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Welcome back to another wrap-up of the S&S Monthly Invitational! Apologies for being a little tardy this month... literally all of the judges had crazy life stuff happening that messed with our ability to coordinate the way we wanted! This month, y'all were presented with a challenge: write us your best science fiction story in 800-1500 words with the central theme of a dreamscape or a dreamland. It was a fun prompt that elicited REALLY fun stories - some of which my fellow judges and I agreed could easily be made into a serial story!
(Seriously, if you feel like your concept was strong enough to elaborate upon and turn into a longer story series... PLEASE DO IT!)
Again, our job in judging was difficult because of the high quality work ya'll brought us, so we had to take our time in identifying stories which really stood out. Now, we have finally reached a consensus...
Drumroll, please...
Our Winners!
Gold: 30 SCHOLAR, 3 SCRIBE, and 3 HSBI goes to: @driptorchpress!
Driptorchpress brought us a truly incredible and well-crafted story with twists and turns that - truthfully - a synopsis would spoil. Let's just say that this dreamscape of warped time and reality was a pleasure to navigate, and an even greater pleasure to award our Gold placement for this month!
Silver: 20 SCHOLAR, 2 SCRIBE, and 1 HSBI goes to: @thoth442!
Thoth442 has proven over the past few months that he's got chops when it comes to writing, and this piece was no exception to the rule! His story of a man working in a dystopian corporation was a highly enjoyable and well-crafted piece, well-deserving of our Silver placement! Go and give it a read, and... don't sign any contracts involving HR Judy's...
Bronze: 10 SCHOLAR and 1 SCRIBE goes to: @grindan!
A new face (at least to this competition), grindan came out SWINGING! Her story of a dystopian tech company using the poor as test subjects and a very special young woman was a truly pleasurable read! When I say that this piece was a Silver contender, I mean it took SPLITTING HAIRS to determine between the two!
Katz Bane: The Realm of the Relinquished
Runners-Up:
Two exceptional authors who we felt deserved special mentions as Runners-Up were:
Gracepro's "Dreamers" told a story of a world divided with specially abled individuals being hunted and imprisoned because of their powers, and seki1's "Dead Dreams" portrayed a fascinating pest problem that federal dream agents are required to rectify. Both of these stories were absolutely incredible, and absolutely deserve their time in the limelight as well!
You will both be receiving 5 SCHOLAR and .5 SCRIBE as reward for your good work and participation.
Conclusion
So, this concludes our September S&S Monthly Competition! Rewards will be divvied up within the next 24 hours so be watching your wallets to ensure your winnings come through!
Special thanks to my fellow judges, @zakludick and @thaddeusprime for serving at the round table and helping to select winners this month! I know we had a tough time getting together for a variety of reasons, but I appreciate y'all's help - couldn't have done it without you! Also, I'd like to extend a special thanks to @relf87 for, once again, pledging 20 SCHOLAR to the prize pool for distribution of rewards! You're an absolute legend, man! Last, but CERTAINLY not least, I'd like to thank the LeoFinance Community for their ongoing sponsorship of 200 LEO for this competition - y'all are absolutely amazing!
In acknowledgement and appreciation for the LeoFinance Community and their sponsorship of this contest, let's get #ss-monthly trending over on Leo Threads! Share this announcement post with a quick message of love and appreciation for the Leo community and make sure to use the #ss-monthly tag!
Thank you all for following this competition, be watching for the next monthly contest to drop this week! Easiest way to track them is to follow me since I will always be hosting the contest from this acount, but the general rule of thumb is that they'll always be dropped in the first week of a new month and pinned to the top of the Scholar & Scribe community page with the #ss-monthly tag! See y'all in the next one!
As always, take care of yourselves and each other, and stay thoughtful!
Your friendly neighborhood dork,
~Thinkr
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Woohoo! Thanks! Congrats to everyone 👏
I look forward to October's contest, I'm sure it will bring another awesome batch of stories!
Fantastic Story dude. It was well crafted to this length of the story. The way you managed to line it all up, increase the threat and mystery and end it was a well-contained little marvel. Great job!
Thanks! This month is going to be a challenge 😂 I don't normally write humor, my mind is much too dark lol
Make it DARK humour! Mwahaha!
Congrats, man, it was a pleasure giving you the Gold! Pay attention to your wallet for those rewards to hit!
I'm also looking forward to it. I just released the announcement post, and I gotta tell ya... this month will be interesting... hehe
Btw, do you have a Discord#? I'd like to have you as a judge eventually, and we use Discord to communicate.
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I'm on Discord, same name as here: @driptorchpress
It would be fun to peak behind the curtain and be a judge.
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Congratulations to all the participants. I feel very honored and happy to be included in this month's fantastic selection of stories. Thank you for this monthly initiative and for motivating us to write.
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It was a good month, lots of high quality submissions! I think I speak for myself and my fellow judges when I say that it was difficult to pick pieces that truly stood out because there were so many good ones!
Many thanks to the scholar and scribe community for inspiring me to write outside my usual genre, and for selecting my entry :)! I appreciate Leofinance as well, for contributing to the prize pool!
Congratulations to @thoth442 and @driptorchpress for bringing home silver + gold 😁🤩
It was an awesome piece, thank you for sharing it with us! !PIZZA !HBIT
Congrats to the winners!!
Congratulations to all the winners! it was a pleasure to read your entries! There were 11 stories and it was tough for me to select the merits of the top 6 of those stories.
But to each and every story submitted in this contest, well done! Keep on writing and show up for the next one! You are going to improve constantly the more you write and it is correct that you should keep writing!
Woah 😳 thanks for that, it seems that I submitted a bit early eh @thinkrdotexe 😂?
Congratulations to all the winners 🤗
It was an awesome piece, and was very enjoyable to read! Leave it to a kid to take a dream stealer and make it his bitch, right? 😂 Thank you for sharing your story with us! !PIZZA !CTP
😂😂😂 kids really are bosses sometimes 😂
Congratulations everyone, nice to read your amazing stories. All the best for October run.
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