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Write about a character passing down their favorite childhood toy to a new generation.

Posted in Adults on Oct 26, 2022

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“Hidden Gem” by Subah Auhona

Submitted to Contest #61

Whoever knew that something so small would mean so much to me? I was a little girl living in Dhaka, Bangladesh, filling my days with sharp pain while ma screamed at the air for dad to come back home. We lived in a small brown house, I recently got my room which I decorated with sticks and flowers, and ma made me a doll. I loved that doll, but ma was always so extra, she gave her mud shoes, she said they were "boots." I didn't know why I always hurt, but every time I was excited I started to shake. I had a passion for dancing, but ma said t...

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“THAT FAVOURITE TOY ” by PRISHA SHARMA

Submitted to Contest #61

The short story is set in a circuit house (a dark bungalow generally used by senior government officers for short stays). It is situated in Bundi, a small town in Rajasthan . Two visitors, the author Shankar and his childhood friend Jaidev have come to explore Bundi, and are put up in the guest house. Jaidev works in a newspaper office and the author teaches in a school. After so many misses, they have managed to get a time slot when they could go out on a journey together. They are having tea in the circuit house. Jaidev appears lost in s...

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“A mermaid to love” by Holly Jaite

Submitted to Contest #61

 To throw away or refurbish and keep? Starla sat on her black and purple mermaid scale comforter holding a mermaid doll in her lap, it was the kind that lights up and sings and could be used in the bath tub it even changed color in the water. The problem with it was paint was coming off from wear and tear, and the hair was frizzy from sitting on out on the self for so long. Since she is going to move out soon, she needed to downsize most of her old things had been donated or her mother put away, but this one toy was speci...

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“Chu-Chu” by Alex Lynn

Submitted to Contest #61

CHU-CHU To Iain, and his Uncle Jack I never forgot the moment when I first met Chu-Chu. I was four years old and visiting Uncle Jack and his family with my parents. Or, rather, we were visiting Auntie Maggie and her family – Auntie Maggie was my mother’s sister, and she was married to Uncle Jack. Or whatever. I loved these visits because I loved Uncle Jack. I particularly loved his collection of toy soldiers. Uncle Jack  collected toy soldiers from cereal packets, you know how they would include them as a priz...

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“Captain Danger” by Antony Barlow

Submitted to Contest #61

Roy turned his phone’s volume to silent due to persistent complaints from others at the table and watched the trailer again. He sighed and shook his head before switching to a film review article. He scanned the page and one sentence in particular leapt out at him. "Topher Hevatt absolutely smashed the role of Captain Danger, surely dissolving any disappointment from fans that Roy Fields was not offered the chance to reprise the role". Roy locked his phone and buried his face in his palms. He felt a soft hand on his shoulder and after sn...

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“Life” by Oletta Nwogu

Submitted to Contest #61

I looked down at the old rusty box I had wrapped up my important belongings and there it was.... life, I hadn't seen her in so long, she got me nostalgic. The first time I ever held her in my hands I was so young and afraid of the world, she was beautiful and her colorful stripes had lost its glory over the years. Mom once told me I was just as strong as I had made life out to be but I was in doubt of the veracity of that statement until now. One would wonder why a little girl would attribute such strength and virtue to a toy but life meant ...

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“A Boy's Best Friend ” by Ayelet Portman

Submitted to Contest #61

A ratty old teddy bear. The left side’s seams are broken halfway down the bear, its white stuffing beginning to spill out of the side. One buttoned eye is missing, while the other hangs loosely, as if it could fall off at any minute. “Can I have it? Pleasseee? I want it so bad.” Jonah whines. “No,” she replies. “Not today.” She looks more anxious than usual, lines of worry etched across her face. Jonah does not understand. He wants the teddy bear, and therefore he should get it. “Why not?” He asks again. It is not a good day for her. She i...

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“Legacy Avenging” by Raina Banerjee

Submitted to Contest #61

During this lockdown, my husband and I were mostly confined in a suburban villa in the States, though we were 100% percent Indian in every way but had jobs abroad. He, as a genetic scientist and me as a chartered accountant. Our children Priyanka and Aslan were growing restless too as they couldn’t go out of the house to play with their friends. Almost 24 hours either the gaming console or television screen would be blaring. My husband, who was not in support of playing video games extensively or watching TV so much, decided to put a stop t...

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“Toys Through Time by Donna Marie” by Donna Marie

Submitted to Contest #61

      As Brandi stood up to refill the coffee cups, she looked into the living room at her 10-year-old son, Lloyd. As usual, he was hunkered down in the recliner, eyes glued to his phone, fingers flying across the keys.            “Uncle Jerry, I just don’t know what to do with him. He’s becoming an introvert. He doesn’t want to spend time outdoors. He doesn’t play basketball anymore. He doesn’t play with any of his friends.”  &...

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“The Legend of Squeak Frog” by Dana Schellings

Submitted to Contest #61

The day I became an auntie was the greatest day of my life. I remember the first time I held my newborn nephew, staring down in absolute awe of this brand new human being nestled in my arms. His rosy little cheeks, his chubby little face, his adorable little button nose, and the light blonde fuzz covering his soft little head, which was still slightly cone-shaped from his journey through my sister Anne’s birth canal, filled my heart with a love I’ve never felt for anyone that wasn’t a golden retriever. I knew right then and there that I woul...

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“The child and the bear” by Lesley Bailey

Submitted to Contest #61

The child was being a nuisance. It was making excuses not to go down to sleep. First had come a story, then a drink and now what was it?“I can’t find her.” Came the pathetic little voice out of the half-darkened room. I was losing my patience. She drew breath. “I can’t find her” came the voice again.“Can’t find who?” She was shorter than she could have been – but she’d had enough, a full day at work; dinner, bath, the bedtime ritual – a long day, and a timid, sickly child. The child had knocked the stuffed toy to the floor. Stooping down, sh...

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“Puddles” by Andrea Brobst

Submitted to Contest #61

Taking an old blanket, I pushed aside the carpet of dust formed on top of the heavy wood chest. My once trove of secrets and obsessions that morphed as I grew. At the age of seven it held Matchbox cars, wrestling action figures (and anything else I did not want my little brother to touch). Age twelve it held football memorabilia, at sixteen it held band shirt with dirty magazines folded neatly with them. Its final charge was to hold things I could not bear to part with after college and ready to take on the world. The lid squealed with surpr...

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“Ithoyizi, or a Boy and His Toy” by Tommy Merriman

Submitted to Contest #61

“What is this?”  The awe in the boy’s voice sounded like the labor of building a thousand grand pyramids.  His eyes widened with the wonder of a newborn fawn seeing her mother for the first time.  His fingers touched the toy with the timidity of a bomb expert deciding whether to cut the red or the blue wire first. Despite his weakness and tiredness, the boy’s father beamed down upon his son.  He recalled the moment his own father generously gave him this very same toy.  Such a simple gesture, but one full of meaning...

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“My wire man” by Agu Chinedu

Submitted to Contest #61

When I was little, say around the ages of 7 to 9, I went from watching any cartoon children would generally watch to watching only actions cartoons. Born in the northern part of Nigeria, we had a few channels that were allowed to air programs freely, pro-western programs specifically as the region was predominantly Muslim and at the top of the list of that group of channels was mbc an Arabic based network which also aired Western movies, but then I was more into cartoons, so every morning by 7, before school, I would tune in to mbc3 to catch...

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“Henry's Room” by Wolf Williams

Submitted to Contest #61

Henry had waited all afternoon for his aunt to take the children away. Now she had, but the hour was late and his mind remained on the clock as he hurried upstairs. Behind him, from down in the dining room, his grandmother called for him to bring down two more tablecloths from the linen closet. "Can you just wait a minute?" he grumbled. After a full day of scrubbing floors and washing windows, following one order after another, he just wanted to be clear of it all and to do the one last job that remained, and then to sit on his bed alone for...

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