"A Christmas Story"

To enter, just write a solo story for your gangster Christmas! 

There are NO RULES about the CONTENT of the story aside from TIME PERIOD SPECIFIC. It can be HAPPY / SAD / DEPRESSING / COMEDIC / WTFEVER YOU WANT as long as it is within the period and in some way pertains to the Holiday season (ChristmaHannukKwanzaYule).

RULES:

1. Title must be - - "A Christmas Story" - (your story name here)
    
2. Story must be time-period specific!                                                                                                                                          Remember, we are in the 1930s. Anything from 1930-'39 will be an acceptable period. (Obviously, using things created before 1930 it is acceptable... But no hovering cars, iPhones, Androids, etc.) You can be fantastical, but be relatively realistic. Tasteful "Christmas Magic" is allowed (ie Santa Clause, flying reindeer, elves, Krampus, Holiday ghosts, etc.) but keep it believable within context. 
    
3. Story must be posted to the "Streets" forum.
    
4. Story must be at least 5 full paragraphs and a minimum of 500 words.                                                                                                                
5. After your story is written, mobmail RogerConiglio with the link to your thread under the subject - "A Christmas Story".                          Stories that are not submitted via mobmail will not be considered. I'm not going forum diving to chase all of these down. If you forget, it's on you. 
    
6. DEADLINE FOR ENTRY: DECEMBER 24TH, 2017, SERVER TIME. Judging will be completed by January 1, 2018. A post about winners will be made in the OOC Forum!

I (RogerConiglio) will judge the stories. And I reserve the right to recruit guest judges should I see fit (depending upon the number of entries). 

Entries will be judged for content, creativity, and effort as well as structure (I.E. grammar and spelling). No hard feelings, but they need to be readable. It's not hard to run a spell check. All stories will also be run against plagiarism and placed through a word counter.

Prizes will be awarded for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place story. 

Now for the incenti- *cough cough* er, I mean

PRIZES!*

FIRST PLACE:  30 credits and bragging rights to add  **Voted Best Christmas Writer, Winter 2017.** to your profile!

SECOND PLACE:  15 credits and  **2nd Place Christmas Writer, Winter 2017.** for your profile!

THIRD PLACE:  5 credits and **3rd Place Christmas Writer, Winter 2017.** for your profile!

Honorable Mentions will be offered **Honorable Mention, Christmas Writer, Winter 2017.** for your profile!

*If I DO NOT receive enough valid entries to award 1st, 2nd, and 3rd places, then the pot of 50 credits will be distributed accordingly to winning contestants. (I.E. if there is only one valid entry, then they are awarded 1st place, and 50 credits).

FIRST ENTRY: Fritz_von_Oppenheim

A Christmas Story - A Very Mary Jane Christmas

This sounds like fun. Thank you!

well, i think that Fritz's entry might not count!

After a stunt like that, yes, his entry will be disqualified. I will not support harassment of any kind.

Perhaps I now have a tiny bit of motivation.

NEW FIRST ENTRY: Eros

A Christmas Story - Why the heck not?

EVENT CLOSED DUE TO HOST BEING KILLED

Well, fuck.

Maybe as you all say kin will jump on it.