Third Challenge Winner + The End!

Heather O'Neill has chosen our third Stranger Than Fiction challenge winner (theme: dating disasters). She reveals her choice and offers some parting words below. The entries for the Worst Date Ever really made me laugh. One was about a boy...
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Sarah Gilbert: Sunday Afternoon

We broke up in the wasteland of a giant multiplex, buffeted by the noise from the arcade. All our dates were doomed, it didn't matter where --movies, parks, museums. "I have this new job, I won't have time anymore," I...
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A friend once told me that she had to make a decision to stop shoplifting, because otherwise she would have shoplifted forever. It had never occurred to me that this was something you'd want to promise yourself: No more shoplifting....
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Heather O'Neill: World's worst date?

Miguel Syjuco: Why I write

Second Challenge: And the Winner is...

Adam Gollner: Why do I write?

Elizabeth Kelly: Dear Diary

Heather O'Neill: How to be a writer

Sarah Gilbert: Temporary

First Challenge: And the winner is...

Pasha Malla: On living out loud

Sarah Gilbert: The New Kid

Heather O'Neill: Superheroes I have known

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Thanks to everyone who submitted to our Stranger Than Fiction challenges. Our challenges are now closed, but you can still read some of your submissions here.

Challenge #1 winner:
Edgar Rudolph
Challenge #2 winner:
Jowita Bydlowska
Challenge #3 winner:
Caitlin Galway