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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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“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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“The Box” by D McMillan

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The box I was given the box in a dream by a woman I knew to be dead. It was a highly distinctive box with two hearts entwined on the lid and a lock. I held it in my hands right up to my awakening and then it dwindled in my grasp until there was nothing. Oh well, just a dream, forget about it. I couldn't. In an idle moment in the office, I found myself doodling on a notepad. I am no artist but it was the box I had drawn, badly. The dead woman was my aunt Sasha who had lived in a two-room flat in Norbury. It was my job to clear out her...

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“A Date With History” by Marc Graziadei

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While reading the morning paper, I was quickly reminded of two specific tasks which I had always wanted to execute. Well, for this upcoming Saturday; it’s my parents’ pearl wedding anniversary where most relatives would not only be celebrating, yet also reminiscing their past between the old, the new and the young. This had also been was my week off work and I had time to participate for this gathering. Speaking of which, I had also answered a personal ad to meet somebody new and hopefully have a date to the anniversary party bring for some ...

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“Memories” by Ayush Anand

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“Alright, you have 20 minutes. Your wrist watch won’t work, so we will give you the signal when you have 2 minutes left. Okay, you ready?”, said the nice lady wearing the lab coat  “Yeah, I guess.” I said,  looking around the lab, strapped in the weird looking machine. It had been a year since they developed this technology that could take you to the past. I read about the discovery they made about the god particle in the papers, and after that it wasn’t long before they came up with this. They found a method to send anyone to ...

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“LIFE CYCLE” by Ramanujam Narayan

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I grew up in Chembur, a north eastern suburb of Bombay, now Mumbai. We lived in a colony called Subhash Nagar, comprised of 30 apartments each apartment of two floors had 36 flats, consisting of around 300 square feet. It had one room and one kitchen with a washing area known as morie, for washing utensils and bathing. Each floor had two Toilets and two bathrooms which was common for six families of each floor. There were other colonies too like the Tilak Nagar and Shell Colony with clusters of apartments, similar to Subhash Nagar. These fla...

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“My Life” by Payton Drader

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Hi, my name is Payton. I am a normal ten year old girl, I play soccer, have siblings, and pets but I have something other kids don't. So here is my story It was my dad’s weekend, I couldn’t walk, and I was crying with agony. I let this pain go on for months. It would just get worse by the minute. I remember counting down the days, minutes, and even seconds until it would stop. Entirely unaware that this moment would change my life.It was the spring of 2016, it was like any other day, I ate a breakfast sandwich and a snack, right at lunch tim...

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“TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE” by Emmeline Bisiikwa

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Suzie still remembered the day that her mother left her father. It was a cold rainy morning, and she was looking forward to sleeping in. Instead, her mother woke her up early that day. It was the first weekend of the holidays in September. Her father had just gone to work when their mom woke them and told them to pack a bag each. Their mother told them to just pack the basics, things they really needed, and that they would come back for the rest. She explained that they were leaving their father, but would still see him. That's the day Suz...

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“Shakin’ Like a Leaf” by Izzy G

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The lights above buzz, drawing Azure’s attention. A book, a tale of a small mouse fallen for a human princess, rests idly in his pale hands. The woman behind the desk, manly hands and lipstick on her teeth, smacks her presumably peppermint flavored gum. Besides them, there were three other people in the waiting room. Assumably, a mother and son both dark in complexion and bright in the eye, waiting patiently their turn for a check up or shots. The boy, no older than eight, is sitting next to his mom, a large brightly colored book in his lap....

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“And Then It All Made Sense” by Diane Garner

Submitted to Contest #61

And then it all made sense. It was always a curious story, the way Alice’s mother, Irene, came to live in a tiny, country town in Kentucky after growing up in the big city of Philadelphia, especially when she enjoyed being a big city girl, skipping high school classes to go to see her favorite Big Band, the Glenn Miller Orchestra and outdoor plumbing was her future. Irene was beautiful, dark hair fashioned in the styles of the day, known for her beautiful smile, and after high school, she worked for a finance company, saving money for her f...

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“The Man with the Kind Eyes” by Kira McArdle

Submitted to Contest #61

This can't be real. This can't be how it ends. Staring back at my own reflection, I didn't recognise myself. Nothing could ever be the same again. I could never be the same again. I found myself noticing insignificant things about my complexion, trying to make sense of this situation. My eyes were round and the colour of honey. Staring into my own eyes unsettled me, as it felt as though I was looking at someone else. It felt as though I'd stole these eyes from someone who suited them much better. Honey was sweet, and to be sweet, you have to...

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“Did He Know?” by Tina Marie James

Submitted to Contest #61

I hated it when Lucca didn’t want to talk to me. Every damned July he did this shit to me. But I couldn’t blame him. His baby brother was dead. Today, Daniel would have been twenty-eight or twenty-nine, I think. Hell, it had been so long ago that I often forgot about him. Well, I tried to forget about him, but his electric blue eyes never left mine. I tried to forget his thrashing panic as he gawked at me while water filled his lungs, but that’s all I could see. He should have at least kissed me before he died. He owed me that. I watched my...

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“The Magic Spell” by Tarana Fazal

Submitted to Contest #61

The headlights of the car flashed on the board “Siderok”, as Sahil stopped the car in the parking lot of a restaurant.  He walked to the passenger side of the car, and gave a hand to Nadia as she came out. He wanted to make each moment of her day memorable! The host guided them inside the Siderok restaurant, and asked them to take a seat on the reserved table.  Sahil had arranged a candle lit dinner at a Thai restaurant, as it was their favourite cuisine. At their reserved corner of the place, Nadia stared at the floral decoration,...

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“Where was that? ” by Pj Ortega

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The little boy is slow to wake up. The boy looks around the room and he hears a noise. Strange he thinks too himself as slobber runs down the side of his face. He wipes his mouth and yawns as he try's to come to terms of what he just heard. Their was a loud yell in the distance. He walks over to the front window and looks out. The streets are completely empty. Cars sit alone as the wind sways the tree branches and leaves from side to side. The little boy hears another unfamiliar noise. It sounds like a gasp for air but now he realiz...

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“Crybaby” by Marcelo Barahona

Submitted to Contest #61

 got my first trophy today. It's alright, I guess. I thought I'd be happier with my first one, feel like I had accomplished something. But it didn't feel that way at all, it felt... empty somehow. It was a nice enough ribbon. It was powder baby blue, with the frills around the edges. When I had it pinned to my shirt it drifted lazily in the wind. I didn't like wearing it though. I didn't like people looking at me wearing it. I mean, they couldn't know it was my first ribbon ever, it was like any other ribbon to them. I saw a boy at scho...

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“Saturday Mornings” by Starla Taylor

Submitted to Contest #61

The snow day is loaded with children making snowmen and teenagers sleeping in. Fifteen-year-old Abby isn’t sleepy. Safe and warm in her bedroom, clothed in her favorite pajamas, she stands on a chair rearranging books on her beloved bookshelf. Her dad made it for her tenth birthday. It’s her favorite thing in the entire world and every time she looks at it, she thinks of him. "Your father couldn't read," her mom blurts out of nowhere.  Startled, Abby turns and drops the book she was holding. Her mom is standing in the door...

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