The now fully official Author’s Hangout Halloween 2025 competition support thread

[Soixenta]

My "Cold Embrace" is in the same situation, also going live tomorrow in EH. Good luck, we might both need it

I just glanced at the New Stories list for EH, and only 3 or 4 of the new stories have more than 25 votes. One has an incredible 229 votes from only about 4700 views, but the score is only 3.72.

We will definitely need all the luck we can get!

 

[talemestories]

True, but my point was that if you win the Halloween contest, you are ineligible to win the next contest, which is Winter Holidays, not that to could Christmatize your story.

Just a bit of an attempt at humour.

 

[dreams_in_words]

My story is one vote away from 25 minimum to be eligible for contest lol. Not gonna win but still excited about it

 

[EmilyMiller]

My story is one vote away from 25 minimum to be eligible for contest lol. Not gonna win but still excited about it

That’s cool

 

[EmilyMiller]

Welcome to day 23 of The Halloween 2025 Competition. Submissions are now closed but voting is open up until the winners are announced. Well done to everyone who entered

https://www.literotica.com/stories/contest.php/halloween-2025

 

[DEFCOM5]

Lily looks so angelic and Emma so demonic ... well done EM

 

[EmilyMiller]

Lily looks so angelic and Emma so demonic ... well done EM

Did you read my Halloween story where they cosplay each other?

 

[StillStunned]

I just submitted "Dead Together". Almost 9000 words, and in Erotic Horror. A homeless girl dies, but a dying demon takes refuge in her body. I hope it's sexy and gruesome enough.

I let myself be talked into editing this for @Soixenta, and I can confirm that it's both sexy and gruesome.

 

[ChloeTzang]

"Dead Together" will go live tomorrow! Will five days be enough to get the necessary votes? In Erotic Horror?

It should be - sexy and guresome appeals - I shall take a look so there's one vote LOL

 

[ChloeTzang]

LOL this 2nd one is no masterpiece. Hacked out in a hurry but I kind of enjoyed it. It could sure be improved tho and it won't need one start trolls LOL. It'll be lucky to crack 4.5 and I'm being generous there.

And mine go's live Saturday morning......

 

[DEFCOM5]

Did you read my Halloween story where they cosplay each other?

No. The only Halloween Story I read from you was Shining Valley High, another 5 stars

 

[storyteller19]

Coming soon...!

This was the first of the contest stories I read and I loved it.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Haaaaaah! I got my second story in with 10 minutes to spare. 8k words, a quickie, and not that great but it was fun to write. LOL. "The Keys to the Mausoleum."

This is your specialty, right?

 

[ChloeTzang]

This is your specialty, right?

Yes but lots of margin this time. Usually it's 5 minutes

 

[Djmac1031]

This was the first of the contest stories I read and I loved it.

thanks so much.

 

[SkyBubble]

Now that’s the Chloe we all know…submitting stories with seconds to spare.

I ddi that with my Senior Thesis. It was due Friday at noon. A few days earlier, I was running to lunch and ran into one of the profs.

"Are you going to get your thesis in on time?"
"I'll get it in, if I have to hand it in at 11:59 Friday."

Well, I finished it Friday morning and ran to the department offices. Handed it in (to that same prof), looked at the clock...11:59. We both laughed.

 

[Inkent]

Haaaaaah! I got my second story in with 10 minutes to spare. 8k words, a quickie, and not that great but it was fun to write. LOL. "The Keys to the Mausoleum."

LOL, I thought I was cutting it fine putting it in @ 11pm GMT. You obviously like living on the edge

 

[old_prof]

Haaaaaah! I got my second story in with 10 minutes to spare. 8k words, a quickie, and not that great but it was fun to write. LOL. "The Keys to the Mausoleum."

So is the deadline in US.EST? I have not (yet) cut it that close. I'm more the paranoid submit too early, like I did with my C&P story last month.

 

[EmilyMiller]

So is the deadline in US.EST?

Yes

 

[dreams_in_words]

Yay 25 votes. I look forward to my 20th place participation trophy

 

[EmilyMiller]

Yay 25 votes. I look forward to my 20th place participation trophy

Yay!

 

[MegaTank]

Yay 25 votes. I look forward to my 20th place participation trophy

Hey, hands off! If anyone is going to languish in mediocrity around here, it's me...

 

[dreams_in_words]

Hey, hands off! If anyone is going to languish in mediocrity around here, it's me...

We're not mediocre, we're celebrating being just popular enough to be noticed but not chosen to be torch bearers

 

[BryanRichardson]

Yay 25 votes. I look forward to my 20th place participation trophy

You are tied for fourth place just like I am…

 

[MelissaBaby]

A lot of authors are reporting that the voting totals are lower than usual on this contest. I know mine are.

Low number of votes mean the scoring is very volatile. I’ve got a score of 4.62 with 69 votes. If 5 or 6 of those votes are one bombs that get removed in the sweeps, my score could jump up high enough to put me in contention. In one contest, the sweeps moved my score from the 4.60s to almost 4.90.

Nobody should count themselves out yet.