It's ZAPFIC!

^{Steem's longest running MicroFiction contest!}

But now it is even

BETTER!

Every Valid Entry will get resteemed and upvoted by 50% by my main Steem account. Plus if you use the tags #creativecoin, #palnet, #neoxian and #marlians you will get a 50% upvote from my tribe curation accounts too!

Prize Pool:

6 SteemBasicIncome Shares

15% of author rewards of next weeks zapfic post

100 Marlians

100 CreativeCoinCrypto

What is #zapfic? Well I was the first to use the hashtag, so I guess I invented it, and I get to decide what it means.

#zapfic is a very short story written in less than 240 characters*.

Use a word/character counter like this free one (https://wordcounter.net/) to check your character count!

Last week’s entries!

There were six valid entries and they were all fantastic!

@poemsofasickmind https://steempeak.com/@poemsofasickmind/the-yellow-line-zapfic-writing-contest-prompt-railcar-week-75

@botefarm https://steempeak.com/zapfic/@botefarm/the-book-of-sorrow-a-zapfic-contest-entry

@whatisnew https://steempeak.com/zapfic/@whatisnew/zapfic-writing-contest-entry-for-week-74-spittlebugs

@wakeupkitty https://partiko.app/wakeupkitty/in-a-flash-how9gvin?referrer=wakeupkitty

@darthgexe https://steempeak.com/zapfic/@darthgexe/stop-zapfic

@oivas https://partiko.app/oivas/railcar-zapfic-contest-oivas-entry?referrer=oivas

WINNERS!!

@wakeupkitty, @whatisnew, @poemsofasickmind win 2 SBI shares each. They also have been awarded 10 CCC and 10 marlians tokens each. They are also beneficiaries of this post (they will automatically be awarded 5% each of the author awards for this post at payout)

And everyone (@wakeupkitty, @whatisnew, @poemsofasickmind, @darthgexe, @oivas, @botefarm) wins 11.66 CCC tokens and 11.66 marlians tokens for taking part

#zapfic Writing Contest Week 76:

Write a story - inspired by the prompt - in 240 characters.

No restrictions on how you post it to the steem blockchain. You can post it to steemit using steempeak, palnet.io, steemit.com, busy, partiko or anything else you want to use (you can even just post a story in the comments - but if you create STEEM post for your ZAPFIC using the hashtags #palnet, #creativecoin, #neoxian or #marlians) you’ll get a 50% upvote in STEEM plus upvotes from each my Tribe accounts too)!

Try to ensure you tell as complete a story as you can.

This weeks prompt is : bow

You can interpret the prompt as you wish (the story does NOT have to contain the word “bow” in it)

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_{As well as Steem upvotes I upvote posts in the following Tribes: #leo, #palnet, #sports, #weed, #marlians and #creativecoin #neoxian #sonicgroove}

![https://steemitimages.com/0x0/https://files.steempeak.com/file/steempeak/felt.buzz/qsInmdiY-ezgif.com-video-to-gif4.gif)

_{@felt.buzz curation accounts: @felt.buzz.pal @felt.buzz.leo @felt.buzz.sports @felt.buzz.weed @felt.buzz.marl @felt.buzz.ccc @felt.buzz.neox @felt.buzz.sonicgroove}

For #zapfic posts I advise using the tags #creativecoin, #neoxian, #palnet, #marlians (if you post using steempeak you can use up to 10 tags)

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Rules

• Post the 240 character (or less) story to steemit (use whatever you want - steempeak, steemit.com, busy, partiko, or even as a comment! etc - the choice is yours!

• Use the following hashtags (so you can benefit from my upvotes from the tribe accounts): #palnet, #creativecoin, #marlians. I can upvote you with four different accounts - so if you use those three hashtags you'll earn the tokens pal, marlians and ccc as well as Steem)

• The story must be no more than 240 characters in length - use a character counter to check (here is one: https://wordcounter.net/)

• The story must be your own work, and previously unpublished

• If you post a photo (you don't have to, there are no "points" for photos, it is all about the story) please make sure you quote the source. If it is yours, say so!

• Resteem and upvote welcome but it is not essential

• The steemit (or busy, or whatever) link to your post must be left in the comment section of this post

• The deadline for submissions is EIGHT hours before the payout of this post

• The judge’s decision is final

Prizes

The price pool 6 SBI (#steembasicincome share), 100 Marlians, 100 CCC (creativecoincrypto), 15% of author rewards of this post will be distributed as follows

2 @steembasicincome shares, 10 Marlians and 10 CCC will be given to writers of the top three stories (as judged by me) PLUS each of the 3 winners will be added as a 5% beneficiary of THIS post (5% of the author rewards each)

The rest of the prize pool (70 marlians, 70 CCC) will be divided amongst all the valid entries

All valid entries will receive a 50% upvote from my felt.buzz account plus if you use the tags #palnet, #marlians, #ccc and #neoxian you will receive an upvote from my tribe curation accounts (@felt.buzz.pal, @felt.buzz.marl, @felt.buzz.ccc and @felt.buzz.neox), and a resteem from @felt.buzz) to over 1450 followers.

Note: this contest was invented by and is hosted, judged and run by @Felt.Buzz

Thank you! and good luck! …

The NEW @SteemFiction book has been published! Currently available on Amazon for the Kindle it is now available as a paperback too!

Dead Silence

9 tales of MURDER from some of your favourite STEEM writers!

Check out the trailer for the book!

https://youtu.be/wqgy2h91RwY

I have a story in it called The Still Blood-Soaked Path

A YouTube documentary film-maker visits a remote island to investigate the horrific murder of a young woman, and the subsequent suicide of her killer almost thirty years ago. But was the young lover really responsible for the brutal slaying of his girlfriend? And if not who was? …

I had a comment left on one of my freewrites and I have to say, it made my day!

“Hey I got the book and want to tell you how much I enjoyed your story! Loved the twist at the end… you somehow nearly always manage to produce an unexpected twist... Love the care you take with your characters, intertwining them.” @owasco

^{@steemfiction - Voices In The Darkness, 8 tales by 8 STEEMains, published NOW on Amazon kindle!}

Voices In The Darkness is now ALSO available as a paperback!

If you want a taster of what is in the book, the video below shows me reading the first 900 words, or so, of my story, The Tell-Tale Dead

https://youtu.be/yQrDZHBx6qc

^{@steemfiction - we publish fiction written by Steemians}

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Use the PALnet, Marlians, Neoxian or Creativecoins hashtags (#palnet, #marlians, #neoxian, #creativecoin) when you post your ZAPFIC stories and you’ll find that as well as getting a STEEM upvote you’ll get an upvote in one or all of the other tribes (currently my tribe upvotes are worth a lot more than my 100% STEEM upvote). Using the hashtags means you get BOTH steem and tribe tokens too!