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Hailey Monnie

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All Because Of A Joke

Submitted to Contest #74

Christmas is my favorite time of the year. The celebrations, the merrymaking, the hot chocolate, and the pumpkin pie. Every year, I go home to my parents’ house and we do all the things we used to do when we were little. Tree-decorating, cookie baking, Christmas shopping, driving around and looking at holiday lights. It is the perfect time of year. Except for in a moment. In a moment will be the worst moment. What’s about to happen, will ruin Christmas completely. The next ten seconds will change a tradition we have done, our dad did, our g...

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The Moon Witch and Atonement Day

Submitted to Contest #52

I am crouched in one of the many storage closets of NASA, shaking. The events of the last several days have given me little time to sleep or process. Well, now I am processing. And processing. And processing. I have been in here for several hours, going over what happened, again and again, and my legs stiff and cramping. Five days ago, was Atonement Day, an annual event. I was standing in the living room with my older brother and mother. Father was gardening in the yard, his way of de-stressing. The TV was on national news, a reporter in ...

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The Missing Piece

Submitted to Contest #51

I always thought there was something missing in my life, a piece of myself I hadn’t discovered yet. Something empty that needed to be filled. I always thought it was emotional or physical or I was crazy. I thought it was a part of growing up. Never did I think it was fantastical. My life was ordinary, I was ordinary. Every night since my mother died, I had been getting these nightmares of her death, but not the way it happened. She died of breast cancer. Only, in my nightmares it was different. It wasn’t a sickness, but a murder. And I was f...

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On The Streets Of Paris

Submitted to Contest #42

You know what to do. You’ve done it a million times before but you still can’t shake that sinking feeling. It’s just like any other time, you remind yourself, but it doesn’t make you feel better. So you try a different strategy instead. I am Zora Itovschy, Paris’s number one assassin, I got this. You pull your gloves higher up your arm and fasten on your black cloak. It sways and billows behind you as you walk, making you feel even more dangerous than you are.I got this.Leaving the shadows of the old alleyway, you stalk the da...

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Tell Me, What Was It Like To Die?

Submitted to Contest #42

Tell me, what it was like to die?What the hell are you talking about?Oh, you don’t remember?Remember what?Your death.I died…? I’m dead?Well, where do you think you are?It looks like a black hole. This is death?This is death. I can’t believe I am dead.Now, what was it like to die?Who are you? An angel? A demon?You don’t recognize me? I’m your baby sister. I died at the age of two. Got hit by a car.Yes, I remember that day. You were the cutest little thing ever with your squishy cheeks, brown eyes, and brown pigtails. Mom wouldn’t leave h...

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The Very Odd, Very Persuasive, Very Talkative Black Cat

Submitted to Contest #41

“You are grounded!” Those words echoed in Charlotte’s head as her mother guided Charlotte, who was holding the cat, into her room, slamming the door behind her. Grounded. Charlotte had never been grounded before. Wilbur, the cat, jumped out of Charlotte’s arms and onto her bed, sitting down, waiting expectantly. His black fur shimmered under the single light bulb on the ceiling, his yellow eyes seeming to glow. “I can’t believe you got me grounded.” She pointed accusingly at Wilbur, who just tilted his he...

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What A Wonderful Surprise

Submitted to Contest #40

Katherine I’m getting married today. I can’t believe I am getting married. And just like that, a wave of panic drowns me. Am I making the right choice? Is this going to be the perfect day? What if I regret it? But then I see his face in my mind. I see him telling me “It’s going to be alright. Just take a deep breath and know that I am also freaking out.” That calms me and a smile plasters itself across my face. A smile that is going to stay on my face for the rest of the day. But that was this morning and this is now. I’m now standing in the...

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