Winners and Faves

First Place

_{"12" by gintarais}

Second Place

_{"hoar frost path" by Handie}

Third Place

_{"Beautiful World" by farhadvm}

The top 25 entries can be found in this News Article: Link

Some examples:

BillyTheKid-90

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AcidRoge

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GirlWithAHat

Just Six WordsFirst date: ice-cream - a kiss - silence. The Things We DoLife is a mysterious thing. It happens, everywhere and all the time, with things we don't know, and situations we can't cope with. We do what we can, but even though, when we look back, we tend to regret and wonder "what if" and "shouldn't I". But we can't change the past.
If we're lucky, we learn and we grow from these experiences, and the next time we can do better. It just never makes up for the first time that went wrong. What is done is done, and nobody knows if the other road would have been the better one to take.
Yes, sometimes it looks like what we lost was so precious that everything should be done to rectify what went wrong. In times like these, the easy escape is a belief in faith, saying "it had to be like that". The harder way to cope is trying to make up, trying to get back what you lost. Even harder is a new start, leaving the past behind, for it gets back at you at some point, anyway.
Thinking in "what if"s is in vain, it can't change a thing. Believing in faith and th 19th DecemberWent looking for happiness.
No luck.