The summer Short Story Contest (SSC) is a long-standing tradition on soc.sexuality.spanking (SSS), and on alt.sex.spanking (ASS) before it.
The purpose of the contest is to encourage the posting of a significant number of new stories to SSS, and of responses to them, and for everyone to have some fun. There is no cosmic significance to the contest. The SSC is especially useful as an opportunity for people new to writing about the kink to try for the first time. So why not have a go?
More experienced writers are encouraged to try something different, too.