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Write about a character discovering something new about their past that changes how they remember an important moment.

Posted in Dramatic on Jul 15, 2021

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“Bay Minette” by Matthew Eubanks

Submitted to Contest #61

Bay Minette, Alabama is not the town you live in. It's the city that's always in the way of you getting somewhere else. It's the town you drove through on your way to the Gulf when you were first trying to get ahold of the girl named Darla. It was the first time you'd ever traveled together. You want to get her to the beach. You noticed the water tower and thought about how the wording was backwards. How in Iowa it would have been named the reverse way. Minette Bay. Bay of Minette. Then she started talking about how hard it was to feed the ...

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“Summer to Remember” by Amy Sutch

Submitted to Contest #61

“Hey, Toni!” Blair said, into her phone. She walked out of range of the baby, who she’d just gotten to sleep.            “Blair! It’s good to hear from you,” Toni answered. “How’s my little sister? How’s motherhood?”            “Exhausting” Blair admitted looking at her disheveled figure in the sliding glass doors. The beautiful fall leaves were changing, and she’d barely noticed. When was the last time she’d felt...

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“THE PROPHECY” by Oreoluwa Oludipo

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Louisa couldn’t always lucid dream. But once she was aware of the ability there was that one place and time she consciously kept going back too. January 8 1998, the little cabin in the woods in North Elba, New York. Against a backdrop of pure white snow twelve years old Louisa Coleman stood in her newest, least favorite, grey, winter coat doing her best to keep her eyes open. The snow was falling only lightly but there was a wicked breeze blowing against her face. A stone throw distance from where she stood an hymn steadily rose out of the c...

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“In Another Time” by Jill Noelle

Submitted to Contest #61

“Mira! I need your help up here in the attic please!” My grandmother called.  I still couldn’t believe my grandmother had to sell her house. There were so many fond memories from my childhood there. Every which way I turned, there was some sort of memento or some object that brought back a glimpse of what it was like growing up in a house full of love.  I remember when my father died, grandma took mom and me in to help with all of the bills. Now that my mother is dead, it seems like this house is the only thing left of her that I ...

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“"Ya Snooze, Ya Loose." : An LMP Green Tale” by GREENDOODLISM .

Submitted to Contest #61

Billy stopped dead in his tracks, his hand reaching out instinctively for her. They were walking around the small city garden of Diana’s new home. They’d gone outside to share a sneaky joint. They’d been friends since the 90’s, since high-school. Sure they’d lost touch, sometimes for years at a time but thanks to social media they managed to stay in contact. On the rare occasions where their paths actually crossed they always fell naturally into an easy groove of friendship. So here they were reminiscing at her house warming.  Dianna fe...

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“A Divergent Path” by Philip Baker

Submitted to Contest #61

The curtain wall is foggy and dazzlingly bright as the sun's rays fall on it from a little angle. They hit on its surface perpendicularly, making it exceedingly hard to look anything beyond it, as if they mark a shiny shield in which you are well-sheltered behind. Various people in professional dressings come and go as they grab their hot morning-coffee from displeased employees behind the cash register. A few of them sit down in the little round tables dispersed into the area, making chit-chat as they read their newspapers. I, on the other ...

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“Grateful only to God” by TheCritic Boy

Submitted to Contest #61

James sat dumbfounded as the guy in front of him kept talking, not being able to take it anymore he hurriedly interrupted. "N-no it wasn't like that. I-I remember that day I-I, H-how could I-" "Not Notice? We both know the answer to that don't we? " The doctor calmly sipped his coffee as James grounded his knuckles against the table. "How did he handle it?" James took a deep breathe and decided to ask the question whose answer he couldn't remember. "Badly. But you know it is a bit funny that you don't even know that. Do you even reme...

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“Our Little Secret” by Jean Goulden

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Our Little Secret “Come on!  I’m right aren’t I?”  I ask her.  She takes a rattling breath, reaches a trembling, scaly hand for her cigarette and smiles an enigmatic, annoying, Mona Lisa smile, - and did she give a shallow nod?  I’m not sure.  Mom’s got laryngitis – well that’s the lie my sisters tell her. They also tell her she’s moved in “just until she gets better”, but they’re already planning her wake!  What a family, desperate to party no matter what the occasion. &nb...

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“Cherry Blossom Petals, Converse High and You” by 나리 안

Submitted to Contest #61

I distinctly remember a scene from exactly a year, five months and three days ago, even as I forget what I’d eaten for breakfast before I went to school. The pink petals floating around my room, the text I’d gotten that day, the smile plastered on my face. Second-year, oblivious, Converse High me couldn’t even comprehend what happened next. He left. He had moved somewhere else, and he had forgotten all about me. No goodbye. Not even a glance back at me, who was waiting for him the whole time. But that… really isn’t my problem anymore, though...

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“The Young Assassin” by Anonymous 1

Submitted to Contest #61

At the age of 12, Natham had already filled a single piece of paper with his numbers of slaughter. He counted the list of names with his fingers but immediately gave up when he found out that even his own pair of hands is not enough. He stood in the midst of a messy pile of corpses, his eyes close as he inhaled the familiar scent of metal. Natham breathes it in like oxygen allowing its fresh scent to circulate unto his lungs. It filled him with power, with memories that he can only remember by sniffing fresh blood. Once it had driven Natham ...

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“Jack & Jony Tower” by HBR Patel

Submitted to Contest #61

'Thank you for your support, Mr.Hardy. Your guidance and monetary help made this complex a possibility. The hundreds of children that will benefit from this complex will be forever grateful to you,' said the principle of a newly opened school in oak park.  Mr. Hardy donated the entire building and also a handsome amount that would ensure the continued sustenance of this facility. That school was his 5th humanitarian project. Tim, or Mr.Hardy as the people knew him, has about 220 real estate properties in the entire state of Illinois. He...

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“A Nightcap” by Monique Abao

Submitted to Contest #61

“Good things come to those who wait.” The chide, a sagely voice whispers in my head as my thumb stopped in mid-scrolling. With gritted teeth, I heed the call. The lights behind the blinds are non-existent and the sounds of passing vehicles had become sparse. It was late and I have to rest for work tomorrow. You're right. I placed my charging phone back on the bedside table. Always the obedient child to a formless parent, it has been like that since I could remember. In fact, I hardly remember anything. Upon that realization, chaos ensu...

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“Inheritance” by Jasper Quilp

Submitted to Contest #61

I must report the passing of Lady Inglewood, March 31st 1880, two weeks prior now, due to a sudden and unexpected illness whose rapidity of onset was only exceeded by that of her decline. Had the doctors who were called arrived in time, there would have been little they could have offered her. The exact nature of her illness remains unknown, except that the household staff inform me it was preceded by a growing disturbance in her usual behavior and emotional equilibrium. Setting aside the issue of her demise, Inglewood’s estate, including th...

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“The Guardian” by Lyss V.

Submitted to Contest #61

Walking haltingly, I still feel the burn on my head and my face. My abdominal just feel terrible, like an internal blender was placed inside, stirring and it makes me feels nausea. I had a crutch on my right side. It was always with me. However, I've never felt a mixture of both loves and hate towards it. I love it because it supports my limbs that act like jelly at this moment; hates it because it made me lose. Vulnerable to save that deer. ‘Useless’ is the word that I keep cursing myself for thousand times. On the opposite of the street, ...

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“Pandora's Box” by Anjelee Jones

Submitted to Contest #61

It was just a music box, old and rusty from decades of neglect. But opening it seems to be the biggest mistake as I watch how black shadows come out of it... swirling surrounding me.  ___ "Amy, come home." I hear my mother on the phone, her weak voice letting out a small cough on the other line. I am holding the wheel and driving and it's snowing hard. The worlds outside is cold and white.  I keep my eyes on the road, not letting the person in the other line disturb my focus, and also to keep myself calm and distr...

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