Announcing The Winners Of The It's Not What It Looks Like Competition

We want to start by saying to those of you who participated in this, whether it was writing a story or supporting your following members, thank you! You are greatly appreciated.

Give a big congratulations to WriterGirl, TomEccleston, and Mendalla for taking the top 3!

1st Place: The End Of My World by WriterGirl

2nd Place: Balance Sheets by TomEccleston

3rd Place: Plus One by Mendalla

The following entries round out your top 10.

4th: 1975 The Summer Of Fun by KatarinaTechgoddess

5th: Mitzy's Mom by OpheliaTusk

6th: Where It Began by AnnaMayZing

7th: Lillie by Cora

8th: Life and Death on the Karakoram Highway by TheShyThespian

9th: If Only … by JamesPBear

10th: Milly's Adventure by DenimAngel

You all are amazing! For anyone who hasn't read these yet, you should. They are all worth taking a look at.

Congratulations again to the winners, I'll be in touch soon regarding your prizes!

Woo hoo!

Congrats to WriterGirl and TomEccleston! Two great stories.

And congrats and thanks to all who entered. Interesting theme and it produced some interesting work.

Congratulations WriterGirl, TomEccleston, and Mendalla!

Thank you and congratulations to all who entered. ❤️

Congratulations to WriterGirl, Tom, and Mendalla for their podium places! I'm delighted to have finished right behind them in 4th place.

Congratulations to all of us who took that time to come up with such well-written stories that all gave a different take on the theme.

Fun comp! Thanks to all who read the stories, those who judged, and for this site to provide a place to share stories. 😎🥰

Wow! I’m on a much-needed short break from work with my twin, and we’ll be eatin’ fancy tonight! 😀 Thank you, judges! ❤️

Congrats to all who entered… all stories were fabulous takes on the theme!

Special thanks to Molly and judges for your hard work putting on this comp. 😊

You rock Silver medalist TomEccleston and Bronze medalist Mendalla! 😎

And I give the Badass Wife Award to TheShyThespian’s wife, Emma! 😘

Keep writing, everyone!

Congratulations to WriterGirl, Tom, and Mendalla, plus everyone else who didn't come in 9th!

It was a fun theme, and brought out some great writing and better ideas.

Well done all.

Well done to everyone - particularly WriterGirl, Tom and Mendalla for your podium places 😊. I enjoyed reading them all, but Bear, yours was one of my favourites!

Mine was undoubtedly too raw. I wanted to paint a picture of a very emotional time for me and my wife, and perhaps laid ourselves a little too bare, and shared too many secrets. Unfortunately, I don't think I was able to do it the justice it deserved. I ran out of words. This competition was perhaps not the best place to share our story, and it didn't really meet the theme. My fault. It's not worthy here and I'll probably rewrite it at some point when the time is right.

WriterGirl - thank you so much for all your support with my story, and all my writing. And thank you to Molly and all the others who make these things happen.

Mr Thespian - your story - was raw. And I loved it! You did bravely share very personal things. I understand it’s harder to be judged on a true story than a fictional one… feels like you and Emma are judged. I don’t think that’s the case here, though. You received an RR for a reason. everyone did for a reason. All were great stories!

Keep writing, please, because you do it so well. You don’t know how you enrich this little Kentuckian’s life by taking me along on all your adventures be it the Samburu or Pakistan. :)

Every story in this comp made me feel something!!! So thank you to all who entered!!! ❤️

Astounded to have even been close given the great stories I was up against. Wow. Congratulations to everyone who won and entered. Some amazing takes on what was a tough theme.

Thank you Molly for organising it, and the judges for their unenviable task of ranking the entries.

Congratulations to all

Congrats to the winners. And well done to all who entered. 👍

Freshly back to SS and thoroughly enjoyed reading the entries I got to! Two more left to read, but congrats to all participants

Congratulations to the top three and everyone who entered. It's always interesting to see all the different stories submitted. It makes me very happy that Stories Space is still here to provide a unique writing and sharing platform for all of us.

Congrats everyone!