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Write about someone whose job is to help people leave their old lives behind.

Posted in Adults on Oct 26, 2022

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“Peaceful Waters” by Shannon Guinn

Submitted to Contest #75

If you stand on the hilltop and peer down below, your eyes will trick you into believing that the sky is below you and above you. That is because at the bottom of the hill is a small lake so smooth and still as glass that it perfectly reflects anything above it. Surrounding the lake is a canopy of colorful, flowering trees, providing shade to the outer edges of the water. The area is alive with birds, butterflies, and dragonflies gracefully swishing through the air. There are small patches of lily pads where frogs hop from leaf to leaf. Belo...

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“I Am Incognito” by Betsy Remington☕

Submitted to Contest #75

Rupert looked through the file in his hands before getting out of his car.  New ID, check.  Real estate listing, check.  Keys for a 2008 Honda Accord, check.  Directions for everything his client has to do for the next eight months while she waits for trial, check. Rupert opened his car door and stepped out onto the drizzle glazed street and headed toward the cozy diner.  Mable’s was his favorite place to conduct this type of business.  He even had his own booth in the back where he had a good view of the door.&...

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“Soul Reaper” by C. Fallaci

Submitted to Contest #75

He sat there, waiting. Waiting for the sound he hated the most to ring through the semi-empty white room.Beeee-There it was. The sound he hated the most. The sound that indicated someone had died. He stood up, he hated this part and waited for the soul to materialize before him.The young soul, blue in color, slowly began to form before his eyes. Beginning as a small orb and then slowly transforming into the small form of a human boy.He waited for the young soul to open his eyes, not pleased at how young he died. But nonetheless, it was his j...

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“It is between you and me” by Anastasiia Antonova

Submitted to Contest #75

How does it feel to be the never-ending flavor of the month, to be on top every year? To be everyone`s dark shameful secret, promising not just pleasure but possibilities; to linger, to echo, to land on somebody`s moist lips jumping to an eager ear, worm inside and curl, purring, in the trembling jelly of a brain, growing into a tumor of a thought there, a thought evolving into desire? My secret is that the very essence of me crawls under your skin and makes its nest around your beating heart poisoning it with stinging snake kisses. I make a...

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“Finding Himself” by Ishita Nara

Submitted to Contest #75

Leonard was a son of a billionaire. His father had a well established business. Leonard's parents loved him more than anything in this world. He was a spoiled kid who was always reluctant to do something for himself. He never thought of being independent. He lived on his father's money. He was a party freak who was always surrounded by people. He had never experienced being alone. One night he,his family and his friends were having a party on a yacht. Leonard was drunk, he went at the top of the yacht. When he reached the railing of the yach...

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“The marriage problem” by Sasan Sedighi

Submitted to Contest #75

It was the fourth session that Sarah had with Mr. And Mrs. Harvey. They had married for over thirty-five years, and their two daughters had grown up and left home for a long time. But now, instead of enjoying their life and freedom, Jim and Karen were fighting all the time. They both were tired of their miserable life, and each was blaming the other. They ultimately concluded there was only one option left for them, and it was to get a divorce. But their daughters were strongly opposed to their separation. Their older daughter made an appoin...

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“The Old Man” by Matt Allen

Submitted to Contest #75

Down the warped industrial urine colored hallway of Shady Acres, through the maze of wheelchairs and medical equipment laid about, past the rancid aroma of feces and ammonia, through the aimlessly wandering patients was Room 237. In that room, a broken man lay waiting for death to come. His dark soul was ready for death; foot in the grave, lifeforce extinguishing, his spirit bellowing for release. This room exhaled depression; the humidifier felt like the regurgitated warmth of a pedophile's wet touch. The broken teeth behind this old man’s...

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“What's In A Name” by Zion Hintay

Submitted to Contest #75

"Alright, would you mind holding this for a second."Solid handed me a coiled wire with a claw on one end. In the middle was this two pronged zap coil that had a static shock going between them. Not the most comforting sight."Now I'm going to give you a bit of fair warning here. Usually the procedure is completely painless. In terms of physical pain. But emotionally and mentally, well there's nothing I can guarantee on that front?""God, what's that supposed to mean." I asked as I shifted uncomfortably in my seat. Still holding to the coil."We...

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“Agent of Second Chances ” by George Georgerfrost@gmail.com

Submitted to Contest #75

“Hi, my name is Todd.” He was tall and lanky with a bent tooth smile.  He just appeared startling Henry Schuster.  Henry was deep in self-pity when he tossed the quarter into the well at Angel of the Mount Park.  This park was a scenic retreat from the big city, set in the Los Angeles foothills with a winding trail to the top of Angel Mount.  There were benches cemented into the ground at various intervals.  Todd, who are you?” Henry asked once the initial shock had worn off. “I am an Agent of Second Chance.” He he...

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“Miracles” by Krittika Yadav

Submitted to Contest #75

Author's note- This is a story about a new beginning, leaving behind resentment, loneliness and fear of losing someone. I stood there silently as a young couple passed me.They stopped. The girl pulled the boy back, standing right in front of me. She said something to him. The boy just smiled and pulled out a coin from his pocket handing it to her. The girl quickly closed her eyes and tossed the coin toward my direction. It splashed in the water around me, not in the basket that I held. I could hear the girl groan. The boy pulled out another ...

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“Next” by Shana Cohen

Submitted to Contest #75

Next!” The voice droned from behind the dusty desk stacked with papers, some in neat piles and others in disarray. The young man was plain under his inconspicuous mustache that hid any emotion. He pushed his thick-rimmed black glasses back into place, closer to his brown eyes. “Next!” His voice tolled out to the line of people waiting outside of the abandon warehouse’s storage room. “We don’t have all day,” his voice flat and unyielding to anything other than monotony. An oversized woman in a brown oversized coat came around the corner and...

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“A new beginning” by Joane Unknown

Submitted to Contest #75

There are two types of people. Those people who do things in life for other people, and live their lives for others and not for them. And the other type are the people who left the society’s standards and lived their lives doing what they love, and sadly, these kinds of people are very rare because of the society we all live in. People are always headed by other people that are “role models” for them, and by doing that, they end up not living their life how they dreamed to. People don’t really realize that until they are an age that your lif...

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“The Cold Room” by Joseph Shaw

Submitted to Contest #75

Cathy lived alone. The house was much too big for her, and much too empty, but it suited her purposes. There was a cold room in the basement, which she considered to be of the utmost necessity. Her father had left the house to her when he died. She was his only child, his only family, for that matter. Cathy’s mother had died before Cathy had known her, or before she could form memories, anyway. Cathy was twenty-one years old when her father passed. She was twenty-three now. Her father had loved her more than anything in the world.Cathy was a...

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“"The talking door"” by Navjot Singh Bhogal

Submitted to Contest #75

The Talking Door This is story of a boy named Joy. He used to live with his mother and father next to Petersberg also known as Stromberg. Stromberg is a mountain in the Siebengebrige mountain range near Bonn, Germany. They were a small and content family who were very hard-working, including Joy. Mrs. Jhonna, Joy's mother, was a production manager at a chocolate factory and his father Mr. Jacob ran a shop which was at a distance from their house. The family had a fixed routine. They were early risers. They’d wake up, get ready for work, an...

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“Newlife Inc” by Gillian Cooper

Submitted to Contest #75

"I want to experience life as a woman." Sonya looked up from her computer and blinked in surprise at the man staring at her from across the counter. Usually when someone born into a male body braved the imposing, grey cinderblock building that housed Newlife Incorporated to request a female body, they came in female dress and wearing full make-up, having taken hormones and lived as a woman for several months. The man before her now looked more like he had escaped from a Mad Max movie in his black jeans and T-shirt with the sleeves rolled...

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