The voting is complete (has been for a couple of weeks actually), and the results are in. The winners of the 2009 Prose that Blows 500 contest are (courtesy of Dragon_6860):

Most believable expandee reaction: Trapped

Best use of tension: The Biggest Breath

Stephen King award for most disturbing story: Drink Me/The Meadow Encounter

Most epic plot crammed into the limited space: Compromised

Character you'd like to fuck: Room 12

Best Method of Expansion: Click/The Biggest Breath

Sexiest Story: Room 12

Best Expansion Description: The Biggest Breath

Best Character: The Biggest Breath

And finaly, the best story: The Biggest Breath

I've posted all of the entries to the bodyinflation.org story archive. I still need author attributions for the following stories. If you're the author of any of these stories, please drop me a line.

The Meadow Encounter

One Night Stan

Rachel the Accidental Cream Puff

Prose That Blows 500 has attracted 13 entries.

You can view the contest details here.

Vote for your favorites here. Voting closes on July 10.

Here's the full list of submitted stories. Authors will remain anonymous until the voting is concluded.

The Biggest Breath

Cindy learns a life lesson in less than 500 words

Click

Compromised

Drink Me

Inpractical Magic

The Meadow Encounter

One Night Stan

Pet Balloon

Rachel the Accidental Cream Puff

Room 12

Surfer's Cove

Trapped

It's an awesome turnout. I want to thank everyone who contributed. And I especially want to thank Carnatic for coming up with the idea. Pure brilliance.

I signed up to Twitter.

I've actually been on for a couple of weeks. But I finally figured out how it could be useful, aside from being a dumping ground for brief random thoughts.

For some time now (time = years) I've been talking about and working on a new version of BodyInflation.org. So I'm going to use Twitter to post updates on progress. I figure if I actually talk about what I'm doing and people are actually looking at it, I'll feel more motivation to get it finished.

You can follow along at https://twitter.com/LutherVKane and get a peek into what goes into building a site such as this.

For the past couple of days, a bunch of you were getting an error at login telling you that you needed to enable cookies. I messed up a setting in one of the server updates I applied last week, and that was causing the problem. Everything should be fixed now. If any of you continue to have problems logging in, email me.

Something for you 3D folks out there.

In the words of its creators, The purpose of MakeHuman is "to provide a versatile, professional and extremely specialized application for parametrical modeling of three-dimensional humanoid characters." Project MakeHuman recently released a new demo of the version of the software in development. Why should you care?

1) The software allows for some rather fascinating and bizarre deformations of the figures.

2) It's free.

Check it out.