Winners!

Well, the time has come at last to draw the Seeing Red Contest to a close and announce the winners. It has, without a doubt, been our best contest ever, not just for the sheer number of stories submitted but the quality has been incredible too. There were ties in the readers' polls for a couple of categories and it was tough to pick winners. We have therefore introduced a runners-up position for each category, each of whom will receive a banner by Gwendolyn Flight, as will those we have picked for an honourable mention.

The winners receive a banner and a prize to be chosen from our little treasure chest of goodies!

We would like to thank everyone who took the time to enter a story in the contest. If you haven't won this time, please don't be discouraged - the standard was very high. Our thanks to to all the readers, reviewers, voters and our kind patrons for the donation of art work and prizes.

The archive will remain for new visitors to enjoy all the entries and leave feedback if they wish. Thank you for your time, effort, and a jolly good read.

Without further ado, then, on to the winners!

Erotica

1st Hot for Teacher by cosmorific
2nd Ordinary Dreams by TokageMusume

Also an honorable mention for The Road to Hell by Cyn and Nikita, for most in-character and scorching hot Shu/Yohji ever!

Angst

1st Anything by Sin Acies
2nd An Ounce of Prevention by Blehmeh05

Ficlet

1st Caffeine by Elfen
2nd Irresistible Force by sffan

AU

1st Red Light Green Light by gogoangelgunboy
2nd A Matter of Sight by Puck

Fluff/Humour

1st How a Playboy Took the Assassin by Remote45
2nd Karma is a... by Puck

Best RPG

1st The Way It Should Be by Elfen, Tameiki1 and Maclynn - also worth a mention for the most pure unadulterated smut crammed into one fic!!

Epic

1st Coming Home by GuiltyRed
2nd Rebuilding by Rzyna

Kink

1st Gunning for Sex by Iron Dog
2nd Magenta, the Romance of Scarlet and Red by Camilla

Picture Challenge 1 (Yohji & Aya)

1st Paradox by MacLynn
2nd Veritas by TokageMusume

Picture Challenge 2 (Original characters)

1st Street Scene by TokageMusume
2nd Kiss and Remember by Aabunai

Thematic Challenge

1st Seismic Tryst by IronDog (Max Red challenge)
2nd Mistress to Love by CrushBlue (Cowboy challenge)

Also an honourable mention for Let Me Dye by Mistress Quickly (hair dye challenge), for a fine piece of Yohji and Aya fluff.

Best in Contest

Sharp & Guilty Pleasure Arc by Iron Dog

With runners up places for The New Guy by Pyrzm
and Hot for Teacher by Cosmorific.

-it was an extremely hard-fought contest! Congratulations to all the winners and thanks to everyone for taking part.

Look out for the launch of Seeing Red II on 14th February! Until then -read, review and enjoy. :)

scribbles & Gwen