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Coming soon to your book shelf, March 31st to be exact, is our third Flash Fiction Challenge!

Would your characters try to swindle a dragon out of his treasure? Perhaps they’d try to steal the fastest spaceship in the galaxy? Or are they after something a little more sinister that’s in need of taking? Where ever and when ever they take place, the stories of these Thieves and Scoundrels will take hold of your imagination and ransom it back to you.

“Thieves and Scoundrels” holds 20 stories from 18 established and break out authors from all over the English speaking world; USA, UK, Australia and Canada. I have the great pleasure to introduce them to you today.

The winners of the third Flash Fiction Challenge are (in alphabetical order):

Pete “Patch” Alberti – A Chat over Drinks
Krista D. Ball – A Royal Scheme
James Beamon – Love is Beautiful, Stealer of Hearts
Jodi Cleghorn – The Chameleon
Gerald Costlow – The Lucky Thief
David Craddock – The Master’s Lesson
*Stef Donev – Too Much Magic
Jacob Edwards – The Big One
John Hazlett – Jack of Hearts
Diandra Linnemann – Emerald
Andrew Magrath – Stolen Time
Josef Melton – Old Friends and Old Whine
*Sarah Melton – Chance of a Lifetime
John Jasper Owens – Honey
*Jay Raven – A Taste of Revenge; Strings; Wreckers
*Matthew Stroescu – A Gal’s Got to Eat
Marc-Anthony Taylor – Soul Search
Gail Sosinsky Wickman – A Spell of Luck

The * beside a name indicates that this author has been published in the Flash Fiction Challenge before. Please join me in congratulating them all. More information about these fabulous authors and their intriguing tales can be found on the AXP book page for Thieves and Scoundrels.

We will be having another virtual book launch for the anthology so be sure to check back for more information.

And don’t forget, thanks to our new schedule changes the next Flash Fiction Challenge opens on April 1st, and that’s no joke. Be sure to check it out.

With two anthologies already published under the Flash Fiction Challenge banner, Absolute Xpress is conducting its 3^rd challenge with the theme, and title, of “Thieves and Scoundrels”.

The rules are simple: The story must fit within the theme (see below); the story must be under 1000 words; and it must be submitted by midnight PST on January 15^th 2010.

All the entries will be reviewed blind by a panel of judges and the very best will be selected for publication in the next Flash Fiction Challenge anthology due out in February or March of 2010.

For more information on how to submit your story to the flash fiction challenge, check out the contest page: http://absolute-x-press.com/flash-fiction-challenge or click on “Flash Fiction Challenge” at the top of the website.

Theme for Challenge #3: Thieves and Scoundrels

Would your characters try to swindle a dragon out of his treasure? Perhaps they’d try to steal the fastest spaceship in the galaxy? Or are they after something a little more sinister that’s in need of taking? Where ever and when ever they take place, the stories of these Thieves and Scoundrels will take hold of your imagination and ransom it back to you.

NOTE: all stories submitted to the Flash Fiction Challenge must fit within the genres of Science Fiction, Fantasy or Horror.

All of us here at AXP look forward to your entries.