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Write a story about a character who fails to understand something until they have the full context.

Posted in Character on Oct 26, 2022

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“Like the atoms” by Heaven Medrano

Submitted to Contest #101

The silver spoon,    was it golden? Nearby the sweet lagoon, I saw Holden I did not plan all of these to rhyme, but it did. Not sure how it would seem to people, but isn't life a crazy madman, always trying to ease it with a cup of coffee, though ending up with more decisions to grab again until people don't stop. You get it, life is anything you hardly understand. Except it is bitter, and okay a bit sweet, certainly. Anyway, people are no different, they try to be grand and all or not grand at all, it confuses the hell ou...

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“Turn” by Dilshoda Rabbimova

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TURN Oreef is weird. He is never late to the lectures, turns in the assignments on time, never forgets the names of others and, most importantly, seminar room numbers. He is a guy of short height with dark curly hair. His eyes usually look down when he is talking to others. He doesn’t talk too much by the way. He has only one rucksack and a polyester suit which he wears all year round. He polishes his shoes immaculately and never loses his 50-year-old tie. If I didn’t live with him, I would definitely believe he would take a shower and sleep...

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“The Strawberry Thief ” by George Georgerfrost@gmail.com

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TW: PTSD, war violence   Infuriating.  That’s what it is.  Bad enough there are plenty of wild animals to feast upon my garden, but it seems I have a human thief helping him or herself to my strawberries.  Even with my six foot chain link fence, I have a two legged thief who scales it and comes over after midnight to eat some of my strawberries. What can be done?  What can be done to discourage this thief from taking what is clearly not his, but does not heed barriers intended to keep him out of my acre and a half th...

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“The Nature” by Bob E

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As I sit here, I wonder about the real meaning of monster. I know it’s not a new question. I know it’s nothing original. I know there is little chance I can bring anything new to the table. I never claimed to be a great thinker. But still, I ask myself questions.         It seems important.         It passes the time.          It is a way to distract myself.         Pick one. You...

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“The cross checked” by Udita Parasar

Submitted to Contest #101

                                 There are two kinds of people in this world. One who understands with no word and the other must give them solid proof to make them understand. However, it is very easy to explain to a person who understands without explanation. It’s very difficult for people who need proof in every single thing to understand. Especially in a household, trust must...

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“Black Shuck” by Ed F

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It was a humid summer's night, and the air was thick with rain as thunder rumbled across East Anglia. A white builder's van skimmed down narrow country lanes like a pebble across a lake. A flash of lightning briefly illuminated the surrounding fields, and the wet roads glistened. They were dangerously skiddy, but the van twisted impatiently through the darkness. "Today's count - Eight thousand pounds", said Danny counting the money as he fidgeted in the passenger seat. He was a skinny man with a pointy, gaunt face and dirty blonde hair that...

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“English Class” by Hemraj G Sunder

Submitted to Contest #101

I began the class that day as usual. Teaching English to Higher Secondary students in a Government school in India is challenging. It was a combined class of students from all major science subjects, and the hall was crowded, with more than a hundred students. When there is a crowd, the room heats up soon. The girls were well-behaved, and the boys were unruly. The noise was like that of rushing waters. When I shouted "Silence!" the girls, who were sitting to my left, became silent, and on the boys' side, to my right, the rustle was subsiding...

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“The Gibsons Next Door” by Marian Audrey Sureta

Submitted to Contest #101

When the Gibsons moved to their new house, I vividly recall roller skating through the streets as a small youngster. It's a surprise that the sun shined that day or else I'd be staring at the stark gray walls of my bedroom. My mother despised it when I hung up posters of my favorite band. The Gibsons are similar to The Addams Family and the Cullens from Twilight. To put it another way, they don't blend in with the suburban feel. Violet, their teenage daughter, and Ursula, their Rottweiler dog, are their sole children. “Have you heard the n...

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“Idiomatic Discomforts” by Ryan Miller

Submitted to Contest #101

“How you doin’?” The woman on the other end of the phone asked.               “Pretty much the same. You already know that I’m excited to meet your family and all, I just wish you’d be here when they arrive. I’m still pretty uncomfortable just thinking about it.” The man was somewhat jittery while speaking, never a fan of meeting new people.               “Oh, come on, I know you’ve got it in you.” The w...

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“Amour plastique ” by Alejandra Partida Vital

Submitted to Contest #101

TW: death Static sings a hollow tune that expands through the empty night, filling every crevice with with a wave of white noise. The ringing manifest itself into sparks suspended mid-air, shining light upon the dirty pavement of a desolated street that goes on for three dim-lit lamps, and gets lost in the mist. In a whiff, the thick brume forcefully infiltrates through my nostrils and permeates to my lungs with an intoxicating taste of wine. My senses overwhelm me, and I have to blink to clear away the building headache. Eyes closed, I trip...

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“The Extension” by Tim Roberts

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The Extension Short story I trespass through the grounds of Helena Lane Old Folks’ Home - just as we used to do as a short cut home from school - and creep towards the house where my brothers and I grew up. Sixteen Hayton View, Ludlow, Shropshire : a ‘sixties semi with garage and garden. Two point four children raised under Thatcher. I peer over the concrete screen wall my dead Dad built and there - as if to prove the booming Thatcherite point - is the kitchen extension also built by my Dad. And him a card-carrying Socialist, too. Clem R...

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“To Mine Own Self Be True” by Chris Rohe

Submitted to Contest #101

TW: substance abuse Alchy- A lush, heavy drinker, a boozer, partier   Alchy- an alcoholic, continued excessive and uncontrollable use of alcohol.   Agghh…Ooooh…blaaarrgh!!! He woke up again with the familiar pain and sickness, not even running for the toilet. He had staged a small trash can next to the couch he passed out on, anticipating waking up. After a few hurls of black stringy substance and a few dry heaves, he sat up straight and grabbed a handtowel lying on the coffee table to wipe the sweat streaming from his forehead. &n...

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“Mrs. Paulson” by Timothy Duncan

Submitted to Contest #101

With her cornmeal mush halfway to her lips, Lily’s dumpy hand clenched and stopped. She sucked in her lips and pushed her eyebrows as high as they would go. She waited. It rattled again and thudded. Something shattered nearby. Her mother stiffened. “Benedict!” she whispered. Her voice choked and fell to a hiss. The lamp flickered, making shadows jump helter-skelter around the kitchen. Slowly, Bendy pulled himself up and groped at the coat beside the door. Lily’s stomach knotted to see him reach for that warm, dark leather coat – in such ...

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“NYMPHOMANIAC COMPLEX” by Stefan Palcovic

Submitted to Contest #101

NYMPHOMANIAC COMPLEX While Oedipus’s complex is fixing the mother, the nymphomaniac is a complex to fixing by the nymphomaniac woman. In a large bright room, with wide-open, a big window, sitting on chairs are patients wearing pyjamas. Looking weak, on their naked legs are lots of visible purple veins, as streets veering slippers, some of the rock on the chairs, some sing quietly and everyone is waiting. The front view is closed by a young doctor wearing a white coat. He says: "Welcome to today’s group session everyone. I want to hear...

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“Miracles again...” by Dorathy James

Submitted to Contest #101

Abnormal as a depleted ozone layer frustrating earth with heat and acidic rain, thriving regardless but quite a shock the heavens gave no rain, the Earth has given all it's juice to sustain plants as drought comes forth, the rivers in a squeeze to dry out so soon, the stench of famine around the corner as animals relocate into the thick forest for the fear of death by hunger so the hunter returns home with no catch but stories of how carcasses dominate the forest, what a futile mission with nothing to bring home the tired Hunter re...

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