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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

“The Iron Road” by Marina Savva

Submitted to Contest #114

You think it’s easy, don’t you? Being a narrator and all. All I have to do is say what I see and put it down in a way that sounds nice and keeps the reader captivated. But you are so wrong. I have lived through it all. I have seen things that I can’t talk about and usually am not allowed to share my feeling on because no one cares about me, the omniscient narrator somewhere in the clouds. Well, I can’t take it anymore! I’ve seen too much to remain a distant presence. This isn’t about me, but I watched it all which is more than you woul...

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“I Am the Resurrection” by Mike Garrigan

Submitted to Contest #114

Tristan Frost blew the dust off of a stack of gold coins. His miniature tower of wealth was more money than anyone else had in Atlantis. He stood behind the counter at the trading post and awaited his next customer. Atlantis, a forgotten town on the road to nowhere, was nestled deep inside the New Mexico Territory. At its height, Atlantis was a pit stop on the southern route to California. But now, after the gold rush, Atlantis saw more tumbleweeds than passers through.“Mr. Frost?” Jacob Smith said with sunken eyes and a dry mouth.Frost...

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“Destroy the Oil Realm” by Kurt Karl

Submitted to Contest #114

“What the hell? Why didn’t they explode?” Musa asked Sipho as they strained to see the oil storage tanks in the distance. They were perched on a ridge about two miles from the refinery where they had planted four limpet mines at around midnight. It was now 2 a.m., and the bombs should have gone off precisely on the hour. “What do we do?” Sipho asked. “It would take us too long to go back and adjust the timers. It will be daylight. We’d easily be spotted.” “Let me think,” Musa said. As the leader of the operation, he would have to call it o...

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“The Most Fun Night Ever.” by Polly D

Submitted to Contest #114

You wanna do something fun? Let's get dressed up and go out for a fancy dinner! Can I borrow this skirt and maybe some earrings? Does my hair look okay? We look amazing and so does this champagne. What a beautiful restaurant! We have come such a long way since college-we are officially adults having dinner in a place like this. I pick at my food- preferring to focus on the bottle in the bucket. "Priorities Jenny! Priorities!", I tell myself. LOL. The bill is a little more than I expected but whatever- YOLO! Our friendship knows no bounds- an...

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“"Fredom"” by Eimantas Brundza

Submitted to Contest #114

“You wanna do something fun?” Mitch glared over a man and his tattoo on top of the forehead saying “fredom”. “Shoot, mate.” He raised a glass of orangey-purple stuff and downed it in one go.20 hours later....Nearby car's alarm rang like a thousand megaphones tied to his ears. With one honking at an intersection and another one bloating away with its bloody sirens on.Mitch eyes flipped open and he inhaled like a whole soul would be coming back to his body. Rolling off a mattress his back ached and his foot flopped onto a soggy carpe...

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“Please Fasten Your Seat Belts” by Evangeline Richards

Submitted to Contest #114

“You wanna do something fun?” Jacob pulled his bottom lip down showing Caleb the inside of his mouth, wet and red. Caleb closed his eyes as he drained his coffee cup and placed it on the table in front of him. Jacob’s eyes hadn’t moved from Caleb. The tannoy sounded, “Passengers for Madrid now boarding” and the wheels of a suitcase rolled past them. Caleb said nothing. “I’ll take that as a no then?” Caleb smirked. “Your kind of fun or my kind of fun?” “Bit of both.” Caleb sighed. “Jacky we’...

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“Batting Cages” by Talia Lawson

Submitted to Contest #114

“You wanna do something fun?” Sandra had barely approached the table outside the cafe when the words tumbled out of Max’s mouth. Father Max, Sandra reminded herself, glancing at the white square adorning his neck. “You’re not dragging me to Mass are you?” Sandra asked with a smirk. “And you can’t lie and tell me you’re not, then be all ‘Surprise, it’s church time!’. That’s a sin,” she added teasingly. Father Max laughed and ran his fingers through his dark hair. “Come on, don’t you know me better than that by now?” He stood, chugging the ...

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“Girls Like Gravity” by CJ Rodgers

Submitted to Contest #114

Ophelia Waine was like gravity, like a sun with a planetary system surrounding her. Jessalyn was just one of them. The Pluto to Cherrie’s Venus and Lucy’s Earth. She thought the world of the three older girls. At fourteen, she was the youngest, and the only freshman privy to Ophelia's personal circle. The four girls attended Guerin Academy together, a tall, imposing sort of building. Settled at the very outskirts of the county of Granite Falls, Minnesota, an hour’s drive from the town of seven hundred people and three hours from the city...

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“THE DISAPPEARED GIRL” by Mara Masolini

Submitted to Contest #114

THE DISAPPEARED GIRL Alice B., a twenty years old girl, who studied foreign languages and literatures at the university, had disappeared from Turin, the city to which she had moved for about a year to study at the university. It had been a month since she disappeared. Her parents, who lived in Catanzaro, her brothers who had moved to Germany for work, and also her university friends had kept on looking for her. They often appeared in television broadcasts, where they talked a...

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“The Omega Ring” by Ben Lages

Submitted to Contest #114

The Omega Ring By Ben Lages Gil wished desperately that he’d had a chance to smoke before being driven to Columbia Manor. It was unrealistic wish; he’d had to come straight here from the site of the explosion, but he nonetheless needed something to calm his nerves. His mentor, Columbiaman, had been gone a long time--much longer than usual—and the largess of the red-and-white corridor and of the estate surrounding Gil made him feel feebler than ever. Or maybe it was because he had just had to flee a crumbling Capitol One bank after failing t...

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“On the Quantum Nature of Coolness” by Christopher Cayen-Cyr

Submitted to Contest #114

On the Quantum Nature of Coolness. A Thesis.By Dr. Jill Pillar, Ph.D.Cool kids. While many have brought into question their true existence on the basis of the lack of a measurable quantity by which to evaluate their said coolness, I now postulate that they are inexorably weaved into the very fabric of our universe.After all, popularity is the abstract concept that keeps on giving, just like gravity. In Newton’s time, many thought gravity was a done deal. The Universal Law of Gravitation perfectly described the observable behavior of objects ...

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“Teenage Angst” by Michael Lewis

Submitted to Contest #114

Teenage Angst The phone call came as Donald was sitting in the only decent chair in his house. " Hello!" " Hi, Donald, it's Brian." "Hi, Brian, what's up?" "Are you doing anything this weekend?" "Not really. Why?" " It's my sister's fifteenth birthday, and I wondered if you want to come to the party." "Yeah, sure, when, and what time is it happening?" "Saturday night, don't com...

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“I Am Me: Everything and Nothing ” by Mackenzie Hebner

Submitted to Contest #114

I Am Me: Everything and Nothing By: Mackenzie M. Hebner You don’t know me. And you never will. My name is of no consequence: only my words. The world won’t ever know my name, or see my face, or hear my story, or give me a second look. It will only ever, God willing, hear my words. I may never amount to anything. I may be alone forever, but I hope and pray my words live on past my inconsequential existence. Not so inconsequential, now that I’ve finally taken the leap to write things down. Now, I said the world would never hear...

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“Stupid” by Nichole Anderson

Submitted to Contest #114

I can feel it inside of me. Its blanket of darkness covers me and holds me down until I can barely breathe. I push, kick and scream; I know I can’t win but I will never stop fighting it. I don’t know why. Others have the ability to see it too but I don’t want them to. If I am to survive, I must find a way to hide it from them. Sometimes it’s so loud and clings to every part of my body, melting into the crevasses of my skin. We become one and it defines me. Other times, I am able to push it deep within me and it becomes quiet and obed...

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“Where Thoughts Cannot Speak” by Marina Savva

Submitted to Contest #114

You stumble over yourself. You have the correct thoughts, all lined up in order of most to least important; the words playing on your tongue, itching to jump out. You know what you want to say, you feel your mouth open, about to voice it but that’s when it all shatters. Any dreams you could have possibly had about having a normal conversation run for the closest window to catapult themselves out of. Then like a wave of trauma, the stuttering comes. The shaking of the leg. The darting of the eyes. You had a trail of thought y...

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Ended on 23:59 - Oct 08, 2021 EST

Won by Beth Jackson 🏆

Title: The Hallowed Ground

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