Sounds interesting. Going over the rules now, I understand an image must be submitted and our story is written as the image description, yes? And of course it must be TOS compliant and unsigned for the judging. I assume it is fairly obvious that the words must be entirely the author's own and not ChatGPT's or whatever but as I do mixed medium art which sometimes includes AI assisted/postworked images, I am uncertain if that part is allowed in this contest or not. Also about the no violence rule: would that mean space battle scenes and/or the mention of such, or the hero getting the drop on the bad guy -- things of that nature -- are out of bounds? Or would such be okay as long as it's not explicitly described or illustrated violence? And is droid whacking and/or evil demon alien supernatural monster bashing allowed as long as it stays within the TOS? Got plenty of ideas and a few things in mind already, I just wanna make sure where the lines are before I commit to anything. Thanks! 

The image is not taken into consideration during judging. No ai use. No violence, no nudity, no foul language. If the story would require a content advisory tag, it cannot be entered into the contest.

Thanks for the info. Not sure why an image is even needed if it's not counted but if I enter I'll probably just make a simple title .jpeg in Paintshop Pro with whatever basic clipart that comes with.  

The image can be anything, it's only a place marker, you can scribble the title of your story on a piece of paper and that would be fine. The art is the story and the quality of its content.

Ah, got it all straight now. Will see if my crazy, cranky Muses will cooperate and throw some good ideas my way before the deadline. Do we need to watch the word count? Any minimum or maximum required? 

There's nothing in the rules, but the entry will only accept a maximum of 50,000 characters. While we love to read, if we got 20 epic novels, judging would take months.