As nominated by our membership in the nomination round, please vote now for the story you feel should win the award for Best Novella/Novelette.
The Body
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
Apt Pupil
Everything's Eventual
The Langoliers
The Gingerbread Girl
As nominated by our membership in the nomination round, please vote now for the story you feel should win the award for Best Novella/Novelette.
Such great works here. I've gotta go with The Gingerbread Girl. I was on the edge of my seat reading it, literally.
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Everything's Eventual. I looovved that one.
Elodin: "Tombs is for feckless twits who can't chew their own food. My boy's a Re'lar! He has the feck of twenty men!"
Kvothe: “Books are a poor substitute for female companionship, but they are easier to find.”
Simmon: ”It’s just ointment in case you get burned...but if you mix it with piss, it turns into candy.” Sim’s expression was deadpan. “Delicious candy.”
Shawshank
Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Shawshank - although not voting for The Langoliers ain't easy, I loved that one too.
i loved loved loved langoliers,
Spoiler:
and i finally got to do a spoiler tag .. yeah
I also voted for Langoliers.
This was a hard one to but I had to go with the Langoliers.
Apt Pupil
It'll take a lot more than words and guns,
A whole lot more than riches and muscle.
The hands of the many must join as one.
And together we'll cross the river.
Puscifer, "The Humbling River"
everything's eventual.
I went with The Body, but on a different day I might have went with either Shawshank or Langoliers.
I would also vote for SWSG before I voted for any of the others listed.
Sloth Love Chunk
Where is Secret Window, Secret Garden? I'm pretty sure I nominated it.
Only the gentle are ever really strong.
Oh man, that sucks. I still would have voted for The Body, but Secret Window, Secret Garden is still one of my favorite stories.
Only the gentle are ever really strong.
I voted for The Langoliers, despite the fact that I love Everything's Eventual, and would kill for more short stories tied in to The Dark Tower.
One of my friends-a recovering sci-fi devotee-was discussing the miniseries TV adaptation of this novella, and told me that it seemed like the stupidest idea to base a fictional story on. I replied that you shouldn't judge the merit of a Stephen King work by the excruciatingly bad film adaptations directed by Mick Garris.
He did like the miniseries based upon The Stand though.
I chose The Body. It was a great novella and it was made into one of the greatest movies of all time (Stand by Me) The Body is unforgettable!
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After Shawshenk was released people forgot that for a long time "Stand by Me" and the original version of "The Shining" were the only even remotely decent Stephen King works translated to the big screen.
The poll has closed and the winner of our inaugural Best Novella/Novelette Award , receiving 10 votes (33.33%), is:
"The Body"
Wow this is the only one of these polls where my choice was the winner.
Sloth Love Chunk
It is a great story. Not what I voted for, but a story I love muchly.
It'll take a lot more than words and guns,
A whole lot more than riches and muscle.
The hands of the many must join as one.
And together we'll cross the river.
Puscifer, "The Humbling River"