STACH Short Story Contest #11: 199 words-10SBD prize pool!
Hello Everyone, @kingst here with the announcement for the STACH Short Story Contest #11.
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.
- Stories must be pasted in the comment sections, No links please.
Winners Selection.
Winners will be selected based on the topic, story plot, number of words and delivery. One word above 199, disqualifies the entry.
Contest Topic.
Write a 199 words story based on Love like this.
PRIZE.
THREE winners will be selected for a share of the 10SBD prize. The story with the most interaction gets a 1SBD prize from @ejemai.
First Prize: ----------------------5SBd
Second Prize: ------------------3SBD
Third Prize: ---------------------2SBD.
Good luck guys!
Sharpen your writing skills and throw in some inspiring short stories. XO!
STACH is supported by @Sndbox as a Sndcastle project.
A love like this will never die, we started rough, we went through the thin moment and the broad situations, Dear Believe me this is just a challenge we will surely overcome.
What an encouraging word from Adesola to her husband who has been given her tough time for more than a month that she has been visiting her in the hospital.
Adesola and Ajanaku have been married for about 4 years happily even without a child, but the love that existed between this two is just so strong as a Rock.
But the bad event happened on Adesola Birthday, Ajanaku took her to a pleasing joint to celebrate her, and right after the joyful moment they shared together, they left for their house, but on getting home, Ajanaku got a call to resume back to office, which he couldn't oblige, but an accident occurred on his way to the office which made him lost his spinal cord.
Thinking of how miserable it will be for them, he advises her to leave her for another relationship but Adesola replied him that, even though they are not likely to have a child again, A Love Like This Will Never Die.
Great!! U killed it! ....i wish you good luck man
Thanks Bro
the word love
Is a big thing
So you are a story writer too?...... A lovely story.
I'm actually just trying
If thats the case....u really tried well☺☺
Keep it up!!!
Thanks Bro
This is breath taking
Hummm..... Well, it is
This is great , i love it .....
I'm glad you love it
Never knew you were this good. Nice story.
Thanks bro
Keep it up
Thanks bro
Ggbam!!! You nailed it bro ... Bring this home
A LOVE LIKE THIS
My story;
It all started in a small house of two apartments. My parents longed for my arrival to this beautiful world after a couple of years into marriage. I was finally given birth to and nothing could have been more of happiness than my parents having their own offspring.
Love became a necessity in my everyday activities as my parents continue to live and cherish me. As the days goes by, the love from my parents keep on getting stronger as they get older.
Everything I do always seem right to my parents as they always support my visions and missions. Whenever I am wrong, they will call my attention to my wrongs by making it seems right. They gave to me all I could ever need.
A love like this is often the love from parents to offsprings. A love like this never fade away as it is true love. Parental love can't be replace by any means, so therefore, no one can replace my parents, as they are my best experience.
Now, I have grown into a man of many success and values with the help of my parents.
A love like this is magnificent, real, and true.
Sofia
I stopped working to dedicate myself to Sofia's care and seek medical help to find a compatible heart for her. I only live and breathe to achieve her happiness and my faith strengthens me, because there is no love greater than the love of a mother.
My prayers were heard and today my girl lives a happy life, she can play and run like the other children, she goes to school and in her future I see a full life, although she will always need a lot of care.
Love is unconditional surrender, and when you have children you sacrifice and fight for their well being. Their happiness is your happiness.
nice story!
The strength of love
Tells the story of two lovers who under the light of the moon and the stars swore eternal love, fruit of forbidden love a seed grew in his belly, but a heartless father who did not tolerate the idea that his daughter loved the man which she chose, led him to plan his confinement and away from the sight of the people remained for a long time. the months passed the sadness cornered her, the only refuge of that young she was the great love for his son.
One night a crying announced the arrival of product of love of that pair of adolescents cruelly separated that only longed to meet again. The humble midwife who attended to the young woman, witnessing the situation, she decided to help her escape, days ago had already planned the reunion near midnight in a desolate train station, where a young man with a suitcase full dreams I expected with wish the arrival of his love, when looking they at each other from a distance they ran for embrace each other, the emotion came out to flower of skin while in a deep kiss they waited for the train of freedom.
Image source: http://www.tcs.cam.ac.uk/culture/0036718-finding-love-in-cambridge.html
Freedom
Her beautiful black eyes, jet-black hair and exquisite figure dazzled me when I met her at my best friend's house. Andrea was the younger sister of Charles, one of my closest friends.
My love for her grew slowly, but secretly, since Andrea had a boyfriend and they were about to get married, so I had not confessed my love. A month before the wedding, Andrea discovered that her boyfriend had been unfaithful and thus decided to end their relationship.
I took courage and confessed my feelings, she was a puddle of tears and eventually we started dating. One day Leo came back and I saw them conversing by chance in a square, she looked at him with love, a look she did not have for me and I realized how much she still loved him.
With my heart broken I told Andrea to give Leo a chance, that if she wanted him, she should go back with him and be happy, that I would let her out of her commitment.
Love is to let your partner be free, to respect the other's feelings and decisions, to be by their side along the way, to wish their happiness over yours.
A Gift of Love
Charles and Annie were farmers, but due to a great drought that hit the country, they had lost everything.
It was only a few weeks away for their wedding anniversary. Charles had a watch he inherited from his father, it was his most valuable possession. Charles decided to sell it to buy an anniversary a gift to his wife.
When the anniversary date came, Charles told his wife that, despite the financial difficulties, he had bought her a gift. Annie told him that she also had a gift for him.
When both opened their gifts they did not know whether to laugh or cry with emotion, Charles gave Annie a hairbrush and Annie gave Charles a strap for his watch. What Charles did not know that Annie cut her hair to sell it and be able to buy the strap. Annie did not know that Charles sold his watch to buy Annie the Hairbrush.
Both sold their most precious treasures to give themselves a gift, because their love was more valuable than any possession they had and that gift signified their commitment and love. To love is to sacrifice oneself for the loved one.
The wedding photo of my parents is charming, they are clearly head over heels. By the time I was born, they had been married nearly 20 years. Those "Hollywood" ideas of love were not really visible in their relationship. They did kiss and say "I love you" to each other, but any passion you may see in that old photo did not appear to survive seven children and two decades.
Appearances can be deceiving. When mom got cancer, dad looked as ill as she. When I left the nest and dad retired, they turned their attention back toward their relationship. They bought a new car and RV, hit the road and played like children!
One evening at Cincinnati Music Hall, my father dropped dead at my mother's feet. CPR was done immediately, but there was no hope.
My mother's grief was hard to witness. For over fifty years they had been together in everything, fifty-plus years of standing side by side. When she passed away, the sadness at losing her was tempered by knowing that at last, mom and dad were together again.
My thirty-seven year marriage is built upon the lessons of love like this!
The Unconditional Love ( love like this )
This story is about a man and his name is father. He used to go daily to office and work for whole day, at evening he came back to home, and this is his daily routine. He serves the whole family and try to fullfill all there needs. He want to see the happy faces of his kids. Always he tries to express his love toward his child but fails many times. Even after doing all, his child don't understand him at all, but it's ok and it's fine, because they are no more 9.
He want to spend time with his family. He want to express his felling. He wants to be the best friend. But many times, because he have the responsibility to protect you from all the problem, from all the wrong choice and evil element of society. He sometimes behaves a little harder. Do you know why? Because he is a father. He loves you a lot, more then your friends, with a thought. Someday you understand his felling and his thought. That he loves you a lot, he loves you a lot.
Originally written by me.
Mama & The Kids!
"Chiboy! Chiboy!!" Mama called. “Gather firewood and make a fire. Put the biggest pot on it. We are going to make a sweet food today". The eldest son understood and left to do as Mama said.
The kids' eyes widened from expectancy. Their last meal was white rice with palm oil they had as breakfast.
Since her husband passed on 6months ago, things have been really difficult for Okafor's bereaved family. The man left 3 kids for Mama and went to an early grave due to hypertension and stroke.
"Children gather round. Let me tell you a story", she said.
On days when hunger got them like this the only thing she could do is fill their minds with moonlight tales of tortoise and other animals. They loved listening to Mama’s stories though there tummies made loud noises.
"I'm cooking something delicious...” she quickly added inbetween tales.
“But while we are waiting for it, let's have garri". They sipped the white granules to a fill.
By the time Mama was done with her stories, the kids had all slept. Chiboy brought down the pot and removed the pieces of stone they have been cooking.
Original Story by @nairadaddy!
A LOVE LIKE THIS ...
..To Save his life or that of his child to be born. The choice seems impossible. In such situation, Mother will have no hesitancy. Pressed by time, it chooses to die to save this child that she had no time to know,
The pregnancy had taken place without complication. In some days of the 35 years and the eighth wedding birthday, the mother is giving birth to the second child. But arrived at the hospital, the doctors discover that the young mother is suffering from an amniotic embolism, a rare complication of childbirth where the amniotic fluid circulates suddenly in the mother's blood. Putting his vital prognosis and that of her child in danger .
The doctors leave only few options to this mother: Have a c-section under anesthesia to be sure to save the life of his son or stay awake in order to implement everything to save his life. She chooses the son,the child born in good health .
A gift of generosity that left everyone without a voice ...
Husband doesn't know how to deal with this tragic loss !
"How can I explain to her that his mother is gone giving him birth?"
A heartbreaking story