Here’s the back story for this contest. A couple of months ago, after I wrote Kitty and the Unicorn, I thought I’d see if I could get some more ideas for writing fiction. It didn’t go very well – at least so far! I saw a contest by 
which was just closing, so I was a bit late for it. I got the glimmer of an idea anyway and wrote the first part. But then I got stuck. I put it on the back burner, but the rest of the story never came. I guess it’s not my story to tell – could it be yours?
Guidelines for the contest:
• Put the story into your own post and tag it with #betterlatethannever
o Put Fiction contest in the title, but feel free to have a different title for the story
o Choose your own top image, or use mine – your choice
o Link to your post in the comments below
• Start the story with what I’ve written, but you can adapt it to fit with your own writing style, as long as the meaning is the same
• The intro is currently just under 200 words – the complete work is to have at least 500 words, but I’d like to see about 1000 (or more is fine too)
• Questions I’d like to see answered in the story:
o What did Mr Green ask him to research?
o What did he learn?
o What else did he end up finding out?
o What happened as a result?
o Did he ever make it to school?
• Although contests are all over Steemit, requiring an upvote or Resteem for entry, apparently this is considered bad form. So they’re not required. But just remember, the more votes, the better the prizes.
• The contest closes 7 days after posting. Winners will be posted, and payments made within 3 days of closing. Judges decision is final, but I reserve the right to call in a guest judge to help me, if I can’t decide.
If you’re a published Fiction author, with books on Amazon, this contest is not for you. (Edited to specify Fiction writers.)
I’m particularly looking for original ideas from unpublished authors, especially ones fairly new to Steemit. I’m talking to you: 
Prizes
The SBD from the post will be shared between the winners, but I’ll guarantee a minimum amount of 6 SBD.
1st prize – 50% of the SBD (min 3 SBD)
2nd prize – 33% of the SBD (min 2 SBD)
3rd prize – 17% of the SBD (min 1 SBD)
How the story starts
Terence was late for school again. To be honest, Terence was late for school every day. But this was late even for him.
His teacher had long since accepted that Terence ran to a timetable that nobody else could fathom, and that no amount of detentions, canings or extra homework would make the slightest bit of difference. But Mr Green liked to think of himself as a progressive. So it suited his image of himself to find a way to teach Terence, despite the obvious difficulties.
The facts that Terence was a genius, and his father was on the PTA, had nothing to do with Mr Green’s attitude at all. Or so he had persuaded himself.
One of his tactics was to tell Terence what classwork he had missed and ask him to research it himself, and present it to Mr Green after school the next day.
Terence was usually able to do this in a matter of minutes, and since he liked Mr Green well enough, he usually humoured the teacher.
But today, it had all gone wrong, in ways that neither of them could have foreseen.
Thanks for reading and good luck!
Pictures from Pixabay.
