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Submitted to Contest #314
“You’re lucky you get to stay home and enjoy the nice weather,” Daddy said to Jacob as they stood on the back porch admiring the green grass and breathing in the rich summer smells. “I have to go into my office all day. I’m going to miss you.” Jacob leaned against Daddy’s leg to show he would miss him too. Playing in the backyard was more fun together than alone. Daddy tussled Jacob’s hair and said enviously, “Don’t have too much fun while I’m gone. And listen to Mommy. She’s watching from the window.” Daddy final...
Submitted to Contest #299
Jacob Roberts looked like most teenagers, but he was as mature and responsible as most of the parents he knew. One of Jacob’s biggest fans was a man named Al who lived a few houses down from Jacob and had watched him grow up. When Al decided to spend extended stays away from Daytona Beach and rent his house using Airbnb, he asked Jacob to be his property manager.Al’s house sat at the end of a dead-end street, in a sleepy neighborhood away from the beach. Jacob’s main responsibilities were keeping the lawn mowed and cleaning up when tenant...
Submitted to Contest #290
Of course, Logan and Hermione knew each other. With only 2000 fellow students on the Occidental College campus, they had some kind of connection to everybody. During Logan’s second year, he dated one of Hermione’s roommates for a couple months. The next year, she was temporarily serious with someone on Logan’s intermural ultimate Frisbee team. They passed each other at parties, and after they both picked Economics as a major, sat through plenty of lectures together. &nb...
Submitted to Contest #282
The dim lighting and drab furniture in the hotel’s lobby did nothing to brighten Peter Janowick’s mood. It was his first time in Louisville, and he had arrived on a late flight, packed with passengers. Peter knew he was there on a kind of suicide mission. He had only been with Envyzyn Software for a month and his boss was sending him out to convince clients not to cancel their contracts. Envyzyn’s digital modeling programs were...
Submitted to Contest #271
Jason liked to spend his lunch breaks traveling the world. He was stuck inside a government office, but at his fingertips lay the largest collection of unfiltered and unpolarized humanity on the internet – Googlemaps. Jason treated each lunch session as a treasure hunt. As he ate a sandwich, he visited places very few people knew existed. He zoomed in on his Googlemaps screen as far as it would go. He liked the road views that provided an adjustable perspective of landscapes and neighborhoods. After an hour of e...
“She shouldn’t be hard to spot. She’ll be wearing a red tank top and holding a balloon,” Manitoba Melonfleur said to her boyfriend, Jake. “Whose idea was the balloon?” Jake asked. “Hers. I came up with the matching top idea,” said Manitoba, who was dressed in a red tank top and shorts appropriate for the hot weather. It was Manitoba and Jak...
Clara Andersson always wanted to be a writer. As a teenager, she was a great reader and marveled over books and the sound of words. Her teachers complimented her creativity when she turned in essays and stories and encouraged her to write a book someday. Clara was thrilled with the idea, but it sounded like walking to the moon. How could she possibly translate the characters and plots in her head into sentences and then stretch those sentences into 300 pages? &nbs...
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