Despite my initial difficulty with the photograph, I loved all the entries! Eerie, romantic, tragic, funny, I loved them all. Here are the winners:
First Place:
He had waited a thousand years to be set free from this tree-tomb with a kiss from his true love who had just causally glanced at him as she passed by.
- James Charles
Second Place two-way tie:
When first she laid the curse on me, I could have sworn she said seven years, but that was back in October 1325, and I'm still waiting for a pure-hearted maiden to place her hand on the tree bark and set me free.
- Sedayne
"Don't linger at the Tree of the Skull, else your soul will be consumed and your bones rattle as they hang from its branches."
- Jodes
Third Place 5-way tie!:
As the light faded and the shadows between the trees lengthened, our imaginings of what might lurk there in the darkness were surely worse than anything possible – or were they?
- E G Logan
This was the tree - the one where they met, where they shared their first kiss, where he proposed, where they had their huge blowouts - and where she spilled his blood, burying his betraying body in a shallow grave.
- RK Wallis
The tree had waited centuries to birth the demon and now it was almost time.
- Lakeland Waffler
The advisory from the Woodstock stage about the brown acid still ringing in his ears, Fred thought, "Nah, I'll be fine."
- Allen N
Bill knew he'd had a lot to drink before his walk in the woods, but he couldn't figure out how he'd misplaced his skull.
- MattScho
Congratulations! Litbits will duly arrive
First Place:
He had waited a thousand years to be set free from this tree-tomb with a kiss from his true love who had just causally glanced at him as she passed by.
- James Charles
Second Place two-way tie:
When first she laid the curse on me, I could have sworn she said seven years, but that was back in October 1325, and I'm still waiting for a pure-hearted maiden to place her hand on the tree bark and set me free.
- Sedayne
"Don't linger at the Tree of the Skull, else your soul will be consumed and your bones rattle as they hang from its branches."
- Jodes
Third Place 5-way tie!:
As the light faded and the shadows between the trees lengthened, our imaginings of what might lurk there in the darkness were surely worse than anything possible – or were they?
- E G Logan
This was the tree - the one where they met, where they shared their first kiss, where he proposed, where they had their huge blowouts - and where she spilled his blood, burying his betraying body in a shallow grave.
- RK Wallis
The tree had waited centuries to birth the demon and now it was almost time.
- Lakeland Waffler
The advisory from the Woodstock stage about the brown acid still ringing in his ears, Fred thought, "Nah, I'll be fine."
- Allen N
Bill knew he'd had a lot to drink before his walk in the woods, but he couldn't figure out how he'd misplaced his skull.
- MattScho
Congratulations! Litbits will duly arrive
I don't think I've had the Litbits yet (but could be wrong!)
