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Submitted to Contest #73
Brilliant sapphire eyes met my own curious brown ones as I stared at the creature currently sitting on the wooden perch in the bird cage my academy mentor had dropped off earlier that day, along with the Eagle itself. The bird in question tossed it's dark head, the midnight colouring of it's feather glimmering iradescently in the sporadic glow of passing cars headlights. With a wave of my hand and a silent mental command, the kitchen windows shutters fell into place and plunged the room into darkness. For that split second before I telepathi...
To be completely honest, one of the reasons I had gotten into drums in the first place was the fact that I was behind the scenes...I could still be apart of the music industry yet I could hide behind the safety of my kit. Growing up, I had used my instrument not only as a way to express myself through music but also as a physical and emotional barrier against the overwhelming nature of the world. As a introvert, this was...and still is crucial for my mental and emotional health. I love music...I live and breathe it, as cliche as t...
One of the worst things about my job was trying to find rhythm in terrible songs with a basic , repititive pop beat and meaningless lyrics. Whilst I got myself through the Australian university of the performing arts, I worked as a backup dancer through the holiday months to make ends meet. This role was arranged through my uni which meant that I had little to no say in the jobs I took...which was why I was spending yet another weekend performing the same bordlerine innapropriately sexual moves over and over as the latest young pop sens...
Submitted to Contest #72
Heading to Scotland definetly wasn't on her bucket list, not for this introverted bookworm who had spent most of her life reading about travelling and adventures from behind the safety of her books familiar paper pages. She had no desire to go out into the world, she made her money writing articles and short novels all from the confines of her cosy hundred year old townhouse in downtown Sydney. With strong wifi, being within walking distance of multiple shops and with all the coffee she could possibly consume Andrea wasn't too happy to hear ...
My roomate was a prick...and that was that, that's how this story begins. Before I truly start this speech I would just like to apologise to anyone this might offend including my brother and of course Cedric...the said roomate. Dear Cedric, I am sorry that you are such a prick...I am also sorry that you are going to be stuck with me for practically forever thanks to our ridiculous life spans. I'd like to begin with the fact that I never wanted to attend university in the first place, It wasn't my destiny...I wasn't the oldest. If it ...
Providing the backing accompiament for talented musicians was a decent way to make a living, even if it was depressing at times. It was always the rich kids in the Sydney region that hired me, the wealthy kids whose parents could afford the best quality instruments and the years of lessons. Of course, they were hardworking and often deserved their places in the fancy institutions and universities of the performing arts. It was just hard to see people that I had once been in various school bands with be accepted into these top universities an...
Submitted to Contest #71
Inviting over the family recently moved into the house down the street seemed like a neighbourly, Holiday spirity thing to do. After her normally introverted parents had decided to branch out of their comfort zone and socialise this year, Anika had been meeting a lot more of the neighbourhood...the newest being the Loch's whose Father's shared an intense love of cooking just like her mother. In fact, it was only the other day during an impromptu meet as she picked her older brother up from his job at the local woolworths did she find out tha...
It was official, her Mum or sister were going to ground her for life...depending on who came home first. The normally pristine kitchen, thanks to her Mother's borderline obsessive cleanliness as well as her sister's interior design skills was covered in sporadic splatterings of flour,sugar,nutmeg and half melted choc chips. In the midst of this culinary nightmare, Jessie sat caked in these ingredients in a sobbing mess on the silvery marble countertop. She had less than 72 hours to remember her grandmother's famous christmas loaf recipe, a r...
Moving to the Sydney CBD from the sunny Gold Coast in the middle of Winter definetly hadn't been the smartest move on her behalf. After her parents had retired and her siblings outright refusal to take over the family bakery and cafe, it had been left up to Lucy to return to Sydney thanks to her parents begging and take over the family business. As she stared out at the drizzly, frigid Sydney morning from her family's hundred year old townhouse...she couldn't help but feel bitter about her current situation. Despite the approaching div...
Submitted to Contest #70
The only difference between Humans and elves were physical...the super senses, pointed ears, practically immortal lifespan and the super speed were obvious differences yet deep down emotionally and mentally they were all the same. Which was why Janie was feeling suspiciously like a small town country girl from one of those cliche human rom coms she had watched on occasion. Everyone in town, all two hundred of us thought I was guilty of driving him out of town...hell even I thought I was guilty at one point. If it wasn't for him calling me fr...
My dear Autumn, I am hoping that you are happy as you read this, that you feel like you belong for once in your life. Taylor and I are so sorry for any discomfort or sadness we have caused you in your childhood years, we just didn't want to lose our only daughter...our only child. Looking back on our choices, I can admit that we were wrong to try to keep you hidden from the legacy...from your future. I am also sorry that Taylor might not reach out to you for quite awhile, I do not know where she is as shortly after the legacy took you she le...
Bound by blood, bound by soul...a pristine copy of one another...at least physically. I never wanted for this to happen, to seperate on an emotional level from the one person that truly knows me...the real me. I never meant to distance myself from the only person that truly cares about me...about the person and I am and not the title, or the crown. Despite the rarity of our situation, she had never been one to hold a grudge or be angry at anything...or anyone. No, Annette simply accepted each day as it came and took things on the chin....
Submitted to Contest #69
Growing up amongst the Fae as a changeling had been hard enough being as different as she was, it was especially obvious now as she looked back...her childhood had been crap. Although it had been several years since she had found out the news, it didn't make the concept any easier to grasp...she was adopted and not only was her host family not related to her...they weren't even the same species as her. It should have been obvious to her, especially in the human adolescent years when the Fae were growing wings and pointy ears and she wa...
It was embarrasing enough that Eve was one of the very few mer people that could not go onto land. This unfortunate trait of hers meant that while her classmates were off exploring the nations above the ocean she was stuck looking at the same scenery day in and day out. Whilst her siblings came home from these excursions with various human artefacts and stories of up above, all she did all day was embrace the fact that she was confined to her watery world for life. Of course, to only add to her embarrasment, her family's business had to be s...
Geniveve Stoter the 6th child of Mary and David Stoter is how she was known as back home. She was the quiet one, the good daughter. Out of a family of 5 older brothers she was the baby of the family and the only one not to have gotten into trouble with the law by the time she was eighteen. It's not that her brothers were bad people...they just got bored. Growing up in a sleepy country town that suffered serious small town syndrome meant that to add even the slightest bit of excitement in their life normally meant breaking petty laws, such as...
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