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“Don't Hesitate To Call Home” by Zoha Yasir

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Family. It wasn't a choice we had, but a gift. A place we call home. To some of us, it is what we live for, and to others, what we escape for. When we went face to face with all our fears and learned our lessons through the tears, it was the same people who we tried to run away from because they didn't understand us, or we felt like an outcast who stood by us and became the ladder we needed to climb our way up to find the light again. When we fell into the most bottomless pits of misery, heart wrecks, sadness, depression, and felt the utmost...

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“The Other side of the Savior ” by Bisi Adekola

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Who else need to know how villainous John Kerry was? would one think killing one's sister is a crime ? yes! it is. But to John Kerry, it was a kill for amusement.If John Kerry could slain his own younger sister, whose offense was 'asking why he raped her housemaid', no head is too big to roll before him.He was as ruthless as king pharaoh in the scripture, but was as cool as a helpless poor lad before he was elected as the president. He used to lay flat before the nobleness of all –before the cripples, like a hungry dog stung by bees.He would...

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“The Hunter, Hunted” by Nicola Niemc

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Content warning: implied sexual content, abuse The slave-girl came from the pleasure markets of southern Crvepísek – the land of rust and sand, where even the sky reflected the red soil that gave the place its name. So it was unsurprising that a pair of hyacinth-blue eyes should catch Lord Deofenn’s wandering attention. He brought her for half a dozen gwaneths, the sum almost insulting to a man of his wealth. As Deofenn accepted the heavy iron chain from the hands of the slave-master, he noticed that the girl’s neck was chafed and bleeding s...

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“Truth to power, academic style” by Noel Bouck

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Truth to power, ACADEMIC STYLE By Noel Bouck She couldn’t deny that she suffered from occasional bouts of arrogance. Not frequently, she thought. Although perhaps that thought is itself a tad arrogant. Recently she asked her husband who is usually painfully frank when given a chance to comment on his wife’s failings, if he thought she was arrogant. “No one would ever think you were arrogant, really” was his reply, “especially not in academics.” Whatever the situation now, she did r...

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“An Ordinary Person” by Josephine Andersen

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An Ordinary PersonThe excitement was reaching a crescendo. Agatha, the proud owner of the North, South Art Gallery stood at her desk anticipating the moment when she would reach the peak of her career.The crowds were gathering and had started to pour through the gallery entrance. The Wandsworths were there, Elaine and Alan, Elaine, dressed in her Louis Vuitton outfit and clutching a handbag from the same fashion house. On her arm was a Breitling watch and round her neck a Montblanc Souvenir D’etoile. Alan was in a Brioni ...

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“Soul-Fire” by Laurence Tryon

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Pale embers and a scattering of ashes… That was all that remained of the bright burning fire my soul had been at birth. The daughter of a Heavenly King should never feel so weak. I fell to earth only fourteen years ago to experience mortality, entrusted to earthly parents by my father. My soul-fire shone bright in childhood. My dimpled smile attracted many a cheek pinching from my older earth relatives. It was a gloriously free time, cocooned in the love of my live-in maternal grandmother. I was a bright child, full of sunlight and joy. Some...

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“Carnation” by T.H. Sherlock

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April 2021‘Time for bed children.’Tomas ran around the cosy pink and white bedroom, his tiny chest thrust forward and his head flung back whilst his arms moved up and down like a plane fighting against the wind. His lips puckered in protest.His sister, Gabriela, just a few years’ older, looked up from her book and noted the faded, watery eyes behind the rims of her grandmother’s glasses. She pulled at her grandmother’s dressing gown sleeve with affection. ‘Avo Cravo, will you tell us a story?’Tomas’s plane fizzed and dived, before hitting th...

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“Cassia” by Victoria Bogatz

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Being a girl in the world of the Colosseum was tough. Trying to pull two lions into their cages was no tougher. Neither was bartering with the man who didn’t take me seriously. It was just part of the job. I was an assistant then, for Marcellus, the show director. His main job was to put on shows that would entertain our high and mighty emperor. His secondary job was to discourage me as much as possible. On my first day, he said I should leave because this “wasn’t a woman’s place.” I told him I’m here to stay, and anyone who tries to stop...

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“Illumination” by Greg Rigby

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Robin Chattaway remembered the few spots of rain that had felt like small electrical charges to individual nerve ends and he could not understand why he was not addressing the ball that had fallen at the foot of the tall pines. Where was his club? Everything was black and there was an acrid burning smell! Cordite? Ozone? Carborundum? Bang! His body had reacted instantly and he had rolled to his right in a belated attempt to shelter from another violent clap of thunder. Sharp, damp twigs felt painful under his forearm as the mushy, spidery fe...

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“Dear Sakura, I'll Always Love You” by Nuala Roberts

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Trigger Warning: Suicide and Abuse MentionsThe cherry blossoms shower down. Sakura. I never understood you, but I do now.You tried so hard to bear the weight of the world. You got good grades, looked after your four younger siblings, worked two jobs, cared for your sick mother and still found time to protest. I asked so many times why. Your mother was an addict. You were your own person, you couldn't look after yourself and five people. I told you over and over, "There are children in the care of an unfit mother. Report her, save them, save ...

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“Swimming into Caves” by Adrian Just

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Swimming into Caves. You like and then you love and then there is sex and then children. Is this merely the evolutionary thrust and parry of life, or is it now for me in later life the fairytale or the fable? I realize the happiness that I still long to cradle is slightly tinted now with these options. And by that I don’t mean tainted by opaque relationships. You see up until I was about 45 my marriage and my children were largely my wants and desire. They were the ‘fairytale’ story in which improbable events lead to a happy ending , and I...

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“A Deal with the Devil” by Megan Malone

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The door towered over me. I peered up and up, straining my neck to see the top. Where did the door lead, and more terrifyingly, what monstrous beast could be lurking behind it? My heart pounded deafeningly in my chest as I reached my trembling hands up to the enormous door handle. Taking a deep breath, I cautiously rotated the ancient handle. A creaking, groaning sound filled the air as the door slowly opened backward into the room beyond… Suddenly, an evil odor invaded my nostrils; it smelt of rotting and decaying flesh. I gagged for breat...

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“Root of an idea” by Saint Lucifer

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“It has to be you.” The old man said in a harsh, subdued tone. “The King will remember you.” The meeting was held near the towns square. In the only barn that was not facing the main street. A single candle was lit, bathing the old wooden building in more shadows than light. Around the candle 5 men were crouching. The elders sat on crates so they did not have to put up the struggle of getting up from the straw covered ground again. Only Mad, the youngest men in the circle, sat there cross legged, arms folded and shaking his head. “No, no. I...

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“The Birthday Suit” by Theresa Stefaniak

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Long ago and faraway, there was a flourishing kingdom at the center of a prosperous empire. Every year, on the Emperor’s birthday, the capital city threw a festival. It began with grand parade marching from his castle to the coast. Elephants marched through the town square, followed by fan dancers, drummers, and fire eaters. Musicians played from morning until nightfall, and everyone was invited to dance. It ended all ended at a large bonfire and a feast large enough to feed the whole city and then some. T...

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“A VOICE OF THE YOUNG” by Gabrielle A

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Tom kept kicking the mud coated ball, running off to pick it up from the goal post and running back energetically to his initial position. He was concentrating with all his might, calculating distance and the right acceleration but concentrating on the net at the center of the wide field only made his eyes heavy and his vision hazy. His mother would be out again to scold him for the third time as to why he should get rid of that ugly ball, quit the game and make himself useful in the house. The ball kept speeding off to the right side o...

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Write a story about an ordinary person speaking truth to power.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 68 stories

“Don't Hesitate To Call Home” by Zoha Yasir

“The Other side of the Savior ” by Bisi Adekola

“The Hunter, Hunted” by Nicola Niemc

“Truth to power, academic style” by Noel Bouck

“An Ordinary Person” by Josephine Andersen

“Soul-Fire” by Laurence Tryon

“Carnation” by T.H. Sherlock

“Cassia” by Victoria Bogatz

“Illumination” by Greg Rigby

“Dear Sakura, I'll Always Love You” by Nuala Roberts

“Swimming into Caves” by Adrian Just

“A Deal with the Devil” by Megan Malone

“Root of an idea” by Saint Lucifer

“The Birthday Suit” by Theresa Stefaniak

“A VOICE OF THE YOUNG” by Gabrielle A

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