Tell A Story To Me - The Last Forest - WINNERS!

Thank you so very much to all our entrants, @calluna here, I had so many delightful stories to read this time, and such variation of settings, genres, plots, it was such a pleasure to sit back and read them all (between baking - and eating - a tray of brownies). I am blown away by the standard you all set here yet again <3

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_{Artwork by Mad Uncle Studios}

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The Winners

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First Place - 5SBD

@riottales with The Last Forest

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Second Place - 3 @steembasicincome

@agmoore with Reign Of Fire

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Third Place - 2 @steembasicincome
_{We didn't get as many voters as we had prizes to go around, so we have a tie for third, each winning 2 SBI}

@adncabrera with The Forest On The Loose

@oivas with The Last Forest

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Popular Vote - 1 SBD & 2 @steembasicincome

_{We had a wide spread of voting, and like me, many of you really struggled to decide, but regardless of if I spilt the value of split votes, or counted each one as a whole, we had the same winner for our popular vote, a story that equally would have qualified for the last round! <3}

@jadams2k18 with The First Forest

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_{What a fantastic round! I hope you all enjoyed these tales as much as me <3 I have sincerely enjoyed spending the last week reflecting on your entries! We had enough entries to warrant a few honourable mentions, to be honest, this was just as hard as actually picking the winners, the standard was so high across all the entries, there was so much I loved in each of them. @vida-blanca kicked us off with her beautiful fantasy adventure, @cyemela brought us an eerie hair raising tale filled with lament, @felixgarciap gifted us such an evocative poem of love for the unattainable, @theironfelix joined with an epic fantasy showdown in the garden of Eden, @agmoore came in with a fiery tale of sheer destruction, @dirge gave us a masterful tale of corruption, resistance, and mankind, @sarez took us to the realms of fantasy in a tale of gargoyles pushed to the brink, @riottales took us all on a skilfully relatable walk into the trees, @sacra97 showed us three kittens, lost in the woods in a tale of balance and nature, @vasigo came in with a strong tale dripping in corruption, @gaby-crb gave us a beautiful poem of hope from the perspective of the forest, @ovias brought in a thought provoking story of human intervention, @wakeupkitty gifted us a haunting bittersweet tale, @darthgexe took us through the dunes on this emotive tale of love and growth, @adncabrera came in with a rich detailed story of a forest and those who visit it, @jadams2k18 joined us with a delightful tale of emotion and a world grown far beyond this one, finally, we ended with @maparari who gave us such a wonderful light note to end on, with her tale of a man incarcerated for smoking a cigarette.}

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Winning Voters - 1 @steembasicincome each

Six Winning Voters (Authors) - 1 @steembasicincome share for six authors who voted for their favourite story

@cyemela
@vida-blanca
@wakeupkitty
@sacra97
@agmoore2
@adncabrera

Thank you so very much to everyone who entered and very much hope to see you on June 1st for the next round!

The thought, time and effort that went into crafting the beautiful stories you all came together and wrote really shows, there was so much to think about, so much to reflect on, and I truly adore seeing how people go such different ways with things, and my, you all delivered here again. I very much hope you all make it back for the next round!

The Bananafish Tribe!

Tell A Story To Me is now part of the @bananafish family, we run a selection of regular contests including a brilliant weekly haiku contest and the occasional #finishthestory, all writers are welcome so give us a follow for your fiction fix!

A special thanks to @gwilberiol, @dirge, @tristancarax, @theironfelix, @raj808, @brisby, @maverickinvictus, @cyemela, @marcoriccardi, @hidden84, @calluna, @oivas, @ntowl, @f3nix, @felt.buzz, @khasa @vdux and @blueeyes8960 who's precious delegations make these projects a reality!