Yeas...It's a contest for freewriters! An easypeasy one!
Dear friends, I prefer to call it a game where we express freely our creativity. Here is how it works:
1. I write an unfinished fiction story/freewrite
2. You finish it with a comment in the comment section (relax..no long stuff needed!)
3. I will donate 1 @steembasicincome share to one freewriter with the most interesting, fun, original, crazy ending (I'm the unquestionable judge. Well, technically not me.. the bananafish voices within my head are).
It's super simple and I hope we'll have loads of fun together! Comment, as you always did, just this time you may get a SBI share!
Nothing is mandatory here..Just enjoy and prepare for a trip into my delirious fiction world!
For those that don't know what the @steembasicincome is, we're talking about a great project run by @josephsavage which - based on your amount of shares in it - will grant you a permanent vote on all your posts!
Here you will find their most recent post with details
Steem Basic Income is a social experiment to bring a basic income to as many Steemians as possible. Members join by sponsoring others into the program. Steem Basic Income is delivered through providing regular upvotes to member content.
Too much writing! Here's the story based on @mariannewest today's prompt "wasps":
After an awkward silence that lasted months, the greatest biologists of the earth had shrugged and called the incident a ruthless and fatal joke of nature. That evolution was such does not surprise anyone, but the turn that it had taken, sincerely, was too much even for the coldest scientists and paladins of evolution. The wasps had begun to consider human flesh very much palatable.
Anyone who has dealt with a wasp's nest behind a gutter at home knows that they were already not joking at all when they limited themselves to eating almost any kind of insect and fruit.
In the beginning, it's said that some wasps began to eat human food a little too often, perhaps due to the increasingly frequent picnics of freewriters, who had been spreading for decades throughout the face of the planet. Of those freewriting wasps, some began to enjoy a little too much the taste for meat. The next step was very simple, speaking from an evolution perspective. And they certainly did not lack aggression or organisation to fulfil their human meat sudden crave.
In no time, the world was under siege. There was not a single place that the carnivorous wasps could not reach and not a single person who did not fear them. Maybe.
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Scott Varney was not the sharpest crayon in the box, but like everyone else in the world he set his mind to solving the horrible wasp invasion problem. First he sprayed his entire body with wasp spray and tried to leave home, that worked for a few minutes and then the spray began to wear off, but not before it made Scott violently ill. Back at home again Scott lay on his couch eating dill pickles, the only thing left in his cupboard, and considering the problem further. When he finished the last pickle he made his decision, he dowsed himself with the pickle juice and walked outside to see what the wasps would do. To Scott's amazement the wasps would not come within five feet of him. So Scott went back into his house and tore out a sheet of paper from his Big Chief notebook and began scribbling out a short note and then he drew a picture under it. Having completed the note he went back outside and began riding around town looking for the main swarm. After looking around for a couple of hours and about ready to give up the search Scott finally found the swarm at the city dump. He approached the large clump of swarming bees and set the note down on the ground held in place by a small stone, then he backed up and waited. Soon the top Queen Bee came over and read the note carefully then studied the drawing, she suddenly began to buzz out some orders and the bee's started forming up in the air and soon spelled out the word "Deal."
Scott drove over to his best friend Jacob's house and the two of them got big trucks and gathered up building material from all of the lumber yards and building supply warehouses in the area. They then gathered all of the men in town and together they built a giant wooden tower that was fifty feet in diameter and over two hundred feet tall. There were two hundred twelve inch high stories in the tower, each with an overhanging balcony, perfect for wasps to build in. Underneath the tower the men placed feed bins designed for hogs all around, then they raided the grocery store for all kinds of meat to fill the bins with. So peace was declared with the bees in the city of Freewrite and everyone was able to get on with their lives.
Word spread around the globe and copies of Scott's handwritten peace treaty and tower design was supplied to every town and community, thus ending the war. History would record the event as "The Great Wasp Rebellion" and the war as being ended by the "Varnish Treaty." Scott and Jacob were celebrated as heroes and statues in their honor were erected in cities worldwide.
Soon American Generals began to devise a plan to annihilate all bees over the entire planet by attacking them while they slept in their comfortable man made nesting structures, but that's another story!
Lol that was awesome. Funny thing is, as I got to the building part I was thinking "hmm maybe they were going to build a jail." Hope they never run out of pickles when the bees get attacked.
That's the way! Thank you Deacon for being part of this game, your adventure is much more than what I expected.. I chocked laughing in two points: the Queen reading the note and the final sneaky attack 😂😂😂 I will run other two contests (mon/tue/wed), all the results will be given on monday 5th, 11 pm, UTC +1 (Cali is UTC -8).
This is amazzzzzzzing
I loved your continuation. Flesh eating bees are not my kind of neighbors.
Lol this got me on high. and yeah, that another story there is interesting.
Y de repente un tsunami y murieron los humanos.
¿Qué comeremos ahora? - pensaron las avispas.
Continuará... xD
Debe haber sido un tsunami enorme! 😂
jajajaja
What a fun game with a fantastic prize! The entries are awesome. Just stopping by to give my support. Good luck everyone! : )
Hey @whatisnew! How are you dear? The contest easy and puts together the things I like: fun with friends / sharing wealth / freewrite.. why don't you partecipate? 😉 I'll do three in a row to start I guess
That was certainly the problem Oliver now faced as he tracked along the Damascus road. Despite the blazing heat he could feel the rasping hum beneath his feet and he realised his time here was almost done. No Vietnam onslaught could pay justice to what his last sight of life was to be nor the pain he was destined to endure. Like flying termites the wasps flew, a dark deadly murmuration that defied rational explanation. Flying high, the yellow zebra piranhas of the skies produced a sense of foreboding it was difficult to face. A life long atheist he dropped to his knees and prayed, Lord, if you exist save me this day.
Suddenly silence was all around, no droning, not a murmur, not a sound. A brilliant bright light and then a sense that everything would be all right. Oliver opened his eyes to realise that not one wasp was in the sky. On reaching Damascus his friends gathered round, as the news caster asked what miracle he had found. He shrugged, grabbed a beer, without a backward glance, wrote it off as merely chance.
Welcome to steemit and thanks for your contribution, a finely written gem full of poetry. In your story a wasp becomes "a yellow zebra piranha of the skies", it's not common to find such creative descriptions. Just, I've to confess I didn't understand how Oliver has been suddenly spared :-) One last thing..why don't you join us and freewrite? It's fun and I think you would like it!
In the biblical account St Paul meets Jesus on the Damascus road - he leaves like a modern day Saddam Hussain to kill his enemies and on being blinded by a light from above then joins them.
That was the play on the use of Oliver being an Atheist and walking towards Damascus.
A miracle occurs but then when asked about it he writes it off as mere chance.
Thanks for the feedback - I am new to SteemIt so just finding my way around - how do I join you ;o)
Thanks for the "exegesis" my friend. I know about Paul, since I'm Christian and have a special connection with Malta, an island where he preached and of which he's the patron. Just follow me, if you like what I do (there's a button if you go on my account up there). I would be eager to read more of your works, hence I followed you already days ago. I also invite you to partecipate to @mariannewest freewrite project. I'm sure you may find it very much in your wheelhouse 😉
Thanks I’d already followed you, similar to Twitter I would always follow any one who followed me, seems like a basic courtesy. I love Malta, I was nearly born there and involved in the building of the new hospital circa 2000/2001 - great place
Next time you go there tell me, I'll offer you a pastizz and a glass of refreshing cisk! 😉
Ah that’s a great offer, Cisk and people who like Gozo, fond memories from diving with Louis - sadly my main reason for going became SCUBA and I lost my eyesight due to the bends ( DCI ) in 2010. Very lucky to be writing this but haven’t made it back since, but if I ever do i’ll Come knocking ;-)
Thanks I’d already followed you, similar to Twitter I would always follow any one who followed me, seems like a basic courtesy. I love Malta, I was nearly born there and involved in the building of the new hospital circa 2000/2001 - great place
bravo! Ma nun ce la posso fa!
La verità? Ho già nominato i miei amici..non sapevo più chi nominare per condividere la steembasicincome!
Grazie per essere passata :-))
Little did the unsuspecting people of the earth know, that the deadly, human-consuming strain of wasps were actually created by the great biologists themselves. They were testing out their wasp-proof shields and ultimately wanted to take over the earth...
Thanks for this competition f3nix - it's a hoot! :)
What a fun and conspiracy turn you gave! Thank you for your contribution 😁 I will run other two contests (mon/tue/wed), all the results will be given on monday 5th, 11 pm, UTC +1 (Cali is UTC -8).
When all hope was lost there came the call "An eye for an eye, a wasp nest for a human". It spread like wildfire over the internet, TV and radio shows were organised to let the world know the only way to fight back. The military organised mass civic training programs. Even North Korea said they would participate. The war in Syria stopped. For this was a war for humanity.
It was first discovered in the rainforests of Borneo. Some local tribes there were wasp eaters for centuries. They said that the only way to stop the wasp infestation and make them stop eating humans is to burn their nests and then cook and eat their babies who were killed inside when the nests burnt. They said, just burning did not do the trick. The highly intelligent wasps just took it as an act of war. Only if you cooked the nest in the open and ate their babies did they understand the length humans would go to annihilate them if needed. They stopped attacks in many tribal villages after such communal wasp feastings were organised.
News was that it had now spread to most islands in Indonesia and Phillipines and the trick worked everywhere. So the message spread like wildfire.
The UN passed a unanimous resolution to burn and eat all wasp nests in the planet. A blockchain database was created to record all wasp nests in the world. A wasp coin was introduced to fund the war. Anyone who burnt and ate wasp nests would be rewarded with wasp coins which within a month surged to the top five crypto currencies.
It was estimated that it would take three to five years to find the majority of wasp nests and eat them. To clean the planet of wasps completely would take decades because a few wasps always survived and created new nests. This would be a long drawn war.
But humanity now had a chance. And the role of blockchain technology in this war could not be denied.
Eh. Blockchain? Really? :P
I told you it was wild lolz
A great story of hope through the decentralised cooperation of the blockchain technology.. two things: the wasp coin is priceless 😂 .. also I wonder how a baby wasp tastes like 🤔 I forgot to add: I will run other two contests (mon/tue/wed), all the results will be given on monday 5th, 11 pm, UTC +1 (Cali is UTC -8).
isn't it? we just need to do the ICO... it will surely be top 5... only roadblock on the way is non-cooperation from the wasps... if we could somehow make them mutate, we could be RICH... think about it
Nice contest! I like it so much! Let me try:
The world had sunk into panic.
Elon Musk made even more money by selling millions of his portable flamethrowers.
Cults dedicated to the Devourer Swarm arose everywhere. Their members dressed in yellow and black roamed the streets at night, emitting the sinister Buzz Mantra and kidnapping any unlucky they could find, which was offered as sacrificial victim to the anthropophagous wasps. The wasps, of course, continued to devour even cult members, including their leader, Sting.
The vegans, claiming that the wasps would never eat their meat, pure and not contaminated with any food of animal origin, were all exterminated within a month.
Only in a recluse sanctuary in the mountains of Japan, an old shintoist priest was not worried at all. He knew that, since millions of years, Japan's bees had a way to get rid of the ferocious hornets who looted their hives: they swarmed over them, forming a ball in which the temperature rised so much as to kill the hornet, but not the bees , able to withstand a few degrees more.
The old wise man posted ths information on his Steemit account, and in a matter of days, requests for Japanese beehives flocked from all over the world.
The problem of killer wasps was solved with their natural antagonists. Besides, the cities of the whole world were filled with flowered lawns and sills, to support the guardian bees. All can enjoy delicious honey.
The old priest, with the proceeds of his upvotes, decided to move the sanctuary to Tahiti.
Hahahaha sorry I read it just now... This has so many gems. Elon musk, the vegans, the cultists, the priest moving to Tahiti.. It makes me pee in my pants for the laughter and it's so our style 😂🍌🐠
“The world doesn't need a normal biologist any more. It needs a military strategist with biological knowledge” Thought Dr. Jacob. Luckily, he happened to have a close friend that was highly ranked in the military. He took advantage of the messed up situation of the whole world to make some quick paper work and take one of the helicopters for a mission that had no deadline.
The official declared mission was to find another biologist that was supposed to have an important research result about how to fight back. But in reality they were going to do that research themselves. They were going to keep flying upon the deadly creatures and try to find out any weakness that they can take advantage of.
It only took them three days to figure out a strange behaviour they do every day about the same hour. For one hour a day they all stop whatever they were doing and they all look at the same direction and freeze. When the hour ends, they turn around and they move on to obey whatever instructions they have received.
The first plan that came to the two suicidal adventurers' mind was to find out who the leader was and what would happen if they managed to kill him. They kept waiting for the "meditation hour" to follow the direction the freewriters were looking at because it wasn't always the same direction. Whoever the leader was, he was continuously moving around. They weren't even sure if they are close or whether they are getting closer. They didn't know how fast the leader was. All they knew was that it was the only shot they had.
After five days of that blind race, they had to go to the closest military base to refill, which was almost as far as I can still go with the fuel they have left. On their way to the base, the next meditation hour started and they noticed something really interesting. The freewriters right below were looking towards the east and the ones they saw half an hour ago were looking towards the north-east, which means the leader is about fifty miles away east.
They decided to take the shot and try to kill him rather then refill and wait for the next day. The plan was to reach him during the meditation hour and when the freewriters get involved in following the instructions. They finish him.
For their big surprise, the leader turned out to be a beautiful young lady called @mariannewest. As soon as she looked them in the eyes, they forgot whatever they came for and they kept listening to her as she gave them their first mission as freewriters.
This was totally unexpected... freewriters as a collective of enemies submitted to Marianne's will! Scary!!
hehe
I had so much fun writing it. I hope I didn't offend anybody 🙄
Well obviously I did but I hope they understand it was just for fun 😅
Lol! You didn't... Oh wait, i just received a mind telepathic order during my daily meditation "destroy the blasphemious Hazem!" 😂😜
haha nice try 😂😜
But I know you didn't .. because I received the daily orders too 😅
I like the challenge, I hope to do better for the next
Thanks! All I want is to contribute in making this great community grow. Plus I believe in the basic income program. I want more soul and equity in steemit.
Maybe, if we could find where the main nest was, we could burn all the babies and keep the strain from growing. Once the nest is gone, the meat loving wasps will have no will to live. Meat eaters or not, these stingers need to die!
That's the attitude! Very "Alien" I like it bruni!
I will run other two contests (mon/tue/wed), all the results will be given on monday 5th, 11 pm, UTC +1 (Cali is UTC -8).
Fuck this who cares if the world is going to end no way I'm dying yet got a date to go to, Jayo says to his friends Tika and skrippture... Dude your not freaking serious the world's gonna end and all your thinking of is getting laid??? Sure hope I'm getting laid cost me a 100 bucks for this condoms, I mean WTF is this world turning into 100 quid for a fricking 3 pack and shit's not even flavoured, Oh well... Dude you know the world's ending right?!?! I'm actually surprised you were able to buy... Ha don't believe everything America tells you this is Africa we eat dogs for dessert ants are the least of our concern... You know it's wasps right?? Wasps, ants no difference... Yo skrippture why you so quiet... Duuuuuuude I don't know maybe cause you won't pass the fucking blunt... ring ring hear that think your phone's ringing, picks up phone 99 missed calls from mum... Are you freaking serious dude your mum loves you 99 that's a new record... Lol that's nothing one time she called me a 200 times I left my date at the cinema and ran home, know what she called me for to feed the dog... Jayo that's nothing one time my mum. . . stop!!! no one cares its not a competition... ring ring your mum again... Hello momma screaming foolish boy where are you did you not see my calls, you want to kill me before I see my grandkids, where are you??? Did you not see the news??? Ehhh what news... Are you playing games with those good for nothing friends of yours again??? I've told you stop playing with people like that can't you be like your brother... Is this why you called me?? Shut up I'm talking your talking where are you start going to the airport the government says their evacuating everybody... Mama me I have a date ooo I've told you people to stop believing everything America says... cuts call... Nigga what was that about, don't know for my mum something about the news... Skrippture turns on the TV scenes of dead bodies litter the screen the reporter can be heard saying the government has issued a state of emergency and ordered all citizens to head for the airport, man was finally heading to mars skrippture chokes on the blunt looks at Tika before scampering for the door, Tika follows suit before looking at Jayo as if to say dude aren't you coming...
Gingerly Jayo walks to the door laughing takes a peek outside and sees nothing, neighborhood is empty, the sun in his eyes he shouts after his friends saying dude where the bees at told you it's all a lie the government wants to take over our homes, we getting to rich for them they need us poor... Like crazed people Tika and skrippture don't stop to listen, y'all be acting like its the Zombie Apocalypse not that they heard skrippture had long pulled out the driveway... Jayo looks at his watch shit 5:30 supposed to meet up with this gal by 6... Rushes inside to take his bath... 15 mins later we see our main character slowly walking to his car bottle of coke in one hand codeine in the other... Driving through the streets was freaking eerie abandoned cars littered the streets the homeless could be seen strolling in and out of unlocked homes... He chuckles to himself how come the moths haven't eaten them... 2hrs later Jayo still hasn't met up with his date after dialing her 2 or 3 times he decides Fuck it she's not coming now slumped in a chair puffing on a stick of cigarette he looks around the movie theater it's a full house ruffians trooping in and out, well I guess that's what happens when we believe the government, I'm heading home... At that moment a loud rumbling can be heard he rushes out the door just in time to see the first shuttle launched into space... Meanwhile despite speeding off hours earlier Tika and skrippture are still stuck on the express as if struck by madness upon seeing what looks like hope venturing further into space hordes of people can be seen deserting their cars it's now or never, skrippture and Tika follow suit we'll think about Jayo later...
Fast forward a week later the last of the shuttles have been launched 3 days ago... Jayo can be seen still sleeping when suddenly he's awakened by rude knocking at the door... Pissed at whoever the fuck can be so rude he rushes to the door still thinking of a million ways to beat up this intruder... Opens the door to see a dozen guns pointed at him and a voice saying welcome kid to the earth defence force...
Suddenly a dose of reality hits Jayo, runs back inside only to be dragged back out a dozen slaps later and one closed eye Jayo is dragged into the back of a van off to fight for man's return to earth...
Would our main character survive, what travails is he going to pass through that's a story for another day for now we are left with his tears... I don't want to fight for nobody but at this point no one cares...
Cool shit man!! I think you should do a comic strip out of this 😎👍
Lol yeah... Once in a while I think jerks deserve to take centre stage...
Maybe the scientists can come up with an attractant for the wasps. Build a few prisons in the middle of the desert and fill them with murders, child molesters, or any hardcore prisoners. Place the attractants all around said prisons, and let the wasps have all the meat/flesh they want. There will never be a short supply of prisoners. In the meantime, everyone will be safe in city domes.
Wow! In a positive way, this looks a bit like in between your scary freewrite and an episode of black mirror! 👍😉
Lol I never thought of it that way, till now. :-)
I forgot to add: I will run other two contests (mon/tue/wed), all the result will be given on monday 5th, 11 pm, UTC +1 (Cali is UTC -8).
Aha! I knew I smelled something brewing! Great minds and all. I like it! Nice of you to put some monetary reward on it.
Here's my take:
There was a glimmer of hope, so faint yet full of potential. In a world on encroaching darkness, any sliver of light would suffice. The greatest minds of Earth pooled together to formulate a solution to the waspy threat. Alas, congregating in one place made them an easy target. All hope was wiped out in a matter of minutes.
After a few months, humanity was all but extinct and the wasps were faced with a new threat. Ever since they acquired the taste for human flesh, they couldn't go back to a more basic diet. They turned on each other and feasted on their own species. The hive was broken, and there were several overlords that shouted contrasting commands.
As their numbers dwindled, they realized that there was still one last human alive. Unfortunately for me, I was that last human. So, they banded together and turned their attention towards me. This is the story of my farewell.
Good or bad, you can always smell something in the freewriting hell's kitchen 😉 I really like your ending for the fact that you changed completely the perspective by erasing us from the face of earth! I forgot to add: I will run other two contests (mon/tue/wed), all the results will be given on monday 5th, 11 pm, UTC +1 (Cali is UTC -8).
If I do rank, and I don't notice it, feel free to let me know wherever. I wanted to snuff out hope, s'why I erased us from the face of the Earth. Yes, I do believe the planet would be better for it haha!
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Why do I see a bead of sweat on that emoji? Is that a sign that I've already lost? Haha!
No, I agree with you Mr. Smith 😉 the sweat means that unfortunately you are right heheh
Hahaha whew! Here I thought I would need to go biblical and release my wasps for real. It'll have to wait. Good thing I have a few cows to tide them over.
@moneyinfant has added your contest to the list Steemit Writing Contests: Issue #33. The list is updated on a daily basis and your contest will remain on the list until its expiration - there's nothing you need to do.
The list was created to save writers the excessive amount of time spent searching through the #contest tag for writing contests. Now they can just come to the list each day, see new contests and use their time doing what they love - writing.
If you'd like to help spread the word about the Steemit Writing Contest List I'd really appreciate a resteem, but it certainly isn't necessary. The project is simply meant to help writers save time and contest creators attract more contestants.
P.S. If you know of any contests I've missed I'd love to hear about them. Thanks!
Upvoted ☝ Have a great day!
SPAMMER ALERT! @hotpacks posts this on every post and doesn't actually upvote! Flag away!
thanks @omra-sky.. i didn't notice!
I hate that. I had one hit one of my posts yesterday, asking for sbd for upvotes. I wish Steemit had an ignore button to block them with.
I don't hate trolls, they're like farts in the wind (how poetic huh? 😜)
Lol indeed. They go away just as fast as they come out. Well most do anyway.
Gives a whole new meaning to "SBD."
😁 Normally I would ignore them, but when my friends get spammed...👿
Not for nothing you're the inventor of the banana-lighsaber!! 😆