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Write about a character who’s obsessed with an era they never lived through.

Posted in Adults on Oct 26, 2022

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Annabella

Submitted to Contest #61

Annabella A small Victorian cottage sat on the shores of New Hampshire, the last one in the row, with nearly endless views of the ocean and it’s shores. Two brothers approached the house with an unending discussion about the conversation they needed to have with their father.  “You know I can’t stand talking to him.” said Andrew.  “Yes, but he’s Father, and you know how he is,” said Michael. “Well, you’ve known him longer than I have, why don’t you tell him?” said Andrew.  The two men stopped at the top of the steps to the...

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My older sister?

Submitted to Contest #61

October 4th, 2023. Hello there Diary! I'm Hero. Wait- okay i'm not an ACTUAL Hero, My name is Hero. It's kind of a strange name, don't you think? I like it but why wasn't my name Hector or something? I'm kind of home-schooled so i don't know a lot people, mom decided to give me this so i could talk to at least something. She said a diary was "Something to tell your secrets to and that it won't spill the bean's like a liar." My mother's name is Iris, at least i think. A lot of people come to visit and that's what they call her. Her frie...

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Only Alien

Submitted to Contest #61

Avani sat at the edge of her bed, staring out the window of her pod. It was past her bedtime, but who cared?She put the book she was reading down on the table next to her, untangled her legs from her white blanket, and stared at the sky.Bright flickers of light were all over as if Georges Seurat used pointillism on the night sky.She caressed her hair, staring at the glimmering, silvery curls. She picked up an old-looking comb - she'd found it on the ground when she arrived on planet Earth - from the table next to her bed and began brushing h...

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The True Princess (And the Dragon's Lair)

Submitted to Contest #61

          Princess Meredith only had one more challenge before she could truly claim the kingdom. She had to evade the giantest of the dragons and collect the treasure, and then she would give it back to her parents and they would be so wealthy they would be crowned the rightful king and queen and wouldn’t have to work anymore; they would just pay somebody else to do all the governing. Meredith had heard about servants and advisors and other people who did the king and queen’s work for them s...

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A Roaring Dream

Submitted to Contest #61

A Roaring Dream  By: Haripriya  “Hello...bloggers! I am a dino-nerd. Yes, I just admitted that. I loooooooove dinosaurs. They are such cool, and magnificent, yet fierce and bold creatures. Wish that asteroid had missed the Earth! They would have still had chance to survive a little longer! The Cretaceous period is where big baddies existed. For example,... entering the Tyrannosaurus Rex A.K.A the T-rex! There are so many more dinosaurs which were carnivorous than the T-rex. Lik...

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Wanted

Submitted to Contest #61

I wanted to live in the 90s.I wanted to go to the movies with Jamie and Liz, and shovel handfuls of popcorn into my mouth, and gush about dating Johnny Depp even if he had scissors for hands. We would’ve had seven posters of him between the three of us.I wanted to stick colorful butterfly clips in my hair and grin as they shimmered in the sun. The red ones would have been all the rage then.I wanted to throw my arms around Mom and Dad on the last day of senior year and thank them for their constant support and their unconditional love, love, ...

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Jar of Tears

Submitted to Contest #61

There’s something about wrinkles in the morning. They’re golden with silhouettes of the issues people experienced back in high school. Jax is familiar with them like he is familiar with the ring on his middle finger that binds him to no one.  He has one, a wrinkle, and it stretches across his forehead in a diagonal sort of way. Even when he smooths out the skin, it returns, even uglier than before.  Perhaps this is the reason why his sister encouraged him to drive into the middle of nowhere with a car that can’t go faster than 30...

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By Any Other Name

Submitted to Contest #61

It was adorable, the way she sat there working her way through her letters with chalk on the antique ‘silent book slate’ I made for her from a mini chalkboard. She didn’t need to practice the alphabet; she had learned to read and write over two years ago, but her penmanship was improving, so I didn’t say anything. She was dressed in the white ‘nightdress’ I had made for her in the fashion of the seventeen hundreds.My little Betty is lucky I like crafting. Oh, right. She asked to be called Elizabeth since that’s the name of the main character...

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WWII Reenactment

Submitted to Contest #61

“You’re a real asshole, you know that?” Tom’s best friend grunted from the back seat where he lay on his side, a hand clutching a bleeding wound in his abdomen.“Dude!” A quick glance from the highway to the rearview mirror removed Tom’s eyes from the road long enough for the car to drift into the other lane. “This is a rental! You’re bleeding everywhere―shit!” He jerked the wheel as the car he nearly drifted into honked furiously at him.“Good.” Tom’s best friend, Ben, grinned through his obvious discomfort. “I hope they keep your deposit.”“D...

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An Era of Legends

Submitted to Contest #61

                                            An Era of Legends An Original Story                                  &nb...

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The Interloper at Windsor Castle

Submitted to Contest #61

She read the last page of the novel, and with a sigh, she closed the book. Jillian closed her eyes and imagined that she was the heroine, and it was she who was brought home to the manner. It was her father who ran to the carriage and hugged with her with so much love. In her mind’s eye, Jillian turned to her hero, Lord Tennyson, and tilted her head up, knowing how her long eyelashes were displayed, and quietly said, “Thank you, again. I’m so grateful to you.” Lord Tennyson, a close confidante of King Henry VIII, grabbed her gloved hand ...

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Unmodern Isabelle

Submitted to Contest #61

     Isabelle Jackson had an idiotic fixation on something she knew nothing about. It wasn’t in that “don’t know but really want to learn” way where you'd shed blood, sweat, and tears attempting to learn something you knew nothing about, but rather an unhealthy obsession that was taking up her entire life. Me, being her best friend and with her almost 24/7, I had to witness it.I stared at her. She was frantically flipping through a magazine on the floor surrounded by heaps of clothes. She turned to look at me, the me...

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One Gypsy Earring,

Submitted to Contest #61

(Write about a character obsessed with an era they didn’t live through) The balalaika is always there.  In the background, faintly on the wind or great sweeping sounds of the strings waking me from a sound sleep.  I strain to hear it when it is teasing me and I swim in it when it flows over me, almost drowning me in the music.  I wake or become aware and my face is wet with tears, often my breathing is deep and catching in my throat as though I have undergone strenuous exercise.   It used to frighten me but now I just ...

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1979

Submitted to Contest #61

The boy speaks I always wished that I had grown up in the seventies.  I don’t think that I am crazy or wrong for wanting to go back to that time. Everything we have done in music comes from that decade: rap, heavy metal, punk, electronic. Anything I missed? Oh, rock and roll. Well, they improved it in the space of one decade by letting the old dinosaurs do what they had to do while the kids grabbed whatever instruments they could and made noises that no one could ignore. Do I really have to explain this? When I talk ...

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A Different Kind of School Story

Submitted to Contest #61

I was my grandmother’s playmate. Now I’m sure that a great many people say this, with fond memories, if, like me, they were fortunate enough to have a grandmother living nearby (or, as in my case, in the same house!) and a close relationship with her. But I don’t just mean that she willingly participated in hundreds of games of Snakes and Ladders, or that she taught me how to turn string into a cat’s cradle on my hands, or that she helped me dress my dolls up, often in clothes she’d knitted for them herself, though she did all of t...

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