UPDATE: The author for the first part of SteemShort #3 has been chosen (2018-Jan-22)
The summary with the most upvotes (68) has been written by @cwen.
Congratulations, @cwen
Here is the summary:
^^Screenshot sent^^ -22:12
He is so callous, so unrepentant. You have sent him all these texts yet no response.
This is the third time he is asking you to forget about the marriage.
You have sent pictures of your ovulation signs to him.
Asked four different people to entreat on your behalf;
He gave them four different reasons for his actions.
You thought it was all about your inability to conceive.
I told you it’s not!
He is yet to give you a genuine reason for his actions.
Now he has added injury to Insult by blocking you from all social media.
He is simply telling you to get out of his life. Yet you keep texting!
Aren’t you tired of crying every night?
Aren’t you tired of lonely sad nights?
Aren’t you tired of loving him?
Why do you keep demanding for love where it does not exist?
He is my husband. – 22:18
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He is not A HUSBAND!
Are you crying?!
Missed Video Call – 22:38
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HE IS MY HUSBAND!
SteemShort #3 - Post 1: Request for First Part of the Story
SteemShort are short stories written collaboratively by three differents authors and illustrated by an artist/photographer.
The process to create a SteemShort is described in this post and amended in this one
This is the request for the first part of the third SteemShort.
Authors that want to write this first part should send in a comment the summary of their proposed contribution. This summary must be in 100 to 200 words. Any proposed summary that is shorter than 100 words or longer than 200 words will not be considered.
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# SteemShort #3 Post 1 - marcel.dubrovnik
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The chosen author will be the one that have the most votes sent to @steemshorts for his summary comment 3 days after this post. The post will be updated to indicate which author has been chosen.
The chosen author will then be instructed how to submit their full constribution. The full contribution need to be between 500 and 1,500 words.
Once the full contribution of the chosen author will be received, another post with this full contribution will request proposals for the second part of the story.
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No title for the short story should be suggested. When the full text of the full story will be known, the three different authors will propose a title.
So, writers, send your summary proposals.
And, readers, vote for your preferred author sending 0.01 STEEM or SBD to @steemshorts with a valid memo starting with '#'.
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Oh that's really good. Best of luck to all the authors who are participating. Looking forward to vote and i might write too.
This is interesting for authors.
I should get my neighbor involved in this.
Whoa.
Keep on steemin'
ABOUT ME:
I'm a scientist who writes fantasy and science fiction under various names. This contest seems really fun.
MY SUGGESTION (199 words):
Life is short, even if you live forever.
Fifty years is a long time to wait for the things you ordered. Everybody's eagerly awaiting the arrival of the next transport platform, coming from earth. They don't anticipate it crashing into the ocean. Problematic when it's a habitat as large and massive as one of the seven moons.
Rain. I look down. Dimples reflected in a shallow puddle. We hold each other.
We're safe. Others aren't.
Behind us, behind mist, ruins of a dead city. Flooded.
In the distance, the sound of waves crashing against the far shore.
Were it that the waves were merely their sound!
With the city destroyed, the narrator and five other individuals venture towards danger, not away. They'll not age. But their life absent technology will be a hard one. They must recover, somehow, what they can, from the crashed platform, whose lowest levels rest on the soft ocean floor. Problem? It's slowly sinking.
Another problem. The colonial administrator is with them. She wanted to extort from the shipping guild and first gave wrong coordinates to the platform. Now she has something to hide from the other survivors.
Things that once took hours take years.
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Glad to be a part of this! Here is my summary for part 1..
Everything was right on schedule. There he was. Frank, a daunting man complete with a leather briefcase to match his shoes, emerged from the train at 6:45am. Just as expected.
As he walked through the train station, I noticed his grip on his briefcase, his slightly crooked walk, and his constant scanning.
Looking left, right, ahead, and behind.
I couldn't tell if he was expecting me or just expecting the worst.
I discretely followed him for several blocks before I allowed him to believe no one was following him. He stepped into a coffee shop downtown and seemed relaxed, as if he somehow sense I was there, but then talked himself out of it.
Well, not me particularly, considering we've never met before, but just the sense of me being there.
I wondered what he would say if I told him who I was.
Would he act as I was a ghost? Would he storm out of the coffee shop, leaving me alone with the blank and frightened stares of everyone around me?
Or would he accept me? And ask me to sit down with him?
great information
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I like this story
Here's my summary, thank you!
It all started on a typically warm windy day in California...a long way from Yorkshire and the dank, dark streets of Leeds. A man saunters into a run down second hand book shop just off Venice beach and begins listlessly leafing through a pile of New Age books scattered in a chaos of covers, all promising instant life changes.
And on this occasion, against all the odds, that's exactly what happened.
The book that caught his gaze was entitled "Sunsigns - A Guide to your Perfect Planetary Partner." And although he did not know it, he was directly on the cusp of astrological fortune.
Mercury the old winged messenger, who blows both hot and cold, was at that exact moment in favourable aspect to Leo in his fourth house, Unconsciously spurred by this, he searches his pockets and discovers $2 in change. The price of the book? $2. A sign!
Book bought, he set off down the boardwalk to read it amid the palm trees and roaring breakers.
It's hard to imagine now how so small a moment, how such an infinitesimal slice of time can ripple ravenously out into the universe but it did, as you will see.
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Herr is my own summary
Kennedy has made it this far in school without the help of his father, he's now in final year. His dad wanted him to become a lawyer, but he wanted to become a musician. He applied to study Theater art in school against the wish of his father. His dad has since then refused to take part in catering for his tuition or any other allowances needed for school.
All thanks to his mum who manages to save little from the money she makes from her petty trade and the host of performances that Kennedy do attend.
He found love along the way and they did what lovers do. Abigail is now pregnant for Kennedy but that is the last thing he expected now.
He talked her to aborting it but she told her there was no way to it.
His career depends on him finishing in school. But his he ready to face fatherhood and the responsibilities that comes with it?
He's faced with the dilemma of either quitting school or having to face his father who had vowed never to help him with anything again in life.
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My submission:
Sitting in a stealth helicopter skimming the night-cloaked surface of the Arabian Sea, James Smith knew this would be his last mission.
He was to assassinate the head of the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence, Amjad Darvish. Darvish's deputy, a long-time US mole, had already laid the groundwork for a coup, and only his boss — a staunch loyalist of the Ayatollah — stood in his way.
The CIA was more than eager to enlist Smith to help move the process along, and had given him ample compensation. More than enough to quit the spy game and live a long, happy, and financially healthy life on a beach in Honduras.
The mission went better than planned and as he stepped onto the tarmac of the aircraft carrier, sighed in relief as he collected his thoughts for the debriefing scheduled for 0400.
His last debriefing.
Safe in his cabin, he turned on his cellphone to find a text from an unknown number. It was a picture of his wife, her throat slit, with a red-speckled note next to her lifeless body.
“We know who you are. We know what you did. We found her. We will find you."
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I Love your story <3
TURNING POINT
When life knocks you down, you grab it with all hugs, because there is no problem without a solution and solutions comes as a result of problem.
This goes for my friend Adeyinka, the moment he felt he was at the peak of his career, his company couldnt move on with the harsh economy in the country , so they had to retrench some staff and he was part of them...
Now he his faced with life challenge of finding a solution to his present predicament, having to cater for two kids , his wife and aged mother...
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Wonderful initiative! So my proposal (100 words):
And he who made the heavens wished to recycle the clipping, left from creating the sky. So he squished them and placed them near a star so they could cook. Soon beings sprouted and began toiling in the mush — and he saw it was good. For indeed the compost cooked. But soon sentience sprouted from the heap and it was not long before manny of the beings, digging in the mud, began to build heavens of their own. He knew they would soon forget the dirt, from which they came, but stoped to think, if he had done the same.
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My Entry
Susan decided to stop by the book fair to see if she would find the book and as she entered the building, a man snatched her bag from her and ran out of the building. Tim had seen what happened and so he ran after the man to collect the bag from him. Tim finally caught up with the thief and so they wrestled with each other but Time managed to overpower the thief and so he collected the bag and handed the thief over to security and he returned the bag to Susan. Susan did not recognize Tim as she was still in shock of what happened and did Tim but she thanked him. Susan left the fair in a hurry. "Not again", Tim said to himself as he forgot to collect her mobile number.
Later that evening, Tim got a call from an unknown number and he hoped it was Susan calling but on receiving the call, it was Betty, Tina's best friend who called saying Tina had been kidnapped
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My Summary:
James Stathe wasn’t the most eligible bachelor in town nor was he the most talented, refined or even the slightest bit genius, but he had an essence of pure adventure; adventure that had seen him bent over every paddle along the coast of the Massachusetts Bay. His folks were old fishermen, who spent their days fileting fish brought in by the younger lads who ventured out in the early mornings. Stathe didn’t have much, but he had his Meredith. In times of doubt she had been there, standing by his side, putting back together the pieces that had fallen apart. His parents were indifferent to his choice not to take on the family business, but James sought something more than just the stench of rotting carcasses day after day. He sought a life of never-ending excitement, he sought a story that could be passed on from generation to generation, he sought a title and a history, he sought “The Meridia”.
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My summary:
John had been sitting in the same place for two hours, still as a corpse, just like the taxi he was driving. His car was a red Dacia Logan and you could tell by its smell that it was brand new. It was John’s pride and joy. He had named it “The Red Fury” and could not stop looking at it, painting a vivid picture in his head of all the urban adventures he would share with Fury. Exactly like a knightly tournament champion riding on his strong and sturdy horse. John sat there, still, about one hundred meters away from the airport exit, near the international flight's gate. He could hear Boeing engines piercing the clouds and would flinched whenever he dozed off. With every whizz of the aircraft engine his hopes would be lifted, his thoughts would flow towards his potential customer and the conversation which would ensue. He would watch the smartly dressed people emerge through the gate and leave in the shinier Taxis. His hopes would crash like a glass into a thousand shards, his mind would be filled with violent images brewing from his anger within.
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Here is my summary,
The captain announced that there will be no surrender, the captain was right, the ship was designed in such way that it had no country colors and could not be linked back from parts if destroyed but if they surrendered his country was going to face a big international embarrassment,
As the time elapsed the ships radar detected multiple incoming missiles towards it interceptors flew off in all directions but there were not enough interceptors or any other security which could save the ship from here,
Captain ordered that there is only one option left, to start the cloak again, he said if it transported us here it can transport us once more out of here, everybody agreed that this was the only chance.
After the order Naveen restarted the cloak without any second thoughts; he again felt the nausea as earlier but the intensity was much higher; a flash of blue light blinded everybody in the room and all were pulled in air toward the roof.
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Submission of first part:
Human extinction was a natural progression from the endless wars waging among mankind. Racial wars, cultural wars, religious wars and finally nuclear wars had ended it all in the name of power, greed and hatred. Nothing came close to saving mankind as the species spiraled down the path of self-destruction. Near the end of the homo sapiens era, humans were like robots, mindless and soulless. Purpose of humans was only to be slaves to the Musoterro race controlled by the Demigops, who overpowered normal human beings by mind control and hypnosis. The Demigops took advantage of human weakness and ignorance.
The Demigops looked like human, but their human soul became rotten and ultimately, lost after it was completely absorbed by sins and malice. These characteristics distinguished the Demigops from normal humans and had put them above their human counterpart giving rise to a separate race, the Musoterro race. The human survivors, known as the Patriots led by their captain Lucifer, lived in small pockets around the world to avoid capture and plan their rebellion in the last battle of the races. Lucifer and his armies had readied themselves for the final battle to save earth.
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Alarm 6:00 Beep, beep
John swings his alarm over angrily. He didn't get enough sleep again. If only John didn't have to fight for fame and money in the arena. His mother abandoned him, father rests in peace and his sister is a drug addict.
„Another day, another dime.“ – John encourages himself to start the day
John is late with morning preparation, he put on his outfit and went to school.
„I will be late again, damnit!“
John rushed to the bus station, hopped on and went head to clouds thinking about Jennifer while riding to school.
„Mike again. I can't stand him, why does he have to go to my class...“ – His toughts about Jennifer got interrupted by his best friend Jordan
„Relax bro, just ignore him. I suggest you focus on Jennifer instead“ – John said with a wink and a smile while they both left the bus
„Don't you have your eye on her?“
„Yeah, but I saw her a lot with Mike so I don't know what's what...“ - John shrugged
„So Mike isn't just my problem, huh?“
„I would've tried something if Mike wasn't such a big dude, he's strong as a concrete wall.“
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Y'all my friends show me love.. start sending in your sbd for me to win this..
Thank you in anticipation...
Here's my entry
word count 124
It was a cold winter morning...
Everything stood still as i stared away...
I had been lost in thoughts for several days... Everything seemed so close yet far from my reach...
I was surrounded by people, yet i felt so lonely...
I tried hard to smile amidst all these but i just could not...
Could it be the cold?..
As i stood and stared in oblivion, i heard footsteps from behind... I was too lost in my thoughts to even look back at who was there..
And suddenly... I heard a voice.. Oh music to my ears....
"how are you baby, i missed you so much"...
Oh my word...
Could that be him?...
My heart skipped two beats as i turned gently to look at him.....
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Glad to join this contest, thank you!
Summary-Part I:
Be the best, Karma Comes in Different Ways
Reiy was a good girl, even a part of her friend was bullied, bluffing on her. but she always try to take a positive side.
One day, when she leg through the lobby, there's a group of girls react with annoying demeanour intended mean to make fun of her. But, she doesn't take seriously, she walk through politely ignoring the girls who always never stop mocked her.
Meanwhile reiy passed the lobby, In the mean time, suddenly the roof top lobby falling down over the group of girls which made them swallowed by the tragedy. Reiy was shocked and realized that the girls was vanished burried by the wreckage of roof, at that moment, she scream asking for help meanwhile there's a small sound called her name...
Reiy, Help me...
In hurry, reiy try to reach that girl and pull up to released her, but it was too late. the roof wreckage was too big, and the last sound weeping,
Forgive me! Reiy Forgive us
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you're welcome and thanks so much to you @vclier
A new Friend. A scorned reaction. An unplanned adventure.
An upturned world.
Cynthia meets Haziza at a Christmas hangout in an eatery. They decide to stop over on the other side of town for a better meal...a bigger deal. On their way their Haziza steals a bike...rents a bike with the hope of returning it because of the unplanned hold up. On getting there, they meet no one. Turning to leave, they find out they have interrupted a very important sect meeting. A sect related to her new friend Haziza. She agrees to wait on the condition that they wouldn't hurt her but grows cold feet and tries to flee and so the hunt begins.
Haziza feels betrayed. They had a connection. They exchanged cards and the first stop they made was at Cynthia's house. He knows how to get her...would he???
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My summary:
Jenny was 25- broken, molested, and raped - as she crossed the aisle of her college looking again for re-admissions for the exams she had failed. Even a whisker of thought of a stranger getting under her flesh was enough to cause goose bumps and remind her of sexual insecurities. Regular taunts of relatives, friends, and family sucked her down the deep downhill road to depression.
After seeing her sitting alone in the canteen area, Joe, a psychology graduate, witnessed her withered face and started talking. The friendship grew. Jenny developed a soft corner of her healer, Joe. She wants his company, his presence everywhere she goes. Jenny dreams of living again and smiling again. Jenny is not ready to go to any medical consultation, as for her Joe is everything she ever wanted.
Joe, who is planning to be engaged the next month, is in a moral dilemma. He doesn’t have any feelings for Jenny. But he fears that if he doesn’t help her, she might suicide. He is sure that if he helps Jenny, things will go in the opposite direction.
What will Joe do?
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Thanks for the rundown
Let's try again. This is ma proposed summary:
Ernest and Daisy left their cabin in South Surrey, BC at 4PM, with their
self-driving long-haul truck, and drove South crossing the border in 25 minutes.
At 7PM they were at AmerStuff warehouse in Seattle, where a sealed 53 foot
standard container from Costco was loaded on the trailer. The container was
to be delivered to the AmerStuff warehouse in San Fernando, near Los Angeles.
At 7:30PM they already were on the I-5 going south, the truck on auto-pilot.
While driving in Washington State or in California, at least one driver needed
to be in the cabin, but in Oregon, they both could sleep while still driving.
During the three hours that it took the truck to reach Portland, Oregon,
they worked on the Truckoin blockchain, that they both created in 2018,
on top of EOS. After four years, Truckoin had become the main payment platform
for independent truckers as themselves.
After refueling in natural gas in Portland, they were back on the I-5
and they both went to bed.
Shortly before entering California, Ernest was awaken automatically. He sat
into the cabin. Checking his messages, he discover a very worrying communication
from his friend and colleague Tony.
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I REMEMBER IT LIKE IT WAS YESTERDAY, MOST OF US WERE HAPPY OF WHAT WE HAVE ACHIEVED FROM THE PAST YEAR BUT SOME SEEMED NOT SO SETISFIED WITH WHAT THEY GOT , STRESSING WONT CHANGE A THING NOW. IF ONLY THEY HAVE BETTER PREPARED THEMSELVES THAT LAST YEAR THEY COULD HAVE BEEN HAPPY NOW.
IT WASN’T GOING TO BE EASY. YOU ARE YOUR MAN NOW THAT’S WHAT WE WERE TOLD, “NO ONE IS GOING TO CHASE AFTER YOU WHEN YOU DON’T SUBMIT YOUR WORK NOW” ACT YOUR AGE THEY SAID BUT WHO’S TO SAY HOW A PARTICULIAR AGE GROUP HAS TO ACT LIKE I MEAN FROM MY PESPECTIVE ONLY THE BODY GROWS THEN THE MIND REMAINS THE SAME BUT TRIES TO DEFEND ITSELF BY SETTING BOUNDARIES AND WALLS AND WE CALL IT MATURITY.
IT WAS ME AGAISNT THE WORLD THE FIRST FEW DAYS FELT LIKE HEAVEN ON EARTH NO MORE WAKING UP EARLY IN THE MORNING TO GO TO SCHOOL AND FACE CHALLENGES THAT EVERY TEEN FACES, THE SCHOOL GROUNDS ARE A WAR ZONE, CLIQUES ITS EITHER YOU WERE A PART OF SOME FANCY SMANCY OR YOU WERE THE ODD ONE OUT BUT THERE WAS NO MORE OF THAT NOW MY THOUGHTS WERE AS SETTLED AND CALM AS A SUMMERS DAY.
I WAS ATTENDING SCHOOL AT U J “UNIVERSITY OF JOINT” AS THEY CALLED IT WAS GREAT UNTIL A FEW WEEKS PASSED, THAT’S WHEN I STARTED TO REALISE SCHOOL GAVE ME A PURPOSE NOW I ONLY LIVE TO DO THE SAME ROUTINE OVER AND OVER AGAIN ThINGS WERE STARTING TO GET NULLY AT HOME I HAD TO GET A JOB OR LOOK FOR A DECENT COLLEGE TO STUDY AT, DEPRESSION AND DESPERATION WAS SLOWLY SUCKING ME INTO RASH DICISION.
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Please, shorten it to less than 200 words, write it mostly in lower case, and resubmit it as a comment to the post, not as a comment to another comment.
Okay thanks
Let me introduce my entry:
Life in the Night
Do you, guys, have this feeling from time to time: Fear of Missing Out or FOMO as it is usually called? When you are so deeply involved that you simply can’t choose where to go because you wanna be everywhere?
Sonny is a party boy. That’s what he does best. He parties all night. Monday or Thursday or any given night. He is ready. Remember John Travolta in a Saturday Night Fever, yeah, that’s our Sonny. Only thing is that Sonny does not even have to work - he is on his wealthy parents’ payroll.
“To be or not to be” at the party is not even a question for Sonny. His real dilemma is: Where to go so he does not miss anything? And how to make it to all of the events listed tonight in his phone? The night is always young for Sonny.
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interesting
Contest for all.
this sounds amazing i wish i had more friends but i will try really neat idea
not because you think you know everything without questioning, but rather because you question everything you think you know.
Thanks for this opportunity. Here is my summary
There he stood staring at the picture of his wife, lost in thoughts when images of the past years events flashed through his mind. The terrible event was once again played in his memory and it was very fresh as if it just happened. He once again burst into tears wishing his wife were next to him.
He tried to chase the memory out of his head but it kept on playing. The blood, the screams, the pain of a bullet piercing his left arm while trying to protect his wife, the thought of him dying terrified him a lot and he didn't want to go through that event again. While he was still deep in thought he was brought back to reality by the sound of the door being opened. he reached for his desert eagle 9mm pistol and headed towards the door with an intention to kill, when a voice called him "John, where are you". it was Jane his colleague in the office. Supposedly she met the door open and helped herself in with the intention of catching whoever it was that broke into John's house knowing fully well that John doesn't leave his door unlocked.
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great post as always thanks a lot @adsactly
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a very good contest, to channel writing talent @adsactly
a very nice format. everything you need to be fair is thought. The only reason to join is imagination. Adsactly and the team is doing a good job again. Thank you. I will write on a free day tomorrow. i hope i will join this competition
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Nice post my friend
This is interesting. However, I didn't get to hear the topic or areas of issues to write on. 100 - 200 words length is fair enough. Please clarify. I'm interested.
Any fictional subject is allowed.
Would have loved to write but that's not in my dna...Hahahaha...I'm still sad though!excuse me lemme go cryy
it's a good idea to share short stories , every short story should have a lesson in it for many to follow that lesson .
i like it .
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This sound like a cool contest. I think I understood the terms, and I will start writing something creative!
Ps I tried to vote for you as a Witness, I could not find the vote tab for you, any suggestions?
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