STACH Short Story Contest #18: 199 words, 5 winners, 15SBD prize pool!
Hello Everyone, @kingst here with the announcement for the STACH Short Story Contest #18.
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 SOPHIA'S FLUTE.
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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Sophia lived in one of the poorest and most dangerous neighborhoods of the city of Caracas, in Venezuela, called on January 23. The water came only once a week, and all the neighbors came down from the hill, and lined up early to fill a water slide.
Jose was a boy who belonged to a program called Children's Symphony Orchestras, in which, children from the poorest neighborhoods of the city, they were lent a musical instrument according to their talent, they were taught to play it and learn music.
Joseph just like Sophia got up early to collect water to take home, and one day he took the flute he played to practice, while waiting his turn in the queue, the Sophie to hear him play was amazed by the instrument and Joseph to see his enthusiasm He said: "You can also learn to play."
This is how Sophia learned to play the flute, and through music she learned to know other worlds and cultures, today at 18 she is an outstanding flutist at the National Youth Orchestra, and she got a scholarship to study music at a University.
Mucho éxito! esta realmente buena tu historia.
Gracias, me alegro que te gustara. Éxitos para ti también.
SOPHIA'S FLUTE
I would always call out to her in the mornings. She was always there, smiling. I always wondered if she never got tired. I held her hands to go to school as usual because no one wanted to hold the" imbecile". And this "imbecile " was my best friend. We lived in a world which did not know much and we were used to the cursing and the violence. She showed me the thing. She had been keeping it for a long long time. It very was beautiful . I asked her to use it immediately, I was so excited and inquisitive, she declined, I had to wait till evening.
We went to school and I was impatient all day. Time was slowly ticking by. The school bell rang signifying the end of school activities. This was it! Sophia had a hard time coming down the stairs, they began to make fun of her again. I ran there and began to do the usual fighting and shouting, you should know better than to mess with my "imbecile " friend. And it dropped. They took it from the ground and began to throw it at one another. We chased and chased them. Then Sophia fell deep, deep into the hole. The one they wanted to use for the school well. I could hear her screaming for help. I ran as fast as my legs could carry me. When I got there with help, my friend was gone. My "imbecile " friend was not an imbecile. She had Down syndrome and they never understood. And the "thing" was her new flute. My Sophia would never play her new flute again. I cried all the way home. I realized then that the world was cruel and I lived in it.
Interesante!
SOPHIA'S FLUTE
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Sophia, a teenage girl has always felt different from other children in her village as nobody wanted to be her friend due to her poor learning abilities. After severe effort has been made, She could not read and write, to make matters worse, she does not have a smooth tongue. Her mother has always felt disappointed with her by her poor performance rates.
One day, she was fetching water for her mom, when she broke the pot and this made her mother to beat her up. She cried and sadly ran into the bush. While she was there she saw a flute, she picked it up and tried on it. She found herself able to play the flute and this comforted her again.
On returning home, she took along with her the flute. On the evening of that day, she was playing the flute when a blind man walking pass heard the sound, as he listened careful, he soon realised he could see. He testified about the mystical flute and soon the news spread through the village.
People from far and wide with one problems and another came to visit Sophia as she had healing power in her flute.
Word Count: 199
quite magical I must say, every disappointment surely will become a blessing
This really wonderful
Sophia has been traveling the world with her flute at an early age, demonstrating that talent is built with effort and dedication. She is a single young woman with an inability to conceive due to an abnormality in her reproductive system but with a big family that makes her very happy.
She came to Germany for the flute festival and offered a concert to a public that was delighted by the beautiful melody that this young woman creates, and after the concert, she was recognized as one of the best artists of the year and was selected to give workshops on the musical instrument she plays, which she has made her lifestyle and in which large numbers of young people have participated.
Now her life revolves around her flute and that she has not been able to conceive, she lives surrounded by people who fill a little that emptiness inside her. That is why, of Sophia present and future of the flute will remain for years one of the most recognizable faces in the world.
She stood on a very high mountain, about to jump down, She feels she as been massacred. Hot tears rolled down her cheek, "Whats the essence of living when everyone now sees me as a thief "
So She concluded, but in the process, An hunter shouted running towards her "No....................", although she heard the man but she jumped anyway.
"Sophia! Sophia!! wake up Sofia"
The maid just brought her a stale Bread 🍞, She just realised it was only a dream.
Sofia had been in the prison for days, She stole money in the market place and ran like a chicken being chased, unfortunately she got caught because stealing was a big crime in her little Village.
Her cell door screeched, the Prince is personally checking on every prisoner, He entered Sofia's little cell, and wondered what a beauty like this must have done to deserve this ill treatment, So She explained how She stole the money to buy a Flute in other to partake in the audition. The prince was to pick a wife, among the contestants.
After hearing her sincere story, He bought her a flute, she partook in the audition and she won with pride.
Nice one dear
Thanks,
You can check out the continuation at @morahn.
Muy bueno! suerte.
SOPHIA'S FLUTE
The craziest person in town is Sophia, you don't want to get on her nerves.
Sophia is the strongest among all the girls in her class room and she sometimes make trouble with stronger guys, guys you'll never dare to challenge.
She broke her friends arm because She called her flute useless.
Sophia got expelled, but instead of her to calm, the rage kept growing in her.
Her mother pampers her a lot because she's the only child, immediately after she got expelled, her mom enrolled her in a better school.
Although Sophia promised herself and her mom never to make trouble in her new school but can she fulfill that? Lets wait and see....
Sophie is popularly known in her new school as the Flute girl, because she spends most time with her expensive flute rather than being with friends, she believe making friends means making trouble.
Now Sophia sat alone in the corner of the class, blowing her pink coloured flute when a guy mistakenly kicked her, the flute fell off and another guy mistakenly step on it and so did another, she was unable to pick it on time, until it shattered, who will Sophia blame/fight?.
Interesante.
With a flute on her mouth, Sophia sits down in a corner of a busy motor park singing a variety of songs. One of the songs which cut my attention was:
Not only the uncommon skills that seem to be imprinted on her trained fingers but also the infectious beam of smiles that radiated from the her perspiring face. The performance of the art seem to have naturally followed Sophia from the mother's womb. The sound of the flute exactly rhymes with the nodding of the excited head and the movement of the hip and the legs. Every passerby who crossed the spot could hardly hold the body from spontaneously shaking and responding to the sweet melodies from Sophia's flute. It was a display of competence and unrivaled endowment. Learning to play the flute overtook every hobby in the community and became the passion of indigenes of Eziama Uli, Anambra State, Nigeria from where Sophia received a celebrated nationality. School children could be seen carrying and practicing with flutes.
Sofia's Flute
Sofia was a shy girl. She had recently moved to a new city and enrolled in a new school, but because of her careless appearance and large glasses she was teased by her classmates. As a child, music was her passion and her grandfather had given her a flute, which she learned to play. It was her most precious object.
When Sofia played the flute she was transported to a fantastic world where she felt happy and accepted by everyone. One day at her school a recital was going to take place, and she decided to participate, but in the rehearsals some classmates made fun of her and stole her beloved flute. But in that group of children was David, who had also been bullied in the past and seeing Sofia so sad, he remembered what it felt like to be excluded, so he left the flute on the door of her house to Sofia.
The day of the recital Sofia played her flute masterfully and in the first row was David who applauded his new friend, who thanked him with a smile.
Sophia, a girl eager to discover the world, from a very young age, was attracted to music, she used to listen to the song of the birds that perched on the trees every morning.
One afternoon, while walking through the countryside, he heard a soft melody that cheered his senses; following his instinct and looking for where the sound came from, saw a woodcutter sitting under the trees playing the soft notes; Curiously, Sophia approaches and asks: What is that beautiful sound? the woodcutter replies: -is the sound of a flute; The excited girl took the instrument and began to play.
Sophia from that day began to frequent every afternoon the same place to enjoy the beautiful melody sung by the woodcutter man. Time passed and little by little the light of Sophia was disappearing due to a strange illness, her world began to darken day by day until she was totally blind; she, despite her difficulty he did not give in to adversity and with the passage of time achieve your dream , opening the eyes of her heart through music and knowing the world through her ears.
Image source: http://nwschoolofmusic.com/make-time-everything-child-wants/
Mucha suerte amiga
Thales built wooden musical instruments. He was a young man whose mind always wandered asking himself questions like, "Who are we? What is nature?"
One day an old man came to his workshop, "I want you to make me an aulos," he said. For the young artisan that was an easy task, he did several every week. Then the old man gave him in a papyrus the specifications of how the aulos should be built, this surprised Thales, the aulos was simple and not double, and it also had only seven holes. The old man also gave him the wood which he had to use to build the unusual instrument. "It's for Sofia's birth," he said before leaving.
Thales made the aulos, and then he began to blow it, the sound that came out made him have revelations in his mind... They were constant epiphanies that gave answers to his questions, he came to love that piece of wood, but he had to deliver it. When his client arrived, Thales told him, "it's ready for your daughter Sofia", then the old man said, "she is not my daughter, she your daughter" and left. And thus philosophy was born.