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Write a story about someone who has just finished writing their first story/book.

Posted in Adults on Oct 26, 2022

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“A life in a leather wrapper ” by Annika Michel

Submitted to Contest #46

        With shaking hands, he placed the last word in black ink on the gray line. His hands looked like a map, marked with veins that run like rivers under Hector’s thin and wrinkled skin. He reached for the cap of the pen and screwed it back on. It was his favorite pen that he got when he left home to go to university in Barcelona. His grandfather had given it to him as his last present before he passed away and Hector kept it save and only used it for special occasions like signing important documen...

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“Your Invention is Part of You” by Snyya Taha

Submitted to Contest #46

He was sitting there trembling. His hands spread across the keyboard and his eyes were fixed on the screen of his laptop. It had not come to him until then that the story he had been writing for a whole month –which was going to be the first story that he committedly worked on and finished- should end in a way that was so much revealing about his personality. Realizing it, he started hesitantly scrolling up and down the pages and pausing to reread the lines that he felt might be similarly related to him. Turning page after page, his face tur...

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“Creation” by Jessica Tomaselli

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She spent tortured hours trying to figure out exactly how to end the story, what words would articulate a propitious pinnacle. How much closure should she provide? She could create an unquestionable happy ending, but who would believe that? And happiness truly valued without its opposite? No, she wanted to make sure her champions clearly conquered their first challenge, but still had an opportunity to grow, that they had an opportunity to grow and continue to pursue their principles. Because she had fallen in love with them and could not ima...

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“Happy Independence” by Chinemerem Ike-Okonkwo

Submitted to Contest #46

"Congratulations to you, Serena!" She said to herself, gulping down a glass of wine. Her first book was finally out in print after many years. She had lost a lot in those years. First was her dog, Beattle, who died from food poisoning. Two years later in a car accident, she lost the love of her life, Sid. Her son, Ravi followed soon after surgery. He was suffering from leukemia. Back home in India, her mother died from a stroke. Her father had died when she was younger. Her feeling of depression was reaching it's climax with nothing to keep ...

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“Girls, Boys and Ants” by J. Fiúza

Submitted to Contest #46

The yellowy light of the morning sun smelled weird because of the tree in the middle of the school patio, the kids would say. What a dumb idea, the kids would say; all they wanted to do was play boys-get-girls, and the huge tree took up too much space from the patio.  She didn’t mind the tree. She actually liked to watch the ants running on the roots, wondering where they were going in such a hurry, wishing there was a little bit more of snack.  The snack would always end so quickly. There was never more of it to bring to the sch...

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“The Perfect Murder” by Monica Harsch

Submitted to Contest #46

The pandemic wasn’t even at its worst; that was yet to come.  But Eric insisted on checking on his parents almost everyday.  His mom just turned 78 and his dad 85.  Eric worried constantly that they were going to get the virus.  They went out shopping far too often.   At the same time, all Eric did was whine like a little girl about what annoying thing one or both of them did that day, and how it negatively affected him.  How selfish his mother was.  How forgetful and in the way his father was. ...

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“The Pencil ” by Matt Render

Submitted to Contest #46

"What is Domestic Abuse anyway?" Jaime pondered this every day in his cell, over his cafeteria lunches, during his vigorous weight lifting sessions, and his walks around the prison yard. He thought about it as he pounded the concrete walls with his fists. He thought about it as he laid in his bunk and heard the creaking sounds of rusted bed springs and snoring from an obese former motorcycle gang leader sleeping in the cell beside his.  All hours of the day, all summer, all winter, he wondered the answer to that question. After ...

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“Trying to get by” by Sara Blanch

Submitted to Contest #46

Nervously fidgeting with the split ends of her chlorine damaged hair Jane stared at the email in front of her, the central cause of the magnitude of conflicting emotions that were currently swirling around within her like a maelstrom. It was always hard to say goodbye, she didn’t have the sort of personality that could just easily shift from one thing to another. Her sister could and it was one of the things she admired about her, the way she could just cut things from her life that weren’t serving her...if Jane had that ability perhaps sh...

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“Cold Alphabet Soup” by M D

Submitted to Contest #46

It was a gloomy and cold day. Snow-covered the ground creating a winter wonderland. Such a beautiful but deadly sight. The man gazed out of the windshield, making his way slowly down the road. Due to poor road conditions, his employer closed up shop early to allow everyone to safely make it home. It was such a kind gesture and an excellent start to the weekend. Driving past the empty and frozen park, he notices that the pond resembles that of a mirror. It hides an icy casket beneath for those who dare to cross its glimmering surface. The co...

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“The Devil in her Angelic Face” by Rachel Lieberman

Submitted to Contest #46

Her main goal in life was to be anything other than her father. So far, it had worked out pretty well. Lena was a college graduate. She paid her bills on time. She had friends. None of her relationships had ended with a restraining order. Sometimes it seemed like one may even call her “successful.” She was even able to afford a baby monitor and a stroller when she got pregnant, this of course, came at a cost.   She looked at the baby monitor, praying for twenty minutes of quiet. She needed to finish her manuscript today. Her edit...

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“Voodoo in the Hallways” by Dante Van Domselaar

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 Winds blew in from the north, slamming against the windows of Greenlocke Apartments. Kenneth Worthton sat at his writing desk, leaning back in his chair and whistling. Ghostly howls screamed outside, the wind picking up even more than usual for autumn. Kenneth skimmed over his recently concluded novel; Voodoo in the Hallways, his story of the history which haunted his very own home in Greenlocke Apartments. It was an ancient forgotten history of the occult and dark magic; witches and undead creatures were said to roam the property, bui...

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“Nonsensical Truth” by Maddie Gabhart

Submitted to Contest #46

She took her glasses off with a sigh and squinted at the now blurry, but still obnoxiously bright, computer screen. The story that she had spent the past several months laboring over was reduced to a series of wavy horizontal lines. Setting her glasses down on her desk, she pulled her legs up to her chest and rested her chin on her knees. Her tired gaze wandered to the rest of the desk, cluttered with all manner of things. Some of the things were practical, some nonsensical. Her eyes found the left side of her desk and saw a notebook under a...

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“Dedicated to You” by Renaye Feldt

Submitted to Contest #46

'Looking out at the raising waves, listening to them crash against the shore, I laid back on the warm sun-kissed sand. I couldn’t think of anywhere else I’d rather be. Gripping your hand softly and glancing over at the deep sea blue butterfly on the tip of your nose as you slept, I smiled. I noticed your eyes begin to flutter slightly as the sky let out a low growl. Reaching over, I caressed your cheek softly, tracing over your soft, strawberry lips before going back up to the corner of your eye. Watching you slowly fall back to sleep, I loo...

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“The Journey of a People” by Eyona Choi

Submitted to Contest #46

I hold the fragile bundle of pressed bark and animal hide carefully. It’s delicate, with fine spiderwebs of curly writing on the front cover proclaiming The Journey of a People. Carefully engraved plants and animals decorate the border of the leather, crisp in the middle and worn at the corners. I hug the book to my chest, embracing years of difficult work hunched over a rickety stone-chiseled table with a dripping stylus in hand, straining my eyes to see in the gloom of the cave. Often my only companion was the drip… drip… drip… of a singl...

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“The Day I Was Born” by Wissal Watterson

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"The sea...That blue huge water is my life.It is something that I admire and it dangerously loves me back. You can't let go of something you love, even if it is something that can drag you to your perdition" The old man walked slowly towards the rock ahead of him, he sat down and took his hook throwing it out to the sea, it seemed like he had thrown his heart with that metallic stuff waiting for someone to get him.Let's stop reading right at that dot and wonder what those lines are trying to tell us. Why does he want someone to get his he...

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