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“Like When We Were Teenagers” by AnneMarie Miles

TW: swearing, drug use, sex, silly nonsense. Filling both of their glasses with a heavy pour of their favorite red wine, Charles looked up at his wife and smiled. “Well, dear, I think we should get a divorce.”The wine would have gone flying directly into his face if not for Martha’s quick reflexes corking her mouth with the unused cloth napkin that had sat quaintly in her lap. “What?!”Chuckling nonchalantly and reaching out to hold her hand – Martha was too in shock to pull aw...

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“Fish haven't any Feelings” by Lester Peekotrain

My wife walks down the hall and asks me to put my hand in her pocket.I comply.She's asking what the day has given -- more specifically "If [I] know what [I] have been given?" For all the fresh air, unlimited clothes drying on the line, and the beauty of a sand yard.Ummm... I try to tell her that I am grateful. "I even collected the spiders (with a vacuum using your lingerie,) See?"She wants to see the jar where I put the spiders. It's a Vlassic jar that once housed sa...

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“Where Have You Gone, Peter Pan?” by Murray Burns

Where Have You Gone, Peter Pan?“When I was child, I used to speak as a child, think as a child, reasonas a child; when I became a man, I put away the things of a child.” 1 Corinthians: 11-13I shave in the shower now. There’s no mirror in there. I don’t even want to see who I’ve become. Too many wrinkles, too many lines, not enough hair, no color. So...

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“Coming Of Age” by Daniel Fernandes

Coming of age is such a way to engross the mind. Think about life in general but swallow the pride. I can't help but face choices that can't divide. Living and dying, forgetting they coincide.Enervated and in my dotage. I swam through the river because there was no bridge. I didn't want to drown because there are reasons to live. Upset those that hate but respect who forgive. In a desolate home with time and patience. Love comes to visit with karma as surveillance. In my bed, stretched out with my ...

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“Farewell to Adelaine” by Kevin Marlow

Adelaine finished the draft of the text and pressed save, rolling her eyes and drawing in a breath. Looking around from the safety of a Lexus, the parking garage felt empty. It was early. That didn't stop the tension from surfacing. Rereading the unsent text, she pressed the button to turn off the screen and plucked the goggle-eyed shades from the visor and pulled the earpieces out with a lip still soft from a hot shower, and slid the sunglasses on to hide her face.Pulling a hood over her still-damp hair, the car chirped...

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“ Last Seen on the Corner of Melonbee and Fig” by Liv Chocolate

Stop looking for me, Vivian. I command you. Your efforts are futile and beginning to border on idiotic. I can no longer stand it—watching you and your makeshift search crew of suburban moms pace up and down Melonbee and Fig Street, looking for the very being who terrorized you for years.With my omniscient feline eye, I'm aware of everything happening in this and every moment—the neon green LOST CAT signs stapled to the necks and torsos of the weeping cherry trees; your Lululemon-clad troop of PTA moms ...

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“So Yesterday” by Amanda C

"I swear sixteen was yesterday, but now I'm closer to twenty eight," I hear my sister Britney singing the lyrics from some new Instagram reel trend in the bedroom next to mine. "You turned sixteen just yesterday," I mutter. Britney has an amazing voice, and I think she can make it to the big record companies one day. One day, I’ll be in the crowd waving glow sticks and huge posters for her...

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“Desires are made for slaughter” by Vedrana Komlenac

He couldn’t believe it. He couldn’t understand what his eyes were seeing. The mass continues to spin in front of him, flesh layering over flesh and teeth scraping across puss-filled wounds, smearing the awful liquid across itself. Once he thought he saw an arm poking out, but it quickly twisted and cracked to turn in to a head, then it split open and became a claw, then it melted into a tentacle and then it disappeared back beneath the congregation of organs that continue to spin around itself like a hungry dog looking for its tail.

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“The Void Between the Living and the Dead” by H.R. Glick

I float in the void between the living and the dead. Between memories and actuality, with no identifiable time, space or purpose.It’s cold, I think, but I cannot feel the shivers as they run up my spine. It’s quiet, I think, deafening maybe, but I don’t hear the usual ringing in my ears. It’s empty here, and isolating, I imagine, but I feel nothing.As I float, or maybe walk, through this abyss, the darkness around me begins to lighten. Growing larger and brig...

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“My Apology ” by Ruby Pix

August 1 I didn't realize what I had until it was gone. I didn't realize how much I needed you, how much I misunderstood you. I didn't realize just how much I was ungrateful for. August 2 I miss being you. Being the YOU I understood. But now I'm not anymore. I'm just..me. I should clarify, in case anyone finds these letters. These are my letters of apology. August 3 ...

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“Life-Death River ” by Simone Sherron

I killed you. My heart raced as I stumbled to my feet from my affectionate bed. Suddenly the bedroom door pounded like the thoughts in my dreams. “Danny,” my bewildered and inebriated Chinese father called. “What?” my properly irritated American response bellowed as I quickly threw clothes on. My bedroom door flew open, apologizing before the reprimand. “You’re ...

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“The Song of "Someday"” by Shawn Wier

Millie stares right through her mug of green tea. There's nothing particularly special about the day, but she feels off somehow. Two hours of practice daily from age 10 to 16. Three to four hours of practice and study from age 16 to 18, daily. Minimum six hours of practice and two of study from age 18 to 19, daily. She sees the band room where she f...

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“Change is Beautiful” by Ella Bennett

Story contains themes of substance abuse, self-harm, mental health and violence.Nothing stays the same, I know that now. But I wasn't always so aware of the ideology that life must change to be lived healthily and safely. Instead, I pushed this truth further away and it left me lost and alone in an abyss that I didn't know could exist. I thought there was no coming back. Is this what my younger self would've wanted? At the young age of fourteen, my obedience to my mother started to dwindle. I started staying out...

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“The Door Closes” by Maliha Naveed

“I can’t believe I heard those toxic words coming out of your mouth!” This sentence has been bugging me since yesterday. True, the Emily of five years ago could never have behaved as she did a day ago, but then she also could have been in a better place now, couldn’t she? But James would never get that. After all, it was his mother. How could he put up with the fact that his wife was humi...

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“RATFACE OF THE ELDERLY” by BRUCE MARTIN

Mickey Murinian hated the reality of getting older. It wasn’t the aches and pains that caused him such angst. It wasn’t the difficulty playing tennis or inability to run with his grandkids that he disliked so much. It wasn’t even the fear of his own inevitable mortality that gripped his psyche. Mickey Murinian was extremely vain. And whenever he looked in the mirror, he was witness to the ravages of age....

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Write a story about someone coming to terms with how different they are from their younger self.

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✍️ 50 stories

“Like When We Were Teenagers” by AnneMarie Miles

“Fish haven't any Feelings” by Lester Peekotrain

“Where Have You Gone, Peter Pan?” by Murray Burns

“Coming Of Age” by Daniel Fernandes

“Farewell to Adelaine” by Kevin Marlow

“ Last Seen on the Corner of Melonbee and Fig” by Liv Chocolate

“So Yesterday” by Amanda C

“Desires are made for slaughter” by Vedrana Komlenac

“The Void Between the Living and the Dead” by H.R. Glick

“My Apology ” by Ruby Pix

“Life-Death River ” by Simone Sherron

“The Song of "Someday"” by Shawn Wier

“Change is Beautiful” by Ella Bennett

“The Door Closes” by Maliha Naveed

“RATFACE OF THE ELDERLY” by BRUCE MARTIN

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Write a story where someone says, “Everything is changing.”

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Write about someone whose desire to constantly improve something borders on obsessive.

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