We want your writeups, 300 words or fewer.

• The quest starts Thursday, July 1, 00:00:00 and ends Saturday, July 31, 23:59:99 E2 server time.
• We're looking for well-crafted fact or fiction, poetry and prose. New writeups only.
• Post as many submissions as you like. It is okay to post hidden writeups if you prefer.
• Quest entries should be labeled as such, and a /msg to confirm is welcome but not required.
• Bounty will be awarded at 10GP per writeup. A panel of mystery judges will do mysterious judging things. Please message Tem42 if you would like to be a judge!

Need some inspiration? Check out the BQ submissions listed in Brevity Quest 2018, Brevity Quest 2019, and Brevity Quest 2020. Need some counting? Check out the E2 Word Counter.

The Entries:

• Terminator seed by Vongrim
• Shm-reduplication by Tem42

1. Establish truth right away: applying limitations to creative endeavors is bullshit. Writing just to please a teacher just to please a head of languages all the way up the bootlicking chain of modern education? Don’t bother explaining yourself right now.
2. Instead, show the mental path you took to arrive at this conclusion. Creativity thrives in the presence of limitations iff they stimulate the artist. Why force a paragraph

Also known as Gullivar of Mars, as well as being reprinted in several editions with the protagonist's name misspelled (understandably, perhaps) as Gulliver, Lieut. Gullivar Jones: His Vacation, emitted from the pen of Edwin Lester Arnold in 1905, is the first entry in the rather narrow genre of Mars adventures, which of course is a subcategory of the more reasonable planetary romance/planetary adventure/sword and planet genre.

Gullivar Jones, on leave from…