Center your story around a character who’s afraid of being forgotten.

Posted in Dramatic on Jan 17, 2025

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“Room 312” by Deb Dobbins

Submitted to Contest #286

Celia lay in the dark wondering what horrors were in store for her tonight. The nights were the worst. The night shift was always short workers, by the time they got to everyone in her section it was always, too little too late. I mean, what are you to do if you can’t get out of bed and do for yourself, you wait for someone to make it to your room and hope it’s not too late. Celia had already pushed the call button on the tethered device laying clipped to her pillow. She had pushed the button an hour ago, now she couldn’t wait, meaning she w...

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“Stories We Keep on Display” by Jenna Lee

Submitted to Contest #286

Red, white, and blue were the colors that greeted me when I arrived at the front door of my grandparents’ house one hot day in June as the American flag blew in the breeze overhead. A six hour plane flight and a half-hour drive across Ohio’s endless acres of corn later had brought me and my father to their little cul-de-sac for three days and three nights of no internet and no cell phones. “Wifi, I miss you already,” I thought to myself.My father and I had just begun our first day in Germantown, Ohio, which would largely be spent in the Vete...

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