Write a story about someone finding acceptance.

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“Nearly Friendless at Nereson” by Erika Kappes

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Callie Sommers walked meekly down the hallway of Harrison Hall on her way to her first class as a freshman at Nereson College. Her light blonde curls bounced as she made her way down what seemed to be a never-ending corridor. The hallway was quiet as students filed into their classrooms, removing their AirPods while settling into the nearest open seat. Callie didn’t have AirPods. Her parents never had the money to keep up with the latest trends, so her headphones were still attached to her phone by a cord. Therefore, she didn’t listen to mu...

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“Me and My Uncle” by Joseph Hawke

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The fortnight had come to its final day: The day to begin my journey back home, to life as it really is, had arrived. Though known and anticipated, it arrived abruptly. Eid-al-Azha had begun the prior day. Sacrificial animals, populating street corners, grassy medians, and parking lots, had left already, gone as suddenly as they arrived ten days prior. On the evening of the first day of Eid, while Uncle Ramiz and I went on a walk, the streets ran with blood, down driveways of suburban Islamabad homes, looking surprisingly like red paint...

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“If God was real.” by Remmef .

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Note: Sexual violence, mental health, physical violence, abuse, suicide and self harm.(Also: english is not my native language so have that in mind.) “Do you feel nervous?” “You’re the one that should feel more nervous than me though.” She laughed at that. “Maybe,” she said. He felt along her middle. Felt the thing inside kicking. He couldn’t help but smile. And he saw her smiling back at him. He was going to be a father. That thought still made his stomach roll. Whether from nerves or excitement, or both, he didn’t know. ...

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“Juice” by Fatima Aladdin

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“Are you coming tonight?” I try to keep my voice from shaking as I speak after the beep. It’s the only sound on the other end no matter what time I call him. “It’s… it’s been so long,” I sigh, “too long… I think you should come home tonight.” My breath comes out in desperate puffs as I search for something else to say, but there’s nothing else to say. I hang up the phone and stare at it, waiting for him to hear my message and call me back, but he doesn’t and I drift to sleep. “You haven’t been taking your meds.” His voice startles me a...

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“Acceptance ” by Neha Dinesh

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It's been three years, three years and still nothing has changed. I am still the same little girl selling matches on the streets to afford a living, trying to get away from my psychotic relatives Auntie Lydia, Uncle Bernado, Milo, and Amira who live in a small village in Syria surrounded by a forest. Trying to escape the horrors of the day our house was attacked by thieves who were armed with guns, trying to believe that they're still there snuggled up on the couch just the three of us, that they’ll be waiting at home. Every single day ...

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“A Man Loved and Lost” by Sofia Peralta

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“I can’t do this anymore, Ivy. I can’t handle you.” The words struck her straight in the heart. Those words–such wretched, harmful words–were eerily similar to the last ones her dead soulmate had said almost three years ago. All except for the last one, “you”. James had said “it”, instead. “I can’t do this anymore, Ivy. I can’t handle it.” “It,” as if that was enough of a clue. “It” could mean anything and everything, how was she supposed to know what he couldn’t handle? Was it her love? Her devotion? Was it the world? Those were the l...

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“I am you and you are me” by Sarko Meene

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I realized this morning that I have this unsatisfiable need to see myself in new mirrors often enough that it makes me feel uncomfortable about myself. The new mirrors at new places that I go to, the mirrors I cannot lie to. I am getting older, my body is changing and I am not the pro tennis player anymore. Now I am an artist. My body is getting soft, as maybe I am too, and though I look somewhat thirty, I can feel the forty in my bones, especially upon waking. I can feel the effects of the dreadful medicine I have been taking for the last s...

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“A Walk In The Garden” by Donald Mazzella

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Copenhagen was sweltering in an unfamiliar heatwave as Carlo Spoto walked out the side door to the hotel gardens. As he expected, his boss was sitting on the closest bench. In their years together, he knew Hurst Dansk would not keep him waiting. Even with the unusually hot weather, the Danish company’s patriarch was always dressed in a heavy, woolen, dark business suit. Behind him, similarly dressed and mere yards away, the old man’s guard stood quietly attentive. In 20 years as head of American operations, Carlo had...

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“On The Day” by James Beach

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A swallow flitted by just overhead and snatched me up from the daze I had fallen into. I sat on the balcony of my apartment and worked on the last of a fiction story for a serial job in the paper about a man who had shot himself and lived, the true account of which I had come across in an old medical journal, and I was having a dreadful time with the ending. That the whole damn piece was a load of rot and no ending in the world could make it hold water crept persistently into mind, and I knew it was time to put it up for the day, deadli...

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“What The Universe set forth” by Priyanjali Bhattacharyya

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It was one fine morning in the month of August on the outskirts of the town of Bardhaman in West Bengal, India. “CHEST CLINIC” it read in bold font in the Sub Divisional hospital. The child who stood at the doorway was silent, seemed to be barely breathing. Piyu felt peals of alarm course through her in remembering what her Professor (who had taught her everything regarding Chest Medicine) had said. A patient of asthma without a wheeze could be worse off than one with a wheeze. The parents confirmed she was having a wheeze before she stoppe...

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“The Vile Anima” by Jacob Van Olffen

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Trigger Warning: Gore, Death & Suicide My consciousness retrieves itself from a slow forlorn blur. My mind’s eye is dim and indistinct, and I feel a deep terror and trepidation pierce my heart. Where am I? I’m cold; the blue and bitter winter-winds of an industrialising London casting frigid rays of numbness over my stiff and impotent carcass; cold waves which pierce through the flesh and into the vestiges of my soul. My cheeks are pricked by the passionless-breath of the night; icy fingers guiding their hands through my deadened cadaver...

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“There were signs” by Addison Orme

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There were signs. Other people might have seen them earlier and accepted their truth. Kyle, however, believed he might be the exception. Learning to enjoy olives doesn’t mean anything, does it? It’s just a tasty little snack, right? And the farmer's markets… Kyle truly did not understand why the other kids weren’t there every Sunday morning. ‘Best coffee in town’, he would brag ‘and I bet types of potato than you have ever even heard of!’ He kept trying to listen to the music his friends were into, and to be fair, some of it was re...

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“A Blessing in Disguise” by Lys Light

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She saw Princess Evangeline for the first time today. Arren had been training with some of the knights in the courtyard when news spread of the princess's capture, but Asher had pulled her inside when he found out. He had told her not to look, to stay away from the windows while they brought her in. But unable to resist, Arren peeked out from behind the curtains to watch. They were going to kill her tomorrow, and she needed to see her at least once before she died. A line of silver-armored soldiers marched her down the cobblestone path to th...

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“George” by Rory Kilalea

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Rhodesia declared a unilateral declaration of Independence from Britain in 1965 to avoid black rule. A bush war erupted. Black freedom fighters attacked the white Rhodesian forces for control of the country which they called Zimbabwe. Men and women were enlisted. Mixed race people could work with whites, even though they had a ‘black African’ mixed heredity. Brady Barracks. Bulawayo. Rhodesia. Africa. 1973The stark sunlight outside was flat. Like another world. The tar shimmered through the dwarf marigolds at the base of the ...

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“The Soul of Grief” by Judith Dreyer

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The Soul of GriefGrief holds the heart hostage, and no matter how contained or clever or the relief we feel when knowing someone’s suffering is over, grief steals. It steals peace and comfort, sanity and time., And who knew the human body could fill up rivers with the tears shed during the agony of loss? I worked in Geriatrics and with cancer patients on a Hospice team. I knew the stages, witnessed the crossings, and said many goodbyes, but I didn’t know till he left.Grief isn’t predictable or something we can think away. It has its own oper...

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Write a story about someone finding acceptance.

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✍️ 98 stories

“Nearly Friendless at Nereson” by Erika Kappes

“Me and My Uncle” by Joseph Hawke

“If God was real.” by Remmef .

“Juice” by Fatima Aladdin

“Acceptance ” by Neha Dinesh

“A Man Loved and Lost” by Sofia Peralta

“I am you and you are me” by Sarko Meene

“A Walk In The Garden” by Donald Mazzella

“On The Day” by James Beach

“What The Universe set forth” by Priyanjali Bhattacharyya

“The Vile Anima” by Jacob Van Olffen

“There were signs” by Addison Orme

“A Blessing in Disguise” by Lys Light

“George” by Rory Kilalea

“The Soul of Grief” by Judith Dreyer

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