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“Anisha's folly. ” by Aparna Jagannath

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Anisha Mehra belonged to an upper middle class family. She studied in class XII. She had opted for the commerce stream. Her younger brother, Anand, was a student of class IX. Both of them went to Delhi Public School, where their mother, Anupama, taught primary students. Anisha's father, Jaideep, worked as a senior executive in the HR department of a private firm. They lived in an apartment consisting of three bedroom hall and kitchen in Rohini, New Delhi. Anisha was excited to receive a smartphone from her father on her seventeenth birt...

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“A Second Chance” by Adrian Stolecki

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Day 1: The launch was today. I still cannot believe that I have been chosen to carry out this mission. I am nervous, but also very excited. Along with official scientific data and automated daily system logs, this log will serve as a personal accounting of my mission. I will not fail. Day 3: I was able to get a lovely view of the moon today as the ship went past. It was beautiful. It is hard to believe that only 62 years ago, that was the farthest humans could go. It seems like only a stone’s throw from home, as they say. Day 7: The sh...

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“Balling It Up and Throwing It Away” by Christine Hungerford

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Dear New Kid, I’m sorry. I’m also sorry I’m addressing this letter—you, really—as ‘New Kid.’ But I want to get down to the bare bones of the matter. I extremely apologize for being so ignorant. I mean, I didn’t mean to laugh at you in the playground game back in 5th grade, but I did—in a way. But just hear me out: I didn’t laugh at you. I merely laughed in a way that would hopefully make everyone hear my kind of laughter so we wouldn’t laugh at you. I don’t really know how to explain it. I just wish ...

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“The Story of a Scrunchie” by Dunya Zatde

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Of all the mistakes and pranks he could’ve gotten caught and punished for, Peter’s luck just had to run out on him when it came to Mindy Meyers. The prettiest girl in the entire 2nd grade. Don’t get him wrong, he’s in no way infatuated with her. And no, he doesn’t think she’s adorable and kind and sweet and pretty. On the contrary he finds her annoying and whiny. She’s always asking him to clean up his table after lunch, and always tells him to put away his crayons in the right order. She’s always so full of herself and Peter reall...

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“Betrayal” by Leigh Kelly

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“Please!” He begged. “Give me another chance, I can do better!” “I don’t know if I can.” She sadly replied. “You let me down...again” “I know I did, and I’m sorry, but I can change.” Tears began running down his face. “You told me that the last time too.” She whispered. “This time I mean it. Please.” She looked into his eyes for the first time during the conversation. He could see the regret in her face. The pain at what he had done and what he had failed to do. She broke eye contact and stared, tears in her eyes, as i...

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“Last day” by Carol Hall

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A story about someone looking to make amends for a mistake.( sort of!) They sat silently in the old kitchen, gazing at each other. Despite the glorious autumn weather both of them were lost in a sea of grey unhappiness, a dull ache that would not go away. Even the sun outside the window seemed to have lost its warmth and cheerfulness for a moment. Brett shook himself. This would not do. “Come on, my lovely,” he became aggressively cheerful, “Let’s go for a walk. We’d better make the most of it while we can.” Tania did not ...

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“Second Chances” by Camilla Huffman

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Blonde hair fell into her face as she pleaded for just one more night, one more night with her son. She knew she was a mess, her mascara running and the eyeliner that she’d caked all the way around her eyes mixing with sweat and tears. It was time to bring Micha home though, to his father and stepmother’s house. How had she let things get this far? It seemed like only a few weeks when it had, in fact, been years of dragging everyone around her through this toxic waste dump she called her life. How had she let things ...

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“Biggest Regret” by Stacey Fultz

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*While this is a stand-alone story, it is a continuation, and it references events that took place in ‘Sundays with Shirley.’I laid in bed after a long day of cooking lessons with Grandma Shirley. We’d been cooking together, Grandma Shirley, myself, and Lulu—who, of course, did more tasting and spoon licking than cooking, in one way or another for almost a year. It had been two months since I’d come out while asking Grandma Shirley to teach me how to cook. After that first Sunday, when Grandma showed up with a box full of cookbooks, both han...

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“Purple Hyacinths” by Brammy Rajakumar

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Purple Hyacinths She stood at my front door every Monday at 7AM with a bouquet of purple flowers. Hyacinths, she told me once, and she had said that they meant she was sorrowful over an event and she wanted forgiveness. Forgiveness, what a funny thought. Of course, I never opened the door for her. And normally, I never spoke to her either, except for the one time when I had asked what the flowers were and what they meant. She would wait at the door for exactly 17 minutes before leaving the bouquet, retreating down the...

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“SECOND CHANCE” by Sivaram Govindaraj

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I am a retired medical specialist, and my wife Jay is a child psychologist who runs her own clinic to correct children with problems like autism, attention deficit disorder, schizophrenia and the like. We have a son John who is a polymath: He is a writer, talk show host, and has penned, acted in and produced plays. He has his own team and they are now on a tour of England displaying their talent there. It was Sunday morning, when Jay and I had finished our breakfast. I was lounging on a canvas backed easy-chair on the sit-out facing the gard...

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“The Kids Aren't Alright” by Millie Hardy-Sims

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The clock on the wall ticked rhythmically to the tune of the tap dripping in the sink, the only sound in the silence that permeated the kitchen. Cleo sat at one end of the table, Rick the other. The awkwardness in the air could have been cut with a knife as the clock continued to mark the muzzled seconds, numbing their brains as they sat in silence. Neither of them knew how long they had been sitting there before Rick eventually cleared his throat to speak. “Do you want coffee?” He made to get out of his chair to make it just for somet...

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“Forgive Me, Robin” by R. Cai

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I turned up in front of her house with a bouquet of flowers. I handpicked them myself, from my neighbour’s garden. It’s a good thing she didn’t see me, otherwise, she would have shouted at me. That would be loud. I rang the doorbell. Once. Twice. She opened the door. We stared at each other for a while. Her eyes were red and puffy. She had been crying. “What are you doing here Ollie?” I blinked. What was I doing here? Oh right. To ask for forgiveness. I gave the flowers to her. “I’m sorry.”...

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“Bottled” by Heather Ann Martinez

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Bottled By Heather Ann Martinez Where do you find peace? When do you lay all of your cards on the table? It can be so much easier to hold a poker face. Does anyone really have to know about our secrets, the skeletons we keep hidden behind the clothes in our closets? Do we really need to share what's been bottled? Of all the things I've done, this is the mistake you hold against me. It is a doozy. I won't deny that, but it wasn't like I was settin' out to hurt anyone. I didn't mean for things to go the way they did. You know that. I can'...

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“My prison within.” by Melinda Crocitto

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I was born with one clear emotion, I knew from my first gasp of air I was taking this journey alone. I grew up lonely with the rapids of the North Umpqua river my only friend. Its just the way the cards were dealt and I carried on despite the knowledge that kin folk would escape me and life, cold hard life was something I would have to figure out on my own...There was an unspoken knowing in my gut that I was not important or valued. It seemed to attract the perfect storm of chaos and blind stupidity in every relationship I attempted to have....

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“ "women bickering"” by Philip Ebuluofor

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They were family of nine. Four boys and three girls. Their parents were farmers. Typical igbo family of colonial era. Their father died in late fifties and Abel their eldest brother typically become their father. Luckily for Abels male siblings, none of them felt the impact of their father’s death much for before his death, Abel has finished serving his master for seven years and has started his own business before their father’s death.None of the Abel’s brother served anyone as apprentice. whenever any becomes mature en...

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Write a story about someone looking to make amends for a mistake.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 223 stories

“Anisha's folly. ” by Aparna Jagannath

“A Second Chance” by Adrian Stolecki

“Balling It Up and Throwing It Away” by Christine Hungerford

“The Story of a Scrunchie” by Dunya Zatde

“Betrayal” by Leigh Kelly

“Last day” by Carol Hall

“Second Chances” by Camilla Huffman

“Biggest Regret” by Stacey Fultz

“Purple Hyacinths” by Brammy Rajakumar

“SECOND CHANCE” by Sivaram Govindaraj

“The Kids Aren't Alright” by Millie Hardy-Sims

“Forgive Me, Robin” by R. Cai

“Bottled” by Heather Ann Martinez

“My prison within.” by Melinda Crocitto

“ "women bickering"” by Philip Ebuluofor

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