STACH Short Story Contest #14: 199 words, 15SBD prize pool!
Hello Everyone, @kingst here with the announcement for the STACH Short Story Contest #14.
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.
•Contestants are permitted to post their stories in an article on their blog, so they also get upvotes.
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 LIFE AS WE KNOW IT.
PRIZE.
THREE winners will be selected for a share of the 15SBD and Yes, we increased the prize. The story with the most interaction gets a 1SBD prize from @ejemai.
First Prize: ----------------------7SBd
Second Prize: ------------------5SBD
Third Prize: ---------------------3SBD.
Good luck guys!
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She sat down on the floor of her kitchen, eyes swollen from crying profusely. She wished she could turn back the hands of time. It had been seven months since her fiance; Ejiro passed away.
He was everything to her. When she lost her family to a plane crash, he became her family and closest friend. Nobody loved her like he did. She shouldn't have asked him to come pick her up from the motor park that day. If only she had boarded a cab, he would still be alive. What if she didn't decide to come back that day, things wouldn't be the way they were; he'd be here cooking dinner for her. She barely ate these days; food had lost its taste. She looked terrible.
For her, life had lost its meaning, there was no point living. She wished death would just wrap her in its cold embrace.
Mrs Helen walked into the kitchen to see her on the floor crying. "My daughter, enough of the crying. He was my son too. Life as we know it, is unfair; the bad and the good suffer the same fate. Don't worry we'll overcome." She said
Consoling words of an understanding mother. Life is really not fair as we know it.
Thank you so much.
Nice story @vwovwe
Thanks bro
TRAGIC, there was nothing she could have done about it. thats life for you. @vwovwe hope you win
Thank you
Wow, this story is so touching. Life is indeed unfair
Thank you, my dear
Lovely piece. Precise, but we'll captured.
Thank you @prettyabby
of all the stories here, this story got to me, @vwovwe hope you win
Thank you @bobbyblanca
good story, please win @vwovwe
Thank you so much @emmanuela
i understand how it feels to lose someone, really touching. life is indeed not fair @vwowve
Thanks
Wow Nice story
Thank you
@vwovwe i almost cried while i was reading your story. Life is really unfair
Thanks
@vwovwe, emotional story
Thanks @datibomchic
@vwovwe, your story is really touching
Thanks
Life as we know it, is indeed not fair @vwovwe
Thanks
(call begins)...
Me: Hello, Good afternoon uncle. It's Joy your niece. Udeme's daughter.
Uncle Emma: Joy girl, how are you?
Me: I'm fine. How are you sir?
Uncle Emma: I'm alright.
Me: uncle I need your help.
Uncle Emma: yes what can I do for you?
Me: I need help to pay my fees. The deadline is in a week and I have not gotten any money to pay. If I don't pay in a week,the portal is going to close and I will just have to suspend studies for this semester. You are my last hope.
Uncle Emma: (laughs hard) So now you can call me to ask for money. I thought you and your mother stopped being Jehovah's Witnesses and even changed your surname from the normal name everyone in the family bears. How am I even sure you are now in school. I don't want to have anything to do with you, your brothers or even your mom and don't you ever call my line again. Rubbish.
(call ends)...
I used to think family should always be there for each other in the good and bad times but no, this is life as we know it.
This is clearly a mistake. Please ignore.
Lovely
I hope you win, good story @vwovwe
Thanks
Correct one @vwovwe, hope you win
Thanks
I loved the story. Good writeup @vwovwe
Thanks
Lovely write up, good one there @vwovwe
Thanks
Wow...
Thanks
Life as we know it, is a playground in which many games were played. We are the players of those games of Life. When we born, that time is a debut of our game career. In this game sometime we win and sometimes we lose. This is called life where everyone wants to win a game but some of them are the winner and some of them are losers.
Today I found this contest after loose a contest in which I thought that I win definitely but Life as we know it, is a game so I think I should not sit in depression, I should try another contest and overcome that failure.
That contest was a game of my life in which I lose but It does not mean I play any other game.
Life is a journey on which we embark and travel. In this journey, there are some big challenges and some are small but, In general, Life is a Life as we know it.
I say thanks to @stach for this contest because this contest gives me new rays to win a contest after losing in a contest.
Contests are really helpful for minnows.
💚
thnks
yeah you are right. life is like a game on a limited time, so let make good use of that time.
nice story @steemitglass
thanks
Really nice definition
very nice ...
Good job @steemitglass
life they say is full of ups and downs ,but is it really so ?
life as far as i am concerned is full of opportunities .
opportunities disguised to look like challenges
"life as we know it " is a journey clouded with so many distractions
distractions from friends, family ,hobbies and things we even have passion for.
you cannot get the best out of life without recognizing that challenges are the keys to success.
challenges of life as we know it are those stones or steps needed to be climbed to get to the next stage of our lives.
reminds of the story of the boy who wanted to be the best doctor in his community in his village and his classmate who wanted to be the best doctor in the world.
they both went to the same school and had same teacher , but their end won't be the same because the guy who wants to be the best in the world will obviously not only read what was taught in the class, because his dream is bigger than the class room he is in.
his poor school is his challenge but his dreams will scale
My Story.
My life was carefree and with no worries, I worked to achieve my goals and to be able to buy my first house with my husband, maybe my problems were not having enough money to go shopping. However, when I reached 37, I was diagnosed with cancer and my life was turned upside down, I had to fight a hard battle to overcome the disease and after my recovery I saw life in a different way. Now I’m more sensitive to the sick and those in need and try to help them as I can with the money I had previously used to buy clothes, not having enough money is not a problem, and I enjoy every minute with my family, I have also approached the church and appreciate being alive.
Life as I knew it before the illness is not the same for me right now, I see life with eyes of hope.
Note: It's based on my real story. Thank you for reading!
Perfection is a flaw compared to the integrity and commendable lifestyle Raymond had. Raymond is excellent perfection in every sense of the word. Angels in heaven would rate 2nd best; only Jesus the Son of God was beyond him. 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 livestock 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! Wayo Allah! came the words from neighbors. Raymond so na you be the thief and a woman fainted. So na you dey thief our livestock. You wey we dey see as angel for we compound. So you be theif. Well should we be suprised shey it's Life as we know it.
Raymond would have been a life transformer with his perfection but unfortunately channeled it to a wrong vision. Excellent! This got my attention
Same here .... Am truly amazed at how it all turned out
Tnx
Tnx
Josef was the son of a diamond seeker, he worked with his father since he was 6 years old to help the family. His father spent long hours working in a diamond mine, where the conditions were very bad.
For 10 years, Josef worked alongside his father although he did not receive any payment from the mine for his work, Josef knew the only way his father could pay the bills and feed the family was for his help.
But his father knew that Josef was very intelligent and wanted a better way to make a living for his son. I wanted him to study and be a professional.
One day when Josef turned 16, his father told him that he would not work in the mine, Josef told his father that being a miner was the only thing in life he had ever known, to which his father replied "Josef there is a world out there that you must explore and I want something better for you, than a hard life and poverty. "
His father hugged him and gave him the money, which for years he had saved so Josef studied and knew a better life.
The streets, after finishing the workday, receive me and I see in the twitching faces of the people that I cross, the anger that the uncertainty and the impotence that life as we know it, induces them.
Life as it is
The purpose of life is the search for happiness in a world full of diversity of thoughts and actions; where experiences are acquired every day through trial and error.
There are people with numerous material possessions, but with their empty souls, they are not happy with what little they have, and much less will be happy with how much they will have. In today's world we live in a daily discordance that goes beyond reality.
Money can solve situations but it does not buy happiness, it can indulge tastes and whims but never buy feelings, there are people with a lot of talent but with an unstable and unsuccessful personal life, dedicated but poorly paid workers, people who criticize the faults of others but they do not look in their own mirror, it is easy to criticize, it is difficult to accept, that is reality, the world is not complex, it is the people and their ideas that make it complex.
In the world we know there are many complaints about nonsense, when we really need to worry about more important things like finding our inner peace, working to be better people every day.
Life as we know it
it is said that in life what goes around comes around.
Once upon a time in the small village of sankiki, the lived a boy called John.
John was from a poor home and was extremely dull when it comes to school work. He was despised by his classmates and even most of the teachers in school called him a failure, but John had a friend called David who was always supportive telling him that he was not a failure.
John's performance at school was very bad that he had to drop out. But David was always trying his best to teach his friend the little he knew.
After many years of struggling John got admission into a university, graduated as one of the best. Today John is now a vice chancellor of a university.
Life as we know it was not really fair to his friend David. But because of what David did for John many years ago, John assisted David in all possible ways. THE END
Life as we know, what we want is not all we get, just like a boy who had waited for the expected moment after many days of training for the school 100 metres competition. Being the first to step out, getting to the finish line, nobody equalled him, he snatched the victory. Those brief happy moments was forever in his mind. “from now on i always want to be the first, the best "
In his years of study he sought to be an outstanding student, have high academic performance to maintain the scholarship he achieved, hours of sleeplessness. He got the prize, being constantly student of the year.
Then at work always wanting to standout, understood he needed his work as his only source of income,struggling to obtain the recognition of his superiors and fortunately he got his dream position in the company.
With passage of time, forming a home and having a goal to provide for his loved ones did not become a reality, he found out he had no seed in him.
The heartbreak knowing all his efforts was in vain, there was no one to fight for.