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Write about someone who’s traveling to a place they’ve never been to meet someone they’ve never met.

Posted in Adventure on Aug 23, 2024

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“What's in Venice?” by David King

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Cat’s eyes couldn’t stop looking at her boots. Tattered and filthy with scratches and scuffs of mud, they were bound to leave a trail that led to her getaway route at the train station. With all the mental energy she had left, she hoped that the trail would just blend in with the rest of the civilian life behind her, masking the scent of her escape both quickly and efficiently enough just for her to get far, far away. She couldn’t stop wondering if she was still being pursued. She began to consider the fact that cameras everywhere would be h...

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“Only Believe.....” by Julie Grenness

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Ella awoke languidly, reflecting on her sixtieth birthday. She peeped at Mike, snoring quietly, softly, next to her. She had always believed her dreams, and belief in herself that there would someday have a happy ending. Ella was told she was still quite easy on the eye, or so it seemed to Mike. Her thoughts were on these golden years, after her journey through life. She had been married once, like all her peers, to her significant other. In the early days after their nuptials, they had both enjoyed the best love life in their city. But it n...

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“Long Haul” by James Scott

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On the cusp of consciousness, my mind grappled to understand the repetitive wailing that assaulted my senses. The matching neurons took several incomprehensible moments to reach out, connect and allow my mind to grasp that the sound was nothing more dangerous than my morning alarm. I forced my eyelids open to greet the uninterrupted grey metal walls and what the transport company had decided was another day.“Alena. Recommence gravity systems.” I croaked in a voice that screamed for water.“Confirmed. Gravity systems online. Power saving mode ...

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“The Story of Eve” by Howard Seeley

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“It all seemed so easy, in the beginning, if I had only known how things would turn out.” As Eve gazed across the barren land, she spotted that all too familiar city sitting in the horizon. A tear ran absently down her cheek as she thought, “Had I only known how heavy the price was to settle my curiosity.” Unable to restrain herself, Eve’s mind drifted back to the past.Her first real memory she had was Adam peering down at her. With no thoughts or language to call her own, she knew she was vulnerable. But instinctively, she realized Adam was...

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“Scent of a Rose” by M B

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I knew this was a bad idea. Meeting mysterious people in mysterious places in the dead hours of the night was how chumps like me got murdered.  I’d seen the aftermath of such ill conceived rendezvous first hand back when I worked homicide on the force. I’d never been to Baltimore before in my life, but one thing I could say for certain was it wasn’t my New York. Here I was: a nobody, a stranger in unfamiliar territory. I had no contacts, I didn’t know any ‘hidden gems,’ or the secrets only locals knew.  I was back to square one.&nb...

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“My Jane Day” by Kristy Schnabel

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"Are you traveling alone to London?" asked the middle-aged woman sitting beside me in the international boarding area."Yes, yes, I am. I'm calling this trip my 'Jane Austen's Literary London' excursion. I'm paying homage to my favorite author as a reward to myself for recently obtaining my English degree. That's how I spent my pandemic years, righting a wrong from years ago."The woman eyed my shoulder-length gray hair and aging neck, undoubtedly putting me in the senior category. "Bravo! Righting a wrong, you say?" She looked surprised and d...

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“Journey to Me New Home” by George Georgerfrost@gmail.com

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Dear Mum and Pa,  I am writing you this letter hoping that I can mail it soon, but I have not seen land in almost three weeks.  The waters have been rough and many of us below is feverish and cold.  I miss both of you more than I can say. Love, your son,Patrick I kept this soggy letter in me trousers back pocket as I went above to get a gander at the gray firmament.  I really don’t know how God can stand such a gloomy place, I don’t.  I have given up with trying to keep solid food down as I toss it over the side of ...

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“Cottages and Castles” by Julie Squires

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Dear Katie,I’m not sure if it’s because I’m now in my fifties or if it’s the weight of the task itself, but writing this letter to my younger, fifteen-year-old self feels like a mild form of torture. Still, I’ll take a deep breath and plunge right in. It’s hard to pinpoint what exactly drove me, when I reached my thirties, to become so determined—so utterly consumed by the need to embark on a quest that had haunted my thoughts for years.But I can tell you this: I was excited, ready to dive head-first into what I believed at the time was a me...

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“Voyage to Greener Pastures” by Portia A

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Saffron set the map down. Around him were the deep sparkling waves of the aquamarine waters, glistening underneath the hot sun like thousands of diamonds. Saffron could only look at the waters for so long before his eyes ached. He did not know why he was so fond of the waters that surrounded him, perhaps because he was a pirate, and as pirates were well known for he loved treasure and anything that sparkled. Behind Saffron, around the deck was his crew. They all trudged across the pale wooden floorboards, hauling nets and other objects....

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“Return to China” by Stevie Burges

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Heathrow, London, 2009.   I still vividly remember how stressed and exhausted I was while waiting in the airport departure lounge that April day. Fear of the unknown consumed me, and any positive thoughts towards my travel adventure had long evaporated. I forced my breathing to become calmer as I tried to sit quietly and wait for the boarding call for the Beijing flight. I was no stranger to this departure lounge at Heathrow. Two years earlier, I had been here preparing to fly out to commence my senior gap year in Borneo. I vo...

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“Bethany” by Kim Smyth

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Bethany Once upon a time long ago in a city in Mississippi, there was a young woman who became pregnant out of wedlock, who was sent to a home for unwed mothers and had a daughter, which she gave up for adoption. This was the way things were done in the old days, it mattered not if the woman had been savagely attacked or not, she was made to give the baby up and never see them again. The woman went on with her life. She met and married a kind man who took great care of her. Her three other daughters from a previous marriage were sent to live...

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“Love is Helping Someone Set a Boundary” by Carina Caccia

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I was watching Melancholia, watching a blue planet expand and consume the cinema screen. It was the end of the world, and all the while I was thinking of Isaac. Less out of melodrama, I hope, than out of boredom; the film was mesmerizingly dull. And yet I left the cinema with an odd sense of clarity: I’d hurt someone who genuinely cared about me. “What are the lasting effects?” he’d asked of my past relationship. I didn’t know, I said, but I’d surely see them triggered in a relationship (or situationship, in our case). And now the verdict is...

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“22.15 Paris-London Victoria” by Juliette Ikss

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My name is Lea Martin and tomorrow morning, I will wake up in another land. That is where Im going to turn 19, away from everything and everyone I know. My sister Helene and my boyfriend Raphael came with me to the coach station, not that I needed any help to carry my bags, I’m really not bringing that much. I want to start more or less completely fresh. They came to say goodbye.My mum didn't. She went to bed before we left the house, it felt very anti-climactic. You would have thought she would make more of an event of her first born flying...

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“My Intution is a liar” by Joyce McBurney

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MY INTUITION IS A LIAR!A true satirical story We have all heard the phrase, “go with your gut, or what does your gut tell you?” I believe this phrase to be accurate in the case of men and women, but in women, I think it’s more intuition, that women are more intuitive than men, I know I am more so than my husband but then again, maybe not. Besides having faith and relying on faith and prayer, I have always trusted my gut or intuition, which brings me to tell this story. For at least twenty years, I had wanted to go to Maine! I wasn’t sure wh...

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“The Geography of Letting Go” by Tsvi Jolles

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I placed all my emotions in a small bag, the kind that can be carried on a low-cost flight. I actually enjoy eating on flights, but my money had run out, and I had to fly, had to say goodbye. I wrote on a note that I left in the kitchen, "I'm traveling to leave my feelings in Barcelona and will return in two or three days without them. Sorry that your carry-on won't return with me. I'll buy you another bag there."The taxi arrived at one in the morning to pick me up. Emotions don't seal in plastic bags or leak-proof containers, even though th...

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