Want to know more about the entries that have been submitted
for the Third Annual Brno Short Story Writing Contest? Here they are.
Not every one of the 45 entries included a short synopsis,
but most of them did. They are provided below, in order of submission. They are
unedited.
The submission deadline for the contest was midnight on May
26. The four-person jury will now spend the next weeks to order their personal
selections. The final winners will be determined when the judges meet in early-June.
Winners will announced then.
Good luck to all of the contestants.
Information about the contest will be posted on this contest
website at www.brnowritersgroup.blogspot.com. You can also go to
www.facebook.com/brnowritersgroup for information. Send questions to brnowritersgroup@gmail.com.
Heart
for Europe (1)
Story about
sacrifice and realizing importance of responsibility over other people.
A Heart
to Remember You
A person would do anything for love. There
are no boundaries.
Dreams
Some say it is a real story, but what is real? What is
reality?
Stalker of my Brother’s Dentist
Love can cross the borders
between states and continents, but the price is sometimes too high. To which
degree is our race and color of our skin the main feature which defines our
place in the society?
My dog just died but that’s not what this short story is
about and I’m not going to even mention it. Hope you’re cool with that.
Companion
This is a story about a girl who cannot imagine her life
without traveling after having lived in Europe for some time. She constantly
feels the soul of Europe beyond its borders and loses the feeling of reality
having met a particular woman.
Trip
to Nowhere
Funny short story about a young debtor running from a taxman that keeps chasing him all around a town and countryside.
Funny short story about a young debtor running from a taxman that keeps chasing him all around a town and countryside.
Pablo and Vanessa
Pablo from Spain is travelling by coach to Sheffield to see
Vanessa, the girl that he loves. But is Vanessa in love with him? Was it a case
of ‘amor no correspondido’? With the support of the other people on the coach,
Pablo plucks up courage to call Vanessa.
Lie Your Way Home
A young doctor from the heart of Europe and what she will
have to do to see her home again.
Her Heart
A journalist meets an old lady in an art gallery to discuss
an incident that happened ages ago. Right by the painting which depicts the
event in question, the lady opens up about how she experienced it and how it
made her feel.
Brno is for Lovers
In Brno, the city for lovers at the beating heart of Europe,
love takes many complex, mysterious forms, which confound and surprise, break
and rebuild, and occasionally hurt more than you can bear. But the city never
stops breathing love.
Bleeding Heart
Those on the margin of the society are the only ones truly
conscious. This is a tale about one of them.
A Cellar is no Place for a Heart
What happens when you lock a heart into an underground cell
and forget all about it?
The citizens of Brno and, indeed, of the whole continent,
are about to find out.
Just Google It
The story is about a boy that simply refuses the idea that
his girlfriend would like to live in such a place as Brno.
Where the Heart Is
A weary traveler struggles to find a sense of belonging. A
foreign friend helps her understand a fuller meaning and significance of
connection.
A Concertina, or a City
A fugitive budgerigar forces a young boy to hunt through the streets
of a city he does not love.
Sick Heart of Europe
The story describes the fight with bark beetles at
Šumava, heart of Europe, which is wasting away. The scientific team headed by
professor Pastrňák deciphers language of bark beetles and then develops an
artificial bark beetle which is able to communicate with living beetles. This
robot informs the beetles about water and floodplain forests and they run away.
The scientific team is happy to see forest without bark beetles.
The Paper Boy
In
the Heart of Europe, person-to-person eye contact still happens with newspaper
sales, yet interaction between news vendor and 'end user' (in the USA) these
days is all but passe. Back in the day, at the edge of the Pacific, a young boy
takes a break from body surfing to learn that news can become more meaningful
(and profitable) when it gets personal... .
The
Heart of Europe (2)
Europe was an ancient princess whose heart was full of an
undying love. She later suffered betrayal, heartbreak and irrecoverable
loss. Despite it all, Europe found a way to compose herself and she passed her
magical legacy on to the following generations.
The
Seed of an Idea
Prague,
current time.
A
young man with a knotty family story follows a lead of clues to enlighten his
grandfather’s past. Thanks to a mysterious woman, he’ll discover the roots and
the values at the basis of European Union.
Still Beating
“Still
beating” describes Europe as an old friend that you keep seeking for
everywhere, but you are actually bringing Her everywhere. From Venice to Brno
the main character searches herself in the heart of Europe, graciously looking
at and listening to the places and people she met in her journey.
The
Comeback
Two
friends reunite after a year apart, bringing to the table matters that have
been overlooked before.
Love
in the Time of Dystopia
In
an alternative dystopian future, where the world has never got out of the
clutches
of
communism, an old man returns to his hometown to sum up his life.
A Journey to the Mother Arbor
A fictional short tale about the spirit of an old and proud
continent, and the people who spent most of their lives defending it.
The
Deal with the Wizard
We
have absolutely no idea what might The Heart of Europe be. All we know is that
the evil, powerfull wizard will destroy mankind and our world if we don’t find
it and give it to him.
Opened Heart
Caitlyn meets someone on the way through the woods, making
her to change some of her life attitudes.
An
Instant
Two
women meet and share time together, understanding through their memories what
life means for each one, how to find the will to heal again, and what means the
heart of Europe.
The Heart of Europe (3)
or
How to Push a Joke too Far
and Let the Punchline Kill You
A futuristic look at the
future in real time
Bubbles
Synopsis: What is means to have a heart of a Central
European.
The Strange Man, Gideon Black
The train stopped in the Heart of Europe, but the train
of thoughts of a one strange man can never be quiet. Especially if it’s
beginning to be another strange day.
Up and Away
A Lighter-than-Air Afternoon in The Heart Of Europe
Petr
won the Lottery
A
young adult named Petr lives a simple life in suburban Brno, and one day, his
dream of winning the local lottery comes true. Luckily for him, his lottery
prize brings him more than just some money.
Dear Love
This is a letter to say everything I wanted to say and a
combination of images and brief moments in the life of someone thousand
kilometers far from home
November Winds
After a whirlwind summer romance, Fiona takes her new
fiancé to meet her grandparents in the highlands of Scotland. Remote, rugged
and beautiful although prone to stormy weather, a long way from the vibrant
southern English city of Bristol where they met.
Games
A
woman is confronted with childhood memories of an afternoon that took an
unexpected turn.
Themistocles
Young
student must defend his piece about democracy.
In
a Heartbeat
Sometimes
following your heart
can
take you to the heart of the matter
The
Puzzle
What
have grandpa, granddaughter, history and Europe in common? Madness.
Stolen
Moments with Kings
A
man is invited by a strange acquaintance to drink cognac and view a famous
stolen painting. Their tense conversation revolves around what to do with it.
Heartbeat
Synopsis: A brief exploration of fatherhood, fears, hopes
and memories.
Close
to Senselessness
“The
heart of Europe” is for the author a worn-out cliché which resembles
unreasonable admiration of certain places and European culture within the
social construct of national states from south to north and west to east of
Europe. The author in this story challenges this Eurocentric image by the crude
reality of two people who face the ideology of proud European nations isolating
themselves from the outer inferior world of people coming from developing
countries and non-sensical debates on “the heart of Europe” are only a symbol
of the timidity of wealthy European nations that do not hesitate to violate
human rights of people whom they forced into the zone of illegality with
dissembling justifications.
Being
Human
Being
Human is a short story about a journalist exploring Europe
with
his naive thinking, who is getting confronted with hard reality.
Memento
Mori
The
bomb fell with vaporising power, but we prevailed. For five days.
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