Previous winning post - Children of the cocoa plantation by @awriter

Every aspiring storyteller needs to get a start somewhere, and what better place to practice your craft than Steemit? This post is a short story with a chilling ending, chronicling the fate of two African children who run afoul of the Brazilian slave trade. A good moral for this story might be "you reap what you sow". We hope this guild vote will help stir those creative juices so you can keep the stories coming @awriter! Who knows, maybe you'll give Stephen King a run for his money someday.

Now on to today's nominations...

The "Nominate-a-Friend" Steemvoter (SV) Guild program.

So how does it work? Simple ... reply with a comment to this post with the link to another Steemian's post you think deserves the daily Steemvoter guild upvote, you are welcome to motivate in the reply why you think they deserve it.

The reply with the highest upvote $ value will be the winner and the post nominated in that reply will receive the guild upvote, which as you may have seen from previous posts, is a generous upvote from over 500 guild members, giving $30 dollars or more to the author depending on starting value.

Please make sure your nomination follows these guidelines:

Basic Guidelines

• You cannot submit your own post or that of your other related accounts that you own or share ownership in, if you are found or reported to do this and substantially verified, your and your related accounts will be blacklisted from future guild vote eligibility.

• No religious, NSFW, racist, trolling, fake news or inappropriate posts will be considered, in which case runner's up will be selected. @steemvoter has the final word as to which post is selected for the daily vote.

• We will not vote the same author in a seven-day window.

• Cut-off time: We will choose the highest value comment nomination within 48 hours of this post becoming active. Please only submit posts that are still within their 7 day voting window, and allow enough time for the guild vote to be done before their payout window closes.

• This is not about curation rewards for the guild members and getting in early on the vote etc, it is purely to reward the deserving author.

• @steemvoter will consider this a free market experiment and we will facilitate the voting of the post that the community wants voted, without checking for PLG of content, photos and artwork. At our discretion, blatantly inappropriate posts will not be voted on however.

• This is a beta guild project and terms are subject to change at any time.

Let's make Steem great ... together!!

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The Steemvoter Guild

If you are not already a part of our SV Guild please support our service and the authors we uplift by signing up at steemvoter.com; add your Steem account and make sure the "Guild" checkbox is enabled for each account you load on the dashboard.

In addition, you will be able to use our bot service to select your own authors to auto-vote; the guild vote is an additional daily donation to a deserving Steem author.

Steemvoter is a public curation bot with an easy to use interface, it truly is a bot for the people, making automatic curation on Steemit easy with just a few clicks.

This is a payment post! Thank you for allowing us to use your Steem accounts to upvote this post by virtue of your free subscription to our bot service!

Anyone not signed up at steemvoter.com is welcome to do so or just vote this post to help the project.

And if you missed it, be sure to check out our Steemvoter Week In Review for Apr. 22 - 29 for previous guild vote winners & Steemvoter news.

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Should you require any assistance please contact @thecryptodrive or @cryptomancer in the #steemvoter.com channel on steemit.chat.