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A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.

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Several people have opted in for this new Writing Contest and so I will now reveal to them their assigned story titles based on a Journey song and their AI-generated image which they must use as inspiration for their story. The images are shown below, but will also be emailed to each participant. See detailed Submission Guidelines at the bottom.

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Assigned Images:

Sweet and Simple

Where Were You

Dead or Alive

Keep On Runnin'

Lay It Down

Open Arms

Faithfully

Precious Time

Opened the Door

Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)

Daydream

I'm Cryin'

2024 JOURNEY INTO JOURNEY: ILLUSTRATED EDITION WRITING CONTEST SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

CONTEST TIMELINE:

• You will be assigned a story title and AI-generated image based upon a song title from the band Journey. This will be the basis and inspiration for your story. You will receive this assignment via email, and on a podcast episode on August 9th.

• You must submit your new original story by 12:00:00 AM Mountain Time on December 1, 2024

• Winners will be announced on the show and by email before January 1, 2025

• The 1st place story will be produced for audio publication on the podcast in 2025.

WORD COUNT: No word limit, but judges may tire while reading an overlong story.

STORY REQUIREMENTS AND PREFERENCES:

• The story must be titled as assigned and be based on the AI-generated image you are given.

• Please write an original story based on inspiration from the assigned title and image. There is no way for me to enforce this, but the spirit of this contest is to provide a prompt for a new story.

• Preference for speculative fiction, including science fiction, fantasy, horror, and various combinations and sub-genre.

• Remember the 1st place winning story (possibly more) will be produced for the podcast, so we will be looking for stories that "work well in audio."

CONTEST RESTRICTIONS: Please no splatter horror, grimdark, or explicit sexual content. Also please avoid coarse profanity.

WHO WILL DECIDE THE WINNERS: A panel of volunteer judges.

PRIZES: 1st Prize: $20, 2nd Prize: $15, 3rd Prize: $5.  1st place story will be produced as a full cast audio production for the podcast.

WHERE TO SEND SUBMISSIONS: Email submissions to [email protected]

SUBMISSION FORMAT:  The subject line must contain the prefix of "2024 CONTEST:" followed by the title of your story.  The body of the email should be the text of your story.

Join Marshal and Keith as they trek into the Delta and Gamma Quadrant with Dal, Rok-Tahk, Zero, Jankom Pog, Murf, Gwyn, and Hologram Janeway aboard the starship U.S.S. Protostar.  These young adventurers used the Protostar to escape from a prison  planet and are now pursued by the devious Diviner and his robot henchman, Drednok.

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Timecode          Episode Title

00:14:39             Lost and Found (1 & 2)

00:23:54             Starstruck

00:27:32             Dream Catcher

00:32:33             Terror Firma

00:39:30             Kobayashi

00:46:16             First Con-tact

00:52:27             Time Amok

00:58:08             A Moral Star (9 & 10)

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While in Temple City, Britt Ponset runs across an old acquaintance, Will, and finds out he is a different man than the one he knew.

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In 1943, during World War II, Mallory (Robert Shaw) and Miller (Edward Fox), the heroes who destroyed the guns of Navarone, are sent to Yugoslavia in search of a ghost from the past. They join a company led by Lt. Col. Barnsby (Harrison Ford) who have their own mission to destroy a bridge.

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Let me know if you would like to enter the Journey Into Journey: Illustrated Edition Writing Contest, where you will be assigned a Journey song title to use as your story title, AND an AI-generated image upon which to base your story on.  There will be small cash prizes for the top three winners. Also the 1st place winner will be guaranteed to have their story produced for the show.  More details below...

CONTEST TIMELINE:

• You will be assigned a story title and AI-generated image based upon a song title from the band Journey. This will be the basis and inspiration for your story. You will receive this assignment via email, and on a podcast episode on August 9th.
• You must submit your new original story by 12:00:00 AM Mountain Time on December 1, 2024
• Winners will be announced on the show and by email before January 1, 2025
• The 1st place story will be produced for audio publication on the podcast in 2025.

STORY REQUIREMENTS AND PREFERENCES:

• The story must be titled as assigned and be based on the AI-generated image you are given.
• Please write an original story based on inspiration from the assigned title and image. There is no way for me to enforce this, but the spirit of this contest is to provide a prompt for a new story.
• Preference for speculative fiction, including science fiction, fantasy, horror, and various combinations and sub-genre.
• Remember the 1st place winning story (possibly more) will be produced for the podcast, so we will be looking for stories that "work well in audio."

CONTEST RESTRICTIONS: Please no splatter horror, grimdark, or explicit sexual content. Also please avoid coarse profanity.

WHO WILL DECIDE THE WINNERS: A panel of volunteer judges.

PRIZES: 1st Prize: $20, 2nd Prize: $15, 3rd Prize: $5.  1st place story will be produced as a full cast audio production for the podcast.

WHERE TO SEND SUBMISSIONS: Email submissions to [email protected]

SUBMISSION FORMAT:  The subject line must contain the prefix of "2024 CONTEST:" followed by the title of your story.  The body of the email should be the text of your story.

Marshal and Rish get together real quick to talk about The Acolyte series and everybody's outrage over it. We also talk briefly about Bad Batch, Tales of the Empire, and even Clone Wars. Do I need to say it? Spoilers included.

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An Earth rocket makes first contact with an alien space craft in deep space. Both desire a peaceful trade of ideas and technology, but neither can trust the other enough to risk the fate of their home planets.

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Join Marshal and Keith as they trek with the ensigns on the lower decks of the USS Cerritos, namely Beckett Mariner, Brad Boimler, D'Vana Tendi, and Sam Rutherford, as they face zombie attacks, milk spiders, drunken Klingons, terraforming goo, fights to the death, and love parasites.

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Timecode                  Episode Title

00:21:00                    "Second Contact"

00:29:28                     "Envoys"

00:36:55                     "Temporal Edict"

00:45:46                      "Moist Vessel"

00:54:00                      "Cupid's Errant Arrow"

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Irena Dubrovna, a newly married Serbian fashion illustrator, is obsessed with the idea that she is descended from an ancient tribe of Cat People who metamorphose into black panthers when aroused.

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