Steemit Challenge - Season 28 Week-5: Shadows Behind Stardom

Dear Steemians,

"I welcome you to the Fifth Week of Season 28 of the Steemit Challenge, Duration Monday, 15th- 21st December, 2025 ."

"Steemit Challenge week-5 Season 28" brings you another opportunity for "Creative Writing", allowing your imagination to go as wide as you allow it to, but I want you to come up with a story full of real life-facts which provide your readers a true sensation and take them to the world of fantasy as well.

The prompt of the week : Shadows Behind Stardom

 

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Singh a famous film star suddenly announced retirement and settled in his farmhouse away from film city. That surprised Khaled, an investigating film journalist because he knew Sigh had no retirement plan at the peak of his career.

He called Singh and took an appointment. Khaled found Singh haunted by shadows of his past. He confessed that his retirement was forced under threats from a powerful mafia syndicate that invested in the film industry for their favorite actors.

Actually, Singh had discovered a plot involving money laundering in flop films but doing well through illegal investments making black money into white by the syndicate. Singh was scared for his life, so he left the industry.

Khaled was determined to unearth the truth, so he dug deeper and uncovered evidence against high-profile producers and local politicians. He found a deep connection with mafia group's members sitting in different countries, filmmakers, and corrupt politicians that shook the industry to its core.

Singh's exit became a symbol of courage as his puzzling retirement revealed a brave stand against corruption. Khaled’s relentless pursuit of truth proved that sometimes, the biggest stories are hidden behind the brightest stars.

• You have to tell us what the whole story was and how Khaled unveiled the entire plot!
• Please note your story points will be based on investigation, so merely repeating the prompt will not be enough.

Points to build your story around:

A great starting scenario
The use of language
The threat
The melodrama
Mafia
End of story that leaves an impact with a twist, evokes emotions, which leave readers in a satisfying way.

Please note:

A well-crafted creative story provides an engaging plot, including how you unfold it, what actions your characters take, and how they interact with each other and proceed with the project.

• No greetings, no intro etc. but come to the story straight away!
• No need to quote the prompt.
• Your readers should enjoy what conversations your characters are having.
• Remember, you have to make your story meaningful through all these choices, and your marks will be based on all these facts.
• Please read the prompt carefully, noting how a story seizes the true imagination of the prompt.
• Make your story stand out with an original concept, unexpected plot twists, or memorable characters.

This contest offers participants the opportunity to show their creativity in story writing niche as I expect participants to venture into the world of imagination and bring out their skills, and create breathtaking stories.

Contest Rules

 

Article Title: "Shadows Behind Stardom"

• Your post must be on your blog only and not in any community.

• Paste the link of your post in the comment section of this post, and don't forget to vote and resteem this post.

• If two or more participants score equal points we shall decide the winner based on post's quality, or lucky wheel and that will be final.

• Your post must be at least 500 words and a maximum of 800 words (Prompt not included in word count or needed to be used).

• Your post must be free from plagiarism and AI, which will disqualify you from this contest.

• Please check your story for serious grammatical mistakes which entirely change the meaning of a story.

• Share your post on any social media platform of your choice and share the link in comment section of your post.

• All Steemians acceptable barring the ones currently powering down.

• Use no more than one or two copyright-free images with proper sourcing for instance from pixabay, Pexels, etc. including a thumbnail.

Post only on your Blog.

Participants can write in any language supported by Google Translate, or DeepL translator but must not deviate significantly from the given story prompt.
Participants must not use the official contest thumbnail or images.
Tags: #writing-s28wk5 #yourcountry #club if any, and other suitable tags like #steemexclusive.
Use # burnsteem tag only if you set null as beneficiary @25%.

First tag #writing-s28wk5

Invite three friends to participate in this contest. For instance, @kouba01, @wilmer1998 and @cruzamilcar63

Timeline:

This contest starts on Monday, 15th December 2025 at 00:01 UTC and ends on Sunday, 21st December 2025, at 23:59 UTC. Posts submitted before or after will not be considered.

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Rewards:

SC01 upvotes will reward the top 6 participants based on our recommendation every week but expect votes from SC02 randomly on outstanding contributions.
Points

Points Based on:

Criteria	Marks	Remarks
Story start to finish	0/5
Originality & Uniqueness	0/3
Presentation	0/1
My observation	0/1
Total	0/10
Feedback	---
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Your creativity and hard work will shine through in every sentence you write. Best of luck!

Cc. @steemitblog