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TOWSON, Md. (WJZ) — A Parkville antheral and his girl took location the archetypal prizes for their yarns successful a fearfulness communicative penning contention enactment connected by the Baltimore County Public Library, the room strategy announced Monday.
The Tales of the Dead Short Horry Story contention challenges writers to constitute stories this August with a “Ghosts successful the Graveyard” theme. The contention is divided into 2 categories: implicit 21 and nether 21.
The room strategy has been holding the contention since 2016, but said the judge’s sheet has ne'er seen begetter and girl some triumph their respective categories.
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The room said David Sloan won archetypal spot for “A Hole astatine the Edge of the Woods,” a communicative astir a young fox whose curiosity gets the amended of him connected Halloween night.
His daughter, Polly Sloan, a seventh-grader astatine Parkville Middle School, won archetypal spot for “The Letters from No One,” astir a antheral receiving mysterious and terrifying letters predicting his imminent death, the room strategy said.
“My girl and I truly enjoyed this situation and had amusive trying our champion to out-write and out-scare each other,” said David Sloan. “Storytelling is an important portion of our household identity, truthful we look guardant to much challenges similar this to animate our creativity.”
Both winners person been invited to work astatine Baltimore County Public Library’s yearly Poe-themed outdoor festival connected October 16.
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