MelanthaWeb<title> <body bgcolor="190B1F" text="DDC3E9" link="AA68C8" alink="B77FD1" vlink="883EAA"> <font face="Georgia"> <table width="90%" align="center"> <tr><td> <p><h1>Welcome to MelanthaWeb</h1></p> <p>Welcome to our hidden lair; who are we? We are a tribe of writers that prefer the dark and the taboo. That is why we named our little webspace for Melantha, Hermes' serpent of hidden and clandestine knowledge. Our founder shares this name as well, having been named for the serpent, himself.</p> <p>Feel welcome to explore, to seek, to find--but I'm sure you should be wary, lest you venture somewhere...scary. You've been warned.</p> <br> <table width="100%" align="center" frame="void" rules="cols"> <tr> <td colspan="6"> <center><b>The Artists</b></center> </td> </tr> <Tr> <td valign="top" width="16%"> <center><i>Hanford</i><br> <center>A poet (sometimes poetess) and master of witty banter and nonchalant jocularity.</center> </td> <td valign="top" width="16%"> <center><i>Marya</i><br> A queen of the eighties who's not too pure for pink.</center> </td> <td valign="top" width="16%"> <center><i>Melanthios</i><br> A storyteller and lover of smut and classic American cheesecake.</center> </td> <td valign="top" width="16%"> <center><i>Nella</i><br> An historian and lover of good food and good company.</center> </td> <td valign="top" width="16%"> <center><i>Waffles</i><br> A writer and rising comet.</center> </td> <td valign="top" width="16%"> <center><i>Zekkass</i><br> A writer and puppeteer of masterful intrigue and twisted coups.</center> </td> </tr> <tr><Td colspan="6"></td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="6" valign="top","center"> <center><b>Winter's Challenge 2007</b><br> <small>Winter Solstice to Spring Equinox</small><br> <i>100 short stories of 300 or more words with a common theme, prompts used are from the common '___100' table.</i></center> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="16%"> <center><a href="/winterschallenge/hanford/index.html">Hanford's Table</a></center> </td> <td valign="top" width="16%"> <center><a href="/winterschallenge/marya/index.html">Marya's Table</a></center> </td> <td valign="top" width="16%"> <center><a href="/winterschallenge/melanthios/index.html">Melanthios' Table</a></center> </td> <td valign="top" width="16%"> <center><a href="/winterschallenge/nella/index.html">Nella's Table</a></center> </td> <td valign="top" width="16%"> <center><a href="/winterschallenge/waffles/index.html">Waffles' Table</a></center> </td> <td valign="top" width="16%"> <center><a href="/winterschallenge/zekkass/index.html">Zekkass' Table</a></center> </td> </tr> </table> </td></tr></table> </body> </html>