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{This is a collaboration with Katie W. Be sure to check her out! https://blog.reedsy.com/creative-writing-prompts/author/56269a/ She's awesome and it was such a lot of making making up the whole universe with her.} “Melantha! Why are you doing this to me? You taught me how to fight and now you’re fighting me?” “Just strategy, Sis. If I taught you how ...
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“Help! Please, let me in. I am Lian. Please let me in, please.” she pounded on the palace doors and pleaded endlessly to be let in. Finally, after much efforts, she was let in and presented in front of the royals.She pounded on the palace door, wanting to be let in.Dripping wet from head to toe, Lian said, “Your highnesses. Please forgive me for how I am dressed. I fell overboard during the voyage and now I am searching for my pa...
The girl stared at the beauty in front of her eyes. She couldn’t resist it. She took her phone, opened the camera app and asked a passer-by to stop and take her photo. The boy who she stopped was in a hurry, so he took the phone and clicked a very blurred, not at all focused image of the girl and went off on his way. One look at the photo and Devaki was sure that the photo was trash. She h...
"Who's that?""Who's who?""That person.""Which person?""THAT ONE!""Which one?""Oh come on! You can't even see this person? It's shadow islarge as the silhouette of an elephant!""The silho... WHAT?!""The silhouette...th...
{This is a collaboration with Katie W. Be sure to check her out! https://blog.reedsy.com/creative-writing-prompts/author/56269a/She's awesome and it was such a lot of making making up the whole universe with her. We were so distracted that we forgot that the main story was yet to be written!!!}“Ah, Melantha, we meet again,” Mi...
{THIS IS THE FIRST STORY SUBMITTED FOR THIS CONTEST! I AM SO HAPPY!!!}"WHAT. JUST. HAPPENED?""I don't know. She just left.""WHAT did she give me?""I'm pretty sure you mean, US, Doc." Taina said."Yeah, yeah. What did she give us?"Alec said, "No idea. Any of you feeling dizzy?"...
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You sit down to eat dinner. Your pet dog by your side and a video-conference with your family ready to take place soon, you feel that this day can never get better. After all, this is one of the last days you spend here in this country. Your business is slow and you decide to go back home.You take a bite of the food, the food that you relish and serve to your customers with pride, or rather, SERVED.Within a minute, you start to mindlessly eat your food and you...
"So good that most of you are here. Now-now, we must begin shortly." Aqua said in a bossy manner, looking closely at her watch. She was a young girl of fifteen but her manners and her 'pish-posh' style didn't tell that. Alec said, "Yeah...please do. We've been waiting for so long.""What's this all about?", another teenager, Palak was eager to know why this stran...
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Over the years, summer vacations have been the favourite part of the year for me. Eating ice-cream, going to my grandmother's place and enjoying the cool A.C. breeze were some of my favourite tasks during those days. Here are some of my favourite incidents that have happened over the past summers. ~Delhi Darshan (Tour of Delhi)~ The earliest summer memory that I have is waking up very early in the morning and visiting monuments all over Delhi with my uncle, aunt and cousins. We woke...
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It was a beautiful spring morning. Katie, Joy, Crystal and Natalie were busy getting ready in their houses. They had decided to meet at the library. As usual, Katie was late but today, she had an excellent excuse with her. “I overslept and then John told me that I was late so, I rushed to the bath to get ready but it was occupied. The other bathroom was also occupied. Then after getting ready, I came out and a truck went by and drenched me in mud due to yesterday’s rain. I had to change and then when I was finally around the corner, anoth...
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It is said that we all have evolved from primates. Monkeys are said to be one of our most resembling animals in the world. There are a lot of expressions and sayings related with monkeys like cheeky monkey, don't monkey around, monkey business, and many more. We often call the naughty members in our family or friends as 'monkeys'. Monkeys have also been portrayed in many movies. In the 'Night at the Museum' franchise, the monkey, Dexter is shown as a very funny and sometimes irritating monkey. In the 'Jungle Book', monkeys are...
{ This is a collaboration with Lone Wolf, so make sure to check her beautiful stories as well :)https://blog.reedsy.com/creative-writing-prompts/author/536b84/ }Avery walked into the building, a hustle in her step. She knew she was late, but she had to get these pictures in. There was her friend, Diksha, the assistant, busy with loads of paperwork. She was always ready to help, but when Avery showed her the pictures that she’d taken, Diksha disagreed.<...
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