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Write a story that starts with two characters saying goodbye.

Posted in Character on Oct 26, 2022

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You cannot change your fate

Submitted to Contest #44

With tears in her exuberant eyes and an unopened letter in her trembling hands, Emma Andrew strolled the street side with her magnificent silvery hair whipping her face. The cold breeze felt like needles against her clear porcelain skin. There was a raging battle inside her mind...clustered feelings. Somehow the weather excellently depicted how she felt at the moment. She was numb with a sense of loss engulfing her body, making it hectic for her to breathe. Her heart ached with pain.After a surprisingly long stroll, she found a bench that co...

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The Last Goodbye -Kamilla E. Bright

Submitted to Contest #44

'Goodbye' As I shook myself back to reality, I began to drive. At this moment, little droplets hit my windshield and were almost immediately followed by huge globs of rain. Tears fell across my face down to my lap. "There is no good in goodbyes and nothing fair in farewell." That's when my life flashed before my eyes. Two months earlier... I was sitting on my bed reading as I run through the word 'Death', I've never thought deeply 'bout it. I've been on my own for years now, I don't have to lose anyone. Tears streamed down my face...

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What Else Are They to Say?

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"Goodbye," I say. I guess this is the end.You pull me close. "I love you," and your hot breath puffs on my ear.Puffy white snowflakes begin to fall out of the gray sky as you're pulled back, away from me.Someone else says something sharp. It's time for me to go. Your face is tight, your eyes are strained. You're trying not to cry. You've been so strong.Now you're about to lose the last of everything. But through it all, you still kept smiling. Will this break you? Or will you keep smiling, the way you always have? You said goodbye to my fath...

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The Cruelest Month

Submitted to Contest #44

One day, it was the first of April, and just like that, the winter melted into sweet spring, and the first blossoms of the year bloomed already from the frost. It was also the day I last held my sister’s hand, the last pure, happy day of the ignorance of childhood. I was running around the train station, my bashful, cheerful self tugging on my mother’s skirt. Our mother always wore long skirts that billowed into a delicate bell shape in the wind. Olivia, my sister, was sitting with her suitcase, mindlessly tugged at a hardy purple flower jut...

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Aloha, Good-bye

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Abigail took one last look in the mirror. She saw the person she always knew.Making a little wave with her left hand she said, “Aloha.”The taxi driver honked his horn. Abigail turned and left.Ten minutes before, her Aunt Maryann saw her looking in the mirror.“Abby! Stop staring at yourself. You look fabulous!”Abigail turned to her. “Thanks Auntie. I know. I love this dress.”“It’s your wedding day, Abby. You look worried.”Abigail looked down. “I see a person in that mirror who I’ve known all my life. I don’t know when I’ll see her again. Or i...

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Twenty Years of Walking Away

Submitted to Contest #44

      “Is that it then?” she asked.      “That’s it. Nothing more to say. See you around, Sara,” Francesco said.      She blew on her hands for a moment and then shoved them into the pockets of her pea coat. Her steel blue eyes met his. They lingered on him. It was a searching look, one filled with despair and the slightest hint of hope.     His eyes turned away. He turned around and started walking. He felt the pinch of his toes ins...

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Puppet Master

Submitted to Contest #44

   We are lost in an action film, the sounds of pounding feet, shouts and breaking glass are the musical score and the smoke and heat blanketing the street are the special effects. This insanity has to be fiction, real people aren’t monsters that destroy property, raze neighborhoods and attack and kill others! But as I sit in the middle of Main Street cradling my dying sister in my arms, I know this is my reality, not a high budget action film.     Tears make long furrows down her soot staine...

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The Lie I Told Myself

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“I don’t love you anymore.” I saw Parker jolt as if I had shot him. A bullet might have hurt him less than my words did. He stared at me, and I could see first shock, denial, and then pain etched into his features. He stepped forwards, slowly reaching out his arm as if he wanted to take my hand. I moved back, away from him, away from us, away from all we had been and all we could’ve been. He saw me move away from him and stopped where he was, letting his arm fall to his side. “Please, Mel, talk to me. Tell me how to fix this. I don’t wa...

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The Passage

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The boy is weak.It is not long before they take him. His mother cries, but even she has been expecting this day to come.They drag him to the Passage. That is what they call it, for it looks to the outside world like nothing but a dark corridor, extending for an unknown length into the black.The boy begins to weep as they pull him closer and closer. “Mama, I don’t want to go.”“It’s okay, my sweet boy,” she says. “Just think of it as a new adventure, a game. Every day, you play hide and seek and then when night falls, you run home, okay? ...

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Will I ever see you again?

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It was time to say “Goodbye.” For the third or fourth time today. These two did not want to part. Holding each other tight, Mark and Monica locked their lips in a passionate kiss. Just like every other time when their lips met, it was just the two of them. Nothing else around them mattered. Mark lifted his girlfriend’s head and looked straight into her eyes.“I love you,” he whispered.“I love YOU,” Monica replied and burrowed her face into his chest.“I will see you soon,” Mark said, trying to comfort her as he was getting ready to go through ...

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Treachery

Submitted to Contest #44

“Goodbye Alex,” Nikki says, as she pasts me in my car and crosses the street.  “Goodbye?” I ask confused. “What do you mean goodbye?”  She says nothing.  “Nikki!” I shout, trying to get my deranged girlfriend’s attention. “Get in the car.” She says nothing though and makes no effort to get in my car. She doesn’t even look at me, not once. Instead, she just continues to trudge through the shallow puddles, upon the sidewalks, getting her dark flip flops soaked and wet. It’s not the only thing on her that is wet though. The clot...

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A small step

Submitted to Contest #44

I arrived at the job eight hours early, just in time to watch her say goodbye.I knew from the start it was a bad idea. Arrive on time, that’s one of my rules. In my line of work, breaking rules can lead to all sorts of problems. Don’t get involved. That’s another of my rules. But I had been involved in this from the start, and despite knowing the ending, I was curious to see how it would play out.There were dozens of men and women there, and they all wanted to be near her. She made her way through the crowd, shaking hands, patting shoulders,...

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Walking With Einstein

Submitted to Contest #44

Lee listened with half an ear as Greg listed the advantages and setbacks he had recently discovered in converting his wine shop to a home delivery service. Einstein yanked on other end of the lead held in Lee’s hand, similarly impatient to get going. He’d spotted a cluster of pigeons pecking at picnic leftovers that had tumbled from one of the park’s many overflowing bins.“…but what can you do, eh?” Greg shrugged his shoulders in theatrical self-pity, eyes crinkled in merriment. The two acquaintances both knew what was being left unsaid – Gr...

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A Mother's Mission

Submitted to Contest #44

It was two days after my seventh birthday when my Mother set out on the mission to Mars. She hadn’t seemed able to quite make her mind up how to frame it to me, as the day came nearer. One minute she would say that it was a huge adventure for her and one I might make myself one day – except in my case it would be an even longer and more thrilling voyage. But the next she would say that missions to Mars were almost commonplace now – well, at least it was the fourth one. Later on I found out it was technically the fifth one...

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The End that Marks a New Beginning

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The stars were a form of new world, home.Theo and I loved to simply look up and stare. Stare, dream, wish... hope.The sky was a dark blue-blue color with highlights of black. Crickets could be heard nearby and I could smell the grass that surrounded us, as we sat side-by-side, without saying a word. We didn’t need to. All was said in the silence, and we knew it. Besides, the sight of the sky at night, with all its stars and having Theo next to me, was breath-taking. It was beautiful, safe. It was comfo...

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