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#202: A Friend Indeed

We often assume the great loves of our lives will be romantic ones. But how true is that really? Some of our most valuable, enduring, and complex relationships are right in front of us — and they're entirely platonic, in the form of the friends who've stuck with us through thick and thin.


June 8th happened to be Best Friends Day, and so this week’s prompts take a moment to reflect on the importance of friendship, in its many forms — whether your characters are besties, frenemies, or somewhere in between.

This week's prompts

Write a story about lifelong best friends.

Character – 60 stories

Write about two friends who were once inseparable, but now find themselves growing apart — or even friends turned enemies.

Dramatic – 79 stories

Set your story at a wedding reception, where a group of high school friends are meeting for the first time in years.

High School – 16 stories

Write a story about two friends who find themselves competing for something: a job, a prize, a love interest, etc.

Funny – 16 stories

Write about two people striking up an unlikely friendship.

Character – 95 stories

Stories

“BFF” by Kevin Shelley

Submitted to Contest #202

Gina lied in bed unable to sleep. She had no idea what time it was and no desire to find out. Her mind kept going back to her childhood friend Ann. Growing up, Gina and Ann were inseparable, meeting each other in the first grade and were hardly ever apart since. Walking home together after school, sleepovers on weekends, summer camp and BBQs, her and Ann were always together, and shared everything – they had no secrets. That was before Ann moved away. Gina remembered that day very well, how she tried to be happy for her friend's new job and...

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“Real Rebels” by Maya Peak

Submitted to Contest #202

The line between disobedience and taboo was plenty visible. Emboldened, marked with signs, lined with barbed wire, fraught with surveillance. Lacey and Damien, rebels and free spirits, spent many of their teen years together dancing on the side of disobedience, goaded by gawking onlookers and always with a bird ready to flipped out. The heat and the allure still was felt on the back of their necks when they thought about life on the other side. Could they maybe touch the other side without anyone knowing? Without the other knowing? Without h...

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“Friends II” by Cosmic Neon

Submitted to Contest #202

“Let’s get married”, Tyson and Diane lay on the lawn in front of Tyson's house, Diane kept breaking the petals off dead sunflowers. “Why?”, Tyson asked her.Diane sat up, “Because if we get married we can live in the same house and have so much fun together”“Like what?”, Tyson also sat up“Well we can stay up and watch movies together, we can eat candy and ice cream together, draw pictures together, and so much more”, Diane blabbed.“But what if we fight or argue”, Tyson stated, “My mom and dad always fight and argue, I don’t wanna fight you”Di...

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“You Killed My Daddy” by Michael Jefferson

Submitted to Contest #202

Casper, Wyoming 1891 Buck Brumley takes a long pull off his whiskey glass. “I wanted to run away, but I didn’t have any money, so I’d stay anywhere folks in town would let me. After a few days, I’d go home and face my daddy’s wrath. One time, Cade caught me sleepin’ in his brother’s livery stable. Despite him bein’ well off and educated, and me bein’ poor and stupid, we hit it off. Cade got me a job at the stable. I kept needlin’ him that he was too young to be so serious, that we should be fourteen-year-old pirates and go off on adventur...

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“Corning” by Zack Herman

Submitted to Contest #202

NOTE: This story takes place in the 70's and 80's in Eastern Kentucky. Some of the social norms of that time and place, including personal insults, may be offensive to today's readers. I remember the day that Slick Pritts asked me what corning was all about. “Dean-O, my man, do me a solid, “ he said as we walked from the bus stop to the subdivision where we both lived, “explain what these other guys are talking about when they say they are ‘going corning’. We didn’t have that up in Michigan. Slick and me were in 8th grade. He had move...

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“Olivia” by C. Charles

Submitted to Contest #202

**Author’s note: Finished but not edited! Busy week and I didn’t get to edit this as much as I wanted. Hopefully I will be able to tweak it before it is approved!**It’s strange how well you can remember seemingly insignificant moments with crystal-clear recollection while big moments are a little fuzzy around the edges. Whenever I think about playing in my first concert, for example, it feels quiet and far away, like I’m watching it on one of those countertop TVs my grandparents had that never had very good reception.But then I think about a...

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“We All Did.” by Bourbon Moon

Submitted to Contest #202

"All this, for a third wedding?" Michael spat as he walked up to me in the hallway from the parking lot. The afternoon sun was flooding through a high arched window on the far end, framing his head in the warm orange light, like a long-suffering saint."It's only her first," I said, trying to sound light about it, like he was teasing, and I was taking the joke well, as the groom. The truth was that it was embarrassing to me, and he wasn't teasing."It's nice to see you though, Mike" I added. "How are... how have you been?"Michael sneered in hi...

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“The Invisible String” by Lauren Rice

Submitted to Contest #202

“So, what do you do for work?” “Where are you living these days?” “How are things going with you and that one guy?” She could already hear all the inevitable questions she would be asked tonight, the questions nobody yet had a chance to ask as she had snuck into the back of the church as close to the start of the ceremony as possible to avoid such conversations. Now, as she looked at herself in the bathroom mirror, she could not work up the nerve to go out to the reception. She had snuck a peek at the whimsical fairy lights twinkling...

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“Frankie Bonner” by Amy Reynolds

Submitted to Contest #202

Ka-chick.Ka-chick.“Frankie, my face is hurting!” Mallory complains, massaging her cheeks. The bridal party whines in agreement. Frankie has spent the last two hours ushering the tipsy brides, Mallory and Sam, to every beautiful location around the golf course, making sure they take advantage of the cotton candy sky above them. Beads of sweat trickle down Frankie’s face as she double-checks the last few shots. “Looks great, everyone! Just a couple more on the bridge, and then you can drink!” Frankie shouts. The few golfers sitting o...

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“The Bake-Off” by Lex Laine

Submitted to Contest #202

When it came to baked goods, the humble town of Crumblington was, to put it mildly, a place of modest appetite. The local populace, who considered a slice of bread with an overly generous spread of butter a gourmet adventure, had little use for the creative expressions of flour, butter, and sugar.  Gerald and Harvey had been friends since they were little boys sharing a sandbox in Mrs. Muffin's kindergarten. Their shared dream, rather at odds with their hometown's ambivalence towards carbohydrates, was to open a bakery. The seed of th...

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“A Quest for Trust” by Mel Shimba

Submitted to Contest #202

“I’m going to be the first person to find Aurensall.”  Saphine looked up from her book, black eyebrows furrowing. The orc on the floor continued polishing his axe, completely unphased. The dark elf maneuvered her way off the bed to face her friend, red eyes narrowing. “Forlux, what did you just say?”  “I said that I’m going to find Aurensall. What, those shadow-spell-book-thingies getting to your hearing too?”  “No,” she muttered, going back to her book, lazily scanning its contents. “I just think you’re crazy for saying that ...

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“The Boat.” by Paris Lewis

Submitted to Contest #202

" I cannot believe you won a free trip to an island!" Sonya clapped gleefully as she took in the fresh ocean air. Sonya and I waited in line behind a much older couple, pushing at least their late Forty's. When the couple over heard what Sonya had said the husband spun around, a wide smile across his face. He held onto his brown straw hat with one hand and a can of Modelo in the other. He pointed to Sonya and I with the Modelo hand. "You said free trip?" The man chuckled making his round belly jiggle. "My wife and I won a free trip too!" His...

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“The Fight For Fluffy” by Charlotte Lanigan

Submitted to Contest #202

“Jee-Anne!  Jee-Anne!  Jee-Anne!”  At the sound of her name, Jee-Anne ran downstairs, red pigtails flying, into her living room. “What is it Gol-Lee?” Jee-Anne asked, panting.  “Oh Jee-Anne, you’ll never believe what I just got!” Gol-Lee exclaimed.  She had her hands behind her back, her long dark braids covering the wriggling object her hands were clutching.  “Oh!  Let me see!” Jee-Anne squealed.  If Gol-Lee was excited about something, then Jee-Anne knew it had to be something big. Gol-Lee took ...

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“Flowers of Destiny” by Joe Smallwood

Submitted to Contest #202

That delightful spring moment upended Ethan with its delicious smell of peonies. Flowers of all sorts wafted their allure, now one meadow assortment, blue with golden pollen, followed by ravishing red clusters sprinkled with sparkling dew. Ethan had so many to choose from so early in the morning. A smile bloomed on his misshapen face as he staggered forlornly for one spray of lilies, only to be entranced by purple larkspur, starry arms to steady his gaze so that even the air itself was untroubled by any bustle of importance.All thought was b...

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“Eulogy for a Friend” by Steven Lente

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Eulogy for a Friend     Richard Coggins died on my sixty-fifth birthday, four years ago. Since then, it’s difficult for me to be one-hundred percent happy on April 6 because sometime during the day, I will think of Rich. What’s particularly painful is I already had an airplane ticket to visit Rich the very next week. I made it to Tennessee the day after his service. Rich’s mother and the folks at the assisted living facility in Clarksville were pleased to see me, and they shared how excited Rich was that I was coming, ...

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