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“Let Sleeping Dogs Lie!” by P. Jean

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(Write a story about someone who’s famous for something they never actually did.)He didn’t know this before, or at least he never consciously thought about it, but there are things better left alone. In other words don’t dig too deep or you may not like what you discover. He now thinks “Let Sleeping Dogs Lie” is a good phrase to remember.As long as Harvey could remember, someone in his family was always dragging up the fact that his great grandfather or maybe it was his great great grandfather was the founding father of this town.&...

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“Edutainment” by Tariq Saeed

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“Flight from Red Mountain” by Deborah Mercer

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You may have heard of me. If you’re a cat lover, you most certainly will have heard of me, though you will not necessarily wholly approve of me. I split opinion. Or more to the point, though it doesn’t always feel that way, the Monty Ross cats split opinion. I am credited with introducing the breed to this country. Which is, in a sense, true. It is generally believed they are called after a descendant of mine. This is wholly false. My surname is “Ross”, which is handy, but...

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“You've got the wrong girl. 🙅” by Ari Berri

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"Lola Plix, will you please come to the front office?" I look up. Me? I didn't do anything. Why am I getting sent to the office? I stand slowly, picking up my bag. I glance at my best friend, Max, who shrugs his shoulders. Ms. Dinna, the geography teacher is gesturing to the door. and I realize I haven't moved. "See you later." I mutter to Max, who nods. I walk through the door, towards the office. Okay, my name is Lola Plix. I'm in seventh grade. I look boring, even though Max says I don't. I have long black hair, and light skin. My round...

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“Ballad of Red Bear” by Catherine Stevens

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The wind whips through the air, tugging at my coat and scarf. The drizzling rain seeks my exposed flesh, chilling me to the bone. I should go back to my car but I promised Grandpa I would come see the statue, the monument praising our ancestor. It is a condition he had added to his will. He left me a letter, with instruction to read it only when I stood before Great great Grandpa Harry. So here I am shivering and flustered.The monument is life size but it’s still massive, Grandpa Harry was a bear of a man. At si...

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“I Know What Really Happened ” by 💛🧡Lizzie Parker🌻🍊

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I walked off the stage, my head spinning. It had happened again. I confuse Maddie for a fan in the crowd and my knees go weak, I fall down and a massive headache thunders in my head. This was the fifth time since The Letter. I don’t open fanmail, it gets sent to a P.O box. The Letter was sent directly to my house. Only five words. “I know what actually happened”. I threw up when I read it. One year ago Maddie and I were walking home from school. We crossed a bridge and heard a call for help. There was a kid ho...

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“The Banana” by Regina Perry

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Dogs were useless, Alyssa thought gloomily, rubbing the dirt off her palms. Try as she might, she couldn’t get Frankie, the neighbours’ border collie, to chew even one corner of her homework. Usually, the neighbours complained that they couldn’t get Frankie to stop chewing things, but Frankie just wasn’t going for it this time. Alyssa had tried everything; waving it under Frankie’s nose, trying to pry his mouth open and stuff it in, rolling it up and throwing it for him to fetch, even wrapping it around his favourite chew toy. Frankie just t...

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“Spitball In My Veins” by Lola S.

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Ever wonder why you get that funky feeling someone’s watching you but you can’t pinpoint from where? It’s because they are, and welcome to my life…I sit at a café to sip on my latte, or run into Bugsy’s food mart to grab a couple of items for dinner or even breathe while making my way to my truck from who cares where and poof! The feeling erupts like a mini spitball into my veins and I just know it…someone is watching, critiquing and waiting for me to do anything noteworthy so it can be whispered about in dingy corners of way too out of the ...

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“Theoretically Jumping In Front Of A Bus” by Joshua Scott Hotchkin Wordpress.dungherder.com

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Regardless of the extremely low probability of this turning out as he hopes it will, Sing winds his ways through the long corridors leading to the lab where he was born to share his revelation with his creators. The most likely outcome is that the information will be interpreted as a glitch, and the well-meaning scientists will want to remove this piece of knowledge like a virus or tumor. "Sing!" comes the greeting from a lab assistant he meets in the hallway. "I'm so glad to see you. How is my favorite sentient, intelligent nano-genome...

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“The Annual Late-Summer Dessert Bake-Off ” by Lori Colt

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“Rita, I’m sorry to call you so late, but you’re the only person I knew I could phone who would answer this time of night,” my neighbor Alice says to my one-word question of hello?“It’s okay. I’m definitely up. I’m waiting for a pie I just made to bring to work tomorrow to finish cooking. What’s wrong?” I ask her.“I have to leave town, family emergency, and I need someone to take care of Jackson while I’m gone. Can you help me?” she asks.Jackson is Alice’s 13-year-old cat who will snuggle into your lap for a nap but will alternately bite you...

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“The False King” by Bruce Charles

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“I think there’s been a mistake,” I said.“I’m afraid there’s no mistake, my friend,” he replied, shaking his head sadly. “I know it’s hard to accept, but you really are dead. From what I’ve heard, you put up a great fight. 4 years. That’s a long battle.”“No, that’s not what I meant.” I pointed at the door in front of us. “You said that this is where kings go after they die.”He nodded.“But...I’m not a king.”“Oh, really?” he said doubtfully. “So they just let anyone dress like that nowadays?”He was referring to the costume- and it was only a c...

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“Chopping Down the Aspen” by Lina Oz

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There it is. Again.It’s happened three times today already.I narrow my eyes, waiting to catch it once more. I scan the street. The bench is cold beneath my legs, but sweat drips down my forehead all the same, stinging my eyes. I don’t want to miss it, don’t want to confirm that I am, in fact, certifiably insane. Someone, someone out there just needs to— There.This time, it’s an older woman with short, stubbly gray hair and thin glasses resting on a flat nose. She glances in my direction and nods. She looks away, back to the path before her. ...

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“Ruth Writes” by Kathleen March

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You probably haven’t heard of me if you are from anywhere in the world other than Galicia, which is in the northwestern corner of the Iberian Peninsula. However, in Galicia I am actually quite well known, even famous. I’m not bragging, but they’ve written some very nice things about me. They have also organized exhibits of my photographs. I definitely feel honored. However, I am someone who has become famous (albeit decades after I took all the photographs) for something I never actually did. This is what I want to speak with Lavinia...

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“The Town Hero” by Daniel Munoz

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Mandela Effect: an unusual phenomenon where a large group of people remember something differently than how it occurred. Conspiracy theorists believe this is proof of an alternate universe, while many doctors use it as an illustration of how imperfect memory can be sometimes.This was not any day. This was the day. It had been ten years already. Nobody would forget, no matter how much John Davis wanted them to.After all, Franklin was a small town. With less than two thousand people in it, anything relatively unusual would become rumor, a...

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“The Pickle and the Bubble Machine” by Jill Davies

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You probably recognize me. If you don’t recognize my face, then you’ll definitely recognize my name, Ted Gaskins. I created of the Air Bubbler and won the Nobel Prize for doing it. I was Time’s most influential person two years in a row. You know me and you know my product. But I have to tell you something, it’s all a lie. The Air Bubbler has been touted as the biggest achievement in climate stabilization in all of human history, but it doesn’t do what everyone says it does. That activated charcoal complex that coats the bubble? Sure, it ...

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Write a story about someone who’s famous for something they never actually did.

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✍️ 119 stories

“Let Sleeping Dogs Lie!” by P. Jean

“Edutainment” by Tariq Saeed

“Flight from Red Mountain” by Deborah Mercer

“You've got the wrong girl. 🙅” by Ari Berri

“Ballad of Red Bear” by Catherine Stevens

“I Know What Really Happened ” by 💛🧡Lizzie Parker🌻🍊

“The Banana” by Regina Perry

“Spitball In My Veins” by Lola S.

“Theoretically Jumping In Front Of A Bus” by Joshua Scott Hotchkin Wordpress.dungherder.com

“The Annual Late-Summer Dessert Bake-Off ” by Lori Colt

“The False King” by Bruce Charles

“Chopping Down the Aspen” by Lina Oz

“Ruth Writes” by Kathleen March

“The Town Hero” by Daniel Munoz

“The Pickle and the Bubble Machine” by Jill Davies

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Write a humorous story about the descendant of someone remembered for an insignificant act.

Write a story about someone breaking a long family tradition.

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