SteemShort #1 - Post 2: Request for the Middle Part of the Story
UPDATE: The author for the middle part of SteemShort #1 has been chosen (2017-Dec-08)
The summary with the most upvotes (14) has been written by @nevies.
Congratulations, @nevies
Here is the summary:
It was Sen. Henry who paid the gunmen to kill Sen. Benson, but it was all too obvious. He knew from the onset that he would be suspected and investigation just might reveal him.
So to avoid this he was going to make himself look innocent.
But how?
He forged a brilliant idea:
On the same night he sends men to Sen Benson's house he was going to send men to his own house too. The men were going to make it look like he was also attacked, kill all his night guards and injure him slightly with a bullet.
So that same night, during the fake attack: When Sen Henry heard the noises (although scared) he knew the fake attack was ongoing, but then he heard a gunshot and was surprised, because firstly, he had secretly unloaded his guards' guns earlier on (to ease the fake attack) , secondly, he knew the intruders' guns had silencers.
Then he started to think it might be a real attack from another enemy. So in panic he went out to confirm. While out he was mistook for a guard and shot at, he ducked, jumped off the fence, and was pursued...
SteemShort #1 - Post 2: Request for the Middle Part of the Story
SteemShorts are short stories written collaboratively by three different authors and illustrated by an artist/photographer.
The process to create a SteemShort is described in this post: SteemShorts: Collaborative Short Stories.
This is the request for the middle part of the first SteemShort.
The first part has been written by @tolustx and can be found below.
Authors that want to write this middle part should send in a comment the summary of their proposed contribution. This summary must be in 100 to 200 words. Any proposed summary that is shorter than 100 words or longer than 200 words will not be considered. The summary must describe the continuation of the story and should be enough open-ended so that several ends for the story could be written.
The chosen author will be the one that have the most upvotes for his summary comment 4 days after this post. The post will be updated to indicate which author has been chosen.
The chosen author will then be instructed how to submit their full constribution. The full contribution need to be between 500 and 1,500 words, with no sound, image or video.
Once the full contribution of the chosen author will be received, another post with this full contribution will request proposals for the last part of the story.
All authors need to agree for a "Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike" (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode).
No title for the short story should be suggested. When the full text of the full story will be known, the three different authors will each propose a title.
So, writers, send your summary proposals.
And, readers, upvote the summaries that you like.
Here is the first part of the story, writen by @tolustx:
The ceremony was full of glamour. There was a colourful display of traditional values: the dancers were full of power, the drummers played like their lives depended on it, the congregants were full of joy and dressed in various colourful and expensive group attires, it was difficult to believe that majority of them socially fall much beneath the average class. Titles were conferred on the new chiefs, each showing appreciation to the people for the good gesture and promising an era of greater development to the people of the town. Chief Benson was not left out, as his appreciation speech was more like a political campaign. His antecedents have already proven to people he is capable of bringing rapid development to the state and its people. So, it was not a surprise when they cheered him as he spoke and sang his praises over and over, chanting… “The saviour of the people has come!”
A reception crowned this ceremony. Everyone, irrespective of social or political class was present. There was so much to eat and drink, the music band played melodious songs and the people danced their hearts out. It was a great way to end the annual celebrations. Chief Benson proceeded from here to a meeting with the elders of the town as there are political issues they needed to sort out. Some still believe that Chief Benson should step down for and support Sen. Henry Dokun, who is from the same senatorial district, and has sworn that the election is to be contested with every ounce of his blood. Henry has at his disposal, political thugs, who just needs him to speak a word and the task is done.
The meeting was filled with heated arguments on why Benson should step down. Some believe that since Chief Benson and Sen. Henry are from the same District, there should be a single candidate representing them to increase the chances of that candidate winning. Sen. Henry definitely has more political experience and should therefore be better suited for the office, more so, as the incumbent governor is also contesting for a second term in office, only a strong opposition will be able to unseat him. Chief Benson argued that this is his time and he is taking the shot. He has the followership, he has money to see it through, he has the will, and above all, it is time for the common man to enjoy the beauty of democracy. It is barely four months to the election; concrete decisions have to be made as soon as possible for better strategizing.
Chief Benson returned to his mansion around 12:45am, so tired. He needed to rest as he would be returning to the city early in the morning. He takes a cold shower relayed to his wife, Precious, a summary of the proceedings at the meeting. She simply asks him to be careful and take time to think it through. She promised to support any decision he makes.
At about 2:30 am, the security personnel in the compound recently completed their routine patrol of the compound and are back at their post at the gate. One of them returning from toilet, was grabbed from behind and swept off his feet with what he would have described as a wave too heavy for his body balance. He was however not going to be overpowered so easily. He tried to jump to his feet to retaliate but his attacker was swifter. A single shot to his chest from his .22 Winchester Magnum shattered a rib and went into his heart. He gasped for breath but he could not just hold the breath. He dropped dead immediately. His colleague has earlier been strangled, his lifeless body is laid in a corner with eyes wide open. He was alerted by the sudden barks of the dogs but before he could see anything, an heavy figure was behind him, with arms tightly wrapped round his neck. He almost reached to his rifle but it was too late. The man behind gradually drained life out of his body. One bullet each from a 9x18mm Makarov was enough to silence the dogs, restoring the calmness.
The invaders did not want their presence announced. Everything therefore had to be done as silent as possible. That is why they had silencers tightly fitted to their firearms. With the dogs and security men taken out, they proceeded into the building. The compound, though large, is well litted but they seem to have a thorough understanding of the compound to know which part is darker. Two of them stayed put within the perimeter while six of them entered the house through the kitchen door, which is much easier to break open than the main entrance. Three of them proceeded to the master bedroom while two manned the living room and the guest bedroom. One stood guarding the stairs.
The brief dog barks had woken Chief Benson and he suspected something was wrong, and he made some quick calls but it would take sometime for the police to get there as the nearest police post does not have enough manpower to deal with this threat. By the time they arrived, they only met a wailing wife and the lifeless body of her husband. The shooter was precise. Two shots from his .45 ACP 10mm Auto made way into his forehead. The death was quick and painless. Eyes soaked with tears of anguish, all that the bereaved wife could say was "why would someone do this to me".
The Police tried to talk to her. "They were all holding guns. They asked for a particular document from him, he quickly pointed it to them and one of them reached for it. When he confirmed that it was what they wanted, the one has a scar on his face shot my husband" and she bursts into tears. They decided to leave her for a moment. Just before dawn, the Police chief arrived. At this time, the whole town was awake. Cops swarmed the compound, looking for traces of evidence that could be helpful. Some members of the press requested a statement from the police but the Police commissioner is yet to fathom the motive behind this incidence.
Was it a robbery or an assassination mission?
How did they know so much about him and his house?
Is this the handiwork of one of his political opponents?
If yes, then who could it be? This is going to be a hard nut to crack, he thought to himself.
"Steemshorts" contest series is authored by @vcelier !
Investigations in top gear, the Police noticed the Electric Fence wire that was cut at the back of the building. They could find three different footprints. How come the alarm did not go off when the wire was cut? The cook, gardener and driver were taken in for questioning (an insider must be responsible).
Meanwhile, during autopsy, a trace of blood was found under the fingernails of the guard that was strangled. Obviously, during the struggle, he scratched his attacker with his nails. This was taken for DNA profiling and the name of the attacker is found to be Segun Richard. The Police traced him to his house and the revelation is astounding.
Henry Dokun, relieved to an extent that the governorship race is now in his grasps, is somewhere, holding his campaign but has no idea what was about to hit him. The sniper’s bullet missed its target, but someone is down. Is this the same gang? The Police is about to find out.
So far, no one has any idea of what the documents the gunmen took is.
Thank you for your valid summary.
It was Sen. Henry who paid the gunmen to kill Sen. Benson, but it was all too obvious. He knew from the onset that he would be suspected and investigation just might reveal him.
So to avoid this he was going to make himself look innocent.
But how?
He forged a brilliant idea:
On the same night he sends men to Sen Benson's house he was going to send men to his own house too. The men were going to make it look like he was also attacked, kill all his night guards and injure him slightly with a bullet.
So that same night, during the fake attack: When Sen Henry heard the noises (although scared) he knew the fake attack was ongoing, but then he heard a gunshot and was surprised, because firstly, he had secretly unloaded his guards' guns earlier on (to ease the fake attack) , secondly, he knew the intruders' guns had silencers.
Then he started to think it might be a real attack from another enemy. So in panic he went out to confirm. While out he was mistook for a guard and shot at, he ducked, jumped off the fence, and was pursued..
@nevies
Nice one @nevies
Congratulation @nevies, you are the chosen author of the middle part of SteemShort #1.
Please contact me (as vcelier) on steemit.chat or discord instructions for the submission of your full contribution for the middle part of SteemShort #1, in 500 to 1,500 words.
Yes! So great that I was chosen! I'm so happy and grateful. Thanks to everyone that voted, I really want to contribute in this all.
@vcelier, thanks, man. I'm making a hot rush to your discord right now! Lol.
Great job @nevies. Logical and articulate
Thank you for your valid summary.
Oh no, thank you very much for hosting this, I love the idea, brilliant. And thank you for approving my summary.
#thumbs
well written and the conclution
Hi @nevies..
Awesome summary you've given here
Nice job
Proposed contribution to the middle part..
The investigation went on for days and the police proved to be doing their best each time the media people come around to get updates.
They called so many people in for interrogation Including his strong opponent, sen. Henry, but they didn't get anything useful. No links to the murder was found with Henry, although he was the chief suspect.
Mrs Benson desperately seek justice for the murder of his husband. She even promised to reward the inspector of police beautifully if he would arrest the culprit.
A lot of people were tortured by the police. Even the security guard who was suppose to be on duty that night but absent was brough in for questioning.
The Benson's have 2 kids, James who is about 19 and Charles who is 13. Charles and James were having a serious quarrel in their room.
Charles asked what the will was doing in their room. It was the same document that the assassins came to collect the night they killed their dad.
James struggled with Charles to get it back. The document fell to the floor and their mum entered.
What will she do? Save his son or seek justice for his husband?
Thank you for your valid summary.
Nicely writen, simple and well articulated
There was a missing security man as that day there were supposed to be three. Inspector Mack Ben was worried no one seemed to care about the missing security that the wife of the slain politician mentioned. That was not the only puzzling piece. The CCTV positioned at the entrance seemed to be turned off. The other three seemed to be working just fine. Meanwhile, the pressure was coming from a lot of quarters to get this murder solved so as not to be used against the Commissioner who wanted a second tenure. The atmosphere was filled with a lot of conspiracies whispers as various headlines of newspapers and online media services have their own stories as to what happened that night.
Thank you for your valid summary.
Thanks a lot.
Maybe pioneers of this field can do that task as it is not childrens game I think by the way pioneers like you are doing great job making Steem great again and it's growing rapidly.
Ahha awesome.
Best wishes.
The document that had been taken was useless to the killers. The scar Mrs Benson had noticed was a fake one, purposely created to mislead the investigation. The leader of Sen. Henry's thugs had a similar scar. The killers visited the special effects makeup artist's house that same night. He knew their faces, so he was killed for knowing too much. The murder weapon and the document are purposely dropped on his corpse for the police to find.
Sen. Henry is the lead suspect especially since his thug had a similar scar to that which Mrs. Benson had noticed. They are however alerted to another murder scene later that same day where they find documents with Chief Benson's name and the murder weapon. Will they make the connection between the dead man and Chief Benson's case? Where do they go from having no lead?
@adsactly @vcelier @tolustx
Nice one
Thank you.
😁😁😁 Nice job @royalrose. Never knew you would show interest
Thank you for your valid summary.
Second part summary Proposal
The police questioned and did their investigation but didn't find anything tangible...all the clues pointed towards Sen Henry but there were no tangle evidence that could lead to his arrest... No one thought to ask Chidi their little son if he had seen anything... Chidi had been working on a school project the night his father was killed and his camera has been filming the whole time.
Chidi's teacher Tayo, found out the tape when Chidi turned in the assignment two weeks after the incident. Mrs Tayo handed the tape over to her husband what she had found out to her husband who was a detective....turns out none of the killers had a any scar and that was just the wife's way of pointing the investigation of the police to another direction.
@adsactly I hope this gets accepted 🤓
Thank you for your valid summary
Summary for the middle of the story:
Detective Pablo Mora was in a pub when his phone rang.
He wasn’t a good cop. People knew that and the Police chief knew that. But he got the case for the murder of Chief Benson.
This was a message. Don’t ask a lot of questions. We are going to close this quickly. Detective Mora is on the case and we know how most of his cases go. Chief Benson’s supporters would scream “foul play” but they are not the majority. And most of them should know how this game is played. Becoming governor is not a clean game. It never was.
What people didn’t know was that Chief Benson’s enemies were missing a critical piece of information. They picked Mora as the most unsuitable match for a complex case like this one. They didn’t know that the drunk detective already had the case almost solved in his head.
He and the departed chief had an old and forgotten history. They were in the same platoon during the War of the Old Tribes. And Mora knew exactly what was in that paper and who was the only other person in the world that was sharing the same information.
Thank you for your valid summary.
Here is the summary for the middle part of the story:
While the Poloce chief handle the media, his best man, inspector Adebanjo,
was doing the investigation.
The inspector asked questions to Chief Benson' wife, about the document
the invaders wanted. Precious told him that she was not close enough to
hear the full conversation, so she has no idea what the document was about,
but she could tell the inspector where the document was found.
The inspector always asked for a more detailed description of the killer,
the one with the scar. He showed her several photos of known criminals
with scars, but she was unable to recognize anybody.
Amongst the papers of Chief Benson, the inspector discovered that he had
hired a private investigator from the city. The PI indeed confirmed that
he was hired by Chief Benson, for two missions, one business related and
one politically related, and asked for full immunity.
The murder made the national news, and an investigation reporter from a national
newspaper had discovered that Chief Benson have had a secret son from another
woman.
There were 3 possible reasons for the murder that needed to be followed.
The Police chief was not amused: he did not need this two years before
retirement.
Thank you for your valid summary
Second part summary Proposal:
The Document was now in Mundo's possession. What it contained would make him very rich indeed.
But not safe. The information it contained could get him killed just as easily as Chief Benson
The foreign dogs he had hired for the hit were now safely out of the country.
He had his own security team around him as he arrived to commiserate with the grieving widow of Chief Benson.
Of course Benson was a great man.
They always were when they were being lowered into the clay.
Chief Benson had developed a conscience. A very bad career move in a country surrounded by greedy wolves.
Mundo had his own set of values. Mostly benefiting his family and his tribe.
He had more house cleaning to do. But for now he would sit and watch who arose to take the mantle of champion of the people.
The grieving widow? Or possibly one of her scheming brothers.
The nosy Police Chief would be a problem. But Mundo was convinced there was no trail back to him or his organization. And if he did get close. Well, being a Police Chief was a badly paid and a very dangerous job.
Thank you for your valid summary.
It is getting more interesting.