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#114: So Fetch

October 3rd marks the much-beloved (if informal) holiday known as “Mean Girls Day”, based on a throwaway line from the cult film. While it’s remembered for its iconic jokes, Mean Girls isn’t just a great comedy — it also includes sharp social commentary on the intricacies of adolescent relationships. This week, we celebrate its hilarity and insights alike with five Mean Girls-themed prompts (which are pretty fetch, if we do say so ourselves).

This week's prompts

Start your story with the line, “You wanna do something fun?”

Adventure – 42 stories

Write about a clique that dominates your story’s social scene.

Middle School – 17 stories

Write about someone grappling with an insecurity.

Narrative – 37 stories

Write a story that involves sabotage.

Dark – 19 stories

Set your story at a talent show.

Christmas – 7 stories

Stories

“Tentacles” by Ari Masters

Submitted to Contest #114

I have a tentacle instead of a right arm.I have a tentacle instead of a right arm.I have a tentacle instead of a right arm.I have a tentacle instead of a right arm.I have a tentacle instead of a right arm.I have a tentacle instead of a right arm.I have a tentacle instead of a right arm.I have a tentacle instead of a riI’m supposed to write it ten times but my left hand starts shaking so I can’t hold the pen steady and the back of my head is buzzing and I have to do deep breaths like Dr. Spinoza showed me. In for four counts, out for five. In...

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“Starstruck” by S. Thomson

Submitted to Contest #114

ㅤIn a tiny apartment above a sprawling city, Martha Grint was eating a bowl of cornflakes and watching the evening news. Around her, celebrity gossip magazines were piled several feet high on every surface. A workspace had been cleared in the centre of the coffee table, now covered in paper scraps, a large pair of scissors and an industrial size bottle of craft glue. A bulging scrapbook sat in the middle of it all. ㅤHundreds of photographs of one man populated the book’s pages. The man was attractive, in his mid-forties. The scrapbook c...

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“Korean District Talent Show ” by George Georgerfrost@gmail.com

Submitted to Contest #114

“Welcome to Osan, Republic of Korea (ROK) for the 1984 Korean District Talent Show” read the banner out in front of the Recreation Center. This recreation center was twice the size of the one back at Kunsan, Air Base where I had come from. The talent show was to pick out performers to represent the Tops In Blue which was a six month duty in a traveling show of the best of the United States Air Force. In my audition, I had managed to make the district show as one of five performers chosen from Kunsan to go to Osan by singing...

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“Because We Can” by June Brown

Submitted to Contest #114

“You wanna do something fun?” Her shit-eating grin was the first thing my eyes gravitated to. It complimented her fierce eyes and pointed nose. I don't remember her walking in my direction, but there she is, standing over me as I sit on the floor, picking at a piece of thread unraveling from my jacket. I could barely hear her over the sound of rain hitting the pavement outside, falling from the inky sky She can sense my hesitation but continues to push, “Oh, come on. It’s not like anyone will miss us.” Looking around I can tell she’s ...

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“A Peek from the Experience Age” by Mucemi Gakuru

Submitted to Contest #114

We have moved on from the Information Age and are now in the Experience Age, where what one does not feel or share does not count. Therefore, I share the glimpse of my thoughts on why we are yet to appreciate fully, a great Kenyan who not so long ago lived among us; how much the passage of time can make us reflect and understand what was not obvious just a few years ago. It is a Tuesday morning, and I have to attend a meeting in Thika. With only 50 minutes to go, I get into my car in Kilimani and race towards Thika road. I encounter a huge...

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“Emma's Gift” by Webb Johnson

Submitted to Contest #114

Emma’s Gift I had no believable excuse for saying no, so I agreed to teach a summer school class for high school freshmen. The announcement came out in the Spring/Summer issue of the City Civic Arts Newsletter: ’Scapes: Land and Sea. Learn to draw the world around us. For young artists interested in taking their drawing to a higher level. Explore a variety of subjects, developing an understanding of form, composition, line, light/shadow, perspective, and color. Tuition: $20 + $15 supply fee due at first class. Starts July 5...

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“I am Foo Ling-Yoo” by Lee C

Submitted to Contest #114

"We're up next!" I informed my assistant, Mary. "Remember, tonight you are a distraught Chinese lady, speechless in grief."Mary nodded as she picked the hem of her costume, a dusty green cheongsam I lent her for our university’s talent show.A giant cardboard setup divided frontstage from the back where I, Mary and the other performers waited. Techno music blared over small talk and footsteps to and from the restroom. Markos the emcee made an announcement I was too nervous to catch details of.Finally …"Good evening, my fellow students!” Marko...

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“The art of having fun.” by F.O. Morier

Submitted to Contest #114

Do you want to do something fun? I can´t remember the last time anybody asked me that. Or likewise, I asked somebody if they want to do something fun… Outside there was, and still is, a mysterious illness going around causing infection, disease, and even death. In the process, I think I forgot how to have fun. And that is a real shame; because believe it or not: having fun is actually part of having a healthy mental hygiene. Oh, my word, I just made it sound so ugly, didn´t I Let me try that again: play and having fun are essential cornersto...

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“Something about Kevin” by Mel Marcik

Submitted to Contest #114

"You wanna do something fun?"I looked up from my newspaper. When I entered the train, I was sitting pretty much by myself. I hadn't noticed many people entering, either. Maybe that was due to me being invested in the articles I was reading. Corrupt politicians, climate disasters, dictators committing atrocities. There was a lot going on. As usual."Well, do you?"The voice was coming from behind me. I turned around and saw a smiling face looking down over the seat I was sitting in. I hate when people do that, putting their hands on the back of...

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“Getting Gwen” by Eden Weathers

Submitted to Contest #114

“You wanna do something fun?” Cara’s long blonde flat ironed until perfectly straight hair, whips around as she turns her head in my direction. A devious smile forms across her glossy pink lips, a shade that looks suspiciously familiar.There once was a mean girl named Gwen… “Shopping isn’t fun?” I ask, doing my best to prolong the inevitable. Cara’s idea of fun scares the hell out of me, but I already know I’ll go along with whatever diabolical plan she has her pretty little mind set on. That’s what ride or die ...

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“Scarred for Life” by Allie Guilderson

Submitted to Contest #114

“You wanna do something fun?” I look up. I’d gotten distracted, tracing my fingers along the scar on my palm. “I said, do you wanna do something fun?” I blink my bleary eyes into action and shift in the direction of the familiar voice, but no one is there. There’s a tap on my opposite shoulder that sends goosebumps down my spine. I turn to see her beside me, grinning from ear to ear as if nothing about this is unusual. “Awe, don’t do that. You’re creasing up my perfect face.” I look down to find my hand clenched around the pamp...

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“A Fly on the Wall” by Noelle C. Lee

Submitted to Contest #114

Old friends. When I hear someone use this expression, I imagine age - old relationships, familiarity, and love. I imagine it’s when your oldest and dearest can finish your sentences or when your oldest and dearest intimately know the details of your life, and you theirs. It’s when you don’t have to speak, and they know what you’re thinking. It’s when you can laugh about experiences shared together and no one else in the room knows why you’re laughing. It’s like the private language of twins. It’s feeling secure and safe in the relationship, ...

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“Close Call” by Marc Graziadei

Submitted to Contest #114

We’ve all heard the old saying that ” It’s always Greener on the other Side ”; everyone keeps secretly wishing with envy to acquire somebody else’s perceived comfortable situation where supposedly a better life is upheld. It always seems somebody else is enjoying a more exciting, tranquil, accessible accommodating and suitable social status, but unfortunately all of these opportunistic venues will never guarantee any valid humanist protection, long-term security nor any such peace of mind. With no absolute exception, everythin...

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“Mr. S. Was Cool” by Michael Regan

Submitted to Contest #114

“You wanna do something fun?” I whispered to Norm, who was sitting to my left. He just smiled. He was cool.It was the last Grade 12 Chemistry Lab of the year. The Chemistry Lab had been completely refurbished at the start of the year. New tile on the floor, new paint from wall to ceiling, even our lab workstations had been redone. Somehow it had survived the year unscathed - that was about to change.The Chemistry Lab had three rows of workstations, two workstations per row separated by a four foot wide aisle. There were positions f...

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“Pee-Wee's Big Adventure” by Jude S. Walko

Submitted to Contest #114

"You want to do something fun?", Genny asked as she barged in on Harold while he had his hand nonchalantly down his pants watching Jeopardy! Thank God they were just resting there."Sure" he bolted upright hoping she hadn't noticed.Genny was the hottest girl on the block, but the cool part was she had no qualms about hanging out with socially awkward boys like Harry. She always wore those jean shorts that rode up just a little too high on the cheeks. It drove Harold insane. He tried to ignore his raging hormones."Cool. Grab some water, we're ...

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Ended on 23:59 - Oct 08, 2021 EST

Won by Beth Jackson 🏆

Title: The Hallowed Ground

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