STACH Short Story Contest #27: 199 words, 5 winners, 15SB prize pool!
Hello Everyone, @kingst here with the announcement for the STACH Short Story Contest #27.
What is a Short Story.
A short story is a story with a fully developed theme but significantly shorter and less elaborate than a novel. It makes use of plot, resonance, and other dynamic components to a far greater degree than is typical of an anecdote. You can read it in less than 90 seconds.
Contest Rules:
•Write a Short Story based on the topic that will be given every week.
•Write an Original Short Story (Plagiarism will be flagged and reported).
•The Story must contain no more than 199 words.
•One entry per user.
•Story should be pasted in the comment section below, no links.
•Contestants are permitted to post their stories in an article on their blog, so they also get upvotes from the @stach trail.
Winners Selection.
Winners will be selected based on the topic, story plot, number of words and delivery as determined by the selected Judge. One word above 199, disqualifies the entry.
Contest Topic.
Write a 199 words story based on IF YOU MUST LIE, BE BRIEF.
Prize.
FIVE winners will be selected for a share of the 15SBD. The story with the most interaction gets a 1SBD prize from @ejemai.
First Prize: ----------------------4SBD
Second Prize: ------------------3.5SBD
Third Prize: ---------------------3SBD
Fourth Prize: -------------------2.5SBD
Fifth Prize: ----------------------2SBD
Good luck guys!
Sharpen your writing skills and throw in some inspiring short stories. XO!
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Paul for two weeks, he was late from work and always had an excuse to disappear over the weekend. His wife Karen was worried about Paul's strange way of behaving.
One afternoon Karen told her best friend that she suspected that her husband was cheating on her with another woman, who a couple of days ago had discovered that her husband was lying to her, when he told her that she would work late.
Paul and Karen would celebrate their seventh wedding anniversary in a few days, so Karen was willing to fight for their marriage. Without that, Karen knew, for weeks Paul was preparing a surprise party for his anniversary in which, he would bring all the guests and family members who witnessed their wedding, and the priest who married them. His idea was to create the day of their marriage and renew their married vows.
When the anniversary date came, Karen was surprised when Paul knelt at his feet and asked her to renew their wedding vows, and Paul confessed that the lies he said were to surprise her.
Perfection is a flaw compared to the integrity and commendable lifestyle Raymond had. Raymond is excellent perfection in every sense of the word. In the compound where we lived Raymond was the envy and wish of every parent. If it was possible to carry 0 instead of 1st as position Raymond would have had it cause he was extremely brilliant. My parents wouldn't fail to sell me off, add money and buy Raymond if possible.
Thief O! was the cry that woke up the neighborhood at about 5a.m. People have been complaining of missing yams but nobody knew who the thief was. The day was still dark so we couldn't see the face of the thief. Before we knew it lights started shinning left and right from lamps and torches. Ewo! Mogbe! came the words from neighbors. Raymond so na you be the thief and a woman fainted. So na you dey thief our yam. You wey we dey see as angel for we compound. So you be thief. "I wanted to borrow the yam" he said i was gonna come show you. Ask who the people wonder!
Sweet Lies
When my daughter Sofia was 4 years old she went everywhere with her doll Boo, who was the protagonist of her favorite movie Monsters Inc. Whenever she came home from school she saw the film on video and never seemed to get tired of watching it repeatedly. My daughter and her doll were inseparable and she did not fall asleep without cuddling Boo, the doll was like the sister she did not have, in fact, she always said the doll was her sister, not her daughter as most little girls do.
To celebrate her fifth birthday we organized a nice party with balloons, and the decoration was hallucinatory to the film, we invited family and friends to share that special moment. Her mother made her a chocolate cake decorated with sweets, her favorite, when the cake was ready, her mother kept it in the fridge.
The party was very fun and when I took the cake out of the fridge to sing happy birthday, my wife noticed that it was missing a small piece and some goodies, so she asked Sofia if she had eaten the cake, to which she he replied "no, mom, it was Boo".
Mandatory Military Service
When I met Eduardo in college I knew that he liked to go to parties and go out with his friends on weekends, but as he was very handsome and was a gentleman we started dating shortly after meeting.
On those times in my country young people over 18 years were forced to do military service, but as they did not show up to register at military bases, officers made raids on public transport buses to force them to do their military duty.
On the day of our first wedding anniversary, I put my makeup on and my best clothes, I waited for my husband, the hours passed by... He did not arrive. The next day in the afternoon he told me "they recruited me and thanks to an official friend who happened to know them, they letted me go", he exuded a liquor smell and seemed not to have slept, but he never accepted that he was lying. After 22 years of marriage he still holds his lie while smiling, but he no longer attends parties without me.
Post: https://steemit.com/contest/@maeugenia/stach-short-story-contest-27-mandatory-military-service
He stared at her friend's eyes, answering:
So, as I DO NOT WANT to continue being your puppet. Luck on the exam...
She answers:
Yes, I apologize for neglecting the house, it was for studying a lot that ...
His mother interrupts again and says:
Fuente
Truth: "Why are you laughing so much?"
Lie: "Did not you find out what happened to the little minister Juan, that the wolf ate the sheep?"
Truth: "Yes, and do you know why that happened to him? For a liar "
Lie: "No, do not blame me, he just wanted to have fun and said that little lie, what happened was that people did not help him"
Truth: "Do you know something? There are no small or big lies, neither white nor black; lies are lies, and those who practice them are liars. Maybe some do it for fun and others because they are not able to face the consequences of their actions, but you know? The one who falls into the lie then does not know how to get out of it and the first consequence is that nobody believes him. I hope you've learned that it's not good to lie in any way. "
Lie: "Insurance True that I understood you; is more since today I change the name hahaha is a brief lie.