Write a story about the relationship between a parent and a child that spans several years.

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“The Killer's Daughter (A Short Story)” by Emili Silvi

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"You liar!" I screamed, staring at her. The person who'd changed me, transformed me, made me into the twisted, vile, unfeeling person I was. My mother. She smiled at me, long blond hair swirling in the wind atop the building we were standing on. My only love, Nathaniel, slumped in her arms, a knife promising death glittered against his throat, resting in my mother's snow-white hand. "You told me he was dead!" I went on. "You said you killed him!" Amber Abernathy, the most notorious female serial killer to walk the eart...

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“Mother and Son” by Felicity Edwards

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The divorce had gone through. The three boys seemed to adjust to the new situation. The two eldest boys, Luke and David, could cycle to the flat where their father had moved. As there was a major road to cross, the youngest boy, Andrew, could not go on his own, and the two big boys’ considered taking him was beneath their teenage dignity. However, his dad came round to the house quite often. He had to as he brought his washing every week as well as coming to collect whatever cooking his ex-felt like giving him.Everything went ...

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“Living Decadently” by Jaya Avendel

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Jaden looked up as momma charged into the small living room, her beige skirts flying. She almost tripped over a discarded plastic doll but hopped and regained her balance even in her glittering silver pumps. “Jack!” she yelled. “Hon!” The room smelled of coffee; even the blue carpet Jaden crawled on smelled of roasted beans. She collected her doll’s purple hat and stockings and apron before momma could step on the doll and crack her hat, like she had last time. With the toys safe in her arms, Jaden sat with her back to t...

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“Monkey Face” by Ariadne Isoton

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“Hey monkey face, did you just escape from the zoo?” Eva scowled, and flung a handful of sand from the hole she was digging at the boy taunting her. “Eww she’s throwing poo! Escaped from the zoo, she’s throwing poo!”, the boy ran away yelling. Eva lowered her head and tried to dig a hole big enough to crawl into. When mom picked her up after school, Eva asked, “Am I going to grow up pretty like you?” Her mom stroked her hair. “You’re unique and beautiful in your own way.” She scowled. “No I’m not. Nobody likes me. And school is too...

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“Goodbye, Dad; Hello, Daughter” by Faith Chrayon

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“Coming!”Lia rushes to the door to open it. With one hand on her coffee mug and another on the doorknob, she pulls the door open. She steps back, startled, as she sees an old balding man, with eyes wide and breathing heavily.Lia smiles as she asks the old man, “I’m sorry, do I know you?”She continues to stare at the old man nonchalantly.The old man doesn’t speak. He rummages his bag, refusing to answer her as he gets a piece of paper from the bag. “I got your letter.” He said, only then meeting Lia’s eyes.Her eyes spot the piece of paper he’...

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“Easy Way Out” by Anisha Yagnik

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My mother is a strong proponent of the easy way out, and that is probably why she fully understood how to help me. Still, both of us have always known our journeys were meant to be intertwined. It became even more apparent when she left my dad but kept me and my younger sister. Well, she left him, but he’s the one that had to leave. He’s three hours away now, and I miss him, but my journey does not. He even left me a magical portal—our secret—through which I could visit him in the city, but I never used it. Not until I was twenty-three years...

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“609 Wicker Street” by Laura Albrecht

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609 Wicker Street. It still looks the same, so domestic and shabby. Every house has a rickety Victorian-style porch and a lawn just barely big enough for a plastic pool and a token potted plant. But of course, Angie’s house doesn’t even have that. It’s the one at the end on the corner, with only one car parked in the driveway and a patchy brown lawn. No greenery, no potted plant, no pool. No furniture on the porch either. It’s 90 degrees today, so the lack of decoration on the porch is even more jarring. Nobody sane is sitting inside right n...

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“Mama's hands have all the answers” by A.J Blink

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"In a forever that is a momentIn a moment that breathes foreverIn the vein of a lustreOf a lustre with no veinYou can drink from my oceanAnd I will bend like waterParting before your eyesA way that leads homeWhen home is my handsYou can go on a foreverYou can appear in a momentYet these hands will be stayingBecause you are comingHurry back my sweet childMama's hands have all the answers"I wipe a tear away as my eyes travel down those words on the wall, beautifully calligraphed into an onyx plaque. These tears would run widely, flippantly, no...

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“Hiraeth” by Chris Dulatre

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Do you still remember your childhood? Most especially your childhood memory with your parents? That memory lane lingering inside your mind and prompting you how good your childhood was – because I do. Remembering those times brings me a wave of nostalgia wanting to rediscover my unforgettable early years; where everything seems so perfect and never thought of waking up someday, and will realize that it is not what life was all about. The childhood who hone the character that we have today. The childhood who introduces us to the friends we n...

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“When Forever Ends” by Isis Isismoonvortigern@gmail.com

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At two she will speak. She will speak to her mother, and her mother will touch her face in admiration and love. She will raise her own small hands to her mother’s cheeks and beyond their own understanding, her father will stand aside and wonder why she cups her hands to the air like so. At four she will paint her room blue, and beside her, her mother will paint with her. They share a favorite color, but that is not why she smiles. She smiles because her mother is next to her, and she loves her mother so much. At six she will pick sou...

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“A stranger named Father” by Blueberry Elf

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My name is Stella May. I live with my Mother and brother in a small yellow house with a door that my father has never walked through. My finger tips reach the low ceilings if I jump and the bathtub has a crack stretching across its white foot so we wash in the kitty pool out front. My mother is known to quote Charles Dickens and my brother fancies the Tin Tin comics. I prefer reading living people than ones written on paper. I learned a long time ago that words are just coverup. What one says is simply the surface. True emotions are usu...

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“The Locket” by Samadhee Ismail

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1942, PolandWhen she was born, Anya felt an instant connection with the baby. She breathed in the milky scent coming from the baby, stared at the rosy cheeks, rosy lips and those piercing blue colored eyes and tufts of blond hair on her little bald head. Anya instantly felt in love with her daughter, although she thought she would grow hating her. Motherly instincts came naturally to her, overwhelming her. She would do anything to protect her child, would even sacrifice her own life. But she couldn't keep the baby. It was too dangerous for h...

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“THE ROCK” by P. Jean

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Hot! Just so hot! Scratches burning where branches had tried to keep her out and had pulled at her skin. Dirt clinging to her face, clinging to the sweat running down her face and neck. All of this registered in her mind but meant nothing! The fear was so much greater than the pain and dirt. No thought for spiders and snakes...she never could have dived under here except that fear had driven her without any other t...

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“The Prodigal Son” by Blane Britt

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Like most child geniuses I never really got to know my parents. I was constantly being told that the world needed my intellect. I was always being dragged off to solve some kind of calamity in the world ever sense I was 4 years old. I told the now dysfunctional FBI that there was no need to keep looking for Jimmy Hoffa dead remains because his body was devoured in a huge meat grinder and fed to the pigs. They will go through bone like butter. You need at least 16 pigs to finish the job in one setting, so be wary of any man who keeps a ...

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“An Unwanted Issue” by Asposhto Prakash

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The day Vijay was born his father knew he would be the ideal son, his mother knew she would choose his wife , his sister knew she would be mercilessly neglected except when to be married off and Vijay knew how to “Burp”.He was an unusually quiet child with an unexpectedly calm disposition. Many apprehended he would go against his genes but he did not dishearten his parents. His father could proudly boast of a government employee, his mother did choose his bride aligned with the highest dowry payer and his sister indignant with the expected t...

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Write a story about the relationship between a parent and a child that spans several years.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 122 stories

“The Killer's Daughter (A Short Story)” by Emili Silvi

“Mother and Son” by Felicity Edwards

“Living Decadently” by Jaya Avendel

“Monkey Face” by Ariadne Isoton

“Goodbye, Dad; Hello, Daughter” by Faith Chrayon

“Easy Way Out” by Anisha Yagnik

“609 Wicker Street” by Laura Albrecht

“Mama's hands have all the answers” by A.J Blink

“Hiraeth” by Chris Dulatre

“When Forever Ends” by Isis Isismoonvortigern@gmail.com

“A stranger named Father” by Blueberry Elf

“The Locket” by Samadhee Ismail

“THE ROCK” by P. Jean

“The Prodigal Son” by Blane Britt

“An Unwanted Issue” by Asposhto Prakash

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