*ignore at your leisure*

Look, I know that you've got your rules.
But then, when someone else had 15,000 characters and wasn't sure they'd manage to shorten it down to 10,000, you said "If you don't manage, hand it in anyway; better too much than nothing at all." And now I ask and you say No way? Fine, I suppose you've got enough stories by now then.

I've shortened away everything that had to be shortened in order to make it better, and I got stuck at 12,500.
I've shortened away things that I wanted to keep but that could be dropped without too much pain, and I got stuck at 12,000.
I've shortened away stuff that already hurt to cut, and I got stuck at 11,000.
Which is still too much.
If I cut away more, there won't be any story left. Unless I write it in Japanese, which would probably miraculously bring it down to 5000. (God, I wish my Japanese was good enough to do that, just to see their faces.)

Which, I suppose, means buggre alle this for a larke.

I know the world has more important problems than this, but I was actually proud of the Erudamn thing. And damnit, people even liked it.

GNAH.

[/immature ranting]

EDIT: Ach, und JETZT merkt sie, dass da diverse andere eingereichte Geschichten auch viel zu lang sind! JETZT! Hat sie also vorher nicht mal überprüft! Hätt ich dumme Kuh mal bloß nicht nachgefragt. Das hat man von seiner Ehrlichkeit. *wüt*