If you have any questions regarding the following rules, please PM me, Devilina07/Devilina or email me, Devilina07@hotmail.com with your questions. To widen the scope of this contest no one board will be the main information site. Instead all information and entries will be posted at www.mortrouge.com.

SUBMISSION OF ENTRIES:

1. Submissions must be one-scene, one-shot Phantom of the Opera drabbles. A drabble, as defined by Wikipedia: "is an extremely short work of fiction with exactly one hundred words (although some have extended this to mean 'short story of less than 500 words'). The purpose of the drabble is brevity and to test author's ability to express interesting and meaningful ideas in an extremely confined space."

2. DEADLINE for entries is 03 January 2007 at 11:59 pm Eastern Time.

3. Because of the holiday season, the stories are not to be dark/morbid/twisted/horrific. Instead, writers MUST include the theme of “BIRTH” or "REBIRTH" in their entries. It is up to the writers to decide how to include this theme, however for the stories to be approved by the Administrators, we must see some evidence of the key word. And, as always, no R-rated sexual content allowed. This last portion will be strictly adhered to.

4. Only serious stories will be accepted for this contest. No "humor phics." Parodies and tongue in cheek stories need to be saved for another contest at a later time.

5. Word LIMIT is 500 words. Word MINIMUM is 300 words. We are giving everyone a leeway of 50 words over the limit.

6. Maximum number of entries allowed per author is TWO. Collaborations are allowed.

7. In order to submit your entries to Mort Rouge, authors MUST register for the website. Entries can submitted by the authors via the Entries link after registering and logging in. Entries will be placed in holding for screening by the Administrators of the contest and will be posted for voting on December 26th 18th.

8. This contest is ANONYMOUS, so do NOT post your stories online anywhere. No fanfiction, no aria, no livejournal, no DA, no personal websites, nowhere at all. If your story is found online before the VOTING is over, it will have to be disqualified. To encourage anyone from posting their story elsewhere while the contest is being run, we will be rewarding those who can legitimately point out where an offending fic is posted. The reward is yet to be determined. If you need a beta-reader, try to find a personal friend to do it or someone who will not be involved in the contest. If you can't find anyone at all, we will be happy to beta as long as we don't get too overwhelmed.