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Oct 22, 2022 at 7:30am
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Edited: October 22, 2022 at 7:41am
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Oh no, Elycia Lee ā˜® Author IconMail Icon, that's not this week's Contest Entry!*Shock2*

I could never achieve such a level of telling a story from scratch, not even with 15 years of more or less practice, like I had.*Shock*

This story took 11 years to evolve to what you read. I originally wrote it in the night of the 10th anniversary of 9/11 in 2011. One of our Broadcasting stations has shown a pretty comprehensive 4-hr-special featuring the survivors and the (first) responders - from Police to FDNY (therefore also the relatively detailed street naming, directions, etc.*Idea*).

I tend to be on the loooooong side when it comes to telling story (you can see that tendency in my assignments as well*Laugh*). And at that time I'd finally found a contest that welcomed, even wanted only long stories, from 5k upwards. Deadline came near, but not inspiration.*Pthb* That only struck after I watched that documentary.*Lightning2*

I write this story in the night of September 11./12. 2011, but the deadline was already on the 15. (not at the end of the month, like it's usual with WDC contests.) - so no time to polish it off enough to enter.*Pthb*

Then I forgot, because the next semester at Uni was about to start and I had to prepare.

Anyway, the story slumbered 11 years in my port before I saw the contest, "Long, Long, LongOpen in new Window., being revived with a 3-month period ending at the end of the month of August 22. Enough time to enter a decent entry.*Delight*

So I it awoke from its long sleep, severely polished and honed it and granted it a new item, since I had also majorly re-written it*Idea*, and then re-entered it into said contest.*Idea*

This week's entry I'll write thisweekend... hopefully in peace*Rolling* as I'm swaying between two settings and so two stories.*Vomit*


I just cited the story you read as a response to QueenNormaJean maybesnow?! Author IconMail Icon, who asked how a German female could write a 9/11-severed, American, male police officer.*Idea*
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