Hoist the colours, proud fiction writers!

Greetings folks. I'd like to thank all the participants for the 56th week of Finish the Story. This is Hive account@dirge, and I will list the winners below. But first, Let's all congratulate Hive account@oivas for receiving support votes from our Old God Hive account@curie!

What's boiling in the bananafish kitchen?

I'm not really sure, so maybe I'll update this part of the blurb later. Or, Hive account@f3nix can mention something. Basically we hang out sometimes on discord and talk about random projects. You should come and join. Have some fun, think about ways to use our collective power to empower all of us.

Let's hear some cheers for our terrific partners, @Crowdmind! Courtesy of their generosity and support, our participants now have the opportunity to win some sweet golden SNAX tokens! Haven't heard of SNAX? Then I urge you to check out Crowdmind's Interview with the team from the blockchain as well as our previous post. Crowdmind's mission to empower crowdsourcing initiatives is of tremendous benefit to the Steemit community. Check out their blog and consider as well a vote for their witness, @Crowdwitness. Thank you @Svemirac, @Hidden84 and the Crowdmind Community for your sustain!!

Keep those cheers coming for @Josephsavage and @Steembasicincome! 🎉 It's thanks to their kindness that our golden yellow deityhas been able to distribute so many SBI units unto the fabulous writers in our community! Anyone who has been on the blockchain longer than a minute can see what a precious gift this is! Our sincere gratitude to you, Joseph!

Our tribe is also blessed to with recognition by the @C-Squared / Hive account@c-cubed community! Dedicated to supporting quality works on the Steem blockchain, those in the C-Squared community put in hours of tremendous effort each and every day. We love what C² is doing, and urge our writers to please consider voting for the @c-squared community witness!

Curie factoid: we have been supported by the amazing Curie community with 83(?) upvotes in 62 editions. We have now more than an average of 1 curie upvote per edition! @Sarez and @Tristancarax are tied out in front, closely followed by @Brisby, @Calluna, @Cyemela and @Dirge. I think. This is frankly copied and pasted from previous contest posts, as I'm trying to do this all between afterwork and feeding my dogs. Either way, let's show the amazing Curie community our solidarity and vote for @Curie as one of Steem's witnesses! 😎

Have any of you braved the - Banana Grog?

Don't forget to join the Realms, where you can promote yourself and meet all of us strange creatures! And also talk about Cthullu and stuff. If you're into that.

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Our Contestants

@gaby-crb

The old crazy woman wonders inside. She witnesses the death and destruction. Then she decides to take some of the bounty for herself. For a price, of course.” The storytelling here is sharp and to the point. I enjoyed how she inverted the character of the ‘hot woman in love’ around. Great!

@sarez

We see blood and horror then Hive account@sarez sets up a conflict situation. A man and a girl, but he can’t safely jump past the fences with the girl. So our protagonist has to try and be the hero. There’s a basic, simple situation of danger here, and I was worried while reading it! The small detail about her standing on his feet, which is what children do, made the scene all the more realistic.

Also, her military training was hinted at by her knowledge of different gunshots. Who is she? How did someone with her training end up begging on the street? Maybe next time…

@oivas

I like the idea of two homeless folks just hanging out. Homeless is horrible, I know, but as fiction characters, the concept of the beggar or street urchin or whatever is always intriguing.

Just like a super-powered demon living on the street. We don’t get much of who she is, but we get enough for the tale of blood and gore to make sense. Great stuff! And congrats on the Hive account@curie vote!

@tristancarax

Well, I had originally intended L to be an old homeless woman. So the fact that Kelly is into her? Well, we all have our kinks, I guess. Does it work as the story? Yes, and Hive account@tristancarax takes the story to a different level with the character of Kelly, the bartender (with a soft spot for old mommas) who chooses a life of crime. My favorite part of the story? That L is let in. But we all know that won’t end well for anybody.

@ntowl

You were fine on the time!

Just like the old lady, L, pulled by an unseen force to do the biding of the unknown. She’s seen Carcosa, but she can’t remember it until the gunman shoots her down. I enjoyed her supernatural rebirth to a kind of chaotic neutral force of fire, able to melt them down to ash. Where will she wind up next?

The Winners

GRAND PRIZE - 5 STEEM & 500 SNAX tokens: Hive account@gaby-crb!

SECOND PRIZE - 3 STEEM & 200 SNAX tokens: Hive account@ntowl!

THIRD PRIZE - 2 STEEM & 200 SNAX tokens: Hive account@tristancarax!

POPULAR VOTE - n/a

BEST COMMENTS - Hive account@tristancarax 3SBI!

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