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Submitted to Contest #291
“Rise and shine!”“Ugh… It’s 6 in the morning. Leave me alone,” Sadie grumbles, burying her face deep beneath her comforter in a desperate attempt to block the harsh morning sunlight that floods her room.“Oh, sweet Sadie, I have big plans for today.”Sadie’s eyes flash open beneath the fabric, her heart racing as she grips the blanket tightly, pulling it like a shield over her head. She curls her toes, willing her body to stay still, her mind spinning in confusion.“Who’s there?” she whispers, cautiously peeking from the edge of the blanket.For...
Submitted to Contest #235
With countless hours spent scrolling on YouTube watching beauty gurus vlog themselves, shopping at Target, watching comedy skits filmed in their backyard, and even watching stoners unboxing their new bong rigs in their bedrooms filled with black-light posters, I thought, Why couldn’t I do the same thing? What makes them special?I needed a niche, though—something the same but different from everyone else. What was I supposed to film every week with no interests, no hobbies, and absolutely no talents? ****December 20th, 2017 would change ...
Submitted to Contest #223
"He's dead!" "Who's dead?!" Vanessa nearly spits out her coffee. "Matthew Perry!" Vanessa looks at me blankly, her right eyebrow raised in confusion. "Chandler from Friends!" I stomp my foot with my hands out to my side in frustration. "Oh, isn't that the guy you were obsessed with?" "Yes! I was fully convinced I would marry him." Vanessa laughs, "Oh geez, that sucks. Well, our break is up; we need to get back to the library." We walk down the red brick path from the on-campus Starbucks back to the library, ...
Submitted to Contest #222
"Mother, my feet are killing me. I have blisters. Can I please skip practice tonight?""Skip practice?! What a ridiculous question! You have blisters because of your new shoes; you need to break them in. It doesn't help that your pointe technique hasn't been up to par. You cannot afford slacking anymore Margot. Now go freshen up."I sit on my bed as I stare at my pink walls. Feelings of melancholy overwhelm me. The days pass, and every day I feel like I am in a body of water. I am drowning underwater, suffocating to death. Every time I reach t...
Submitted to Contest #221
*Story Contains: Substance Abuse, Violence, & brief mention of suicide. Every telephone poll, store in town, and news station had her face plastered all over. It was a nightmare, seeing her face everywhere I turned. The picture her parents had chosen to be used was her junior year school photo that she had taken a month prior. I can still see her light brown eyes, the color of hot chocolate; you could see the innocence in them. She had light brown hair to match her eyes; it was long and naturally wavy. She was the only girl I knew who...
Submitted to Contest #215
Growing up with Riley was a blessing or at least that’s what I used to think, that girl could make a trip to the dentist office fun. I met Riley in my kindergarten class back when we were just five years old. We started to become close when our moms met at our classroom Halloween party. Our moms becoming friends resulted in a lot of play dates, by the time we were in elementary school we started having sleepovers almost every weekend. When seventh grade came around we started to slowly make friends with the wrong group of people, we didn’t k...
Submitted to Contest #214
My anxiety was starting to get worse than it had been for the last week. The last day of summer vacation has arrived. Every summer I was filled with hope that the next year of school would be better than the last, I would finally show up to school and shock everyone with my two-month transformation, and maybe next year I would have gained the confidence to talk to my peers, lose weight, get a boyfriend, be popular, next school will be the year I am noticed, I will finally be someone. The truth of the matter was, that was never going to ha...
“Pass me another beer,” I shout to Claire. “You got it,” she opens up the blue cooler and grabs me a cold one. “Here you are,” she hands it to me and sits back down next to me in her pink camo folding chair. “Man, it is so great to have a nice long weekend in nature with just the girls, alcohol, and a time to create good memories without any boys here to ruin it,” Marcy comments as she walks down the porch steps of our small wooden cabin. “Ain’t that the truth,” Monica agrees as she swats away at the mosquitos attacking her. &n...
Submitted to Contest #212
You're bored, living the same day over and over again, until all of a sudden you're leaving the life you knew behind. One year ago, I made an impulse decision to buy a one-way ticket to Pennsylvania. I needed to leave Arizona and leave my life with Brian behind."Happy one year! Natalie shouts at me as she jumps up from behind the service desk. Today was December 21st, making that my one-year anniversary working as a postal office clerk. Natalie is my co-worker and one of the only people I have talked to since moving to this small town in Pen...
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