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#10: Peanuts

On October 2, 1950, the Peanuts comic strip by Charles M. Schulz made its debut in nine American newspapers. Bringing beloved characters like Charlie Brown and Snoopy into our lives, Peanuts is one of the most popular comic strips ever published. In fact, with 17,897 strips published during its lifetime, it's been credited as "arguably the longest story ever told by one human being."

To celebrate Charlie Brown and his gang, this week's writing prompts are all inspired by characters from the comic. Can you guess who?

This week's prompts

Write a story about a character who remains resilient even when things feel like they're constantly going wrong.

Character – 42 stories

Write a story about a character who is trying to create art but is constantly interrupted.

Funny – 38 stories

Write a story about someone who is unexpectedly wise.

Character – 18 stories

Write a story about someone who believes they are an extremely good judge of character.

Character – 16 stories

Write a story about two friends who have a knack for understanding each other better than anyone else.

Character – 26 stories

Stories

“Its a mental struggle that wins the physical” by Viney Kirpal

Submitted to Contest #10

Kenny was lifting the ball cleverly with his foot and sending it speeding across the wet football field but not letting it fall into opponent hands.The 16 year-old had shown remarkable agility. His stretched sinews and taut, rippling muscles made him move quickly like a leopard on its feet as he drovethe ba...

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“We Take the Wolves” by Joshua G. J. Insole

Submitted to Contest #10

1When the werewolves first attacked, we didn’t stand a chance. Of course, I didn’t know they were werewolves at the time.The four of us – Kim, Mark, Daryl and I – said goodnight and turned in for the evening, returning to our respective tents. We knew we’d have a long day of hiking and climbing the next morning, so we wanted to get some sleep. Besides, we’d had a couple of beers and very little rest. Add that on top of the couple of hours it’d taken us to get there, and you’ve got yourself four knackered twenty-somethings.Our two tents were ...

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“The Great Bunny Heist of '97” by Jessica C

⭐️ Shortlisted for Contest #10

It was summer. More specifically, it was the first summer we were truly free. We had graduated just a few days before, and now we were in limbo between childhood and adulthood. A cool, sweet smelling evening breeze hit my bare arms as I lay in the dewy grass of Fulton’s front yard. Beside me, Fulton sprawled listlessly, contemplating the starts. Trixie the old beagle howled mournfully from her back yard kennel. The David house loomed above us at the base of the mountain. Mr. David swore that it was hau...

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“One Bad Week” by Andrew Fletcher

Submitted to Contest #10

This week has been a trial. On Monday the traffic was appalling and I was fifty minutes late to work. There were roadworks on my route this week but I never thought they’d hold me up that much. Not the end of the world. “I’ll set off earlier tomorrow”, I thought to myself as I set my alarm.On Tuesday, I went out to my car and I had a puncture. Again, hardly the end of the world. Swapped it for the spare, hit the road and with the awful traffic I was only thirty minutes late. “I’ll take my bike tomorrow”, I thought to myself as I set an earli...

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“DOG DAY” by Deborah Mercer

Submitted to Contest #10

DOG DAY So far as I knew, nobody in our little coastal village near the North Sea was actively unkind when it came to Eva Kent, neither behind her back nor to her face. She wasn’t known as the Village Idiot or Seathorpe’s answer to Forest Gump or anything like that. She was just – well, a bit thick! Or so we thought. She wasn’t ugly, by any means, but her moon-shaped face and rather straggly hair and figure that somehow managed to be plump and angular at the same time were definitely never going to win any beauty con...

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“Monarchs and Reveries” by Shannon White

Submitted to Contest #10

It began in soft, smooth pulses that ebbed and flowed from the midsection of her back. Faint little blips so fluid in their transitions that she had to concentrate especially hard so as not to miss one. From the first vibration the knot in her chest began to untangle, her limbs unraveling of their own accord like a string on a hem that's just been pulled, its shredded thread detaching all the fixed pieces.She didn’t need to look at David to know that his fingers were moving. She could feel it. The pulses increased in pressure and transp...

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“Axiom the First” by Arthur Tiberio

Submitted to Contest #10

Under his feet, the last remains of the Library choked the weeds with flaking ash. Softly, so softly did he walk upon those scorched bones of knowledge, though exactly why he took such care... well, he scarcely could have said. The long train of his robe swept across the wastes, picked up particles of the stuff like a mourner sifting through the treasures of the deceased, eyeing worthless trinkets for the fading memories therein.Four days. He had been gone that long, and no longer, and in four days... no. "Regret is for the weak, shame is fo...

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“THE TRIP” by Deborah Mercer

Submitted to Contest #10

THE TRIP “Of course I like Sandra,” people often said, and those who also knew Sandra waited for the “but” and to nod in agreement. Sandra Gordon always had a shoulder to cry on, often took on the more tedious tasks entirely of her own volition, and was cheerful but not to the extent it was irritating. And none of it was her fault, or hardly ever, and it would have been unfair to say it was. BUT. She was one of the last to be picked when the children at school were left to th...

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“Forgive me, please!” by Ardenisa Onuzi

Submitted to Contest #10

We live in a place where the character always has to be in the first place of a man .. A man is called the one who knows how to forgive, who knows that after a difficult life there will always be someone who will stand behind him/her for his help if you can't handle thing anymore. Often a man who is very demanding of this title and believes very much in his actions. This is the story of an old man who had no one but himself and his daughter who had left many years ago and only he meets her once a year. The old man believes in his character h...

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“Waiting Game” by Shavon Evelyn

Submitted to Contest #10

4:02, thirteen minutes before she gets off work. Countdown to my crazy check. Deena’s the only one who can tell me if I’m within bounds or totally off my freaking rocker. I do the same for her when needed, but lately the scales have been tipping heavily to my side. 4:04, why is the clock moving so doggone slow? Can’t sit in front of his house forever. But I need to know if he’s in there…with her. Two cars in the driveway. Lights are off. At least as far as I can see from here....

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“Stop and See the Roses” by Addison Lowery

Submitted to Contest #10

I don't know how my mother and her friend Amaya planned it, but they both found out they were going to have a child within a week. Looking through photos, I see they were excited; picking out matching baby outfits and nurseries, planning a baby shower together and all that. Father said that they had been inseparable since childhood and that they wanted us to be the same. We were born on the same day, December 13, in the same hospital. Dad says something went wrong though, with Amaya's labor process, since her baby died during birth. But I do...

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“I Will!” by Colin Devonshire

Submitted to Contest #10

Write a story about a character who remains resilient even when things feel like they're constantly going wrong.I Will!I’m not the oldest, I’m not the baby of the family, the third oldest, the second youngest. What does that tell you? Not much I guess.My name is Charlie Nutz, Charlie after my grandfather, and Nutz, well, we are nuts. We should have a longer surname, but my grandfather changed it, a Jewish name was not helpful at that time.We now live in north London, a foreign-sounding name is not a problem here. The other kids at ...

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“The Spirit Daughter” by Michelle Iruobe

Submitted to Contest #10

Our mother breathed fire. Everybody knew that. She had the sharpest of tongues—like a razor blade sharpened on both sides, and the cleverest of wits, a biting sarcasm in her speech which usually made her assailants lose quick battles. Many times, after she had mercilessly and effortlessly dealt with one, one would reply bitterly; already conceding to defeat: “It’s rather unfortunate that you cannot put your tongue to good use, useless woman” Unfortunate. That was the word with which Mama was first described....

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“Peanuts” by Unknown User

⭐️ Shortlisted for Contest #10

I had a dream last night. I was sixteen again, hunting the muskeg swamps around Blackduck in search of the huge white snowshoe hares that hide there. Peanuts was with me, sniffing his way through the brush and the saw grass, rooting out those giant rabbits that were easily as big as he. We were having a great time. I lost the dream, though, when the bed suddenly started to sag and jiggle as something climbed over the mattress, turned around three times and lay down. Peanuts hadn't done that in at least four years...

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“QUARTET” by Deborah Mercer

Submitted to Contest #10

QUARTETLucia and Patricia, who were generally known as Lulu and Trisha, though they weren’t necessarily the familiar versions they’d have chosen for themselves, had been best friends since the Reception Class in the mixed infants, as their local school was still known, though nobody could remember a time when it had been other than mixed. Their mothers, Sylvia and Gina, swore that THEY had always been best friends too, and it wasn’t quite true, and wasn’t quite true now, either, but there was no harm in them believing it. &nbs...

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Ended on 23:59 - Oct 11, 2019 EST

Won by Andrew Grell 🏆

Title: To Suffer For One's Art

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