Finish the Story Contest - WEEK #38!

bananafish (62)in #finishthestory • 6 years ago (edited)

A contest with a pot of 5 STEEM + 5 @steembasicincome shares? You're in the right place!

180 @steembasicincome shares awarded till now, plus 22.558 SBD and 48 STEEM, through the contest in 37 weeks!

What do we have here? But, of course, today's yellow finned prize categories caught fresh for your discerning palates!

1st place: n. 5 STEEM

2nd place: n. 2 steembasicincome shares

popular vote: n. 2 steembasicincome share (remember to vote your favorite!)

Best comment to the stories: n. 1 steembasicincome share

Hello, fellow potassiumnite writers! @f3nix here, your worlds-in-a-bottle drug mule. Even today I managed to pass the borders between one layer and the other of reality almost unnoticed, smuggling for you this little scene, which I'd define sweet like the mellifluous chant of a banshee filtering through the window of your bedroom in the deep night. Uhm, I could have prepared the prompt starting from this image, now that I think about it! For the next time... Good luck and never listen to banshees or sirens for too long!

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Tell to a friend about the contest!
Join the Bananafish Realms discord chat for fresh updates and other amenities.
Vote, vote, vote your favorite story (and win 2 SBI)!
Use the #finishthestory tag.
Try to post your story the earliest possible and not at the last moment (or after the results! argh!)
Respect the dreadful 500 words limit! o_0
Help our contest & workshop to grow by giving it some visibility.

And now.. let's dive into today's story!

The Taste of Chicken
^{by @f3nix}

"What do you feel now?" The scalpel of a monotonous voice, cold as the halogen light blinding him.

"Let me go".

A sudden electric shock followed and almost broke the arched vertebrae of the specimen n. 19-B, while penetrating his limbs.

"What do you feel?"

"The ... the taste of a chicken".

Dense whispering, silent annotations, white everywhere.

He was floating in that white, for hours, perhaps days. Subtle lines, at the corners of his eyes. The last bulwark of Euclidean geometries. Over him, the ceiling was like an enormous virus. Not alive, not dead. Up there, all the gluttony of a pulsating white blasphemy was unfolding over his impotent being. A dodecaphony, ever hungry of new semitones in the musical scale of his moribund ego.

He felt his soul's entrails slowly peeled like an onion. That non-color was slipping inside him, like a sickly glucose sludge, inside every cavity, along every neuron, hair, capillary. It was a profound evil, different from pain. Pain is a vowel. If you're good enough, you can observe it from the outside of yourself till you inevitably lose consciousness.

That, instead. That was nothing less than a grinding profanation of his soul.

"Now. Some feelings?"

"Feeeeeeelings ..." was the mumbled answer, the sound resembling the broken lung of a deflating accordion.

Silent annotations following.

The synaptic stimulation was proceeding well, soon they could present the product to Mother Unit. It was said that, in prehistoric times, the human being populated the nano-swarm, when it was still called Earth. According to certain niche schools of thought, this.. thing.. could have been at the top of the food-chain. Go figure.

A new product, very efficient in its own way and not missing that pleasant touch of chaoticness, this human. No doubt that the Mother Unit would have liked it and find it entertaining, if not even useful.

The chief demiurge gently closed the skullcap of the specimen n. 19-B and left the room with its cohort of servile apprentices in tow. Enough for today.

Let’s grow together!

The wise potassium kami Bananafish wants all of its beloved people can benefit from rich upvotes. For this reason, knowing that unity is strength, it asks for SP delegations and for numerous commitments to the voting trail.

With delegations, @bananafish VP will grow and consequently the upvotes given to every contest entry will be higher. @f3nix, @gwilberiol, @dirge, @tristancarax, @theironfelix, @raj808, @brisby, @maverickinvictus, @cyemela, @marcoriccardi, @calluna, @oivas, @anixio, @ntowl are the names of the proud Bananafish Knights who already delegated a fraction of their SP to this project.

Following the voting trail is a way to make sure you always support the other participants to the Bananafish contests, automatically upvoting the posts (but not the comments) @bananafish upvotes. @foffelius, @steelochlaver, @f3nix, @marcoriccardi, @anixio, @gwilberiol, @brisby, @calluna, @ntowl, @dirge, @iamthegray, @seesladen, @theironfelix, @letalis-laetitia, @vdux are already in the trail.

If you’re interested, here you can find all the information needed.

Join the fun! Here is how this contest works:

An unfinished fiction story or a script is posted.
You finish it with your own post or a comment in the comment section. A limit of 500 words is recommended.
WIN 5 STEEM + 5 @steembasicincome shares to the writers with the best endings and comments.

The result will be out on Wednesday 5th December, 14:00 PM GMT+7 avg. (U.S. West Coast time zone). Submission deadline: Tuesday 4th November, 14:00 PM - noon GMT+7 (U.S. West Coast time zone). You may vote your favorite story till the first deadline!

A special thank to @gwilberiol, @dirge, @tristancarax, @theironfelix, @raj808, @brisby, @maverickinvictus, @cyemela, @marcoriccardi, @calluna, @oivas, @anixio, @ntowl for their precious delegations, making this project a reality!
If you like this contest..SPREAD THE GOSPEL! We're grateful for your resteeming and word of mouth. Everything helps to grow together!

GOOD LUCK, BRAVE STORYTELLERS!