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“GOODNIGHT, JOHN-BOY” by Scott Smock

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"There was never a more perfect time for this than now." This was a trip to Wisslerite country and now was the time that Virginia 'Ginny' Lane was spending with Mary Wissler, wife of Asa and one half of the founding couple. After the Climate Wars a new phrase began to circulate; Goodnight, John-Boy. This phrase was the new way of saying goodbye to the past. Ginny had, for several weeks now, been saying Goodnight, John-Boy to more of her past than she cared to. And that's what had brought her to Lowery, new main home of the Plain People group...

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“The Waiting Game” by Edward Stechschulte

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The lock-down had been hard on Sam. He personally didn't really care so much about whether he got some disease, but he did care about the little things he enjoyed about his daily routine. The sun was starting to go down, and it felt like another day gone with nothing done. He had to do something. He looked out of his semi-open front door, and saw his neighbor, Leslie. Leslie was tall and in pretty good shape. Long hair, long legs, pretty firm, and pretty young looking. Leslie wouldn't have necessarily been Sam's "type," but lock-down long en...

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“Romeo the dog and Julia the cat” by Bruno Lowagie

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“I wish they’d stop the lock-down here and now,” Julia says.The white cat is sitting high on a balcony, meowing at the neighbors’ dog Romeo.“But why?” the black dog asks from his backyard. “I like the lock-down. I’m having the best time of my life.”“You’re kidding, aren’t you? For years, I’ve managed to tolerate humans,” Julia whines, “but this is just too much. It has to end.”“But we finally get the attention we deserve now that the humans are grounded!”“I can assure you: I don’t need that much attention.”“They walk me multiple times a day;...

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“From The Balcony” by Colm Lawlor

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There was a girl sitting on the balcony opposite ours. She was wearing a purple dress and purple glasses, with purple hair to match. In her lap sat a purple cat. This person was far more interesting than the homework I was supposed to be doing, so I walked out onto our balcony. See, I’d never seen a purple cat before. And I really really like cats so I thought I’d seen them all. But here was a purple one right in front of me. I had to investigate. I slid open the sliding door and walked up to the railing. She hadn’t noticed me yet, still scr...

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“Cherry Pie” by Alyse M

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I admire my pie sitting on the window with pride. I’m probably the only person who still cools her baking by the window, but it was how my mother taught me when I was a little girl and if I had a daughter of my own, it would have been how I taught her. I sigh, saddened at the thought. It had been decades since I gave up the idea ever starting a family of my own, but the absence still stung like a fresh wound. When I was little, I wore my mother’s wedding veil and pranced around with a white bed sheet pinned around me. I treated my dolls as t...

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““A friend left the door open and was lucky, doesn't mean you should”” by Naomie K

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I had been peeping outside my window now for the last hour. Still no sign of Siku. With the heavy rains, I couldn’t just dash over to their house even though her mistress was away! Besides, if I did, I would have to carry little Exavier around now that he had discovered crawling and was now all over the place! Leaving him behind was no longer an option, now that schools were closed and Wilson would report me to my mistress. Where was Siku? I sat back down and continued to watch my favorite tamthilia (soap)This season it was like the floodgat...

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“Extenuating circumstances” by Quentin Serling

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Jason spent the entire day waiting to share the details with his neighbor about what had happened today. He couldn't believe it had happened to him, and he knew Becca wouldn't either.He grabbed a soda from his fridge and went out onto his apartment patio, sat down and waited. He only had to wait a few minutes, then sure as rain she walked out and sat down on her seat with a beer in hand."Hey Becca, you will not believe what happened to me today.' He took a sip of his soda before continuing, 'I was at work when some law officers showed up. I ...

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“The Lonely Loss of What They Once Knew” by Alex Santana

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“Frank! Frank! Frank! Frank! Frank! Frank!” Joe yelled to his neighbor over the synthetic fence. Frank sighed and turned the water pressure of his hose higher, hoping to drown out his pesky neighbor. “Not in the mood today, Joe.” Frank yelled boredly. “Tryna get some chores done, and you know that you’ll distract me.” Joe and Frank had lived next door to each other for years and had yet to meet. It was only by chance they knew each other’s name. By some twist of fate, they have never gotten the mail at the same time, left the house at ...

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“Rose-Tinted Glasses” by Amy Williams

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"Are you smoking again?" "Can't a lady smoke outside?" "Not when my window's open, you can't!" "Then shut your damn window!" "Not until you grow some manners! Don't you dare flick your cigarette at me! I cannot believe you!" "You know me. Anyways, I got to fly. Bye, Meredith." "Ta, Susan." There it was again. The same argument between my mother and the neighbor. Always on loop, like a broken record. My mother starts it by swinging open the window every time Susan opens her’s. At first it was a coincidence. Mom would open the window for some ...

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“Just as Much a Criminal” by Nikola Zammit

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It’s clear to me now that these circumstances are anything but ordinary. You always hear of plagues and sickness ravaging populations and tearing people apart throughout the history of mankind—but you never expect to be a part of it yourself. These are events of the past. The world has progressed far from allowing plagues to wipe across millions of people. I could hardly take this seriously when the news first broke and I still struggle to wrap my head around it. The thought of mass death done not by human hands, unlike war, is utterly bewil...

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“Shared Times” by H W

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“I don’t know. I don’t think I could do it.”“Why not? I mean if you had family that was starving then wouldn’t you do anything?”“Mayyyybeee. I would really have to think about what other options I would have.”“Ok. How about this one then. What would you do if you had 1 day left to live and you had to choose between saying goodbye to the people you love or would you do something you have always wanted to do.”“Hmmm. That’s a hard one.”“Clock’s ticking. C’mon no wasting time, after all you only have 24 hours.”“Seriously, it is a hard choice. Co...

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“A Normal Day” by LeighAnne Ferreol

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I watched as the evening sun began to dip below the horizon. Maybe it wasn’t very safe, but I loved laying on the roof. It was the one place I felt I could escape from everything. Just breathe in the air and relax for once. I guess I was happy I wasn’t the only one who felt this way. I smiled a bit as I looked next door and saw Carl climbing onto his roof too. He saw me and gave a slight nod. “Evening, Phil,” he said. “Evening, Carl,” I said back. We sat in silence for a while. Every day, like clockwork. I came up first, spent some time by m...

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“"The Only Thing We Know..."” by James Johnson

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Bob opened his eyes for the fiftieth day in a row without really knowing why. Stuck in his house with nothing to do but complain to himself about how sore he was, Bob got up every morning with a pain in his side both literally and figuratively. It was bad enough that he was by himself, now he had no choice but to entertain his bored mind. He sighed and sat up with a crack of the spine and eased over to his kitchen to make yet another bowl of flavorless oatmeal. As he grabbed the bag of flaky oats, he saw his neighbor, Phil, staring at him ou...

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“A Mouthful of Ashes” by Arushi Handa

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Kamla lowered her wooden stool onto the bathroom floor, and squatted down, even though her knees ached in protest. Today was one of the bad days. All the joints in her body had seemingly swollen to twice their size overnight. The dull, throbbing ache in her fingers turned to searing pain as she took her clothes out of the steel bucket in front of her. Gritting her teeth and invoking Rama’s name, she rubbed them with a soap bar. In any other part of Delhi, this greasy, yellow bar would be a relic. But in her apartment, where everything includ...

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“Balcony Bro Talk” by Sze-Ning Chuah

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Mike’s off-key singing from upstairs had been going on for a week now. Mike and I are neighbours in an apartment block. We know of and are on cordial “hi and bye” terms with each other, though we have not had much opportunity to hang out due to work commitments. I work irregular hours, sometimes sleeping in the day in preparation for night shifts. As far as I know, Mike works a regular office schedule. It never used to bother me that Mike has a regular habit of belting out show tunes and movie soundtracks, as more often than not I ...

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Write a story about two neighbors talking from their yards, windows, balconies, etc.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 196 stories

“GOODNIGHT, JOHN-BOY” by Scott Smock

“The Waiting Game” by Edward Stechschulte

“Romeo the dog and Julia the cat” by Bruno Lowagie

“From The Balcony” by Colm Lawlor

“Cherry Pie” by Alyse M

““A friend left the door open and was lucky, doesn't mean you should”” by Naomie K

“Extenuating circumstances” by Quentin Serling

“The Lonely Loss of What They Once Knew” by Alex Santana

“Rose-Tinted Glasses” by Amy Williams

“Just as Much a Criminal” by Nikola Zammit

“Shared Times” by H W

“A Normal Day” by LeighAnne Ferreol

“"The Only Thing We Know..."” by James Johnson

“A Mouthful of Ashes” by Arushi Handa

“Balcony Bro Talk” by Sze-Ning Chuah

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