Tell A Story To Me,
Oh The Endless Possibility,
Let Your Imagination Run Free
And Win Some 5 SBD!

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Welcome to Tell A Story To Me. We are back with another prompt, and the apologetically delayed results of the last round. This was easily the hardest to judge yet, the most rereads and the hardest narrowing down. Such a high standard, and yet again, wonderful curie votes to prove it! Thank you all so much for sharing your wonderful tales!

I have had days of escaping into your fantastic worlds, portals of all descriptions, complete worlds, enthralling stories, but, there has to be a winner!

The Winners #9

First Place

@gaby-crb with A Portal Opens

Second Place

We had enough entries for an official second place, but it was so hard to chose first place, let alone a second, so we have a draw. Getting 1SBD and 1 @steembasicincome

@ediblecthulhu and @dirge

As if we didn't have enough amazing stories, some came in the form of poems, the poetry award of 1 steem goes to:

@seesladen

Then, on my word, as if this round hadn't been amazing enough, we had a chose your own adventure story!! Winning 1 steem for this outstanding experience:

@sidequest

_{I wrote loads of notes while reading your stories so hope to be back in the morning with comments, I really loved reading these entries, thank you to everyone who took part <3}

Author's Choice

Thank you to everyone who came back to vote for the authors choice award, the very wide spread of votes really reflected the amount of fantastic stories here, getting a 1 @steembasicincome share and 1SBD

@ediblecthulhu

Winning Voter

Normally we only have one winning voter, but this time, five authors, and our one public voter - 1 @steembasicincome share for voting goes to:

@theironfelix
@sarez
@blockurator
@cyemela
@ediblecthulhu

@mervin-gil

Anyone can win 1 @steembasicincome just by voting so even if you don't have chance to enter, you can head back for another chance to win!

The Prizes

First Place - win 5SBD in every round - Thank you so so much to @girlbeforemirror for sponsoring this prize <3

Second Place - this is triggered once we hit ten entries, and 1SBD and 1 @steembasicincome share

Third Place - this is triggered once we hit twenty entries and is either 1SBD or 1 @steembasicincome share

Author's Choice & Voters Prize - I have a prize for Authors Choice so I am asking everyone who enters to vote for their favourite from the other entries - I will release a list of entries when the contest closes and will be asking for the votes there. One lucky voter will also win!

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Round Ten

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Rules

1. One Entry Per Person
2. Prose, poetry, any form of fiction is accepted, as long as you tell me a story based on the prompt
3. Your entry must be written for this contest, and inspired by the prompt
4. Entries must be submitted by Midnight (BST) on Monday October 1st (That gives you just over two weeks to enter)
5. Use #tellastorytome, you don't have to, but your stories are so good I feel like they deserve their own tag
6. One picture only please, additional images of text are fine, but I want you to tell me a story with words, so only one actual picture
7. First Place wins 5 SBD more prizes up for grabs if we get enough entries - very happy to have this back at
8. Link back to this contest somewhere in your post. I would be really grateful if you also resteemed this contest (not doing so won't get your entry disqualified, but it is very much appreciated to help get the word out there, and more entries means more prizes)
9.I don’t really want to specify how long it should be, so no min length, and aim for under 4,000 but if it goes a little over, don't worry, I normally find myself wishing your entries never ended
10. Post a link to your tale in the comments below

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The Prompt

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Your entry must be inspired by this prompt, I am looking to hear the story where

When you die, you wake...

I am looking for a science fiction/horror/fantasy (fiction of some sort) story about someone who lives their whole life, dies, and then wakes up, but it isn't in the afterlife

I want to hear the story of someone who wakes up after they die, how/why they die, how much of their life you tell, what they wake up to, yours to decide. They must live a life in this world, our version of reality, with no idea of what will come, then when they die, they find themselves somewhere else. Not reborn or reincarnated, but returned to another life of some description. This doesn't have to be the main focus of the story, and can be the setting in which your story plays out, or it can be the driving force. The story can start at any point in this series of events, but a person in the story must live in this reality, believing it wholehearted, die, and wake up to find out the life they lived wasn't real, the rest is up to you!

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If you are looking for more ideas, some of the questions you could think about, but by no means have to answer, include:

• Were there any clues missed that could have warned that the person would 'wake up' when they died?
• What do they wake up to?
• What does that mean for our version of reality?
• Why did they live the life they woke up from, did they chose it, or was it as a result of something else?

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This is one of those ideas that expands in possibility the more it's dwelt upon, hopefully it isn't too tight a prompt, and you will all find ways (and time) to be creative and see what you can come up with, and I can't wait to see your entries.

Don't forget to include a link in the comments!