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In the form of diary/ journal entries, write about someone who's just decided to take up journaling.

Posted in Adults on Oct 26, 2022

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Kiss of the Snake

Winner of Contest #36 🏆

Yellow Day Today is a yellow day. The sunlight sneaks in through the window, writhing on the floor like a snake. Outside, the leafy pecan tree shakes in the wind. To be honest, I do not write. When I do, it is facts and information. In the city I did not have time for poetry or pretty words. No one wanted pretty words or expected it of me. But now, alone with the cold stone and cold yellow light and snakes made from the sun, I have time. I can hear humming in the restless air. The entire compound is apprehensive. It is because we are expecti...

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The Diary of Sunny

Submitted to Contest #36

Friday, 11th January BEST. BIRTHDAY. EVER!!!I, Jonathan Clark, got a puppy! My very own puppy!I’ll call him Sunny.Mum says I should start a diary about Sunny and me.I’ll try but I don’t like writing very much.Saturday, 12th January Sunny is a very pretty kinda dog. He’s got golden fur and big brown eyes. They remind me of my favourite chocolate.He can’t really bark yet coz he’s only little. I try to teach him but I can’t bark either. He can still make noises tho like when I accidentally stepped on his tail. He is fine now. He likes snif...

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Notes from Chni Wohn

Submitted to Contest #36

March 20, 20487:14amCCP Police Station Beijing, ChinaIt has now been 16 hours since I was arrested.I have been given no food or water since I arrived.I am sitting on one of the lumpy cots in the holding cell of the Police Station, where I have been detained.Over the final 4 hours I have been interrogated, questioned, and shouted at. I have not been allowed to sleep.They have searched me twice and gone through my bag. Luckily the trunk had already been loaded on to the plane, and, before they had found out, it was out of there reach.But they ...

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Who Am I

Submitted to Contest #36

Dear Diary,I have tapped out at twenty-five. I came to this depressing realization one afternoon on a cold South Iowa day. It wasn’t snowing, but there was snow on the ground. The dogs were barking outside, and the kids were fighting over something in the living room. It was my birthday. I was staring at the dusty blue walls of my bedroom, and thinking absolutely nothing. Only later would I realize that this nothing I thought of was the tell-tale sign of a young life coming to its end. From now on, I would be somewhere in betw...

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Stars, Heart-Shaped Keys, and Dreams

Submitted to Contest #36

April 23, 2020 This is a first. Journaling. It's a form of therapy, they say. They say a lot of things, tell me a lot of things.They tell me to forgive him, that he was only seventeen with a promising future ahead of. They tell me that he has a little sister who is only a nine, a father in the military, and a depressed mother. They tell me that he has friends and he is a teacher’s pet, that he loves basketball so much that he wears his jerseys on weekends, that he didn’t mean to do it. They tell me it was an accident. I know it was an accide...

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Figure me out

Submitted to Contest #36

Waking up from a coma. What a cliché way to begin. Of course it isn't like movies would have you believe, that one day you will flutter your eyes open and take a few panicked breaths through your nose. A loved one tells you everything is okay and ten seconds later you pull your IV's out with vigor and topple off the gurney despite the nurse feebly trying to stop you. Wobbly-legged, like a newborn lamb, you'll take a few uneasy steps before you gather your resolve, muster strength from nowhere and burst out the hospital doors to continue...

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Found Diary

Submitted to Contest #36

Warning:            If you find this and you care about me – destroy this immediately. Do not read. Thank you in advance.I may be better or I may be worse. I am not who you think I am. If you knew me as I really am, you would not love me.Monday                              Dear Diary. Is this how you do it? It seems so awkward. I never...

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Seven Entries To Salvation

Submitted to Contest #36

4/3/20Well, I finally got this thing started.4/4/20Why am I even bothering with this? I'm not a writer. Journals are such a waste of time! Whoever wrote that article was full of it! Nothing whatsoever "life-changing" is going on here. The Manual is right: "Writing is a pathway to self-destruction." I must stop doing this immediately, before I become corrupted to the point of no return by selfish, unwholesome distractions!4/5/20I have failed. I've failed the Organization, I've failed the Family, and I've failed as a worthy Unit of the Mission...

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Ain't worth a driver's license

Submitted to Contest #36

“So… I just speak into the damn thing?”Grandpa scratched his chin. He was already feeling regret, having his nephew talk him into actually trying this out. It seemed ridiculous.“Yes,” sighed the boy, nodding his head hastily. Only fifteen years old and already in such a hurry.“Don’t get impatient with me, boy,” he said, pointing his finger at the voice recorder in the boy’s hands. “This was your idea.”“Actually, it was the doctors’,” his nephew said. “He said it would help boost your memory, and keep off the dementia. And since there’s no wa...

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Adventures in ice cream land

Submitted to Contest #36

1 November 2000Dear Diary.Let me first introduce myself. My name is Peggy Norton. I am 10 years old. I live with my mother in Hampton a small and beautiful countryside town. I am beautiful, have long hair, I have many rotten teeth in my mouth that resembles a pig and my ears look like a Christmas elf.I attend the Hampton school. Everybody calls me Piggy because of how my mouth looks but I am not a shame because I learn to accept myself and true beauty and children at school would bully me.I have best friends name Rebecca, Mary, Holly and Kad...

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AN EXPLORER

Submitted to Contest #36

Hi, there.As a teenager and because of this, I become adventurous and part of this is experienced. In this young age, where I’m curious on everything, I want to travel, to enjoy and to experienced things and to be putted here and as a souvenir, I list all the experienced at the powerful book which knows me the best. My diary, it is the thing that can describe me, the first thing that can know my true feelings. My diary, is myself.In this modernity, I could say that there are many things to explore, to discover and to enjoy. There are th...

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The Corona Diary

Submitted to Contest #36

Dear Diary,So it’s the middle of a pandemic and I thought I would write about it. You probably have a lot of questions, so hold on let me explain. I started this journal because a lot’s been going on and well when you're out of school for a month you have a lot of time! We are out of school for a month because of a virus that is taking over the nation- Coronavirus. I’ve always wanted to be a journalist and this is the perfect time. Unfortunately Massachusetts residents have been ordered to stay-at-home. So I decided to report everything...

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Cherry Blossoms

Submitted to Contest #36

Dear Sakai, Hi. It’s me, Miki. I’ve decided to start a journal. I need somewhere to organize my thoughts. Somewhere I can control. Because it feels like my world is collapsing around me. Okāsan is sad today. I want to make it better, but I don’t know how. You’re always so good at those things. You would be able to sit with her, and talk to her, and make her smile. I wish I knew how. I wish I had asked you to teach me, before you left. Why couldn’t you have chosen to go to a college in California, where you would be near me? I would come and ...

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The Ink Flows Freely

Submitted to Contest #36

Report 1, 4/8/10 Dad sits in his study. His mahogany wood table is littered with black and blue pens, sticky notes, and odd bits of string here and there. He’s sucked in by the light of his new laptop. I wonder what’s so special about it. He stares at it like it holds the threads of his life. Decides his choices.Damn, he’s obsessed.Or possessed.I wouldn’t know.I’ve been watching too many sci-fi movies lately.He bought me this journal a few days ago. Said he want me to become just like his old man. I mean, I do have a flair for writing. When ...

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Diary of a Battered Woman

Submitted to Contest #36

January 1, 2017Happy New Year, Self! Can you believe we made it through the last year? Me either, if I’m being honest. It definitely left some marks. Probably going to need some retail therapy! Thank goodness I managed to get a decent job last year. Chalk that up as our main achievement.My big To-Do for 2017 is to keep a journal. Don't expect long entries, I just want something simple. After Dad died last year, I realized that his journal was the most important thing he left behind – besides me and Mama, of course. I want to make sure that n...

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