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Write about someone who returns as an adult to a place they last visited as a child.

Posted in Character on Oct 26, 2022

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The Grave of Joseph Hanson

Ai Jiang

Submitted to Contest #51

A cemetery is never a place that someone wants to be in, especially not when you are visiting the grave of a child. I stroll along the rows of tombstones of members of the Woodside community. There was an old lady that passed last week, her name was Margret Wilson. When she was young, she was one of the most beautiful women in the community. Though, this is not who I am here to visit.At the back of the cemetery, next to a tall oak tree was a tombstone less extravagant compared to the rest. Withered flowers lay in front of the stone, and they...

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The World Is Your Playground

Aerin Rebecca ✨🌈

Submitted to Contest #51

Author’s Note: Mikka in this story is pronounced “Meeka”. Hi. My name is Kasey Robertson, and my life is food and swimming. For now, let’s focus on ‘swimming’.I love to swim. I’ve been swimming since I was 2–meaning 16 whole years of going to the public pool every day after school. I used to swim for fun, but at age 14, I quit school to do competitive swimming. My job: do what I love, and win money.I was about to go train at the pool when my phone started vibrating in my pocket. I sighed, set down my towel, and picked up my phone. Then picke...

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What Feels Like Foreign Territory

Doubra Akika

Submitted to Contest #51

I waited for maybe a minute before I opened the taxi door. I had momentarily forgotten where I was until the taxi driver looked at me through the glass and communicated everything that I could almost hear it come out of his mouth: “Why you de look me? You no get hand?” I was now in Lagos, a place where doors weren’t opened for you if it wasn’t the person’s job to. I sighed.As I opened the taxi door and my feet hit the ground, I was hit almost instantly with the Lagosian air I had once loved and now grown to resent. I had no luggage because t...

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The Stories We Wish To Erase

Jade Young

Submitted to Contest #51

She was fighting a war against herself from the moment the heel of her stiletto landed on the pavement. She was a fully grown woman with the curves and assets to prove it. Her manicured nails were filed to perfection. Tendrils of raven curls blended in with the black of her dress. From the outside, she appeared unaffected and stoic; the perfect and elegant woman she’d managed to grow into through her own merits. But with every unwavering step she took towards the house, she found herself resisting the urge to turn around, get into her car an...

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Broken Memories

Niveeidha Palani

Submitted to Contest #51

"Tell us another one, Mama!" Mia, Mrs Ryder's youngest daughter urged."Yeah!" Sarah joined. "I love your stories! They're really magical!" she squealed.Mama tutted. "Girls, you have school tomorrow, one story is enough.""Please, it doesn't have to be about fairytales. It can be about...about, your village life when you were a kid!" Sarah cried, her eyes glinting.Mrs Ryder turned ghastly and pale. "Who told you that I lived in a village?" she choked.Sarah shrugged merely. "I heard you and Papa talk in the room."Mama stood up abruptly. "S...

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Chaos is a Friend of Mine: Part Three

Jubilee Forbess

Submitted to Contest #51

Sia. I could see her eyes flashing and I remembered the time I broke my nose because I called her a vampire. I didn’t want that to happen in front of Saberdeen, or worse, to her because of me. “Yes. I would.” We left at lunchtime. I hadn’t been to a lot of weddings but I was almost certain they didn’t end with the bride and groom covered in cake and crying on the ground. And I knew that ...

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Sorry Won't Cut It

BRoOkE HAs A COwBoY HAt

Submitted to Contest #51

"This is stupid. What do you think you'll find? Evidence? Because I'm pretty sure all of it went up in flames." Travis slung his backpack over his shoulder and waited for Sharol to continue. "And what if you run into someone you know? It's not like you can have a conversation with them; they all hate you!" Travis walked around the kitchen, looking for his keys. He found them in the basket they kept the mail in. "What if the police see you? What do you think they'll do? They'll take you in to question you. And you said when you first...

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House of Memories

Lynn Penny

Submitted to Contest #51

NightCrawlers: Victims of a Parasite that turned into Nocturnal Cannibalistic Hunters whose only instincts are to kill and eat.Onyx felt like quite the creep, but she didn’t know what else to do. Datura’s breathing started to slow, tension leaving her expression as she fell asleep. The light from the fire caused her hair to glisten, highlighting the grease it held. Maybe she could help Datura wash up before they hit the road again, the build-up of grime probably wasn’t the most comfortable for her.Onyx wasn’t sure how long she sat there acro...

60 likes

The Mansion Where it all Happened

Raquel Rodriguez

Submitted to Contest #51

Trigger warning: depictions of rape (The Pain of The Past Part II) Heidi knocked on the tall, steel entry door. She waited patiently, rocking back and forth on the heel of her tan sandal. "Are you sure this is the exact place that the 'incident' occurred?" A woman behind her asked. She was short, with blue eyes that blazed almost as bright as the sun. Heidi nodded, raising her hand to knock again. Then, the door, revealing an elderly woman. She was shirt, had a gray pixie cut, and stared at Heidi ...

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The Painter

Clyde Roan

Submitted to Contest #51

“The doctor will be in shortly, Ms. Jensen.”Marie Jensen sat alone on a sticky examination bed. She watched the nurse exit with a mixture of disinterest and bald intent, if such a combination was possible. Once, the nurse’s faded pink hair might have made Marie scoff, but now she couldn’t bring herself to care one way or another. The only thing for which her thoughts and feelings had any regard at the moment was the sickening scent of disinfectant. Unfortunate.She waited two, five, ten minutes before she remembered that when it came to docto...

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And Then There Was June

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Submitted to Contest #51

It’s been 15 years since I've been to my hometown in Stonedale, California. It's a small town, with the population being roughly around 8 thousand people. So, as you can assume, everyone knows each other. Living here had always been boring because it was the same routine every day, same school, same people, same stores, same everything. The only thing that made our town interesting was the rumors and leaking everyone's business- especially mine. You see, my family and I were the social pariahs of this town. My mother was drug addic...

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A starlit night like this (Part One)

Victoire Debaecker

Submitted to Contest #51

As my eyes drifted away from my computer to the starlit sky, I started thinking. The train was moving fast, very fast, and it was dark. I couldn't see much but the moon and stars that shone like a compass in a lost universe. Like if they wanted me to take that train and go. Then I thought of a boy. A gorgeous boy. He was an artist : a photograph and a guitarist. And I am a writer. He had eyes that shone and ruffled hair that flew in the wind. He had a sweet voice, and in my head, I heard him say my name, l...

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A Day in the Life of a Lego Man

Harken Void

Submitted to Contest #51

“Incoming!” Jake clashed the two lego constructions together; a spaceship and a dinosaur. “Sir, our shields can’t hold much longer! We’ll have to-” “No retreat,” Jake said with a deeper tone, though still sounding like a six-year-old. “I am captain Stargazer and I shall see this beast dead!” He imitated both a roaring sound of engines as well as a battlecry of a dinosaur and smashed the two together in a clinking explosion of legos. The spaceship fell apart as the dinosaur's more robust body construction tore through the spacecraft’s complex...

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cold little heart

Masha Kurbatova

Submitted to Contest #51

I can only be in love with one person at a time. My body is weak, and love is too strong. It requires motors, nuclear facilities, every solar panel in the world to keep burning, energy channeled from every collapsing star in every dying galaxy. I can’t even hold my own back straight or keep my fingers from shaking; how am I to generate the gigawatts for loving everyone? It’s easier to love the small things. I listen to the same twenty-five songs over and over. I drink black coffee every morning, grinning and warm when the caffeine di...

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Strong, but Milky

Submitted to Contest #51

You might think it would have been confusing for me, when I was a child, having two grandfathers called James, but it didn’t work out that way. From – well, from as soon as I was aware of them, I never mixed them up. They both absolutely doted on me, and I adored them back and looked forward to visiting both Granddad James and Grandpa Jimmy. But they were entirely different. Granddad James, my Mum’s father, was a retired professor, and lived in a house full of books and pictures and though never o...

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