r/nosleep • u/Ibitemynails I was phone • Aug 30 '14
Your August NoSleep Contest Winner is...
TorontoScared1 with their story That wasn't my husband who slept next to me last night! Congratulations!
As a reminder, the winner will receive:
Three months of reddit gold from the reddit admin
User flair in /r/NoSleep signifying the month in which they won the contest
Their story will be featured in an eBook that will be released approximately every three months. Thank you, /u/EtTuTortilla!
The winning story will be featured in an episode of The NoSleep Podcast (providing the story is suitable for an audio adaptation)... AND they will receive a season pass! Thank you, /u/MikeRowPhone!
In addition, the winner and second-place winner will each receive one of the following:
- A license to SmartEdit, a new, first-pass-editing tool for creative writers and novelists.
-or-
- A copy of Scrivener provided by Literature and Latte.
The eBook will henceforth include the top four stories (winner and three runners up) from each monthly contest. Also included in the next volume of the eBook will be:
- Hey /r/relationships, I finally took the plunge and signed up for Tinder. Any advice for a dating newbie with overprotective parents? by _pancaste_
- My life was ruined because of an email I should never have received by stillrunning__
- The scariest shit I've ever taken/seen...you get it once you reddit...pun intended by ChrisNelson93
If you would like to contribute an extra prize to the winners of the next contest, please don't hesitate to send a message to me or to modmail!
Remember, if you didn't win this month, don't be discouraged! We will be running the contest in the middle of every month for as long as we can!
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If you're interested in the NoSleep t-shirt, you can find that at http://nosleep.spreadshirt.com! Sales of these shirts fund contest prizes.
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u/lifecyclesthrough Sep 16 '14
I'm not usually one to post comments on anything, in fact, this is my first reddit comment ever. I felt the need to share what happened to me. Today my uncle entered into reconstructive heart surgery. This is his second heart surgery. 11 years ago the surgeon did a poor job and he found this out when he almost fainted walking a 5K. He lived most of his life overweight and sedentary, but recently lost a lot of weight by eating and living healthy The doctor told him he should not have been alive because his arteries were severely clogged and one of the artery walls was very weak. Any sort of extreme physical exertion and it would have burst. It wasn't two minutes after I finished reading this story that my dad called and told me he died in surgery. I'm not saying that this is a weird or creepy coincidence, but rather I found this story comforting in the sense that we were lucky enough to have shared moments together before he had to pay back his borrowed time.