stories are just bizarre and

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wonderful and weird.

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And look,
that's what we that's what we sign up for.

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00:24:25.640 --> 00:24:27.920
And it's kind of what you guys sign up
for too.

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But like,
if all the stories were the same,

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that would just be stupid and dumb.

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So I love seeing everyone's creativity on
full display.

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So thank you again and right on.

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So thank you, Dean, and congratulations,
Michelle Ryan on your wild card pick and

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thank you for joining Team Ed,
which even though we didn't win this

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round,
is still the best team if you ask me.

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All right, no one did, but OK.

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But we have two more wild cards to award.

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So why don't we start with yours, Amanda?

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Yes, the yin comes before the Yang.

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Well,
I'm very excited to announce my wild card

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00:25:08.032 --> 00:25:08.480
winner.

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And once again, these are awarded blind.

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But I was really excited when I saw the
name of this author.

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So the story title is And I'll Never Tell
You, by Josh Low.

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Now Josh is someone who I'm getting to
know on social media,

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so I was very excited to see Josh's name
there.

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And I guess the reason that I chose this
story for my wild card was because of

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Josh's approach to the kicker.

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So the yin prompt,
I think I mentioned a different story in

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the long list episode that dealt with
motherhood and darkness together and sort

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of playing with those ideas.

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And I'm just going to read Josh's
comments in the brief explanation for the

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00:25:52.161 --> 00:25:55.092
kicker,
just I guess kind of give an indication

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of why I chose this story.

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And Josh said I wanted to go about the
kicker prompt by writing a story about

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the passive side of motherhood and the
internal experiences.

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I have absolutely no idea if I've
achieved that, but this was my intention.

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Also hoping the mother doesn't come
across as a sadistic maniac, but Yolo.

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And so this particular story looked at a
mother's relationship with their child

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and that kind of,
I guess the separation time,

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like where the child individuates and
creates their own life.

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And I guess I am a mother.

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Like it's relatable.

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My children are younger, I suppose.

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But your character Josh didn't come
across as a sadistic maniac.

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But to be honest, as a mother,
there is a little bit of a ****** ** part

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of that where you relish the times when
your children need you.

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And that's what this story was about.

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It's like you want your children to be
independent,

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00:26:44.978 --> 00:26:47.360
you want them to be successful,
you want them to be happy.

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But there's something really rewarding
about the times when they're struggling

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00:26:51.757 --> 00:26:52.760
and they need you.

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And so there is this kind of interplay of
those emotions.

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And Josh, I know you're not a mother.

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I know you have your Guinea pig babies.

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It's not quite the same,
but there is this kind of messed up kind

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00:27:06.476 --> 00:27:11.200
of vibe which I felt was really elegantly
handled in your story.

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So well done with that.

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And also, you know, you say,
I hope the mother doesn't come across the

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00:27:16.532 --> 00:27:17.520
sadistic, but Yolo.

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00:27:17.520 --> 00:27:20.640
And that's what this game is all about.

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00:27:20.640 --> 00:27:22.200
It's about taking those risks.

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00:27:22.200 --> 00:27:26.975
It's about writing the thing that's
challenging and the thing that challenges

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00:27:26.975 --> 00:27:31.261
us as readers as well and just being like
**** it, it's in your face,

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00:27:31.261 --> 00:27:33.160
you deal with it kind of thing.

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I really appreciate that and that is why
I chose this story for my wild card.

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00:27:38.000 --> 00:27:41.698
So congratulations Josh,
you will be winning 100 Australian

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00:27:41.698 --> 00:27:43.240
dollars for your efforts.

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00:27:43.240 --> 00:27:43.880
So thank you.

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00:27:44.240 --> 00:27:45.400
Well done Josh.

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00:27:45.400 --> 00:27:51.840
And that leaves one final wild card to
award, and that is for Team Ed.

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00:27:52.200 --> 00:28:02.925
And I would like to award this wild card
to Tracy Mingo for her story Memory

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00:28:02.925 --> 00:28:04.040
Rations.

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00:28:04.440 --> 00:28:07.000
And this is a story that intrigued me.

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It's,
it kind of a hints at maybe a larger

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00:28:10.227 --> 00:28:13.680
story,
a bit of a science fiction story here.

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It involves someone's time travelling,
I guess to 1992 in the middle of the,

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00:28:19.170 --> 00:28:21.920
you know, Bosnian Yugoslavian war,
I guess.

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00:28:21.920 --> 00:28:24.880
And I don't know, look,
I found this story really intriguing.

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00:28:24.880 --> 00:28:30.249
It has these ideas of culture and memory
and time travel and not everything really

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is explained completely in this story,
but I found it very intriguing and I

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00:28:35.166 --> 00:28:37.560
found these ideas really provocative.

93e4b1f1-3f0f-4809-8654-7e144ecfad1d-0
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And I would encourage Tracy to expand on
that and develop the story further.

cdd3dbe6-1a03-4e5f-a8c0-1f3d9ef8f108-0
00:28:42.920 --> 00:28:47.308
So I wanted to give that wild card just
to acknowledge that that story had an

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00:28:47.308 --> 00:28:48.040
effect on me.

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00:28:48.080 --> 00:28:49.280
And so well done, Tracy.

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00:28:49.440 --> 00:28:52.600
And $100 will be coming your way as well.

cf05311f-2ca9-46da-8b22-1b78c8e4608a-0
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All right,
so it's nearly time for the shortlist top

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six stories for the July 2026 not quite
right price.

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But as always,
we have some business to take care of

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00:29:04.054 --> 00:29:08.731
because there's always someone who can't
bloody help themselves,

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00:29:08.731 --> 00:29:14.632
who has to make a nuisance of themselves,
who has to debase the whole enterprise,

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00:29:14.632 --> 00:29:16.360
bring it into disrepute.

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00:29:16.520 --> 00:29:26.720
And that person as per is Holly Sadowski.

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Sir Holly Sadowski for her story,
the historic battle at Tadcaster of Sir

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00:29:32.595 --> 00:29:37.200
David and the River Serpent in the year
of our Lord 1351.

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00:29:37.320 --> 00:29:41.400
Let's just say you brought up in the long
list episode, the movie 2 Hands.

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00:29:44.400 --> 00:29:46.520
This this story was one hand.

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00:29:46.960 --> 00:29:47.320
Yeah.

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00:29:47.320 --> 00:29:49.680
Yeah, there's only one hand in this story.

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00:29:49.760 --> 00:29:53.857
And Holly, listen, we love your stories,
but we debated whether to give this a

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00:29:53.857 --> 00:29:57.488
dishonourable mention this episode
because I don't know if we want to

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00:29:57.488 --> 00:29:59.200
encourage this kind of behaviour.

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00:29:59.200 --> 00:30:00.520
I feel like it's too late.

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You know, Holly, on Blue Sky,
you said that you were going for, like,

bbda9d2c-ec43-41e1-8972-cc15fca4f043-1
00:30:04.056 --> 00:30:07.863
the shock value because you don't think
that you could otherwise long list or

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00:30:07.863 --> 00:30:08.400
short list.

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And I think you're selling yourself short
because absolutely you can.

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00:30:12.360 --> 00:30:17.056
And I think you are great at getting our
attention with these stories and you've

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00:30:17.056 --> 00:30:18.680
done it time and time again.

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00:30:19.040 --> 00:30:20.720
I think you need to back yourself.

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00:30:21.000 --> 00:30:21.680
I agree.

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00:30:21.760 --> 00:30:25.640
We love the nonsense here,
and nonsense isn't welcome everywhere.

ee13fb71-941a-41ab-97b3-a70087072398-0
00:30:25.640 --> 00:30:29.232
So I also just want to say, like,
if you want to write nonsense,

ee13fb71-941a-41ab-97b3-a70087072398-1
00:30:29.232 --> 00:30:31.720
that this is a safe space to write
nonsense.

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00:30:32.120 --> 00:30:34.578
But also, you know,
it's not just about writing nonsense

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00:30:34.578 --> 00:30:34.880
either.

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00:30:34.880 --> 00:30:39.723
Like, I don't want to just say, like,
if you write * **** story that that's

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00:30:39.723 --> 00:30:42.400
going to guarantee you a win by any means.

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00:30:42.400 --> 00:30:47.641
That's not how it works in this company,
or at least I'd like to think that's not

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00:30:47.641 --> 00:30:49.240
evidence to the contrary.

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00:30:49.240 --> 00:30:52.786
But you know, Holly,
you've written a range of different

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00:30:52.786 --> 00:30:56.457
stories for us now,
and it's not like each one is proof or

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00:30:56.457 --> 00:30:57.080
otherwise.

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00:30:57.400 --> 00:31:00.120
And I want to extend this message out to
everybody.

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00:31:00.120 --> 00:31:03.125
Like, really,
what you need to do is write the story

bb324e12-a039-4fb4-9be8-31d078634756-1
00:31:03.125 --> 00:31:03.920
that's in you.

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Yeah, it can be nonsense.

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00:31:05.680 --> 00:31:06.920
It can be sincere.

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00:31:06.920 --> 00:31:11.468
It's not always going to be received at
the level at which you emotionally

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00:31:11.468 --> 00:31:12.560
connected with it.

adc4a03a-92d2-4cd3-8cb0-d8eae2275d27-0
00:31:12.560 --> 00:31:17.788
But you need to do that as an artist,
you need to put out what you need to put

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00:31:17.788 --> 00:31:22.288
out into the world and hope that it gets
received well, and if not,

adc4a03a-92d2-4cd3-8cb0-d8eae2275d27-2
00:31:22.288 --> 00:31:27.119
know that at least you're doing the right
thing by your soul to do that.

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00:31:27.160 --> 00:31:33.182
But you know, like all that aside,
we are dishonoured to award you the

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00:31:33.182 --> 00:31:38.526
dishonourable mention for the July 2026
Not Quite Right Prize,

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00:31:38.526 --> 00:31:41.919
thus making you the first double winner?

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00:31:42.400 --> 00:31:44.800
Of the dishonourable.

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We are dishonoured but grateful as always
for your contribution.

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Halloween, we did really enjoy your story.

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00:31:51.720 --> 00:31:54.080
But now on to the shortlist proper.

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Why don't we start, as is tradition,
with the 6th place?

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00:31:58.720 --> 00:31:59.080
Why not?

056486db-5139-43ca-bcf4-06949fb9810f-0
00:31:59.520 --> 00:32:00.000
Why not?

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00:32:00.080 --> 00:32:02.800
Let's logically that would make the most
sense, right?

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00:32:02.920 --> 00:32:06.040
So 6th place wins 200 Australian dollars.

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00:32:06.040 --> 00:32:10.400
And of course,
publication in the Not Quite Right Prize

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anthology for 2026.

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00:32:12.320 --> 00:32:13.480
I'm excited for this one.

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00:32:13.520 --> 00:32:16.040
Yeah, and it is a Team Ed story.

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So in 6th place is Married to the Sea by
Andrea Cavito.

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When grain gets wet,
growth immediately starts not only in the

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grain itself, but in the mould spores,
yeast cells and bacteria which are always

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00:32:50.205 --> 00:32:57.680
present, causing germination,
fermentation and putrefaction.

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This from the BMT Cargo Solutions
handbook.

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You couldn't find a more apartment
metaphor for my marriage?

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First, grain gets wet.

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I assumed Brandy was joking when she
sloshed up at the dockside bar to say

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let's make a baby.

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00:33:22.760 --> 00:33:23.360
Why not?

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I was unsure.

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Leave then third, mate.

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00:33:27.840 --> 00:33:32.515
I skipped my promotion to second when she
texted me a photo of two pink lines in a

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00:33:32.515 --> 00:33:33.360
plastic window.

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A porthole view of our future germination.

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I dry docked seven months in svelte as
ever,

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00:33:44.357 --> 00:33:49.560
Brandy's sweetness burned off when her
lie finally surfaced.

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Turns out the things I was supposed to
want a wife, a child,

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00:33:56.912 --> 00:33:59.760
which is fizz fermentation.

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I fled here to think to avoid
putrefaction.

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The A large S is a handy Max class bulk
carrier.

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5 cargo bays full of hard red winter
wheat.

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4 cranes, 3 accommodations,
tiers stacked under the bridge like a mid

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00:34:24.960 --> 00:34:26.520
rise apartment block.

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Two dozen crew,
one of whom is me and within me.

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One heart, 2 lungs, three months of salt.

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We're only four nautical miles from port,
but we've been sitting anchored for five

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00:34:49.155 --> 00:34:52.160
weeks off the north Bank of the Strait.

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00:34:53.880 --> 00:34:59.680
It's hard enough to scald eyeballs and
scorch skin, even through the decks.

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00:34:59.680 --> 00:35:01.680
Pebbled red oxide paint.

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We yearn for movement, for progress.

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00:35:08.360 --> 00:35:11.600
We're stultifying in geopolitical
doldrums.

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00:35:13.000 --> 00:35:13.760
Ripening.

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I caught Chef caressing his lettuce
leaves in the galley.

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00:35:22.800 --> 00:35:29.240
I saw the bosun rubbing himself like a
rutting elk against a far aft vent tube.

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00:35:31.640 --> 00:35:32.200
I get it.

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00:35:33.640 --> 00:35:36.120
Everything about this vessel lights me up,
too.

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00:35:37.120 --> 00:35:42.802
The ribbed walls of the cargo bays,
the stiff upward swing of the cranes,

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00:35:42.802 --> 00:35:48.868
the leathery folds of the immersion suit
were required to try on during safety

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00:35:48.868 --> 00:35:49.560
training.

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00:35:50.520 --> 00:35:55.800
Slipping and bumping into it on the first
day was only foreplay.

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00:35:57.040 --> 00:36:02.668
There are all locks, air hoses,
nozzles of all kinds,

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coils and spools of **** spliced ropes as
true to their namesake as Brandy,

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his to hers.

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The Tang of rust in the air below decks
stirs the iron in my own blood.

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I can't explain it,
nor could I explain why it felt like the

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popcorn ceiling of our bedroom was
pressing down on me every night,

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flattening me into the percal sheets,
drowning me under decorative pillows and

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wilted expectations.

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On the deck of the largesse,
there is no ceiling at all.

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The skies never end.

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The sea stretches so taut against the
horizon its edges buckle.

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I love to watch our parting wake,
the endless unfolding of foamy blue when

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we come into port in the pre dawn,
when the pink clouds touch the green glow

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of the dock lights,
it's like being inside the Aurora

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borealis, inside a budding flower.

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I'll email the divorce papers as soon as
we dock.

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I've been unfaithful, but not to Brandy,
and I'll never stray again.

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So thank you so much Andrea,
for your story.

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I loved the character here,
the protagonist.

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The perspective here was so unique.

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Just that idea of, you know,
it's in the title, married to the sea.

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But what does that mean?

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And it is all of these things that I
guess,

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like the freedom and a ******* of boats
and the ******* of boats.

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But yeah,
But exactly the imagery here is amazing

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and like the weird **** the chef
caressing his lettuce and,

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and maybe the the fact that things get
weird when you're out at sea and I feel

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like things must get always weird when
men are alone for too long.

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Is that a fair statement?

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Probably yes.

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But also just like there's some great
details in here.

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The choice of name of Brandy was so great.

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And all of the alcohol imagery,
even just in the line,

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Brandy's sweetness burnt off when her
life finally serviced.

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Just like setting fire to Brandy and
having the sweetness burn off.

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And you know,
this is one that could be critiqued for

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being more of a vignette than a story.

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I mean,
I hinted at this in the long list that

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there would be people who would be ******
*** because I've said you can't do this

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and you can't do that.

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And then you find in the shortlist people
who have done these things and succeeded.

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And this is the thing, like,
how do you take a quite internal story

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where nothing really happens?

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Like,
we're not looking at action within the

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scene.

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We're certainly talking about things
happening,

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but we're not looking at like a
progression of action within a scene with,

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you know, traditional conflict and so on.

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With the narrative arc.

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We're looking very much at a reflection.

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But here's a story where it has succeeded
because the unique perspective of this

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character,
the unique characterization of someone

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who is married to the sea,
but also someone who's making choices and

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behaving in a certain way,
even if it's like, kind of on reflection,

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we're looking at how they ended up where
they've ended up.

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And to be honest,
this idea of basically ******* a boat to

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me is hilarious.

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So I just want to read the author's brief
explanation of the kicker.

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******* a boat is all Yang, bro.

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All those hard hot surfaces,
all that masculine energy in one enormous

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and vaguely phallic shape,
stranded in the middle of nothing with

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the sole purpose of pressing forward,
pushing ahead.

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Not a whit of yin to be found on board.

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I am not a boat ****** myself,
but I really enjoyed going down the

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00:40:23.893 --> 00:40:28.120
merchant marine slash container ship
rabbit hole and hiding this piece.

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And you know that's the thing right?

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Like the embracing of the prompt,
having fun with what that looks like.

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Delving into this character and why they
feel so strongly about where they're at,

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00:40:40.309 --> 00:40:41.680
I think is compelling.

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And also like, if we go a level deeper,
again,

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we're talking about a guy who's like,
I'm in love with the sea.

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I'm married to the sea.

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**** Randy.

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Is that the case or are you hurt?

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You know, and,
and and this is like the deeper thing as

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like the human thing and the human truth
of you're married to the sea because she

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00:41:03.403 --> 00:41:04.040
hurt you.

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And I think that is compelling and
interesting.

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00:41:07.440 --> 00:41:13.705
And I love Andrea that you went there and
I found this to be a compelling story for

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00:41:13.705 --> 00:41:14.600
that reason.

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So thank you, Andrea,
and congratulations on your shortlisting.

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All right, so let's move on to 5th place.

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I am very excited to announce 5th place
because 5th place has been taken out by a

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00:41:29.036 --> 00:41:33.040
Central Coast local,
someone who we both met, yes.

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00:41:33.080 --> 00:41:34.920
And so congratulations.

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00:41:34.920 --> 00:41:38.198
And of course, again,
we judge this competition blind,

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00:41:38.198 --> 00:41:41.714
but when we reveal the names to ourselves,
it can be very,

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00:41:41.714 --> 00:41:43.920
very exciting to see a familiar name.

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00:41:44.360 --> 00:41:48.469
And even though this story is technically
written from the perspective of a male

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00:41:48.469 --> 00:41:50.600
character, I'm going to read it this time.

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I've decided I'm having this honour.

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So congratulations to Ryan Nanome with
the story Bunyip.

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Watch out,
Bunyip will get you if you turn your back

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00:42:14.848 --> 00:42:15.920
to the Creek.

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You told me it was so hot and the mud
banks had a stink to them.

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00:42:23.320 --> 00:42:26.640
At least the flies were busy somewhere
else.

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Guys aren't real, I said,
watching you dangle from a branch,

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00:42:33.087 --> 00:42:36.480
stretching to grab the frayed rope swing.

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00:42:37.320 --> 00:42:38.800
You monkey idiot.

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00:42:41.360 --> 00:42:44.508
You danced on the branch and made stupid
chimp noises,

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00:42:44.508 --> 00:42:47.600
and I looked at my feet so you couldn't
see me smile.

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00:42:48.920 --> 00:42:54.560
Well, the bunyip isn't a ghost,
it's a demon, Uncle Jim said.

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00:42:54.560 --> 00:42:56.200
So he said.

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00:42:57.600 --> 00:43:00.840
Uncle Jim's stories always gave me
butterflies.

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00:43:01.520 --> 00:43:03.160
The idea of a demon in our Creek.

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God, I'm all flapping about again.

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I heard the familiar groaning of branch
and rope, then splash.

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I checked to see if that damn rope had
finally snapped, but it held, barely,

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00:43:21.750 --> 00:43:26.232
as it always did,
and you popped up with a big smile,

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00:43:26.232 --> 00:43:27.560
and you laughed.

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You laughed like you knew you were so
certain there was no such thing as the

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00:43:34.616 --> 00:43:38.296
bunyip,
and even though you're splashing and

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00:43:38.296 --> 00:43:44.920
laughing seemed like the only noise for
miles, you didn't notice or didn't care.

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00:43:46.640 --> 00:43:48.000
Have a swing B.

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00:43:48.800 --> 00:43:49.480
You called.

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The water was murky brown.

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I checked my legs for leeches.

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00:43:56.880 --> 00:44:00.378
No thanks,
you know there's probably 150 leeches on

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00:44:00.378 --> 00:44:01.320
you right now.

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It's my sweet blood,
I'm like Fanta to them, he said.

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00:44:08.280 --> 00:44:10.480
Then you duck dive with your pants down.

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Mooning me couldn't help but laugh.

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Mum always said you were too busy being a
fool to feel afraid.

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00:44:20.080 --> 00:44:24.000
You swam past doing backstroke to the
Creekside with a swinging tree.

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I ignored you and turned back to my mud
towers.

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I grabbed a handful of wet,
sandy muck and let it dribble out the

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00:44:33.728 --> 00:44:35.160
bottom of my fist.

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It was so quiet that I could hear the
flip flip as the droplets fell on top of

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00:44:44.510 --> 00:44:49.040
each other,
building a little mud staircase.

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00:44:49.320 --> 00:44:55.760
Up and up until splash in you went again.

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My tower collapsed from beneath and oozed
back towards the Creek.

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I couldn't get any to stay up.

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It was like the mud was being called back
to the water.

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I picked up another handful.

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The birds and fish and even the insects
were gone.

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Everything was so still except the muck
slipping through my fingers.

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All I heard were those wet drips.

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I didn't notice you were still too.

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And I know I told you I didn't believe in
ghosts, but I didn't know about demons,

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00:45:53.550 --> 00:45:55.680
about the bunion.

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What else but the bunyip could hypnotise
me like that?

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And snap the rope that never broke and
hold you down the best swimmer in Kedley,

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and fill your lungs with mud.

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And then vanish and watch from the bushes
as the birds came back.

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And I came back too and laugh probably as
I found you with your skin all blue,

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your skin was so blue.

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Thank you so much for your story, Ryan.

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What I loved about this story, well,
several things,

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but firstly the imagery and the writing
and the voice,

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this idea of this little bit of a
different ghost story.

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I've got a bunyip, not a ghost.

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Should we explain Bunyip?

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Very.

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To non Aussies?

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00:47:30.640 --> 00:47:30.880
Yeah.

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Look, I don't know what the mythology is.

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It's a very Australian thing.

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It's like a Bush boogeyman.

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Yeah, totally.

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I'm not sure what the actual definition
is, but we all like as Australians,

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we've all heard of bunyip and we
understand the concept of a bunyip,

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but we're not that scared, to be fair.

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Yeah, Yeah.

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It's a bit abstract, I think,
but that's the surprising thing about

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this story is because we know that
bunyips aren't real.

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But in this case, it kind of is real.

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And it's in that it is this spiritual
manifestation of a tragedy that takes

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place in this story.

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And we have a character here who's
reflecting back on a tragic occurrence

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and processing it in the context of what
led up to it.

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And this idea of a Bunya, you know,
we get it coming through in these final

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lines of like, I found you in your skin,
all blue.

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Your skin was so blue.

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And we get a glimpse into what it must
have been like,

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the shock and the unfathomable tragedy of
the whole thing.

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And it's a very powerful piece and
surprising as well because we're not

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really expecting that to happen.

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You know,
we're expecting some jokey ghost story,

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some shenanigans on a swing,
and it gets pretty dark and pretty real.

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And I think what's also compelling about
this story,

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and I wanna call this out in particular
because I think this is a challenge that

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00:48:44.697 --> 00:48:47.240
a lot of authors don't really fully
succeed in.

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And I think Ryan has succeeded here,
is delivering a child's point of view.

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Yeah.

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And we get children's point of view.

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We get it often.

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We get it every time,
but we don't get it quantity wise that

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that much.

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Yeah.

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So every now and then we get a children's
point of view story.

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And I think it is very difficult for us
as adults to authentically write from the

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perspective of a child.

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And I think Ryan's done that really well.

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So I think what we often find is stories
where we're trying to write a child's

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00:49:16.567 --> 00:49:20.463
point of view and it just isn't clicking
and it's a little bit old,

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or it's a little bit too informed,
or I don't know,

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like there's always different issues,
but for whatever reason,

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it's not resonating.

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And I think Ryan's child's point of view
here resonated really strongly.

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And I think that's hard to do.

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00:49:34.080 --> 00:49:35.800
And I think Ryan's done it really well.

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And so if you're interested in writing
for children,

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I would look at Ryan's story here and see
how he achieves that because it it is a

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dark story.

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So it's not like he's shield away from
the dark stuff.

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He's just done it in a way that felt
authentic to me.

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So congratulations Ryan,
great story and 250 Australian dollars

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are coming your way.

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But now we move to our fourth placed
story and this one comes from team Amanda.

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But I will be reading the story.

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And in fourth place,
receiving 350 Australian dollars,

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is Hearts with Audrey by Jesse Descanio.

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Let her have it the way she wants,
you say as we pull into your mother's

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00:50:36.754 --> 00:50:40.320
driveway together for the first time.

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00:50:42.320 --> 00:50:47.600
Your hand is on my leg,
a lid over boiling water.

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This is a lot for her.

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Just don't be too.

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How can you be 36 years old and she's
never used the word gay?

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00:51:01.440 --> 00:51:07.000
It keeps the peace you trugged not long
ago.

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00:51:07.400 --> 00:51:08.720
I've been venomous about it.

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00:51:10.200 --> 00:51:11.920
You've been a ****** all your life.

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00:51:12.360 --> 00:51:13.440
She needs to grow up.

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00:51:15.080 --> 00:51:17.160
I suppose this meeting counts.

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00:51:18.200 --> 00:51:21.880
Finally, Jeremy.

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00:51:22.280 --> 00:51:23.040
I tell her.

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00:51:24.440 --> 00:51:25.360
But she knows me.

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00:51:26.720 --> 00:51:34.320
A shadow that was always just out of
sight, but maybe never out of mind.

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00:51:36.640 --> 00:51:41.040
She's handed you mail with both our names
on it when it's come to her PO Box.

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00:51:41.880 --> 00:51:44.000
Remember back when you'd still take her
your laundry?

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00:51:45.080 --> 00:51:50.976
We accidentally put my small jocks in
with your large ones and she gave them

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00:51:50.976 --> 00:51:54.040
back, washed and pressed without a word.

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00:51:57.720 --> 00:52:04.416
I've stood right here in her Persimmon
centred lounge room many times,

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00:52:04.416 --> 00:52:06.680
not once with her in it.

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00:52:07.760 --> 00:52:12.600
Just the ugly Wicker furniture and the
slowly fading photos of your dad.

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00:52:12.600 --> 00:52:14.720
I don't remember his name.

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00:52:16.320 --> 00:52:18.360
You eat salmon don't you Jeffrey?

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00:52:19.480 --> 00:52:22.240
Is the sole question I merit all evening.

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00:52:24.160 --> 00:52:26.960
No, and it's Jeremy.

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00:52:28.920 --> 00:52:36.161
When you don't correct her,
I say absolutely and let her have it the

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00:52:36.161 --> 00:52:40.360
way you want, forever keeping the peace.

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00:52:42.560 --> 00:52:48.597
So I sit nicely as the pair of you steer
around me like an iceberg concealing

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00:52:48.597 --> 00:52:50.920
what's just beneath the water.

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She loves ***** Boots,
but I mustn't mention I've starred as

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00:52:57.609 --> 00:52:58.040
Lola.

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The cards come out at last.

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00:53:03.800 --> 00:53:06.941
When you told me your Christmas tradition
was hearts,

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00:53:06.941 --> 00:53:11.480
I spent the week watching every YouTube
video I could about this stupid game.

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Beside the deck,
a yellowed and curled piece of paper with

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00:53:17.616 --> 00:53:19.160
a three person tally.

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Jay must be your dad.

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His column hasn't seen a pencil stroke in
a long while.

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Her hand disappears back into the drawer
to find the cards that get set aside.

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When it's just two people,
those are covered in dust.

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In hearts.

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You're meant to try and pass your bad
cards to somebody else,

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but if you take and keep every single one,
you win the game.

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00:53:56.240 --> 00:54:00.520
Instead, the old woman plays fast.

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It's the only half hour of the night
where she looks like she's enjoying

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00:54:04.820 --> 00:54:05.200
herself.

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I take all the ****.

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Queen of spades,
then the hearts 1 after another loading

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00:54:20.400 --> 00:54:25.680
my gun, we're on the final trick.

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I put down the nine of hearts.

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00:54:29.840 --> 00:54:34.880
She plays the 10 trying to shoot the moon.

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00:54:34.880 --> 00:54:37.160
Jeff, it was a nice try.

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00:54:40.920 --> 00:54:50.640
Underneath the table you put your hand on
my leg again and **** I let her have it.

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00:55:16.400 --> 00:55:17.920
So congratulations, Jesse.

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Thank you for your story in Team Amanda.

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00:55:20.680 --> 00:55:21.960
I really appreciate it.

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And interestingly opting for a story
about two men in Team Amanda in the Yin

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00:55:28.428 --> 00:55:29.520
Energy round.

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And I just wanted to highlight again your
explanation for why you did that.

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And you mentioned in your comments
Jeremies femininity would be a point of

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contention for his partners mother.

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And he takes on a passive role at dinner
to keep the peace with her.

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And I think that was a really interesting
way to approach that.

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But also like a quiet story,
we're just talking about a game of cards,

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but it's not just a game of cards.

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And the subtext is really rich throughout.

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You know,
we're talking about I'm taking all the

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**** right?

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I'm taking all the **** but I'm going to
win.

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But then I don't because I choose to let
her have it.

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And I think that that is incredibly rich
subtext and relatable for anyone really,

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who's ever taken **** no matter the
circumstances.

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Yeah.

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I think the premise here,
the situation is relatable for a lot of

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people.

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Like,
there are always times in your life where

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you've had to just be the one to take the
****.

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It's been your role because of love too,
you know,

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because you're trying to make someone
else's life easier maybe.

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And this idea that that in the game of
Hearts specifically,

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like you can take all the **** and be the
winner.

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And even that he doesn't get that.

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Like she stops him from getting that
because she knows she's like, no,

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don't even try.

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You're going to get away with that.

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But even beyond like the main point here,
there are these moments of subtext as

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well,
like these extra details that I think

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come through.

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We get this back story about the father,
which is never really explained,

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but we get this picture of, you know,
the father's passed away or left or

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something we assume passed away.

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And maybe she's had time to reflect on
like, the important things in life.

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And that's why in the past she's kind of
been out of the picture.

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But now this is a breakthrough in itself.

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The fact that they're there together,
they're seeing her.

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We get these little glimpses.

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We get like the piece of paper with the J
in it,

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and the J column hasn't been filled in
for a while.

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And we get this view that she's quite
lonely,

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Like the extra cards that haven't been
played while they're all dusty and they

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come back and she's finally interacting
with other people.

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And she's maybe able to look for the
first time, maybe cynically,

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00:57:39.680 --> 00:57:44.589
maybe not entirely, like charitably,
but she is able to at least given the

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time of day in her own way,
and open herself up to them.

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So there's this whole perspective of the
mother that we're getting that all comes

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through in the writing.

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I think that's really well told.

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Yeah.

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And there's some really beautiful lines
as well.

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Like early on in the story,
the first paragraph together for the

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first time, your hand is on my leg,
a lid over boiling water.

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That's so such a beautiful metaphor and
this idea of just being like so overcome

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with emotion,
but just trying to just keep it under

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control because you want that for your
partner and you're trying your best to

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just shut up, I guess, and just take it.

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And it's sad.

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It's sad that this character takes it,
but it's also an act of love.

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And so, you know,
there's this duality there of that as

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well.

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Like, OK,
we don't want you to have to sit there

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00:58:34.683 --> 00:58:35.360
and take it.

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But at the same time,
you're doing that as a choice.

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You know,
you could flip the table if you want,

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but you're choosing to take the peaceful
route for your partner and knowing like

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this whole history that's come before.

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And I guess taking like a softly,
softly approach to that instead of just

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00:58:53.167 --> 00:58:56.120
trying to upset the Apple Card and make
it all about you.

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And, and I think that that is painful,
but also loving and beautiful.

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And,
and that's the kind of richness that

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shone through with this story.

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I mean,
ultimately it's just a scene with people

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playing cards.

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And this is where we're talking about
like the passivity and the quiet action

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and the lack of action and how maybe for
some stories that didn't quite come

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through for this one,
these choices really meant something.

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And they came with consequences.

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And they came with like emotional subtext
as well.

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And I think that that is what elevated
this story potentially above some other

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00:59:30.227 --> 00:59:34.756
stories that were also quite quiet or
scenes when not a lot actively happened

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00:59:34.756 --> 00:59:38.008
in the scene and the conflict wasn't
really played out,

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00:59:38.008 --> 00:59:40.679
but it was there simmering under the
surface.

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And I think it worked here.

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So thank you so much, Jesse,
and congratulations on your 4th place.

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And there will be 350 Australian dollars
coming your way but now we get to the

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00:59:51.771 --> 00:59:52.240
podium.

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Podium begin with 3rd place and our third
place getter will receive 500 Australian

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01:00:00.218 --> 01:00:00.760
dollars.

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01:00:00.960 --> 01:00:05.541
The prizes ramping up of course,
a reminder that all of our shortlist will

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01:00:05.541 --> 01:00:08.840
be published in the anthology at the end
of the year.

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01:00:08.960 --> 01:00:13.760
But third place is a team Ed story,
which I'm very.

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01:00:13.800 --> 01:00:15.360
That's a trait, isn't it?

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01:00:15.520 --> 01:00:16.480
Stop your gloating.

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01:00:16.680 --> 01:00:18.920
All right, No, I'm going to take it while.

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01:00:19.640 --> 01:00:22.917
And on that note,
like let's analyse at the end of this

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01:00:22.917 --> 01:00:25.784
shortlist,
like what were the what were the what

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01:00:25.784 --> 01:00:29.120
were the breakdown Team Med VS Team
Amanda in shortlist?

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01:00:29.120 --> 01:00:32.240
Because that is an interesting point of
discussion, I believe.

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01:00:32.360 --> 01:00:32.680
OK.

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01:00:33.120 --> 01:00:45.552
But in 3rd place for the July 2026 not
Quite right prize is Sunscape by Natalie

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01:00:45.552 --> 01:00:46.640
Harris.

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01:00:54.400 --> 01:01:00.226
On the morning that he goes blind,
Thomas Broadswell stares at his copy of

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01:01:00.226 --> 01:01:03.800
Van Gogh's The Solar at Sunset one last
time.

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01:01:06.280 --> 01:01:11.650
The mug in his hands is hot,
the coffee robust as he drags it to his

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01:01:11.650 --> 01:01:12.040
lips.

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01:01:13.160 --> 01:01:17.840
The worlds of bitter steam flow seamless
into the dashes that pepper the oil.

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01:01:17.840 --> 01:01:24.917
Thick sky a Van Gogh's hope White
glimmers draw the eye to feed into rich

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01:01:24.917 --> 01:01:29.508
gold,
and below the sewers feet the sea of blue

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01:01:29.508 --> 01:01:34.960
and purple undulates in perfect
contrasting composition.

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01:01:36.360 --> 01:01:43.772
The painting is a masterpiece,
Or it would be if not for the star of the

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01:01:43.772 --> 01:01:44.280
show.

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01:01:45.560 --> 01:01:52.760
She is carved into the canvas with the
rough centrifugal motion of hard graphite.

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01:01:54.160 --> 01:01:57.866
She's painted in thick,
unwieldy splats of yellow,

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01:01:57.866 --> 01:02:03.680
like a toddler stole the masters brush to
ruin the splendour of his cognizance.

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01:02:05.160 --> 01:02:10.800
In reality, she is not nearly so ugly.

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01:02:13.160 --> 01:02:16.400
Thomas places the mug down beside his
latest palette.

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01:02:17.920 --> 01:02:21.680
Flaking paint hits his nostrils in a burn
of chemicals.

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01:02:22.560 --> 01:02:29.011
The size 6 nudge lightly rolls to the
edge where it teeters for a moment,

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01:02:29.011 --> 01:02:33.719
precarious,
caught between the decision to stay where

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01:02:33.719 --> 01:02:40.520
it's supposed to or fall haphazard into a
sea of unforgiving blue and purple.

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01:02:42.120 --> 01:02:46.400
His fingers flex, the joints popping.

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01:02:48.320 --> 01:02:51.360
Thomas turns, sweeping into the kitchen.

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01:02:52.080 --> 01:02:57.018
His slippers clap on the heavy marble as
he surveys the quiet Kingdom through his

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01:02:57.018 --> 01:02:57.440
window.

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01:02:58.760 --> 01:03:02.320
Mist roves over the grass like a regiment
of spectres.

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01:03:03.280 --> 01:03:09.483
The sky is crisp and cloudless,
the fiery orange of sunrise bubbling up

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01:03:09.483 --> 01:03:14.480
to meet the fragments of lilac night like
activated lava.

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01:03:16.560 --> 01:03:22.840
Thomas breathes out thin,
his heart constricting.

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01:03:24.600 --> 01:03:28.840
The conditions are finally perfect.

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01:03:31.240 --> 01:03:35.056
He takes the gigantic to the viewing
platform,

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01:03:35.056 --> 01:03:40.335
then spends 45 minutes calibrating the
lens and the sun philtre,

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01:03:40.335 --> 01:03:41.960
his hands trembling.

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01:03:43.320 --> 01:03:46.538
Dew films the body of his equipment in
moments,

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01:03:46.538 --> 01:03:50.360
the droplets providing a prismatic
glimpse of the truth.

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01:03:52.120 --> 01:03:57.520
He runs still quivering fingers through
the thinning tickle at his temples.

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01:03:58.200 --> 01:04:03.845
As she finally makes her grand entrance,
the world enhances,

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coming to life in the sumptuous flex of
ultra radiation.

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Thomas's heart hammers.

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The scent of cooking vegetation sharpens
like the chemical burn of paint.

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As he bends to peer into the eyepiece,
the newly vitalized world holds its

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01:04:23.926 --> 01:04:24.480
breath.

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At first he sees craters, sunspots,
the corona and the disrupted ripples of

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gases.

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She's as perfectly round as Van Gogh's
centrifugal representation.

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Through the philtre she holds a singular
dark terracotta taint,

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01:04:48.742 --> 01:04:52.760
like a toddler has stolen the Masters
paintbrush.

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Thomas's throat closes.

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The corners of his eyes prickle.

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Surely there is more to her than this.

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If he is to paint her, truly paint her,
then he will settle for nothing but her

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01:05:14.610 --> 01:05:15.880
glorious truth.

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He leans back,
eyes tracing the vibrancy of those

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01:05:22.321 --> 01:05:23.200
dewdrops.

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The size 6 wavers over the edge.

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Thomas's fingers skim the tabbed tip of
the philtre.

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The truth is that it takes exactly 0.
6 seconds these retinas to burn.

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So thank you, Natalie, for your story.

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And what I loved about this story is,
well, the writing,

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the prose and the description here,
it's very vivid.

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It paints a picture, you know,
picture paints a picture of how to paint

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a painting a picture and very vivid,
very evocative and really leaning into

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the Yang energy.

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I feel like not only do we have the sun,
but we have this character.

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Of course,
a man doing something as men are want to

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01:06:32.163 --> 01:06:32.360
do.

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01:06:32.960 --> 01:06:37.520
That is ridiculously stupid and and
driven, I guess.

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01:06:37.520 --> 01:06:42.040
And all of that masculine energy coming
through in a surprising way.

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01:06:42.040 --> 01:06:44.344
Like we,
we talk about this all the time in the

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01:06:44.344 --> 01:06:44.920
competition.

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The thing that gets our attention and
often gets you over the line is

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presenting something that surprises us.

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And this one really did surprise me.

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01:06:52.840 --> 01:06:55.400
Like the story is unusual.

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It's a story of a person of a painter who
goes blind because they really want to

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01:07:01.440 --> 01:07:03.560
see the sun in all its glory.

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And it's a tough premise to pull off,
I think, in a story.

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But isn't that relatable?

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Like, we're all artists here, right?

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And there is this desire to almost set
ourselves on fire to kind of capture the

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truth, you know what I mean?

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01:07:15.800 --> 01:07:19.110
And we are all doing that in our own
individual special ways,

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01:07:19.110 --> 01:07:23.488
setting ourselves on fire if that means
entering competitions again and again and

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01:07:23.488 --> 01:07:27.759
again and never making a long list and
like, feeling like you just want to die,

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01:07:27.759 --> 01:07:28.080
right?

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01:07:28.080 --> 01:07:31.703
Like that's one way of doing it or
throwing yourself out on the page,

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01:07:31.703 --> 01:07:35.689
putting stuff out there that you're
almost ashamed or embarrassed to put out

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01:07:35.689 --> 01:07:36.000
there.

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Like there are many ways of going about
it.

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01:07:38.200 --> 01:07:41.816
But as artists,
what we're all doing is staring at the

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01:07:41.816 --> 01:07:42.080
sun.

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I hope that's the ultimate standard,
right?

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01:07:44.280 --> 01:07:46.948
Like if you are staring at the sun and
writing that,

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01:07:46.948 --> 01:07:48.560
that's what you're trying to do.

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01:07:48.560 --> 01:07:53.019
You're trying to just express the truth,
not just like a sun is a circle and it's

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01:07:53.019 --> 01:07:53.400
bright.

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We're trying to, like,
get at what makes this true for people.

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And, you know,
I think Natalie's done that beautifully.

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01:08:00.880 --> 01:08:02.880
And it's all a metaphor, really.

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You know,
we're really looking at someone who's

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01:08:04.906 --> 01:08:05.920
staring at the sun, Yes.

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01:08:05.920 --> 01:08:09.499
But also we can put ourselves in that
situation and go,

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01:08:09.499 --> 01:08:11.800
in what ways do we stare at the sun?

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01:08:11.800 --> 01:08:17.372
In what ways do we do the thing that is
painful and harmful to us to more clearly

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01:08:17.372 --> 01:08:18.800
express what is true?

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01:08:18.800 --> 01:08:21.200
And I think that's the bit that resonates.

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01:08:21.200 --> 01:08:24.080
That's the bit that makes this story
stand out, at least for me.

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01:08:24.200 --> 01:08:24.920
No, absolutely.

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01:08:24.960 --> 01:08:29.804
Capturing that universal truth in a way
that is surprising and and powerful and,

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01:08:29.804 --> 01:08:31.360
like, unsettling, I guess.

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Yeah.

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01:08:32.880 --> 01:08:34.920
Like, let's face it, what are we doing?

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01:08:35.280 --> 01:08:36.280
Are you staring at the sun?

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You're permanently damaging yourself.

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01:08:38.600 --> 01:08:40.440
It's not a positive implication, is it?

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01:08:40.560 --> 01:08:41.200
Red flag.

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01:08:42.320 --> 01:08:46.120
And those are the things that are they're
what make great art, right?

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01:08:46.120 --> 01:08:51.280
The touching on the things that are kind
of mad and kind of, but also true.

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01:08:51.280 --> 01:08:53.720
And and we can't help it,
the human condition.

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01:08:54.200 --> 01:08:57.960
And I think for me,
that's what made this story compelling.

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01:08:58.160 --> 01:09:01.200
It's not just about a guy who's painting
and staring at the sun.

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01:09:01.200 --> 01:09:02.560
And it's about everything else.

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It is about our search for what's real
and what damage that causes us to search

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01:09:08.893 --> 01:09:10.160
for what's real.

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01:09:10.160 --> 01:09:11.080
I think so.

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01:09:11.080 --> 01:09:12.120
Thank you, Natalie.

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01:09:12.240 --> 01:09:12.760
Thanks.

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01:09:12.760 --> 01:09:14.680
And also like, thanks a lot.

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You know what I mean?

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01:09:16.000 --> 01:09:19.014
But, you know,
congratulations on delivering something

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01:09:19.014 --> 01:09:20.440
impactful with your story.

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01:09:20.440 --> 01:09:21.400
So well done, Natalie.

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01:09:21.440 --> 01:09:22.640
I think most people start at the sun.

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01:09:22.640 --> 01:09:23.560
They go blind.

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01:09:23.600 --> 01:09:24.600
You stare at the the sun.

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01:09:24.600 --> 01:09:27.360
You got yourself 500 Australian dollars.

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01:09:27.360 --> 01:09:28.520
So congratulations.

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01:09:28.960 --> 01:09:31.906
All right,
but now we're up to second place runner

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01:09:31.906 --> 01:09:32.080
up.

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01:09:32.280 --> 01:09:36.080
And just a little recap before we get to
our second place.

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01:09:36.160 --> 01:09:40.480
We've revealed 4 shortlisters and we've
had two team meds and two team Amanda's.

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01:09:40.480 --> 01:09:40.880
So.

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01:09:41.480 --> 01:09:42.280
So far even.

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01:09:42.280 --> 01:09:43.400
Yeah, so far quite even.

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01:09:43.400 --> 01:09:48.564
Even though the totality of stories was
heavily weighted in your favourite Amanda,

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01:09:48.564 --> 01:09:49.560
let's be honest.

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01:09:50.560 --> 01:09:53.230
Not that I'm bitter about that,
but shortlist wise,

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01:09:53.230 --> 01:09:54.720
so far it's been pretty even.

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01:09:54.720 --> 01:09:57.800
So we'll see what the the top 2 has to
offer.

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01:09:58.080 --> 01:10:00.600
So let's get into #2 now #2.

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01:10:00.600 --> 01:10:03.480
So taking out 1000 Australian dollars?

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01:10:03.480 --> 01:10:04.720
Not too shabby.

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01:10:05.040 --> 01:10:18.160
In second place for Team Amanda is what
we lost and all we gained by Tatum Shad.

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01:10:27.320 --> 01:10:33.040
We waited every day for the moon to fall
apart.

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01:10:35.360 --> 01:10:36.560
It happened slow.

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The sprouting fissure was hundreds of
miles across,

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01:10:42.355 --> 01:10:46.280
but from Earth it only looked like a
scratch.

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01:10:47.800 --> 01:10:52.240
Our beloved satellite with a crack in its
face.

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01:10:55.000 --> 01:10:59.754
The tides maintained their usual tug of
war at first,

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01:10:59.754 --> 01:11:06.269
when the moon dimmed to a Crescent,
we often forgot about the whole thing

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01:11:06.269 --> 01:11:10.320
altogether,
like we'd travelled back in time.

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01:11:12.600 --> 01:11:21.710
Then the gap widened as the moon
separated into distinct halves you did

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01:11:21.710 --> 01:11:25.000
your best to snap me into.

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01:11:27.320 --> 01:11:31.210
I sat on the porch with your father,
binoculars in hand,

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01:11:31.210 --> 01:11:36.601
waiting for our fractured friend to rise
above the horizon so we could see for

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01:11:36.601 --> 01:11:39.400
ourselves what hubris really looked like.

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01:11:40.960 --> 01:11:46.480
You twist and push against my belly so
hard it sent ripples across my skin.

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01:11:48.280 --> 01:11:50.955
Your father,
wanting to be part of the action,

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01:11:50.955 --> 01:11:52.720
couldn't keep his hands off it.

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01:11:53.800 --> 01:11:59.200
He swooned every time you nudged him back,
but I still felt bad.

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01:11:59.200 --> 01:12:05.961
He'd never know you like I did,
the same way I felt bad you'd never see

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01:12:05.961 --> 01:12:07.840
your first birthday.

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01:12:11.560 --> 01:12:14.040
We refuse to tell anyone the name.

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01:12:15.120 --> 01:12:19.426
Some of the more savvy family members
sensed our wish for privacy and gave us

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01:12:19.426 --> 01:12:20.200
names instead.

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01:12:20.960 --> 01:12:22.680
Ancestral matriarchs.

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01:12:23.080 --> 01:12:27.472
Verbs turned into nouns,
creative spellings and unreasonable

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01:12:27.472 --> 01:12:28.120
suffixes.

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We said we'd add them to the shortlist,
then switch topics to the Doomsday Clock

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01:12:35.399 --> 01:12:38.880
infographic wired into every phone and
screen.

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Funny these two cataclysms happening at
the same time.

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I learned motherhood is having the moon
explode above you.

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I'm thinking about the limb poking the
inside of your belly button instead.

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I always pictured an elbow.

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01:13:04.720 --> 01:13:09.548
My water broke the day the tides broke
their reliable pattern and ravaged the

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01:13:09.548 --> 01:13:09.920
world.

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We watched news reports of mass flooding
and death tolls while I laboured,

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01:13:16.440 --> 01:13:21.480
begging someone to change the channel
before the real contraction started.

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I only had room for one earth shattering
event in my life.

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I couldn't devote any more energy to the
rest.

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Two weeks later,
the moon lost its orbital equilibrium and

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gravity lassoed it toward us.

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We sent out birth announcements anyway,
finally sharing your name with the nearly

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01:13:53.603 --> 01:13:59.408
extinguished world,
and spent every precious second watching

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you exist.

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You had your dad's nose.

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My smile,
befuddling amount of filled diapers and a

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01:14:11.571 --> 01:14:15.240
coup that sounded like heaven on earth.

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We hardly put you down,
often holding you until you slept,

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01:14:22.746 --> 01:14:28.840
afraid to rest ourselves and risk
sleeping through Armageddon.

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When it finally came,
we cuddled up on the porch as a family of

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01:14:37.962 --> 01:14:39.840
three and took it in.

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I held you and your father held me as the
cool night air buzzed around us.

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My heart pounded,
but I saw your face aglow in the light of

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01:14:59.400 --> 01:15:07.040
the approaching moon and thanked the
universe for such a blessing.

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To think we came so close to missing it.

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So thank you so much, Tatum,
for your story.

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This is a story that takes something,
you know, not to diminish it,

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01:15:49.487 --> 01:15:52.779
but fairly everyday in the world,
kids are born,

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01:15:52.779 --> 01:15:57.683
all children are born all the time,
but juxtaposes that with this fairly

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01:15:57.683 --> 01:16:02.520
singular event of the moon falling to
pieces and crashing to the earth.

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01:16:03.280 --> 01:16:07.482
So what I think is interesting is that
there are a few stories that you

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highlighted this about the previous story
Sunscape,

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that it was this outrageous situation
that reflected a universal truth.

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And I think this one does too.

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It reflects the apprehension that parents
have at the birth of their child.

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Even though the new moons not falling
apart,

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01:16:23.210 --> 01:16:27.010
we often have the feeling the world is
falling apart as well and the babies

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coming into that world.

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And regardless of what's happening in the
world, what wars are taking place, what,

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you know,
genocides or whatever are happening in

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the world,
the most important thing to you is still

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the birth of your child.

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And do it knowing that, hey,
they're going to come into this world.

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That's not perfect.

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Things are not going to go well for them.

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In the case of this story,
obviously it's more catastrophic than

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that,
but but we recognise that it's still

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worth it.

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Isn't that the point?

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You know,
we do get caught up in this anxiety and I

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01:16:55.101 --> 01:16:57.280
think that's such a common theme now.

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We're all anxious, right?

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01:16:58.400 --> 01:17:00.000
And all children are anxious too.

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Like anxiety is such a huge problem right
now for people and we're all worried

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01:17:04.035 --> 01:17:06.640
about the future,
we're worried about the present.

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01:17:07.040 --> 01:17:10.920
But this moment of a child being born is
still the point, right?

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01:17:10.920 --> 01:17:15.860
And if you are a parent or if you have
been involved in the birth of a child,

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01:17:15.860 --> 01:17:18.836
then you see that,
you see the beauty of that,

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01:17:18.836 --> 01:17:20.800
and everything else falls away.

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And that becomes your priority.

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And you just have to forget about all the
******** that's going on.

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01:17:27.920 --> 01:17:31.400
But this last line, you know,
to think we came so close to missing it.

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01:17:31.400 --> 01:17:36.592
Like the idea that you might be so caught
up in the horrors that persist that you

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01:17:36.592 --> 01:17:40.708
forget to see the beauty,
whether that's the birth of a child or

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01:17:40.708 --> 01:17:45.647
whether that is literally any other
beauty that we as human beings see in our

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01:17:45.647 --> 01:17:48.813
environment,
I think is something that we can all

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01:17:48.813 --> 01:17:51.600
latch onto,
whether you're a parent or not.

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01:17:51.600 --> 01:17:56.120
And you know, for me,
like this story gave me goosebumps.

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01:17:56.120 --> 01:17:57.520
It made me want to cry.

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01:17:57.520 --> 01:17:59.920
I nearly did cry reading this story.

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01:18:00.200 --> 01:18:04.689
And I think it is just that self
reflection moment of the idea that we can

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01:18:04.689 --> 01:18:08.520
get so caught up in the horror that we
kind of miss the beauty.

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01:18:08.520 --> 01:18:11.800
And I find that incredibly compelling and
moving.

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01:18:11.800 --> 01:18:16.245
And I think that Tatum,
you did an excellent job of of reminding

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01:18:16.245 --> 01:18:20.280
us of the beauty while also presenting us
with the horror.

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01:18:20.320 --> 01:18:21.040
So well done.

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And this premise reminded me a lot of the
movie Melancholia,

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01:18:24.568 --> 01:18:28.620
which is a movie I enjoy in which the the
moon kind of falls off its orbit and

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01:18:28.620 --> 01:18:29.800
crashes into the earth.

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01:18:29.800 --> 01:18:34.663
And what I think I enjoy about that movie
and movies like it is we have this view

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01:18:34.663 --> 01:18:37.628
that like,
people are just going to run screaming

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01:18:37.628 --> 01:18:38.400
and go crazy.

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01:18:38.400 --> 01:18:42.340
But the fact is with humans,
when there's an impending disaster,

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01:18:42.340 --> 01:18:45.613
life just kind of goes on and people have
an ability,

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01:18:45.613 --> 01:18:50.160
ability to just put that in their
peripheral and know that it's happening.

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01:18:50.160 --> 01:18:54.760
But they kind of just continue living
their life ability or a disability either.

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01:18:54.760 --> 01:18:58.467
I mean, we talk about like, you know,
climate change or any other thing that

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01:18:58.467 --> 01:18:59.960
people should be worried about.

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01:18:59.960 --> 01:19:00.440
And they're not.

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01:19:00.440 --> 01:19:02.615
They're like, oh,
I'll just continue to live my life and

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01:19:02.615 --> 01:19:03.760
that's someone else's problem.

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01:19:03.760 --> 01:19:07.360
Why wouldn't the moon fall apart evoke
the same response?

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01:19:07.360 --> 01:19:09.472
I could imagine people just being like,
oh, yeah, well, you know,

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01:19:09.472 --> 01:19:11.840
the moon's falling apart and we don't
really know what's going to happen.

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01:19:11.840 --> 01:19:14.080
So anyway, well,
there's nothing we can do about it.

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01:19:14.080 --> 01:19:17.246
So we're just going to continue living
our lives until that's a problem and

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01:19:17.246 --> 01:19:18.080
that's human nature.

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And I think that is another element of
this story.

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01:19:19.920 --> 01:19:21.640
Just reflecting on that.

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01:19:21.640 --> 01:19:25.864
And I think there were a few stories this
round, actually, that for me, evoked,

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01:19:25.864 --> 01:19:26.920
you know, the movie.

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01:19:26.920 --> 01:19:27.560
Look up.

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01:19:27.840 --> 01:19:29.960
Yeah, it's a great movie, by the way.

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01:19:30.240 --> 01:19:34.920
And had that same vibe of, like,
the world is ending, but no one cares.

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01:19:34.920 --> 01:19:36.160
No one gives a ****.

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01:19:36.480 --> 01:19:39.480
And it's kind of ****** but also
beautiful.

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01:19:39.760 --> 01:19:41.440
That's the vibe I got from this story.

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01:19:41.720 --> 01:19:43.200
Well, thank you, Tatum.

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01:19:43.200 --> 01:19:48.480
And what you gained is 1 1000 Australian
dollars and 2nd place.

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01:19:48.480 --> 01:19:50.400
So congratulations, well done.

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01:19:50.760 --> 01:19:53.280
But there can be only one winner.

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01:19:53.280 --> 01:19:55.960
And what a doozy it is.

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01:19:56.160 --> 01:19:56.880
Doozy is it?

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01:19:56.880 --> 01:19:58.280
Is that the word we're using?

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01:19:58.960 --> 01:20:04.199
So the winner of the July 2026 Not Quite
Right Prize for Flash Fiction,

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01:20:04.199 --> 01:20:09.585
the winner of the One and Only Pointy
Trophy and 1500 Australian Dollars,

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01:20:09.585 --> 01:20:15.480
as well as publication in the Not Quite
Right Prize Anthology for 2026 for Team.

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01:20:15.920 --> 01:20:27.580
Ed is Sandworm by Steve Huff.

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01:20:55.460 --> 01:21:01.440
21 years of training, hoping, yearning.

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01:21:03.200 --> 01:21:06.160
Tonight is my big night.

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01:21:07.600 --> 01:21:08.440
I'm ready.

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01:21:09.440 --> 01:21:13.400
Feet on the blocks, hand wraps on,
poised to dive.

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01:21:14.240 --> 01:21:18.720
You might say almost too ready.

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01:21:19.000 --> 01:21:21.080
But let's not dwell on that.

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01:21:22.480 --> 01:21:23.560
That's Ben's fault.

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01:21:24.600 --> 01:21:32.149
Ben is my life support system and so far
he's done a **** **** job of putting me

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01:21:32.149 --> 01:21:33.920
to my intended use.

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01:21:35.480 --> 01:21:36.720
Oh sure, there's ****.

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01:21:37.760 --> 01:21:41.879
Endless gyrating,
squelching flesh pits behind the glass of

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01:21:41.879 --> 01:21:47.440
that radiation spewing device he keeps
cavalierly close to me and my Co workers.

86034493-5999-49ed-a707-038a5ce2c35f-0
01:21:48.600 --> 01:21:53.859
**** till I'm chafed red as a lobster
hang dog with inadequacy next to those

86034493-5999-49ed-a707-038a5ce2c35f-1
01:21:53.859 --> 01:21:57.889
purple veined pythons that twitch Bob of
their own accord,

86034493-5999-49ed-a707-038a5ce2c35f-2
01:21:57.889 --> 01:22:03.217
still sniffing the air in pursuit of
damsel in morsels long after I've beaten

86034493-5999-49ed-a707-038a5ce2c35f-3
01:22:03.217 --> 01:22:06.359
A shrivelled retreat to my Poly blend
prison.

8539b681-5d37-4434-a9b9-337408aaa103-0
01:22:08.280 --> 01:22:08.880
Dude.

54dc17a8-d676-414d-aa20-4f18cba96350-0
01:22:09.680 --> 01:22:16.459
I want to say guy bro,
a few 100 years ago you'd have had three

54dc17a8-d676-414d-aa20-4f18cba96350-1
01:22:16.459 --> 01:22:19.320
kids by now working on 1/4.

fe1f6f91-87f6-48c9-a4fb-12f47875a68b-0
01:22:20.400 --> 01:22:22.480
It's not meant to be this hard.

abd55799-b3d7-42e7-bb0b-2476ded283b5-0
01:22:23.840 --> 01:22:27.186
But no,
he'd rather listen to the guys with

abd55799-b3d7-42e7-bb0b-2476ded283b5-1
01:22:27.186 --> 01:22:32.661
surgically enhanced jaw lines and
pharmaceutically and big and deltoids

abd55799-b3d7-42e7-bb0b-2476ded283b5-2
01:22:32.661 --> 01:22:36.920
marching down his feet in inevitable
dreary procession.

895c12d4-9ff4-4539-b55e-22a0a77540b7-0
01:22:38.680 --> 01:22:46.165
Apparently his inability to make the
basic connection that every one of his

895c12d4-9ff4-4539-b55e-22a0a77540b7-1
01:22:46.165 --> 01:22:53.454
ancestors managed for the last 1.
2 billion years of sexual dimorphism is

895c12d4-9ff4-4539-b55e-22a0a77540b7-2
01:22:53.454 --> 01:22:55.719
entirely not his fault.

72f7a5fd-1f8c-463a-817b-fde866ec699f-0
01:22:56.560 --> 01:23:02.062
It's those damned women freed from a
natural state of dependence by hormonal

72f7a5fd-1f8c-463a-817b-fde866ec699f-1
01:23:02.062 --> 01:23:07.421
birth control and almost equal pay so
they can flock in glassy eyed harems

72f7a5fd-1f8c-463a-817b-fde866ec699f-2
01:23:07.421 --> 01:23:10.280
around the feet of a few towering chads.

7d174adb-8de5-4534-aeb6-2b7024c41ff7-0
01:23:10.760 --> 01:23:16.320
This winner take all dystopia Ben
confidently refers to as the Chatopoly.

f0c44f7b-db0a-45eb-bdd3-899fda8ec2c7-0
01:23:17.920 --> 01:23:21.600
You don't want to know what he calls the
women.

46e46568-323d-49ee-8900-4dfa747c04f7-0
01:23:23.160 --> 01:23:26.800
I want to be long and girthy enough to
slap him.

bab70892-567d-4770-9016-21596b946ac5-0
01:23:28.360 --> 01:23:36.240
No dude, not the enemy, not the enemy.

9091948f-8bad-4f70-80ea-92484edd9182-0
01:23:38.320 --> 01:23:42.956
Case in point, Margot Less,
her slightly gap toothed,

9091948f-8bad-4f70-80ea-92484edd9182-1
01:23:42.956 --> 01:23:45.360
nervous hoodie wearing soul.

deb8ff07-0974-47dc-b003-9d19b44374a6-0
01:23:46.200 --> 01:23:51.158
She apparently got tired of just
happening to sit near Ben in every

deb8ff07-0974-47dc-b003-9d19b44374a6-1
01:23:51.158 --> 01:23:55.680
statistics tutorial, smiling,
accidentally brushing his hand.

a8fa3bb7-f145-43b8-ba7f-58163b2731f9-0
01:23:56.880 --> 01:24:01.465
So she invited him back to her campus
share house for pizza,

a8fa3bb7-f145-43b8-ba7f-58163b2731f9-1
01:24:01.465 --> 01:24:03.720
refusing to accept indecision.

9feb37c4-afd9-4506-af7c-19a70899f5c5-0
01:24:04.840 --> 01:24:09.229
Then when he absolutely failed to take
the hint,

9feb37c4-afd9-4506-af7c-19a70899f5c5-1
01:24:09.229 --> 01:24:14.514
despite me doing my best to bounce up and
down and scream,

9feb37c4-afd9-4506-af7c-19a70899f5c5-2
01:24:14.514 --> 01:24:21.679
she pulled him in for a beer and garlic
teeth bumping awkward, incredible kiss.

4cb94e94-2b35-4152-b56e-88aaaafb2cf0-0
01:24:23.560 --> 01:24:27.760
I was so proud then,
the way he looked at her.

dc31ebbf-8467-4c06-85ef-500333ab4c73-0
01:24:29.160 --> 01:24:31.720
What have I been trying to tell you kid?

475eb00e-d96e-4b61-91f9-1d9f67b7eeb7-0
01:24:33.440 --> 01:24:35.600
Give him time to get used to the idea.

89042058-2827-4a6e-8863-1226f9d25dfe-0
01:24:36.520 --> 01:24:40.720
He may even realise they're people.

fb20a645-72cc-465b-8f8a-88c36d0937bc-0
01:24:42.240 --> 01:24:49.560
But right now, in her room,
her hand slowly unbuttoning his fly.

75790b36-d99e-477f-a7d6-4f344c3aa60d-0
01:24:52.720 --> 01:24:54.440
It's my time.

d00b7957-fb50-46af-b2c5-dc794f5d88eb-0
01:24:58.080 --> 01:25:06.240
And here I am, Modest in proportion,
pale as any sunless creature.

5ea291e0-e436-4615-a63c-7d173b3b8d25-0
01:25:06.680 --> 01:25:08.960
Yes, but in spirit.

a8249f25-788d-4c96-8590-5ab971543cec-0
01:25:09.200 --> 01:25:12.560
A sandworm bursting from the dunes of
Oracus.

1a238118-dabe-4a85-aa31-0ffd5da9cabc-0
01:25:13.040 --> 01:25:17.400
Sun's teeth,
Yomunganda breaking from the waves.

b16c5003-f6a3-45d9-a5ac-9793c3653def-0
01:25:17.600 --> 01:25:19.040
No tail to bite.

be4318f2-7c2a-463b-91b0-08111990bb09-0
01:25:21.000 --> 01:25:23.480
Yes, Oh yes.

968af0b7-0533-4c3d-9ca9-e04461a588d7-0
01:25:25.720 --> 01:25:26.760
And there they are.

6ffe2c44-65b1-421e-ae21-dbc8d3f0d627-0
01:25:28.400 --> 01:25:29.520
Fingertips.

cf46c4be-0c07-4a7b-8b07-d5ad48198aed-0
01:25:30.920 --> 01:25:33.760
Soft, warm.

f7925102-d96a-4743-bc42-94c54df2d1a4-0
01:25:34.360 --> 01:25:38.360
Oh, warmer than I ever imagined.

6678d4c2-7af0-4392-87fb-0aaeb9f6f620-0
01:25:39.480 --> 01:25:44.880
And then those treacherous nuts twitch.

7753eabe-2ce0-40b0-9816-83e3114a4d29-0
01:25:46.800 --> 01:25:49.360
Oh no, not yet.

fb6a4a68-8f16-4fe1-b669-9ecf9475d546-0
01:25:49.640 --> 01:25:53.800
Oh, not yet, you morons,
you hairy troglodytes.

c9fdcf62-601c-4038-9e9b-9eb0372b5a42-0
01:25:54.080 --> 01:26:00.880
This is my time, I clench,
gritting imaginary teeth.

bf668a37-2798-4bb0-bd98-aa75c99702e4-0
01:26:02.240 --> 01:26:07.240
You shall not pass.

c8ff44dd-6b9e-4eb4-9f91-e2084046eb77-0
01:26:09.520 --> 01:26:17.400
Then the soft warm hand closes around me.

82b20f8a-a386-4559-8299-9596501a9e67-0
01:26:24.640 --> 01:26:26.480
Oh Christ.

b10928fd-1169-404a-9afb-d51f78c34035-0
01:26:39.080 --> 01:26:39.880
Oh my God.

e168d86b-65b9-4eeb-899e-597e835d42e9-0
01:26:39.880 --> 01:26:41.440
Congratulations, Steve.

ea068d4d-0216-4e81-8c42-35f523a3363d-0
01:26:41.600 --> 01:26:44.663
This is not your first foray into the
shortlist,

ea068d4d-0216-4e81-8c42-35f523a3363d-1
01:26:44.663 --> 01:26:47.040
but congratulations on your first win.

d18961d2-e5ce-41ba-b941-19b0174cd64c-0
01:26:47.040 --> 01:26:50.440
You'll be receiving a pointy trophy.

060458d8-fef7-4d66-a600-bf3b3808a224-0
01:26:50.760 --> 01:26:55.173
And I don't know, like,
here's the what have you got to say,

060458d8-fef7-4d66-a600-bf3b3808a224-1
01:26:55.173 --> 01:26:55.680
Amanda?

f0f99dc1-7180-4b27-885d-4dfbde4c154e-0
01:26:55.680 --> 01:26:56.960
Here's the thing.

85ea1a3c-9739-4b7f-ab9b-05d9d93f24b9-0
01:26:57.000 --> 01:27:00.913
I feel uncomfortable because I don't want
to give the impression,

85ea1a3c-9739-4b7f-ab9b-05d9d93f24b9-1
01:27:00.913 --> 01:27:05.480
and I feel we're giving the impression
that the not quite right prize is all

85ea1a3c-9739-4b7f-ab9b-05d9d93f24b9-2
01:27:05.480 --> 01:27:07.200
about **** jokes and whatnot.

d844839f-1e4d-4415-b715-f971be987e46-0
01:27:07.640 --> 01:27:08.200
It's not.

244fe43c-195c-4061-aed1-2be4a6f2e012-0
01:27:08.360 --> 01:27:11.000
However,
we know a good story when we see it.

f958f25e-0029-4573-8fb2-7906ba460e89-0
01:27:11.000 --> 01:27:13.680
A little bit of a behind the scenes
situation.

3517d4de-625c-4bed-bcbf-f63d82b50889-0
01:27:14.080 --> 01:27:20.000
This story from first read to last sailed
through the judging.

cf0c3d46-c21d-439d-8b29-5a6d3bb3633e-0
01:27:20.000 --> 01:27:21.200
There was no question.

eeff4c15-05bd-4728-9499-9c53c446e2f0-0
01:27:21.200 --> 01:27:22.840
Every judge gave this a yes.

089aedf6-5985-4e19-af84-ec6567faea3f-0
01:27:22.840 --> 01:27:24.520
I think it was the only story that every
judge gave.

68dd6eed-4d38-4047-b5ea-e6e93121e34d-0
01:27:24.520 --> 01:27:26.280
The only story this round not right.

63ee19ae-788c-444a-8bce-dc421e75c889-0
01:27:26.320 --> 01:27:29.393
Yeah,
on initial read that every judge gave a

63ee19ae-788c-444a-8bce-dc421e75c889-1
01:27:29.393 --> 01:27:32.265
yes,
but also as it progressed it was just

63ee19ae-788c-444a-8bce-dc421e75c889-2
01:27:32.265 --> 01:27:32.600
easy.

70461ad1-5827-4e7f-936e-fd372e09665e-0
01:27:32.760 --> 01:27:36.263
We all knew that it worked and it's not
about being a penis POV,

70461ad1-5827-4e7f-936e-fd372e09665e-1
01:27:36.263 --> 01:27:40.360
although of course we have a sense of
humour and we think that's hilarious.

b4194bc7-9e98-48bb-a95a-8753effc0fc7-0
01:27:41.000 --> 01:27:42.240
It was everything, right?

95b9b8c9-8cef-4b37-bff8-06574af2ec1d-0
01:27:42.240 --> 01:27:47.678
It's like the package, if you will,
the whole package including the hairy

95b9b8c9-8cef-4b37-bff8-06574af2ec1d-1
01:27:47.678 --> 01:27:48.560
troglodytes.

1e93c5e4-8e41-43ff-93ad-efb8a3dfe160-0
01:27:49.120 --> 01:27:52.520
But there's a complete narrative going on
here.

83867ced-040b-49a3-b25e-9773457b879c-0
01:27:52.520 --> 01:27:57.421
There is subtext,
there is character arc and there's social

83867ced-040b-49a3-b25e-9773457b879c-1
01:27:57.421 --> 01:27:58.320
commentary.

bf640cee-283c-40b1-b861-8691f55c5f32-0
01:27:58.400 --> 01:28:01.595
Social commentary,
like there is a lot going on here so we

bf640cee-283c-40b1-b861-8691f55c5f32-1
01:28:01.595 --> 01:28:05.440
can just joke about it and say this is
just * **** joke kind of story.

5ed420cf-d0b6-44a1-b1f3-a2f6caa67ade-0
01:28:05.440 --> 01:28:08.878
And like, on one level it is,
but if you actually look into it,

5ed420cf-d0b6-44a1-b1f3-a2f6caa67ade-1
01:28:08.878 --> 01:28:10.920
there's a lot more going on than that.

6f318cf7-8c5a-40eb-8bd1-287f29b0e914-0
01:28:11.200 --> 01:28:14.760
And that's what we react to, I guess.

f4c69185-d032-4dd7-9809-ebdd19f0ba36-0
01:28:14.800 --> 01:28:17.267
You know, you get our attention,
of course,

f4c69185-d032-4dd7-9809-ebdd19f0ba36-1
01:28:17.267 --> 01:28:21.360
if you're going to write something a bit
crude, but you have to elevate.

9e5a612c-3f99-43d1-8e63-a52fdea6cd04-0
01:28:21.360 --> 01:28:22.960
And that's what this story did.

d1852a58-be80-4ee9-b8e9-81fc848a5399-0
01:28:22.960 --> 01:28:26.960
And it is that social commentary that to
me is really interesting.

d67e1f88-dbe6-4ff4-bcd8-2768a86ed78a-0
01:28:26.960 --> 01:28:29.683
And I think it's quite funny that the
penis, right,

d67e1f88-dbe6-4ff4-bcd8-2768a86ed78a-1
01:28:29.683 --> 01:28:33.088
If we're talking Yang energy,
the penis is the one that's of the

d67e1f88-dbe6-4ff4-bcd8-2768a86ed78a-2
01:28:33.088 --> 01:28:33.560
feminist.

1f7734fc-2795-4b27-87c5-72a227cc347a-0
01:28:33.560 --> 01:28:35.120
Yeah, a little bit, right.

e94441e3-8c77-44f1-91c9-2d9cb170a723-0
01:28:35.120 --> 01:28:39.040
Like it's kind of like, mate, dude, bro,
like chill out.

23070c1d-8078-4503-931b-b43697414ba8-0
01:28:39.040 --> 01:28:43.680
Like the ultimate goal is procreation
maybe, or whatever,

23070c1d-8078-4503-931b-b43697414ba8-1
01:28:43.680 --> 01:28:46.480
and forget about all that ********.

80acfcf9-b187-46de-b6d6-8260bd7697e8-0
01:28:46.600 --> 01:28:48.760
It's not that hard kind of thing.

6f1074bf-569c-4eff-813f-94f073df1719-0
01:28:48.760 --> 01:28:51.880
And I think that's actually a really
lovely message.

ff34302e-9883-4f1a-8240-d765f889d341-0
01:28:51.880 --> 01:28:56.455
It sounds kind of stupid, but a really,
really lovely message for young men that

ff34302e-9883-4f1a-8240-d765f889d341-1
01:28:56.455 --> 01:28:58.320
all of your ancestors managed it.

223210f1-78e3-4322-9e84-48343185d9b2-0
01:28:58.320 --> 01:29:00.240
Like you can manage it as well.

8dfbfe06-f3cb-4816-b352-a33977754f4f-0
01:29:00.240 --> 01:29:02.000
Just forget about all of that ********.

6bd3ebb9-5888-405f-8b60-b82d8fb0e923-0
01:29:02.000 --> 01:29:05.960
I don't want to go territory, No, I don't.

23bde48f-c73a-4acd-a56e-ab10f90f35d6-0
01:29:05.960 --> 01:29:12.179
But this sandworm idea as well is very
visual and vivid and memorable and very,

23bde48f-c73a-4acd-a56e-ab10f90f35d6-1
01:29:12.179 --> 01:29:17.387
very apartment for the character that
we're talking about as well,

23bde48f-c73a-4acd-a56e-ab10f90f35d6-2
01:29:17.387 --> 01:29:23.529
and just funny and fun while also being
insightful and evocative and what have

23bde48f-c73a-4acd-a56e-ab10f90f35d6-3
01:29:23.529 --> 01:29:23.839
you.

db169b86-4945-4bdd-b6ac-0b799c4e44cf-0
01:29:23.960 --> 01:29:25.480
So well done, Steven.

e3a0e28a-3bb7-494b-bd16-f09f37c6835b-0
01:29:25.880 --> 01:29:30.320
I understand that Steve's had success
elsewhere recently as well.

b03f945c-888b-47cc-852b-dd07a05ce812-0
01:29:30.720 --> 01:29:31.920
So you're on a roll.

30b12622-e950-473f-bd7c-0b50e1f4239b-0
01:29:31.960 --> 01:29:33.280
Congratulations.

b05974f1-4229-4519-9a2d-0068121a122f-0
01:29:33.280 --> 01:29:34.440
So, yeah, well done, Steve.

454c062a-b3f1-4eb3-b8ec-0563fca0b933-0
01:29:34.440 --> 01:29:36.701
I think look,
what really carries this story is

454c062a-b3f1-4eb3-b8ec-0563fca0b933-1
01:29:36.701 --> 01:29:40.000
obviously the voice and all of the things
that you mentioned, Amanda.

598dcdf2-2022-486d-aa2b-7c5011f972cd-0
01:29:40.160 --> 01:29:43.202
And look, the fact that it's not just,
we say this all the time,

598dcdf2-2022-486d-aa2b-7c5011f972cd-1
01:29:43.202 --> 01:29:46.480
you start with a ridiculous premise,
you've got to take it somewhere.

d52e0f84-3ef0-4ce4-8dce-5f92fe0f760d-0
01:29:46.480 --> 01:29:47.800
And I think this one is paid off.

310b8922-27a1-4f33-8b53-ba28d1ffebaf-0
01:29:48.040 --> 01:29:50.362
It's paid off in the voice of the
characters,

310b8922-27a1-4f33-8b53-ba28d1ffebaf-1
01:29:50.362 --> 01:29:53.240
paid off in that social commentary,
in that development.

f81fc56e-af8a-43c0-9aff-0512f8634ef1-0
01:29:53.440 --> 01:29:57.016
And like we get a happy ending in a
manner of speaking,

f81fc56e-af8a-43c0-9aff-0512f8634ef1-1
01:29:57.016 --> 01:30:00.720
maybe a not so happy ending,
but a conclusion is reached.

d072b010-f151-4722-8782-3a196e444a76-0
01:30:00.720 --> 01:30:02.800
And I think that's paid off quite well.

eff2351f-0e4b-447f-b145-9a540fe4f27b-0
01:30:03.040 --> 01:30:06.385
And what I think is interesting here is
that there's no big reveal that it's a

eff2351f-0e4b-447f-b145-9a540fe4f27b-1
01:30:06.385 --> 01:30:06.640
penis.

bff1d839-770a-41fc-a00e-319d6e00c5d4-0
01:30:06.640 --> 01:30:08.520
It's not introduced in the first line.

067639a8-bb31-4bbd-8874-5c5cf865c4a7-0
01:30:08.640 --> 01:30:10.120
It's progressively introduced.

cbf899f0-8a5b-4438-bbb6-28e78649dfd1-0
01:30:10.120 --> 01:30:12.120
And at some point it might be different
to everyone.

6aa9cf5a-da38-40d8-a963-0e9f903ad131-0
01:30:12.240 --> 01:30:15.560
You figure out that it's a penis talking
and I kind of enjoy that.

27ee139b-bf23-4cbf-bb45-2559211eae99-0
01:30:15.560 --> 01:30:16.120
I enjoy that.

a30e2d45-a1f0-48e3-a8af-eaf6f5f5f168-0
01:30:16.120 --> 01:30:18.040
Like it's not held as a twist.

fb4579b4-c997-406e-9f50-a6f2c00612df-0
01:30:18.040 --> 01:30:19.640
It's not held as a big reveal.

b4e2c1e4-d069-4eda-8195-b9291e170058-0
01:30:19.640 --> 01:30:21.320
It's just like, hey, I'm a penis,
I'm talking.

3476c851-2c15-4d07-9d19-c20b130bc7de-0
01:30:21.320 --> 01:30:24.080
And eventually you'll get the fact that
I'm a penis pretty early on.

d3aebdd8-6ae2-4cbf-9ef7-1933fe4645cc-0
01:30:24.080 --> 01:30:24.960
Like you get it.

c0144620-22db-4cca-9c20-76f9d516fc74-0
01:30:25.040 --> 01:30:29.200
So just well handled, I think,
if you will.

0c16c637-dfd2-42e6-8950-66e729c9582b-0
01:30:29.200 --> 01:30:31.665
And congratulations, Steve,
you've given us a penis,

0c16c637-dfd2-42e6-8950-66e729c9582b-1
01:30:31.665 --> 01:30:33.200
but you've given us so much more.

59f9fbad-f64f-4bb4-a845-99a88af20375-0
01:30:35.120 --> 01:30:36.360
We can all hold on to that.

8c3f6d0d-7408-4175-bcdf-028dc2d2f7c9-0
01:30:37.200 --> 01:30:39.720
Where's the job with our soft,
warm fingers?

14ac9d2b-e655-46e9-97f0-54594e85190a-0
01:30:40.160 --> 01:30:41.240
So we appreciate it.

ba9cd6a8-b992-4ee8-be6f-29683cc633cf-0
01:30:44.040 --> 01:30:49.320
And so of course,
a $1500 prize and a pointy trophy are

ba9cd6a8-b992-4ee8-be6f-29683cc633cf-1
01:30:49.320 --> 01:30:51.960
both coming your way, Steve.

610b25ac-2909-4983-8f68-03316c6bcf7d-0
01:30:51.960 --> 01:30:54.880
So congratulations on your win.

2c694b3e-0c65-478e-b487-4532c97a2b3b-0
01:30:54.880 --> 01:30:55.120
Hmm.

45cd7fe5-f1ea-4f3d-ac37-a0e3489b664e-0
01:30:56.080 --> 01:30:59.920
But I would like to also gloat because no,
we don't need to do that.

ba0e7bee-fb6c-4259-b037-be97d42f0920-0
01:30:59.920 --> 01:31:00.600
No, it's fine.

1d837d6b-0045-4305-a398-677dc3ba2c26-0
01:31:00.720 --> 01:31:01.040
We can.

4a093d39-4ee7-4688-9879-babbfc86f678-0
01:31:01.280 --> 01:31:05.458
No, although,
although you may have won the popular

4a093d39-4ee7-4688-9879-babbfc86f678-1
01:31:05.458 --> 01:31:10.680
vote and although you may have had the
most long listed entries,

4a093d39-4ee7-4688-9879-babbfc86f678-2
01:31:10.680 --> 01:31:16.947
I'd like to point out the critical fact,
2 critical facts, in fact, one fact,

4a093d39-4ee7-4688-9879-babbfc86f678-3
01:31:16.947 --> 01:31:19.840
the 1st that the shortlist was 5050.

f5cf6329-666e-465a-b100-4f8614ca7009-0
01:31:19.840 --> 01:31:24.320
He was divided right down the middle,
three team Ed, three team Amanda.

a5e89706-25f7-4d9f-9533-4ea8999ff98d-0
01:31:24.320 --> 01:31:28.400
So it was close with a certain
perspective in mind.

e603575b-eb4a-4c47-82f8-e5ed24c3df23-0
01:31:28.920 --> 01:31:32.968
And more importantly,
the moral victory for the July round goes

e603575b-eb4a-4c47-82f8-e5ed24c3df23-1
01:31:32.968 --> 01:31:37.840
to Team Ed for the first time for the
first time, potentially the only time.

8a9caa95-a9d4-4228-b90f-f41f66793901-0
01:31:38.520 --> 01:31:40.080
Oh look,
we're already getting ahead of ourselves.

da91ed53-72ec-450f-9e57-236f55ccd0fa-0
01:31:40.080 --> 01:31:42.240
Can we just be in the moment for a second?

e6dfccd4-e5e4-445e-872b-c01853a28364-0
01:31:42.600 --> 01:31:45.600
Alright,
I'll let you have moral victory and just

e6dfccd4-e5e4-445e-872b-c01853a28364-1
01:31:45.600 --> 01:31:48.240
fight against all odds from the 88
stories.

71109b13-8334-4a37-9987-697bb4935761-0
01:31:48.240 --> 01:31:48.720
You're right.

4c58cf5a-6aef-4eb7-8868-a6824e243542-0
01:31:48.800 --> 01:31:52.960
Out of 297 stories,
Team Ed rises to the top.

67c2d1fe-1fea-4048-82e1-0bd591502fe2-0
01:31:53.320 --> 01:31:58.800
And there's no better metaphor of the
cream arising well than a penis POV.

bb7b41ca-d1cf-4e39-b952-d134eee99b31-0
01:31:59.040 --> 01:31:59.960
Oh dear.

3cff5792-3c62-40fa-b4f3-7ab4d8c1f451-0
01:32:00.200 --> 01:32:02.000
And we have you to thank for it, Steve.

0b1b3f12-ae4d-4c5c-94e5-3b827b84dbac-0
01:32:02.000 --> 01:32:02.960
So thank you so much.

d3b5645f-edf2-4440-8866-4be49d1a991e-0
01:32:03.240 --> 01:32:05.737
OK, but like,
let's bring you down off your high horse

d3b5645f-edf2-4440-8866-4be49d1a991e-1
01:32:05.737 --> 01:32:07.600
a little bit and let's talk about points.

33fc8732-cb57-43a5-880a-54e6f2130233-0
01:32:07.960 --> 01:32:10.560
Yes, that nasty business of points.

5e7162e5-7e70-4a11-9307-734552f5b2a3-0
01:32:10.560 --> 01:32:14.547
So the way the points work for those of
you who are uninitiated,

5e7162e5-7e70-4a11-9307-734552f5b2a3-1
01:32:14.547 --> 01:32:18.720
is that for each story that makes the
long list, you get one point.

b35214f3-5f7b-4cc9-8883-27cdab9d506e-0
01:32:18.720 --> 01:32:22.451
If you make the shortlist,
you get 2 points, and if you win,

b35214f3-5f7b-4cc9-8883-27cdab9d506e-1
01:32:22.451 --> 01:32:23.920
you get 3 points, right?

04c6325e-12ee-42e9-bd92-0fc0d2b1fe20-0
01:32:23.920 --> 01:32:27.720
It's the same as the leaderboard,
but we apply it to the teams here as well.

e7a802ec-e7f0-41fc-8a8f-7d25aa4961cd-0
01:32:27.800 --> 01:32:28.360
That's it.

a7842b21-7891-4abe-a5cb-0f18018b629d-0
01:32:28.400 --> 01:32:35.233
And so total is for team Ed 16 points,
very respectable, 16 points,

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01:32:35.233 --> 01:32:36.640
if you say so.

92c4de35-acd4-4516-b5a4-fd9d1c57ca8e-0
01:32:36.640 --> 01:32:41.320
And team Amanda 31 points, so respectable.

2c494f65-66dd-43df-8175-e4f91347cec8-0
01:32:41.400 --> 01:32:44.348
So team Amanda,
which we knew probably in the long list

2c494f65-66dd-43df-8175-e4f91347cec8-1
01:32:44.348 --> 01:32:46.560
episode, that's what we were dealing with.

38da45cb-e220-46f3-8c9e-dd2fcd7b8f15-0
01:32:47.000 --> 01:32:49.920
Congratulations, team Amanda,
Congratulations team.

a02eea2c-4dc3-405a-a7cb-ec09de34a46a-0
01:32:49.920 --> 01:32:51.600
Congratulations myself.

ac157caf-4702-4521-9ceb-bb47641bd1d0-0
01:32:51.600 --> 01:32:56.834
Pat myself on the back just happening to
have the prompts that inspired people,

ac157caf-4702-4521-9ceb-bb47641bd1d0-1
01:32:56.834 --> 01:33:00.629
which is exciting,
but the real interesting thing is that

ac157caf-4702-4521-9ceb-bb47641bd1d0-2
01:33:00.629 --> 01:33:02.920
now we get to draw the bonus prize.

ef8d3ff2-f93b-44e6-8626-ef200b038fb5-0
01:33:02.920 --> 01:33:06.629
Well, well deserved T man, look,
let's let's park our animosity for a

ef8d3ff2-f93b-44e6-8626-ef200b038fb5-1
01:33:06.629 --> 01:33:07.000
second.

fdc2c265-9240-4c67-8ab5-a8e0ddb6dc5f-0
01:33:07.040 --> 01:33:08.040
Well deserved you.

1956fd99-9d17-40a7-8a46-f614dc23f36f-0
01:33:08.040 --> 01:33:09.240
It was a landslide.

a34c5bb3-8d48-48c1-8d60-ce19c62c5972-0
01:33:09.480 --> 01:33:10.400
You've earned it.

0f82274d-c6de-435e-863f-232521e32471-0
01:33:10.400 --> 01:33:11.280
You've done well.

a308fcd6-7c08-405e-a90a-073f44a51328-0
01:33:11.280 --> 01:33:15.200
And having done literally nothing myself,
well, you selected the prompts.

b1b3911f-344b-44d1-969f-ea46a8b2c98d-0
01:33:15.440 --> 01:33:16.440
Yeah, that's great.

7b4dada2-3c75-4c61-90a4-38b764f07bad-0
01:33:16.640 --> 01:33:17.080
Good on me.

7095ea76-7d9c-41e0-a50f-08d52b1ba6f1-0
01:33:17.120 --> 01:33:18.440
Well, that's what matters.

615f0e6c-8ced-4f1b-9473-20d1bfbb9318-0
01:33:18.560 --> 01:33:19.360
Or something.

8dd55d25-d7e7-4d8e-abd3-c63f0e5b4c6a-0
01:33:19.480 --> 01:33:20.200
So well done.

33ad0288-50b8-4212-8129-8ae43bcaa4be-0
01:33:20.440 --> 01:33:23.400
So yes,
we do have the spreadsheet ready to go.

b0daedb1-3727-4d7b-82fb-60e175845578-0
01:33:23.760 --> 01:33:27.230
Of course,
we're pretending that we have a lice ball

b0daedb1-3727-4d7b-82fb-60e175845578-1
01:33:27.230 --> 01:33:30.767
machine set up,
so let's draw the winner of the bonus

b0daedb1-3727-4d7b-82fb-60e175845578-2
01:33:30.767 --> 01:33:31.160
prize.

a6f20e0e-3f8c-4582-a829-92e7627b7303-0
01:33:31.240 --> 01:33:37.440
And the winner is Catherine Cook.

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01:33:37.960 --> 01:33:39.960
Oh, congratulations, Catherine.

2abfc36e-79f4-41d9-ab1b-9193f69bb0d0-0
01:33:39.960 --> 01:33:43.440
I feel like we heard that name during the
longest episode.

236e526d-9762-4b70-b46c-ee4c23a2409a-0
01:33:43.440 --> 01:33:46.839
With a bit of a shout out,
Catherine Cook is the author of Little

236e526d-9762-4b70-b46c-ee4c23a2409a-1
01:33:46.839 --> 01:33:47.200
Treats.

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01:33:47.200 --> 01:33:48.920
So yes, I remember that story.

dfab3f43-b52c-4db5-98f9-fb308a3e9c93-0
01:33:49.000 --> 01:33:56.000
Yes, a beautiful story, a memorable story,
and tantalisingly close to the shortlist.

e0d62de2-4d84-4826-afd9-d4bd4d0d2eb6-0
01:33:56.000 --> 01:33:58.760
So I'm so glad to see that you won the
bonus prize.

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01:33:58.760 --> 01:34:04.160
So you get a hoodie, A coveted, very rare,
not quite right hoodie.

97046221-abba-4f6d-905d-56ec6584566a-0
01:34:04.160 --> 01:34:06.647
And also,
I look forward to talking to you,

97046221-abba-4f6d-905d-56ec6584566a-1
01:34:06.647 --> 01:34:09.417
Catherine,
and hopefully we enjoy exploring your

97046221-abba-4f6d-905d-56ec6584566a-2
01:34:09.417 --> 01:34:12.640
writing talents together in a bit of a
coaching session.

79f85efd-5c8d-48cc-a731-b57a52a4ae32-0
01:34:12.640 --> 01:34:16.201
And the rarity of the hoodie should not
be understated because I think they're

79f85efd-5c8d-48cc-a731-b57a52a4ae32-1
01:34:16.201 --> 01:34:18.320
only like 4 people owned these hoodies,
4 now.

e84e3dc6-db38-49bd-9549-6ca2185e3594-0
01:34:18.320 --> 01:34:20.880
And like,
mine is like about to go in the bin.

a8847f50-2c58-4974-b63e-4c495583fd56-0
01:34:20.880 --> 01:34:21.960
It's trash.

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01:34:23.360 --> 01:34:24.560
So yourself another one.

5e37088d-6f76-4fe6-a6d8-d9e3e9416033-0
01:34:24.560 --> 01:34:25.840
I could, I could do that.

b2b1864c-2aa8-49a6-8475-bdbdf133420e-0
01:34:26.880 --> 01:34:28.600
So congratulations, Catherine.

9294b1ba-7209-4a7b-b1ea-014b9be2fdcd-0
01:34:28.600 --> 01:34:32.440
And that takes us to the end of the
shortlist episode.

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01:34:32.800 --> 01:34:36.049
So of course,
we look forward to sending out Steve's

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01:34:36.049 --> 01:34:41.200
trophy and we look forward to adding you
Steve to our little winners gallery there.

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01:34:41.200 --> 01:34:42.840
So I'll be in touch about that.

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01:34:43.160 --> 01:34:45.647
For those of you who did make the
shortlist,

c579103c-d8bc-49a8-87bc-c5afaa11fa08-1
01:34:45.647 --> 01:34:48.080
we have upgraded badges on the honour
roll.

4b8e4d34-25f6-4a4c-84b6-eaf7fc86cf29-0
01:34:48.080 --> 01:34:53.160
So please do go and check those out in
terms of prize money and so on.

d4a0f098-d3d2-4b35-9461-13012e6f40bd-0
01:34:53.160 --> 01:34:57.498
If you did win a prize today,
whether that be a placing or a wild card

d4a0f098-d3d2-4b35-9461-13012e6f40bd-1
01:34:57.498 --> 01:35:00.920
or even the bonus prize,
please get in contact with us.

98b132f6-03fc-47df-8841-cf63ec8c9beb-0
01:35:00.920 --> 01:35:06.031
So email us at contact@notquiteright.
com and let us know that you know that

98b132f6-03fc-47df-8841-cf63ec8c9beb-1
01:35:06.031 --> 01:35:10.280
you won and we will figure out how to get
you your prize money.

9df4d790-fb5f-4b33-b19f-bba36e5c1bd8-0
01:35:10.280 --> 01:35:12.240
Depending on where you are in the world.

cc7375cf-2a6e-4a69-8e9c-53cbb2e90808-0
01:35:12.640 --> 01:35:16.825
We will get in contact with you in a
little while if we haven't heard from you,

cc7375cf-2a6e-4a69-8e9c-53cbb2e90808-1
01:35:16.825 --> 01:35:21.011
but I guess we just like to wait and give
you the opportunity to hear your name

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01:35:21.011 --> 01:35:22.319
announced on the podcast.

d9b34c08-6ff4-4a99-a5d1-37957a345d45-0
01:35:22.440 --> 01:35:24.440
So we're not going to preempt that.

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01:35:24.440 --> 01:35:27.080
So let us know and we'll organise it
straight away.

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01:35:27.440 --> 01:35:32.048
In terms of the leaderboard,
that will be updated and will be shared

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01:35:32.048 --> 01:35:35.120
on social media and on our community as
well.

6b3f016a-e2f0-4d2f-9eab-c71c1f53b6a8-0
01:35:35.880 --> 01:35:37.720
But Ed,
tell us about what's coming up next.

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01:35:38.160 --> 01:35:41.200
So we still have more to come for the
July round.

056ea1c4-ce56-4498-8e65-0ac62c916a4c-0
01:35:41.200 --> 01:35:44.483
We have Daredevil episodes,
5 Daredevil episodes,

056ea1c4-ce56-4498-8e65-0ac62c916a4c-1
01:35:44.483 --> 01:35:49.211
and I'd like to call out that one
particular Daredevil was right on the

056ea1c4-ce56-4498-8e65-0ac62c916a4c-2
01:35:49.211 --> 01:35:54.399
cusp of the shortlist came within one or
two spaces, like so annoyingly close,

056ea1c4-ce56-4498-8e65-0ac62c916a4c-3
01:35:54.399 --> 01:35:57.880
really close one that we we have to make
a decision.

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01:35:57.880 --> 01:36:00.560
It was a it was a tight one for the
shortlist this time around.

a76157f9-48da-4483-8ceb-6f3c890c1aca-0
01:36:00.560 --> 01:36:04.447
So I'm really looking forward to
analysing that story and sharing the

a76157f9-48da-4483-8ceb-6f3c890c1aca-1
01:36:04.447 --> 01:36:08.724
things that I loved about it and the
things that maybe just kept it off that

a76157f9-48da-4483-8ceb-6f3c890c1aca-2
01:36:08.724 --> 01:36:09.280
shortlist.

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01:36:09.280 --> 01:36:11.880
Just so tantalisingly close.

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01:36:11.880 --> 01:36:13.800
Painful but necessary.

99859bc2-8560-42db-a9ad-637a540c9e2b-0
01:36:14.280 --> 01:36:18.624
So some exciting and informative
daredevils I feel coming up this round

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01:36:18.624 --> 01:36:21.280
and we will have a regular episode as
well.

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01:36:21.280 --> 01:36:22.280
We do will we?

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01:36:22.320 --> 01:36:23.040
Are you sure?

8da3aeb2-db16-4508-9366-b9f18d2e41fd-0
01:36:23.040 --> 01:36:24.000
No, I'm not.

b9b27d91-0bea-4bf2-8a0c-9c25de3e3953-0
01:36:24.080 --> 01:36:27.320
We we we release a regular commit not
that long ago.

4aeabecf-714d-42f6-b7a4-2a79d4cc6152-0
01:36:27.720 --> 01:36:28.240
They're not that.

74f81cdf-678f-4168-bc6a-703f04684f07-0
01:36:28.240 --> 01:36:28.920
Don't listen.

4cf34ea7-6870-4f35-add2-8543aa2ef271-0
01:36:28.920 --> 01:36:29.720
We will do it.

f50dda6a-0c9e-4088-9959-95112afabb57-0
01:36:29.720 --> 01:36:31.120
Don't write cheques.

b9909258-1cc6-42a0-868e-01dde39b6bf8-0
01:36:31.120 --> 01:36:35.694
You're asking exactly I'm committing
right now that we will at some point do

b9909258-1cc6-42a0-868e-01dde39b6bf8-1
01:36:35.694 --> 01:36:37.120
another regular episode.

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01:36:37.160 --> 01:36:38.160
Oh, at some point.

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01:36:38.160 --> 01:36:38.560
Great.

0076bf5b-9110-4f18-9a33-27ab7bc3c6c4-0
01:36:38.680 --> 01:36:41.455
OK,
I feel reassured and I feel and of course

0076bf5b-9110-4f18-9a33-27ab7bc3c6c4-1
01:36:41.455 --> 01:36:45.680
we have the next round, the October round,
we're gearing up for that.

4954c912-2d56-4cb6-a115-71fe5f331c1f-0
01:36:45.680 --> 01:36:49.804
We have Nora Tuck busily working away on
the artwork for the next round and we're

4954c912-2d56-4cb6-a115-71fe5f331c1f-1
01:36:49.804 --> 01:36:52.320
keen to share that with everyone when
it's ready.

d2444fca-ead6-41b4-b82a-998dc774adef-0
01:36:52.760 --> 01:36:57.200
But tickets are on sale now for the
October round and we are very excited.

caf39174-7225-4c47-b8ea-e8b87c385127-0
01:36:57.200 --> 01:37:00.160
So if you haven't got 1 yet,
head over to the website and pick one up.

603064bc-b5af-47de-bcff-059955643845-0
01:37:00.360 --> 01:37:01.120
Absolutely.

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And you know,
a huge thank you once again to everybody

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01:37:04.091 --> 01:37:06.360
who entered this round of the competition.

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We're so grateful for your entries.

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We're so grateful for your support.

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01:37:11.400 --> 01:37:16.400
And every single story that we received,
we read and we received with gratitude.

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01:37:16.400 --> 01:37:20.847
And I guess I can't articulate how
grateful I am for everyone using this

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01:37:20.847 --> 01:37:25.600
opportunity to really express yourselves
and really put yourselves out there.

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It's a huge act of bravery.

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You know,
it doesn't always come with the accolades.

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And that's the reality of writing.

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We, all of us here, all of us, Ed, I,
our assistant judges,

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01:37:37.310 --> 01:37:42.466
everyone who is in this space knows what
it's like to not, I guess,

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rise to the top.

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We cannot do that every single time.

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But the process is what we're here for
and this journey of learning how best to

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01:37:50.931 --> 01:37:54.600
express ourselves,
themselves in a way that people receive.

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And all of you who are continuing to bash
your heads against that particular brick

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wall deserve an accolade for that.

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But thank you, as always,
for sharing that with us.

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Yeah.

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And we acknowledge that there are always
going to be disappointed people every

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01:38:09.863 --> 01:38:12.840
round that far outweigh the the satisfied
people.

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01:38:13.320 --> 01:38:14.720
But that's the nature of it.

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And look, I can say for myself,
I had a lot of fun this round.

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I think the,
I think a lot of people connected with

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the prompts.

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That's the feedback I got on social media
and the forums that they inspired people

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to write stories that they really had fun
writing.

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And as always, I had fun reading them.

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So all of the stories for my team.

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Thanks to everyone who submitted for T
Med.

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I appreciate each and everyone of you,
each and everyone,

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01:38:40.068 --> 01:38:45.680
each and everyone of you two or three and
hopefully we can come back next time.

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01:38:45.880 --> 01:38:47.320
Well, look, I'm being an *******.

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01:38:47.320 --> 01:38:52.764
I I am well aware of that and I look
forward to seeing the huge groundswell of

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01:38:52.764 --> 01:38:58.070
support for team and next time as you all
abandoned ship on Amanda's *******

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behaviour.

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Well look,
it's all about the prompts I feel.

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So we'll just have to do better next time
and hopefully get over the line.

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But thank you everyone for your support
and thank you everyone for your stories,

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01:39:09.235 --> 01:39:09.640
as always.

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And on the note of support,
a reminder that we do have a Patreon and

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we have been overwhelmed by the response
on Patreon.

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We've had a whole bunch of people join
and we love you all.

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And every time we get a notification,
we text each other because we're so

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excited that people are there to support
us and join in.

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So if you do want to get in on our
Patreon,

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go to Patreon and search not quite right
or click on the link at the bottom of our

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01:39:34.448 --> 01:39:34.840
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You get early access to our episodes,
you get to interact with us and you get

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01:39:40.323 --> 01:39:45.769
to listen to our silly nonsense in the
niche if you are a citizen or in a circle

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01:39:45.769 --> 01:39:46.240
member.

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And thank you so much to everyone who has
signed up.

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Absolutely.

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It's very heartwarming.

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That's probably in a way problematic,
like it's just enabling.

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I say heartwarming.

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At what point is becoming we feel
justified now in in just releasing all

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01:40:02.126 --> 01:40:06.160
our like deepest, darkest sports,
which is probably not for the best.

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No, really not.

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But here we are.

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Hmm.

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Anyway, it's not over for this episode.

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If you hang around after the outro music,
you get to listen to our vague tweet

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01:40:16.299 --> 01:40:16.840
reveals.

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01:40:16.840 --> 01:40:20.880
So if we need to say vague posts,
let's not give you a Musk anymore.

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01:40:20.960 --> 01:40:22.720
So we're we're changing our terminology.

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01:40:22.720 --> 01:40:25.280
It's no longer vague tweets,
it's vague posts.

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01:40:25.360 --> 01:40:28.400
We will reveal them after the closing
credits.

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01:40:28.560 --> 01:40:29.920
So I'll be back very shortly.

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01:40:30.040 --> 01:40:33.040
But until then, right on, right on.

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01:40:35.640 --> 01:40:37.200
Thank you for listening to Not Quite
Right.

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01:40:37.360 --> 01:40:40.985
If you'd like to reach us via email or
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And if you enjoyed the show,
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Something doesn't seem quite right,
So we are back ******* with excuse me,

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01:41:03.560 --> 01:41:05.280
vague post.

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No,
that's the language I don't approve of.

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Well,
it was directed specifically towards you,

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so in that case, valid.

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So let's start as I'll get mine out of
the way because they're usually fewer

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01:41:17.230 --> 01:41:17.880
than yours.

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And normally I've got like a couple,
but this time I broke all records with I

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01:41:22.531 --> 01:41:24.320
think I don't know the number.

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01:41:24.320 --> 01:41:25.320
There's not that many.

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I've got 13.

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I feel like you're you're gaining on me
new one.

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There was only like 6 or 7,
so the hand gesture is welcome,

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but six or seven with my previous record
being 2, maybe 3.

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So I I think I've blown it out of the
water.

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I'm I'm very proud of you.

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01:41:42.160 --> 01:41:42.800
No, I'm proud.

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01:41:42.800 --> 01:41:43.640
I did my best.

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01:41:43.640 --> 01:41:45.782
Alright,
given that you only had about six or

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01:41:45.782 --> 01:41:47.040
seven stories, that's true.

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01:41:47.480 --> 01:41:48.280
That is true.

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Alright, bring it on, bring it on.

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01:41:51.920 --> 01:41:55.809
So first one,
I said first cab off the rank is clearly

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01:41:55.809 --> 01:41:59.840
from around here with some tantalising
local references.

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01:41:59.840 --> 01:42:03.774
And this one was Penelope Haley's the
Trombone Minor,

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01:42:03.774 --> 01:42:05.960
which referenced a few things.

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You referenced the the Hunter Valley and
also Martin Place, among other things.

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01:42:10.040 --> 01:42:12.160
They're either side, either way.

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We are.

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01:42:12.960 --> 01:42:13.160
Yeah.

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01:42:13.240 --> 01:42:13.400
Yeah.

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And so I don't know, I,
I enjoy stories with local references

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01:42:17.152 --> 01:42:19.440
like that because I can really picture
them.

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I can put myself in a place.

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It's an advantage that some people have
when they're writing about local places.

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01:42:24.960 --> 01:42:31.467
Again, I remember another story, actually,
that was set in Enmore, like and Newtown,

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01:42:31.467 --> 01:42:32.080
King St.

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01:42:32.160 --> 01:42:33.440
No, I know the one you're talking about.

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01:42:33.440 --> 01:42:34.360
And the same, same thing.

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01:42:34.360 --> 01:42:38.663
Like you start writing about being drunk
in Newtown and I'm like, yeah,

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01:42:38.663 --> 01:42:39.560
I can place it.

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I've been there.

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01:42:40.600 --> 01:42:41.200
Exactly.

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01:42:42.040 --> 01:42:45.199
Yeah,
100% of all the people are not quite

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01:42:45.199 --> 01:42:45.640
right.

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01:42:45.640 --> 01:42:48.840
I've been drunk in Enmore more than once.

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The next one,
so this story with a genuinely disturbing

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01:42:54.389 --> 01:43:00.113
twist and my first maybe plus and that
was Carolyn Cullen's For Your Peace of

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01:43:00.113 --> 01:43:00.480
Mind.

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01:43:00.920 --> 01:43:05.028
And this was a it was kind of a murder
suicide situation,

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01:43:05.028 --> 01:43:10.269
very Yang energy kind of situation,
but but written in the form of like a

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01:43:10.269 --> 01:43:12.040
letter being left behind.

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01:43:12.040 --> 01:43:16.160
So disturbing,
absolutely captivating and compelling.

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01:43:16.200 --> 01:43:17.440
Absolutely as well.

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01:43:18.280 --> 01:43:22.760
The next one to the author of this story,
what the actual F, but in a good way.

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01:43:23.680 --> 01:43:24.840
And Are you sure?

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01:43:26.080 --> 01:43:28.200
And that was Malcolm McCabe's stare at
the sun.

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01:43:28.200 --> 01:43:32.280
And that's the story that I referred to a
few times in the longest episode.

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01:43:32.280 --> 01:43:37.667
It was one that I think was very strange
in my mind in terms of the direction it

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01:43:37.667 --> 01:43:38.000
went.

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01:43:38.000 --> 01:43:43.040
It was some kind of ritual,
which I believe was sexualized.

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01:43:43.120 --> 01:43:47.760
There was a, a penis involved in this,
like rising up to the light.

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01:43:47.760 --> 01:43:52.171
So as they do, they, they do,
let's be honest,

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01:43:52.171 --> 01:43:54.800
they rise up towards things.

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01:43:55.840 --> 01:44:00.790
It had lines like my seed erupts in a
golden opalescent fountain,

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01:44:00.790 --> 01:44:03.040
splashing me from head to toe.

cc867212-a776-4a0d-9486-ecc81d2eb3ca-0
01:44:03.680 --> 01:44:08.068
So look a lot of captivating and very
unusual imagery in there,

cc867212-a776-4a0d-9486-ecc81d2eb3ca-1
01:44:08.068 --> 01:44:10.880
but definitely one that got my attention.

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01:44:11.360 --> 01:44:17.763
Next post is this story is an evocative
story dripping with Yang energy and my

afc917b3-aa9a-47a5-a467-c962eec27041-1
01:44:17.763 --> 01:44:23.600
first yes for the long list and that was
Vita Tully's a broken Promise.

f8645e9a-addd-4969-a010-eaad409652d0-0
01:44:24.360 --> 01:44:31.185
This was a very evocative and kind of
complex story about a man who returns to

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01:44:31.185 --> 01:44:35.160
a house and this kind of tragedy befalls
him.

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01:44:35.160 --> 01:44:39.804
He falls off a ladder and he's like left
grasping at things and there's memories

f3bd9b28-674c-4f72-9890-64b81cb2cea0-1
01:44:39.804 --> 01:44:40.320
involved.

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01:44:40.320 --> 01:44:44.214
And it's it's quite ambiguous,
but I thought it was a a really

954ebecc-0cea-4bae-89ef-b85241e83f26-1
01:44:44.214 --> 01:44:48.480
interesting story and one that's
definitely inspired by Yang energy.

543dc2ad-25f1-46a1-ac48-5d11f26dc5a3-0
01:44:48.760 --> 01:44:52.520
And in my next post,
I doubled down on this sentiment.

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01:44:52.520 --> 01:44:55.195
That is,
it seems that many of you have

7cbc6da4-b078-4b4b-aa26-42902cbfceec-1
01:44:55.195 --> 01:45:00.680
interpreted Yang energy to mean weird and
disturbing as **** and I'm here for it.

fa79d6c4-4c7b-49b0-812d-5d19d33c81ef-0
01:45:01.320 --> 01:45:04.720
Case in point to this story,
which leaves me at a loss for words.

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01:45:04.720 --> 01:45:08.820
So the previous story left me at a loss
for words and this one,

4371e3fd-3ba5-44b0-bff6-c85a74d2d38a-1
01:45:08.820 --> 01:45:12.280
which was the historic Battle of Ted
Caster of Death,

4371e3fd-3ba5-44b0-bff6-c85a74d2d38a-2
01:45:12.280 --> 01:45:17.341
Sir David and the River Serpent in the
Year of Our Lord 1351 by Holly Sadowski

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01:45:17.341 --> 01:45:19.840
definitely left me at a loss for words.

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01:45:20.080 --> 01:45:21.800
But a great story, Holly.

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01:45:21.800 --> 01:45:24.758
And I think look,
all of us who read it had the same

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01:45:24.758 --> 01:45:26.880
reaction and we rated it quite highly.

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01:45:26.880 --> 01:45:32.343
It was a great story,
but very much a WTF story and one that

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01:45:32.343 --> 01:45:37.000
like went there and I love a story that
goes there.

c074779a-ec20-4a4a-b142-45a5a4009364-0
01:45:37.000 --> 01:45:40.360
I love a story that doesn't hold back and
go, oh, well, that would be weird.

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01:45:40.360 --> 01:45:42.160
But no, you sat there.

eb7e23e7-cb18-4487-9da3-0906f43a66b5-0
01:45:42.160 --> 01:45:47.960
You sat there at your little laptop and
you're like, where can I take this?

11cd7237-faf3-4174-a818-c0c74e1ce7ec-0
01:45:47.960 --> 01:45:50.640
Where is the most ****** ** place I can
take this?

80af2fd6-efa0-4d1b-aed4-10eeccf2fa02-0
01:45:50.640 --> 01:45:51.480
And you took it there.

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01:45:52.120 --> 01:45:55.080
Next post, 2 significant yeses in a row.

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01:45:55.080 --> 01:45:59.150
The first for receiving an outright yes
and an outright no from two different

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01:45:59.150 --> 01:46:02.855
judges, which is quite rare,
and the second for evoking a particularly

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01:46:02.855 --> 01:46:05.360
memorable dishonourable mention of rounds
past.

9933ab8c-8740-4cf3-8c7a-b8612a4f783a-0
01:46:05.960 --> 01:46:11.160
This one was unanimous,
and the first one was Sarah Banda's

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01:46:11.160 --> 01:46:12.200
Umunasaurus.

afa103b2-8636-4790-873d-77ff316dadf1-0
01:46:12.320 --> 01:46:16.908
This is one that had an interesting
metaphor here between like what this

afa103b2-8636-4790-873d-77ff316dadf1-1
01:46:16.908 --> 01:46:21.245
Australian child was going through,
this Aboriginal child, you know,

afa103b2-8636-4790-873d-77ff316dadf1-2
01:46:21.245 --> 01:46:24.200
there's parallels between where she was
being,

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01:46:24.200 --> 01:46:29.040
where she lived in western NSW and like
the fossils that were underneath the

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01:46:29.040 --> 01:46:29.480
ground.

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01:46:29.480 --> 01:46:33.280
I thought that all came together very
well, so I gave that one a yes.

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01:46:33.480 --> 01:46:38.496
And the second one which which evoked a
particularly memorable dishonourable

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01:46:38.496 --> 01:46:42.471
mention of rounds past,
was of course our winner Sandworm by

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01:46:42.471 --> 01:46:45.794
Steve Huff,
which evoked Holly Sadowski's story as

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01:46:45.794 --> 01:46:46.120
well.

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01:46:46.120 --> 01:46:49.040
Johnson and Johnson,
our other penis POV story.

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01:46:49.040 --> 01:46:54.800
It's not the only one, but yes,
so penis POV back with a vengeance.

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01:46:55.480 --> 01:46:56.520
So well done Steve.

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01:46:56.960 --> 01:46:57.800
Next post here.

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01:46:57.800 --> 01:47:01.560
My first favourite story,
followed immediately by my 4th.

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01:47:01.560 --> 01:47:02.040
Yes.

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01:47:02.040 --> 01:47:06.064
Both feature some wonderful lines,
with the first having a particularly

54c2c294-7c40-4427-8db2-a3aeafbedc45-1
01:47:06.064 --> 01:47:10.089
memorable take on the kicker,
and the first is Natalie Harris Sunscape,

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01:47:10.089 --> 01:47:11.040
which came third.

cc2c2125-fd73-4495-a756-11c93a41b725-0
01:47:11.040 --> 01:47:14.680
This is the one about Thomas Broadswell
going blind.

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01:47:14.680 --> 01:47:20.052
So obviously a very memorable take on the
kicker and also the word for this round

f6c93020-9a6d-4f7f-8489-8470c190baaa-1
01:47:20.052 --> 01:47:25.360
and the other story, which was a yes,
which was Michelle Ryan's final departure.

ef07c685-2650-480f-ad4e-d22f146a9e02-0
01:47:25.480 --> 01:47:30.400
And that was actually Dean's wild card
entry, so I appreciated that too.

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01:47:30.520 --> 01:47:32.600
It was a very well written story.

bf3eb3f7-bccc-4b30-b157-da5f4029e3fe-0
01:47:32.600 --> 01:47:37.936
I marked it as a yes as well for the same
reasons that Dean has already called out

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01:47:37.936 --> 01:47:39.480
earlier in this episode.

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01:47:39.640 --> 01:47:41.320
So yeah, I did call out.

bc4f271b-f6f7-4b98-8495-3e51f3236877-0
01:47:41.320 --> 01:47:44.149
I'm not sure how many tweets that was
because some of them contained multiple

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01:47:44.149 --> 01:47:44.440
stories.

cbcbc30d-73d6-4833-9cda-9cf635d5f35d-0
01:47:44.920 --> 01:47:49.000
But All in all, 10 stories referenced,
which is a personal best.

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01:47:49.360 --> 01:47:50.200
Well done.

b1c23533-663c-4008-b41c-32029314262f-0
01:47:50.200 --> 01:47:55.280
It's probably as many as like the last
year combined pretty much.

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01:47:55.280 --> 01:47:56.640
Good on you.

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01:47:56.800 --> 01:47:57.240
Anyway.

d7d510fe-e7f3-41b5-8813-7ad65f9cc5a6-0
01:47:57.480 --> 01:48:00.000
What were your vague posts, Amanda?

44906409-a9de-4924-b231-c338f64c6b34-0
01:48:00.080 --> 01:48:06.685
Alright,
so my first post was my very first story

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01:48:06.685 --> 01:48:10.120
and it's flesh fiction?!?!

0b6e26df-cb6f-4b23-9592-cfd567b58349-0
01:48:10.600 --> 01:48:11.560
Yes, team.

afefde4c-9a11-41f0-ba84-0943640b99ae-0
01:48:11.560 --> 01:48:15.440
I cannot wait to enjoy the huge variety
of stories you sent my way in this friend.

ee1b7087-77b3-4551-9302-a8748a7e8638-0
01:48:15.720 --> 01:48:19.924
And I cannot overstate this, like,
the excitement of like, OK,

ee1b7087-77b3-4551-9302-a8748a7e8638-1
01:48:19.924 --> 01:48:24.864
we've got a new batch of stories,
and I'm going to open story #1 and that

ee1b7087-77b3-4551-9302-a8748a7e8638-2
01:48:24.864 --> 01:48:27.000
was Ella Rose's Mystic Melodies.

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01:48:27.000 --> 01:48:28.640
So thank you for that.

bf37ea46-9467-43c0-87d6-ea6eabb45498-0
01:48:28.640 --> 01:48:31.884
Thank you for just, like,
getting it started with a bit of a bang,

bf37ea46-9467-43c0-87d6-ea6eabb45498-1
01:48:31.884 --> 01:48:32.320
you know?

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01:48:32.320 --> 01:48:34.120
And the stories are random, right?

3dcd0db7-4bc3-43e5-a42b-e4203e2d9d0e-0
01:48:34.120 --> 01:48:37.160
So they've got a random number generator
that orders the stories.

751fffae-46f6-4bce-812c-fc1cee1de8be-0
01:48:37.160 --> 01:48:39.040
But I feel like the universe participates.

9231f7d4-2dc8-4437-b533-af1cf793f68c-0
01:48:39.040 --> 01:48:41.640
And sometimes it's like, hey,
check this one out.

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01:48:41.640 --> 01:48:41.760
Yeah.

10d3993d-e1c7-4f22-8983-2dd5f435dadd-0
01:48:42.000 --> 01:48:43.840
Throws us an interesting one for the
first.

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01:48:43.840 --> 01:48:43.960
Yeah.

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01:48:44.040 --> 01:48:45.440
I'm like, I'm here for it.

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01:48:45.520 --> 01:48:46.600
So thank you so much.

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01:48:47.320 --> 01:48:53.661
So my next post was that is quite the
opening line and that was relating to

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01:48:53.661 --> 01:48:58.000
Andy Blakely Sterling's story The Best
Orion Elite.

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01:48:58.400 --> 01:49:03.200
And the opening line was I believe I
called this out in the long list episode.

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01:49:03.200 --> 01:49:07.880
The frigid water made my ******* so sharp
my daggers now felt redundant.

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01:49:09.120 --> 01:49:12.240
So thank you for that, Andy, like truly.

270b1a4d-dd03-435b-adca-5deb2f3daed0-0
01:49:12.840 --> 01:49:18.976
Next we had and we've hit cannibalism on
the not quite right prize bingo card and

270b1a4d-dd03-435b-adca-5deb2f3daed0-1
01:49:18.976 --> 01:49:22.568
that was Keith Charles's Till the Coals
Go Out,

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01:49:22.568 --> 01:49:26.160
which I also called out as being a great
title.

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01:49:26.800 --> 01:49:28.200
So thank you for that, Keith.

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01:49:28.880 --> 01:49:29.840
Next we had.

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01:49:30.000 --> 01:49:34.280
This one is for anyone with a tendency to
develop an inappropriate crush.

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01:49:34.360 --> 01:49:34.920
Guilty.

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01:49:37.000 --> 01:49:38.360
Thanks for the literal lol.

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01:49:38.360 --> 01:49:41.200
And this was Delina Shields the date.

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01:49:41.720 --> 01:49:47.040
So yeah, I have a tendency, let's say,
and Ed can attest to that.

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01:49:47.040 --> 01:49:50.840
Anyone who's known me longer than 5
minutes will attest to my Anyone who's

d9178f99-4130-4080-a181-f8ce06d40efa-1
01:49:50.840 --> 01:49:53.880
read your diary publicly on the podcast
can attest to that.

0570a479-7bcf-46fa-9c4d-46b428e9546c-0
01:49:53.920 --> 01:49:56.040
Yes, good times.

edfaf003-a05c-4571-ac7c-2a11b79a4e09-0
01:49:56.080 --> 01:49:59.840
And anyway, that aside, we have my first.

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01:49:59.840 --> 01:50:00.440
Yes.

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01:50:00.760 --> 01:50:05.105
Followers may be interested to know that
this story wasn't what I'd call plot

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01:50:05.105 --> 01:50:05.440
heavy.

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01:50:05.440 --> 01:50:07.240
There is hope yet for all.

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01:50:07.240 --> 01:50:10.636
Because of course,
by this point I had made a bit of an

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01:50:10.636 --> 01:50:14.760
allusion to the fact that the passivity
was an issue in this round.

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01:50:15.120 --> 01:50:20.720
And this story was Chloe pages all of a
sudden, suddenly and all at once.

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01:50:21.080 --> 01:50:24.974
So a story, I suppose,
that was internal passive,

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01:50:24.974 --> 01:50:28.480
if you'd like to say so,
but also impactful.

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01:50:28.480 --> 01:50:32.205
So again,
I want to reiterate that it is possible

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01:50:32.205 --> 01:50:36.080
to achieve what you want to achieve no
matter what.

25077f31-2bf0-4258-bdf2-64cd5d5a7021-0
01:50:36.400 --> 01:50:40.705
It's all about understanding how to
deliver impact within the constraints

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01:50:40.705 --> 01:50:41.520
that you have.

d5040e98-8fcd-4bb1-9238-8bb8d69aa656-0
01:50:41.920 --> 01:50:45.160
And Chloe very narrowly missed out on the
shortlist there.

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01:50:45.320 --> 01:50:45.800
Yeah.

ede5bab2-4e92-487a-ac87-91b4355625b8-0
01:50:45.920 --> 01:50:46.920
And you know what?

a5b4dd72-8e30-4422-838e-2e2f3a545516-0
01:50:46.920 --> 01:50:50.880
I don't actually feel that sad because I
feel like a lot of success.

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01:50:50.880 --> 01:50:51.080
Yeah.

0249af61-d645-4d67-b7fc-555b5f767e46-0
01:50:51.080 --> 01:50:52.720
Chloe needs to make room for others.

d4db3af4-dd54-4bbb-a1b5-2dd494a480b5-0
01:50:52.720 --> 01:50:57.676
So well done, Chloe, but also well,
well done to everybody else for whom you

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01:50:57.676 --> 01:50:59.800
made space this particular round.

cda601b7-1d0f-4860-be66-f8df7a1d72f4-0
01:50:59.800 --> 01:51:03.720
And I know Chloe found this story
particularly moving for herself.

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01:51:04.040 --> 01:51:05.320
And this is a thing, right?

5d79d1b7-c5e2-483a-b469-e996e06badb9-0
01:51:05.320 --> 01:51:09.717
Like there's a distinction between what
is moving for us and what wins a

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01:51:09.717 --> 01:51:10.440
competition.

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01:51:10.440 --> 01:51:11.360
Who gives a ****?

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01:51:11.560 --> 01:51:12.880
Who gives a ****?

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01:51:12.920 --> 01:51:15.846
Like,
if this story is important to you and

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01:51:15.846 --> 01:51:18.240
meaningful to you, then it is valid.

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01:51:18.240 --> 01:51:21.560
And I think you should just pursue that
and see what you want to do with that.

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01:51:21.720 --> 01:51:26.000
So I wish you all the best Chloe in
pursuing that for your story.

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01:51:26.360 --> 01:51:27.760
Next I said my second.

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01:51:27.760 --> 01:51:30.640
Yes,
it featured a very passive main character.

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01:51:30.640 --> 01:51:34.715
However the character made a clear choice
that landed them in a different position

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01:51:34.715 --> 01:51:36.680
to where they were when the story began.

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01:51:36.680 --> 01:51:38.320
For me that worked.

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01:51:38.600 --> 01:51:44.960
I can see a guest judge felt differently,
so it will be on Ed to decide.

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01:51:45.080 --> 01:51:47.361
And that was Brandon Woo's crooked
answers,

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01:51:47.361 --> 01:51:49.280
which did in fact make the long list.

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01:51:49.280 --> 01:51:54.425
So congratulations Brandon, next, I said,
swiftly followed by my first goosebumps

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01:51:54.425 --> 01:51:56.120
of the round, almost tears.

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01:51:56.120 --> 01:51:58.080
Thanks for hitting me in the fields.

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01:51:58.080 --> 01:52:01.520
And that was Tatum Shad's what we lost
and all we gained.

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01:52:01.520 --> 01:52:04.680
And I did in fact confess to that in this
episode.

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01:52:05.000 --> 01:52:10.120
I did nearly cry and I don't know what to
say about that except for thank you.

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01:52:11.040 --> 01:52:11.920
Next I said.

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01:52:11.920 --> 01:52:15.720
I've been a little quiet on the judging
front due to day job reasons.

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01:52:15.720 --> 01:52:18.658
Boo,
but I'm back at it for a little check in

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01:52:18.658 --> 01:52:23.960
first story and it's an M plus not just
from me, but from our guest judge as well.

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01:52:23.960 --> 01:52:28.720
It might just be yours if your title
included mention of a food item.

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01:52:29.160 --> 01:52:31.600
You know we like to **** with you a
little bit sometimes.

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01:52:31.600 --> 01:52:36.830
So sorry, not sorry,
but that story was from Sandra Peters,

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01:52:36.830 --> 01:52:40.840
Midnight Poutine,
which we already mentioned.

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01:52:40.880 --> 01:52:44.387
But you know, that was a moving story,
a very emotional story,

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01:52:44.387 --> 01:52:47.560
and it was one of those ones that spanned
multiple time.

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01:52:47.720 --> 01:52:48.760
Well, not multiple time.

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01:52:48.760 --> 01:52:51.080
It's like a whole life,
you know what I mean?

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01:52:51.080 --> 01:52:55.261
But we're coming back to this central
theme, which I like next, I said,

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01:52:55.261 --> 01:52:58.571
and it's two in a row,
double maybe plus for this story,

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01:52:58.571 --> 01:53:00.720
which is a very positive early score.

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01:53:00.720 --> 01:53:04.785
This one is very internal,
but develops nicely around a central and

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01:53:04.785 --> 01:53:06.160
highly relatable theme.

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01:53:06.480 --> 01:53:10.680
It could be yours if your POV character
is a parent.

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01:53:10.720 --> 01:53:14.880
And that was Ronando Rich's Sometimes to
do lists are completed.

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01:53:15.240 --> 01:53:20.662
And Ed, you would have read this one,
that this was the character whose house

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01:53:20.662 --> 01:53:25.320
had burned down and who was like a ghost
and reflecting upon that.

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01:53:25.320 --> 01:53:29.040
And I felt like that was incredibly
moving, to be honest.

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01:53:29.040 --> 01:53:30.720
So thank you for that, Ronanda.

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01:53:31.520 --> 01:53:34.360
After which I said,
swiftly followed by a yes.

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01:53:34.360 --> 01:53:37.515
Before you go assuming I'm just in a good
mood,

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01:53:37.515 --> 01:53:42.642
let me emphasise that I'm very much not,
and this story is remarkable for its

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01:53:42.642 --> 01:53:44.680
ability to make me forget that.

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01:53:44.960 --> 01:53:49.590
It could be yours if your interpretation
of the concealed prompt involved

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01:53:49.590 --> 01:53:51.280
concealing one's true self.

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01:53:51.280 --> 01:53:54.600
And of course many stories involved that.

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01:53:54.600 --> 01:53:57.560
So I was being torturous and I do
apologise.

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01:53:58.000 --> 01:53:59.720
Sorry, hashtag not sorry.

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01:54:00.160 --> 01:54:03.680
That was Jesse Descanio's story Hearts
with Audrey.

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01:54:04.120 --> 01:54:06.880
And then I said all right, you got me.

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01:54:06.880 --> 01:54:09.584
This piece was more character study than
story,

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01:54:09.584 --> 01:54:13.924
but I've said it before and I'll say it
again, when you get the voice right,

84b1c4ef-3980-4f56-8f1e-a99bfec49f97-2
01:54:13.924 --> 01:54:15.840
a character study can be glorious.

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01:54:16.440 --> 01:54:20.800
This particular story was glorious enough
to make it to 1st place.

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01:54:20.800 --> 01:54:23.600
And that was Sandworm by Steve Huff.

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01:54:23.600 --> 01:54:29.160
So we have the character and the voice of
a penis.

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01:54:29.520 --> 01:54:32.604
And look,
you're in good company here at Not quite,

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01:54:32.604 --> 01:54:32.960
right.

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01:54:32.960 --> 01:54:35.080
But also, I don't want to overstate that.

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01:54:35.080 --> 01:54:36.040
I really don't.

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01:54:36.120 --> 01:54:36.440
Yeah.

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01:54:36.640 --> 01:54:38.680
It's not about like,
it's not about the penis.

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01:54:38.680 --> 01:54:40.840
It's not about toilet humour.

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01:54:40.840 --> 01:54:42.920
It's about delivering character.

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01:54:42.920 --> 01:54:45.080
It's about delivering like a message.

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01:54:45.120 --> 01:54:48.600
And I hope that that's clear because it
was a highly relatable penis.

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01:54:50.360 --> 01:54:50.880
Go on.

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01:54:50.880 --> 01:54:54.440
Yeah, even for you, you know,
who presumably doesn't have a penis.

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01:54:57.760 --> 01:54:58.880
OK, what have you heard?

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01:54:59.400 --> 01:55:00.840
Because it's fine.

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01:55:01.200 --> 01:55:06.166
And finally,
my final vague post of the session was,

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01:55:06.166 --> 01:55:08.040
oh, it's giving Poe.

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01:55:08.360 --> 01:55:10.200
It's an M plus from me.

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01:55:10.560 --> 01:55:14.480
And that was Ruth Lord's The Cave.

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01:55:14.480 --> 01:55:19.320
And it was giving ******* revenge vibes,
which I love.

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01:55:19.400 --> 01:55:20.600
So thank you, Ruth.

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01:55:20.680 --> 01:55:25.320
I'm in my revenge era as anybody who
cares enough to listen would not.

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01:55:25.960 --> 01:55:27.200
I appreciate that.

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01:55:27.200 --> 01:55:28.240
And do you know what?

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01:55:28.240 --> 01:55:33.822
I need to shout it out because I'm going
to the the Post Speakeasy thing in Sydney

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01:55:33.822 --> 01:55:35.840
and I don't know who they are.

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01:55:35.880 --> 01:55:40.000
I don't know if it's going to be any good,
but I'm really excited about it.

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01:55:40.040 --> 01:55:44.480
And Andy got it for me for my birthday,
like a ticket to go to that.

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01:55:44.480 --> 01:55:45.800
And I was really excited.

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01:55:45.800 --> 01:55:49.202
And then my mum, I was like,
this is what I want to give you for your

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01:55:49.202 --> 01:55:49.640
birthday.

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01:55:49.640 --> 01:55:50.800
I'm like too late.

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01:55:50.800 --> 01:55:53.560
And then my sister was like, oh,
have you heard that this is happening?

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01:55:53.880 --> 01:55:56.400
Anyway,
so everybody knows I'm obsessed with Poe.

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01:55:56.400 --> 01:55:58.120
I'm very excited to go to this.

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01:55:58.200 --> 01:56:02.206
If you are also going to the Sydney PO
Speakeasy thing,

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01:56:02.206 --> 01:56:07.000
please let me know because I would love
to meet you and say hello.

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01:56:07.560 --> 01:56:08.800
I don't know, I hope it's good.

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01:56:08.800 --> 01:56:10.360
It looks really cool.

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01:56:10.360 --> 01:56:14.185
It's like it's going to be PO **** and
then cocktails like it's right up my

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01:56:14.185 --> 01:56:16.400
alcohol and PO like what more can you
want?

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01:56:16.480 --> 01:56:18.640
Literally a talking penis baby.

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01:56:18.720 --> 01:56:20.800
Thank you so much, everybody.

7759f17c-c3f9-493a-94f5-0c1fc624661e-0
01:56:21.120 --> 01:56:27.329
That was good fun and I hope you enjoyed
Slashed were tortured by our vague tweets

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01:56:27.329 --> 01:56:30.920
and I really look forward to the October
round.