S&S Invitational: Vampire Edition
🕺 Welcome to the Scholar and Scribe Invitational 🕺
The Invitational is our bi-weekly, super-duper, writing contest. It is where we match quills and draw blood all for the sake of the craft. We all know a 'friendly' competition never hurts anyone, much, especially when it can be used as a platform to improve your writing. 🙌
🥳 Last Invitational Winners 🥳
🥇 Gold: 2 HSBI, 300 Ecency points, 50 SCHOLAR, 3 SCRIBE
@kei2 - The Ritual
“Lah de vushka! Lah de vushka!” Nino chanted inaudibly as his voice trembled with the sound of rumbling. The ground shook and the wind began to bellow. Torn pages of the old worn-out book in his hand began flying in the air. Nino staggered two feet backward as streaks of lightning lined the dark graveyard sky.
🥈 Silver: 1 HSBI, 200 Ecency points4, 40 SCHOLAR, 2 SCRIBE
@alonicus - The Loch House
The reception area was thoroughly dated, but clearly cared for and tidy. John tapped the bell on the reception desk and they waited for someone to check them in. It didn't take long. A man came through from a back room. He was tall and slim, looking to be in his mid thirties or early forties, dressed in a brown suit. He saw the couple and their cases, and opened the black book sitting behind the counter.
🥉 Bronze: 100 Ecency points, 30 SCHOLAR, 1 SCRIBE
@stuartcturnbull - Drawn to the Truth
I nodded. A gruesome story. A mother died of cancer, leaving behind a father and two young daughters. The girls disappeared and, after weeks of the father appealing for the return of his daughters, he was arrested and charged with their murder. He committed suicide while on pre-trial detention.
🏅 Runner-Up: 75 Ecency points
@rdsmas - Destiny in the Waters
Iain, eyes gleaming with determination, leapt from the small boat onto the muddy bank of the island in the middle of Loch Mhòr. Behind him, William, his loyal companion, watched with a mix of admiration and worry, driving the oars into the water to finish beaching the boat. The mist swirled around them, creating a suffocating atmosphere that muffled all sound.
🏅 Runner-Up: 75 Ecency points
@rachie05 - THE STRANGE PRESENCE IN MY HOUSE
As Leslie walked down the hallway, she had this weird feeling that someone was watching her, she could literally feel eyes all over her body but she tried not to think about it because it was probably in her head or maybe it was one of those paranormal documentaries she watched that was playing out in her head and besides it was the first time she felt like that since they moved here two weeks ago.
🧐 Rules of Engagement 🧐
- Entries must adhere to the genre AND thematic prompt;
- Entries must be between 600 and 1500 words.
Note: this does not include any intro/footer text. - You must post your entry in Scholar and Scribe and use the #scholarandscribe tag;
- Deadline for submission is Sunday, 20th of October (23.59, GMT + 01);
- All languages are welcome but MUST include an English translation;
- Link your entry in the comment section below; ⏬
🤑 Prizes and Goodies 🤑
The winners will be announced in two weeks. Winners of what? An astute question. The prizes are as follows:
🥇 Gold: 2 HSBI, 300 Ecency points, 50 SCHOLAR, 3 SCRIBE
🥈 Silver: 1 HSBI, 200 Ecency points4, 40 SCHOLAR, 2 SCRIBE
🥉 Bronze: 100 Ecency points, 30 SCHOLAR, 1 SCRIBE
🎖️ Runner(s) Up: Valuable goodies!
IN ADDITION- Each participant will get a modest review of their work from the modding team. With the additional opportunity of getting an in-depth critical review if they so choose. 🙂
🤺 Prompt 🤺
The story you submit MUST adhere to the following prompts:
The story you submit MUST adhere to the following prompts:
🎥 Genre: Horror
🎨 Theme: Vampires
We're continuing spooky month with another classic horror trope - vampires! Extremely spooky, I know. How you choose to portray these bloodsuckers is all up to you. Whether you choose to go the modern Twilight route or classic Dracula, just make sure you keep to the spirit of what makes a vampire a vampire. And of course, make it scary, please. It's called the spooky month for a reason. 😁
May the odds - and your creative energy - be ever in your favor!
We'd like to give out a big shout-out and thank you to Ecency for sponsoring this contest! 🤗
A big thank you to @melinda010100 as well for the seamless communication.
Check out the Ecency front-end and/or mobile app for more information on how to use your points.
Congratulations
To winners of the Horror (Paranormal) Edition of our Invitational—
@kei2, @alonicus and @stuartcturnbull! Thank you for your captivating stories!
Spooky season is still in full swing! Let's sink our teeth into some thrilling vampire lore.
Here's inviting our incredible writers to join in and have some fun:
@emrysjobber66, @lightpen, @grindan, @stuartcturnbull, @nancybriti1, @popurri, @universoperdido, @darthsauron, @justclickindiva, @marynn, @jhymi, @samsmith1971, @stellageorge, @esther-emmanuel, @killerwot, @atyourservice, @amiegeoffrey, @rukkie, @dwixer, @beeeee, @mckane, @balikis95, @bipolar95, @emreal, @treasuree, @luchyl, @fredaa, @jessicaossom, @wongi, @ngwinndave, @rare-gem, @jhymi, @loveth97, @wrestlingdesires, @bobbyb58, @dreemsteem, @kei2, @emotak, @fragozar01, @brijwhiz, @seki1, @hopestylist, @oluchi31, @samiwrites, @tengolotodo, @winanda, @kingsleyy, @moclassic, @zitalove, @omokhafue, @gracepro, @thinkrdotexe, @penderis, @niranaway, @queenkong, @abenad, @litguru, @restcity, @silher, @susurrodmisterio, @katleya, @phyna, @seki1, @mmykel @rinconpoetico7, @penyaircyber, @deraaa, @agreste, @janaveda, @teknon, @whywhy, @marriot5464, @chm-writes, @b0s, @jazclassic, @owasco, @katleya, @erh.germany, @fieryfootprints, @sabrinah, @leydeatraccionkm, @mellindor, @dwixer, @thelegallounge, @zakludick, @germanbava, @ricardo993, @alonicus, @oblivioncubed, @penderis, @leninbracho50, @loveth97 & @kaelci.
If you have any questions, ask away. Feel free to invite others to participate. Thank you!
Thanks @kemmyb for the mention. I'm not much on vampire themes. Congratulations @kei2, @alonicus and @stuartcturnbull for winning in the Horror (Paranormal) Edition of the invitational.
You're welcome! No worries if the vampire theme is not your thing. We have more Halloween themes coming up in the following weeks. We always look forward to reading your stories! 🙂
Thank you.
Keep up the good work!
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Thank you! 🙂
Would try not to miss this.
Great! We can't wait to read your entry. 🙂
I'm sorry. I didn't keep to my word. My mind was clouded with many many things going on in my life. Couldn't be creative enough to write something scary but blood sucking creatures should be less than a handful right?
Hopefully. Thanks for the invite, I'll try my best to reply with a story.
Awesome. Thank you so much.
Thanks so much for the tag ♥️
I love Halloween stories!!! What a great month to get back to writing regularly!
Congratulations @kei2, @alonicus and @stuartcturnbull
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Thank you.
https://hive.blog/hive-199275/@theojo/mercy-the-ruthless-awakening
As an october and a halloween baby, its a joy to writeon something spooky for a change
congratulations to the authors mentioned, this is a great initiative, I was encouraged to leave my post on Vampires. https://peakd.com/hive-199275/@elisaday7/the-curse-of-ilena
Thank you ! 😀
But now you've given us vampires to play with. I love vampires, so I need to really up my game and see if I can come up with something truly terrifying 😁
This story is my entry for the S&S Invitational: Vampire Edition, a contest run by the Scholar and Scribe community. I hope you enjoy it.
https://peakd.com/hive-199275/@rdsmas/en-es-the-scarlet-enigma-or-el-enigma-escarlata-or-sands-invitational-vampire-edition
Thanks for the award. Congrats to all who managed an entry.
A wonderful prompt, I love vampire stories ! The hard part was working out which of the many tales buzzing around in my head to put into words....
So I've gone for one where the horror element is maybe not so obvious. Until you start to think through the true ramifications of what happened.
https://peakd.com/hive-199275/@alonicus/scholar-and-scribe-invitational-a-bride-for-prince-boris
Wow. Thank you so much. It feels amazing.❤️❤️.
Congratulations everyone.
Thanks for read my story, congrats for the winners is very interesting this activity, ill hope be apart again in this new adventure with vampires.
I don't do horror, writing movies, books - no way. Vampires on the other hand... but that would only be one prompt. Oh well.
Try your luck! We never know what we're capable of.
thanks for the tag, congratulations to the authors mentioned, I hope to have time to send my tenebrous vampire story.
We hope so too!
Thank you so much 🙏
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STOPCongrats for all the winners, very good stories, this genre is very hard for me, but is a great challenge for win to the dialy stress... Greatings and blessings.