I Shouldn't Joke: I joked a while back that since my first entry had been an honorable mention/semi-finalist, and my second entry had been a quarter finalist, that according to the resulting chart, this entry should be a "thanks for entering!"

Mathematics prevails.

But it does make sense. My placement in the contest has been directly proportional to the ambitiousness of the stories.

So this time, we're taking out all the stops.