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Write a story about two strangers chatting while waiting for something.

Posted in Dialogue on Oct 26, 2022

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✍️ 196 stories

“So Robustly, . . . Basically Klemoo Klematis ” by Klementine Discoluve

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The artificiality of these morning flowers blossoms back from my smile in my mind. I see them as birds all flocking entangled inside. “Sweetie what time did you get in? He exclaimed. I’m already here. ... please let me talk. Running the water warmer - - love was in the (sky‘s) just like a little air balloon,” Sung Krysoke as he panicked with ice melting his throat.His skin is cracked and he has easygoing scars all over his body. He walked into the door mistaken for a bodyguard. He wore a shirtless tiebreaker with small black crosses made fro...

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“Waiting For (GOD)ot” by Kelli Green

Submitted to Contest #49

Nora traded her pale yellow chiffon dress and white kitten heels for a pair of loose-fitting blue pants, and a pink t-shirt with little daisies around the collar. She slid her feet into a pair of slides and headed to the kitchen to grab her lunch and take it out on the porch. Once she got outside she took a minute to pull up the music library on her phone and press shuffle before settling in and unwrapping her sub. Nora ate and embraced the soft breeze as Nancy Wilson serenaded her with songs about love. As she finished her last few bites s...

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“Sleepless In the City ” by Shawn Warner

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The night was full and damp after the fresh brine that whisked itself across the city skyline. Damian stood hands burrowed deep within the folds of his father’s old black coat. He traced the small circular hole where the bullet had penetrated the ashy fabric. It was sometime before the fire, but after his Aunt Daisy went missing. Such a small hole tore the scab off such a large wound. Damian’s stomach began to turn as he watched the grey clouds pass from the safety of the covered bus stop. No bus was coming, and he knew that, but that w...

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“Coffee stain” by Quill Porter

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Hera bobbed her head slightly, as 'fuck the neighbors' by IRON REAGAN blasted in her large neon headphones. Her green-dyed hair french-braided at her back with a yellow ribbon. Her grey overly large sweater draping on her knees, accompanied by her brown scarf. Her black legging tucked in some brown uggs. Her clothes are greatly amplified with her whooping height of six foot three. Her pink lips turned into a smile as the train slowly came into view from her hazel eyes. She pulled out her phone and pressed next. Smoothly walking towards th...

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“This Won't Last Long.” by Yan Wong

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Rain. Walter finds its sound soothing. In the late night sitting by himself in the bus stop, he closes his eyes, savouring the serene moment the rain has given him. The road lights flicker in the heavy curtain, not a car has passed. This won't last long, he thinks. A man in a raincoat burst in, pulling Walter back from his thoughts. The man looks younger than him, about 20 to 23. Panting, the man removes his dripping coat, accidentally flicking some rainwater on Walter's jacket. "Sorry," he says and sits down beside him, pulling out his ph...

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“The Girl with the Silver Bracelet” by Arie Toro

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I have two tongues, I always wear my heart on my sleeve, and I’m always right behind you. If you find out who I am and see me, I would like to know if we could go out for a coffee sometime. If not, thank you for indulging me and my letters to you anyway! :) I crumple the paper in my hand ever so slightly. Despite not wanting to be here, I didn’t want to hurt the feelings of whoever wrote these letters. Still, it is infuriating that whoever this person is, they didn’t even have the decency to list any physical characteristics of theirs ...

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“Arriving” by Shawn Bills

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Susan suddenly opened her eyes and drew a deep breath. She quickly sat up and looked around. Nothing was familiar to her. Beads of sweat formed on her forehead. Her palms were clammy. She felt like it was the first time in a long time that she had inhaled, almost like it felt after diving into the deep end of a swim pool, then finally coming up for air. ‘When did I fall asleep? Where am I now? Why do I feel like I'm moving?’ her thoughts came in a quick succession. She was panicked. Her brain wanted answers now! She inhaled deeply....

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“Secret cuts” by Anuradha Dev

Submitted to Contest #49

I don't understand why these adults don't mind their own business. I mean, I know I should not have let a stupid kid pull me into an outrageous bet. But at the end of the day, it is my life that is on line, not theirs. Why do they care? Now I have been dragged to the school Headmistress office. As if she would magically fix everything wrong in my mind.  Sometimes I think, why is it so difficult for me to deal with these people, talk to them, let them speak to me as if I am retarded? Other kids do it just fine. And in the end, you ha...

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“The Green Pin” by David Dicaire

Submitted to Contest #49

 The Green Pin It was a blistering hot day on the beach. The place was packed with sun worshippers from the youngest toddler running amok trying to keep their swimming trunks on to grandmothers with burnt elbows toting large, multi-coloured bags.   There were bronze beauties some bathing with a friend or some hunky guy or alone. The gulls floated back and forth waiting for someone to drop the tiniest morsel of food to be scooped up. Their cries filled the bright sunny day with as much noise as the waves crashing ...

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“Tiny Dancer” by Bruce Charles

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"Do you have what I told you to bring?" the magician asked. I nodded and handed him my phone. Playing on the device was a video of a little boy, laughing and smiling like he was having the time of his life. After all, it was his very own birthday party, and what can be more exciting as a kid? The magician nodded and handed the phone back to me. He closed his eyes and began muttering something under his breath, what I assumed was incantations. When he was done, his eyes suddenly opened, and I saw that they were glowing. As the glow faded,...

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“Gallows Humor” by Blisters Wournos

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They call it Gallows Humor.What do you call a man with minutes left to live?Condemned.What do you call a man with a rope around his neck and nothing under his feet?Executed.What do you call traitors awaiting execution in a small cell?In those last moments, friends.“Do you think we’ll win the war?” “Do you think reinforcements ever came?”How little the answers to these questions matter when nobody asking them will live to see the final battle.It is odd and feels insincere how one can mourn somebody who was a stranger only hours ago, but ...

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“Waiting Conversation” by Chris Buono

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       Atticus Joyner check the small watch he wore around his wrist. Seven fifteen o’clock, he’d already been here an hour. It didn’t seem like anyone was coming anytime soon so he sat back in his chair and fidgeted his hands impatiently. What was supposed to be a simple trip to the ATM before a lonely dinner had become a temporary imprisonment.              The storm had come without warning. Arriving one minute then disappearing as quickly ...

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“THE SLOW TRAIN TO LONDON” by Margaret Kopke

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 “The train approaching platform 2 terminates here! The train approaching from Charing cross terminates here. All change, please. All change!” The sleek body of the train from South Eastern Rail slides into the Sevenoaks station. The bright young female voice continues to announce trains as they approach or leave.I made sure that I arrived at the station well ahead of time and am already sitting comfortably on my train, just waiting to leave. The train seems to be warming up. What if I’m on the wrong train? There’s only one other p...

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“It's All the Same” by Jean Young

Submitted to Contest #49

It’s the same thing every day. I find myself in this same line waiting for the same boring lunch with the same boring friend while we chat about the same boring things. All of the sameness could really make a person go insane. That’s why I have to get out of here. I still have approximately 1,095 days left before I’m free to live my own life on my terms. Everything that I do within these next 1,000 or so days will make or break whether I truly make it out for good.Maybe I can figure out a way to graduate early and I can cut a few hundred day...

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“Flight 909” by Michael McDonald

Submitted to Contest #49

Indianapolis International Airport is huge. Covering 7700 acres, it handles close to 10 million passengers a year from 40 gates and is the second largest FedEx air hub in the world. The main terminal, named in honor of Col. Harvey Weir Cook, a WW1 fighter ace and civilian aviation pioneer in the state of Indiana, appears to be a futuristic oval hangar big enough to house Captain Kirk's U.S.S. Enterprise. The inside of the terminal houses scores of businesses from popular coffee shops to top of the line department stores, albeit on a much sma...

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