Congrats to @foxfiction for winning the May 9 Twenty-four Short story contest--plus other additional winners
Twenty-four hour short story contest May 9 entries
This contest has some wonderful entries.
We had a grand total of 13 stories. No make that 14, I miss counted on the original of this post. Awesome.
Congrats to foxfiction for winning 5 Steem, for his very creepy idea of a smart home being in love and a little jealous. Check out the story Skin.
Congrats to dirge for winning 3 Steem for his story Neurograft.
I also gave out more Steem this week because we just had some solid entries and thanks to extra participation I can give out more Steem!
cizzo got 1 Steem for his story Dirty Dishwasher. It's almost NSFW for work. But the idea of people being in love with their dishwasher is just fascinating.
And 1 Steem to iamthegray for his story In His Image. Seriously foll0w iamthegray, I am a little jealous of how young and talented he is.
Other Entries:
I wish I was wealthy enough to give away more, but hopefully upvotes and resteems helped. But here are the other entries. Please check them out and toss them an upvote.
And I apologize to pelusa for not including their story of More Human in the first draft of this post, which tells the story of Nina and her robot creation and its role as protector in the military.
agmoore tells the story of Ophelia who is assigned to help at a party.
calluna tells the story of Katja who maybe watching her humans a little too closely.
dbzfan4awhile writes dialog very deftly. Maggy is a robot that assists on a space mission.
squirezed tells the story of Forte who is the fourteenth robot made by the father of the family.
newyorkfever tells the story of Terra whose creator forgets that she is not human.
marie-jay her story Sweet Elsie, debates the idea of sex with a robot.
azension tells a very cool alternative history story about how we developed AI. Lesson here is, you don't always need to go to the future to tell of fanastic things. You can just change the past.
nobyeni tells a wonderful fantasy in Love Please. Check it out.
diebitch has the shortest story this week. Check it out to see why.
Thank you to everyone who entered. If you entered and I missed putting it in this curation post, leave a link in the comments and I will update the post.
Please check out and upvote the others in the contest. Let's try and support each other. If you like a story leave a comment on that person's post.
Thanks everyone
New contest should be up Sunday evening.
Hey @mctiller you miss my entry :'(
https://steemit.com/twentyfourhourshortstory/@pelusa/more-human
I sincerely apologize about the mistake. I have updated the post to include your story.
thanks for the contest as always. It's hard to keep up with what I feel is a growing community of talented writers in the platform! congrats to @foxfiction and @cizzo
I really really enjoyed the story that @dirge came up with. Why? Because he captures you and keeps you captured. The quality itself would have won any contest two times over =)
Yes. He is a solid writer.
I like to spread the love out sometimes for rewards, @dirge has earned some Steem rewards in past weeks of this contest, and @foxfiction was new to the contest, and I thoroughly enjoyed that post as well. So I am trying to encourage new people to be here as well.
I will be there for the next one as well. The responses I got is worth so much more. I almost cried when one of them commented, who said it felt "real" by the words. That's the most beautiful response that I've ever witnessed.
That's awesome. The point of the contest was not only to spread some Steem rewards around, but to meet other writers. And in the mist of it all, there has developed a small community of writers which is great.
Thanks for the kind words. I'm happy to simply just participate, regardless of rewards/winnings. These contests are great. Anything that gets people reading/writing! There's a lot of great writers on Steemit and these contest help build a community. @mctiller gets to host and reward his contests however he wants to and I'm happy just to participate.
Thank you for the prize @mctiller and congrats to the other winners.
Looking forward to the next prompt!
You're welcome. And I have update the post with a link to your story. I forgot to put a link in the first time around.
I the words of James Franco "They say living well is the best revenge but sometimes writing well is even better."
Awesome - thanks so much :) - I started that story from the perspective of 'What would creep me the hell out' so it was great fun to write.
Congrats to the other winners and looking forward to the next one :)
And another round ends
Congratulations to the winners
I'm not sure why, but I'm checking @cizzo's entry first
Lol
Look forward to the next prompt
Blessings
I had picked @foxfiction for a winner... genuinely creepy and I loved it. Everyone was so inventive with their responses.. such a great contest but damn I wish I had longer than 24.hours or so to knock it out!