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Write about a character who’s finally on the verge of achieving their lifelong dream.

Posted in Dramatic on Jul 23, 2021

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Valley Of The Window

Submitted to Contest #66

Daxter stood at the edge of the cliff thinking, one more time and this could be it. His thick goggles were designed to break the force of the wind. His suit was thin enough to provide comfort and well padded to protect him from the windchill. This was his sixth time on this same cliff. This same exact spot. Every year for the past six years, he managed to convince the entire village that his perfectly welded contraption would take him past the valleys and gates of the city, beyond the clouds and into the great remote yonder. Five attempts, f...

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Her Turn in The Spotlight

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It’s amazing, how dreams come true. They don’t arrive in a unicorn or rainbow kind of way. Real Dreams don’t roll up in a glitter-covered pumpkin carriage. No, that’s not how real dreams arrive. Real dreams take work. The blood, sweat, and tears kind. The middle of the night in the pouring down rain and a 10-degree windchill with a fever but you’re going to get this done because you know you have to kind of work. Your dreams don’t care who else cares about them. They aren’t dreaming your dreams.  Olivia Nicole Davies arrived at th...

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The Queer New Lawyer

Submitted to Contest #66

Winning arguments is my middle name. Since I was little, winning arguments was all I cared about doing. The subject of the debate never mattered to me. All I cared about was beating my opponent. At least, that was until I began my lectures as a law scholar. Now that I've begun the study of modern laws, achieving the successful argument has lessened as the achievement I primarily thought it was.As I emerge from my slumber, my roommate Chasey hops onto my bed. Still shaking off the effects of slumber, I gently blink in acknowledgment. Chasey s...

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The Best Is Yet To Come!

Submitted to Contest #66

Prologue 1990 I peeked out my public housing window looking for the Head Start bus. It would be pulling up soon with Crystal, my youngest child. It was her first day of school, and I was excited to hear about her day. I thought of my mother, a former school teacher,  who always asked, “What did you learn in school today?”  She’d get right down on her knees and speak to me at eye level.  “Toni, what do you know now that you didn’t know this morning?” She’d lean in and really listen to what I had to say. I wished she were...

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The star and Sara's dream

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Today, there's no one without dreams, there's little, big or even long or short dreams, we all have dreams. The difference is that someone left their dream and someone was trying to make it real. On a night of cold December night in America. Sara sat on the balcony. She lost her father, who was beaten by cancer and died. She was feeling a little upset and disappointed. It's like a message for a year coming up, sad and difficult for her without her father. Sara had a dream since childhood. She wants to be a good doctor no more. But she had a ...

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Murder At The Circus

Submitted to Contest #66

Day one at the circus.There’s been a murder, at the circus.The circus looks faded and slightly deflated in the morning light as if the night stole some of its glamour.The tents are striped black and red, a few chickens run around in mad circles looking for food, in the distance a women is hanging up washing on a washing line. I cannot see any body else but I can hear lots of voices coming from the biggest tent at the far side of the field. It must be the dining tent; I can smell chicken and oil from that direction.The tent I’m supposed to ap...

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Blind Boldness

Submitted to Contest #66

The message on Marten’s phone marked the point of no return. “Sure. Come by around 1.”A single obstacle with an indeterminate expiration date was the only hindrance to Marten’s success. He was well aware most people dreamed of fancy things or fame. For him, a dream with two parts was in reach, and he planned to embrace both. After that? Well, he doubted he would care. He couldn’t see over this hill, but after twenty-four years of life, the top was in sight. The thrill of it brought beads of sweat to his brow. Marten emerged from hi...

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The Path to Villainy in Ten Easy Steps (You Won't Believe #9!)

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Promise to play nice? That’s a funny question to ask someone behind bars, isn’t it? What on earth ever gave you the idea that I am capable of playing nice?Come on, Mike, you know I’m kidding. I’m kidding! Yes, I promise, now shoo. Good old Mike - such a card. I hope he and the others were accommodating on your way in. Yes? That’s good to hear. Sometimes, they can be a little surly, but I’ve discovered they respond well to correction.Does that surprise you? Hmm.Right, let’s get to it. Test one two three. Test one two three. “She thrusts her f...

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The peace that comes with freedom

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Tonight, it would finally happen. Ever since I was ten years old, I have only ever wanted one thing. Freedom. My soul ached for it more than anything. Today, was my 18th birthday. I heard mom calling for me from downstairs, the sound was muffled, and warped. Like something was stuck inside my ears. I lumbered down the stairs, barely feeling the wood against my bare feet. Mom handed me something, an envelope, and smiled at me, “Happy birthday Evelynn.” I took it carefully and headed back to my room. Back to my cage where I harbored my...

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Manifest Cosmos

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Part 1: GaiaI’d never expected to be sent up there alone.To climb into that big bulky suit, plant that fishbowl on my head, pat the Stars and Brits on my sleeve and clamber into that shaky shuttle and just float… float up there all alone. I suppose the Moon is like my home country, with vast expanses that separate man from woman from child, that seem so immeasurably insurmountable, but alive in itself.Regardless, I’m twitching in anticipation, despite how much comfort I find in my destination being so familiar there is still a feeling of tre...

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Fields of empty Memories

Submitted to Contest #66

Shoes shuffled lightly against the marble floor. The echoing filling the corners of the room until the sound faded to nothing.A louder pair of footsteps followed the first. These ones clicking as hard heels struck against the stone.A hill, covered in long waving grasses. Tall flowers colored like rainstorms and faded photos. Two children. A little girl, with braided hair and sparkling eyes. A little boy, whose hair wasn’t long enough to braid and eyes like sparks. A wreath of flowers spilling out of scarred hands. Falling as they brushed aga...

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Rich Dreams

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The sky was heavy and grey. It reminded Emma of the ugly sweater that her Grandmother had made for her last Christmas. It had ended up in her closet amongst the pile of stuff that she would never wear but couldn’t throw away without hurting someone’s feelings.A cool morning breeze made its way through the window, swirled through the kitchen and brought Emma a delicious smell of coffee, maple syrup and petrichor. She sat at the table, fiddling with her watch and tapping her heels nervously on the tiled, white floor. Today was the day. The day...

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Secret

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She couldn't believe it. She couldn't believe that she was seated here, in the boardroom of the biggest rock band this side of the Sahara. She couldn't believe that she was seated in the boardroom that was in the private jet of the biggest rock band this side of the Sahara! It took all her will power not to go into full fan girl mode. Right in front of her were faces that she had admired from afar for most of her teenage years. In all her twenty-one years, never would she have imagined that the day would come when she would be seated in ...

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The Crushed Rose

Submitted to Contest #66

“ Saheb, saheb, please take this bunch of fresh roses for memsahib”, cajoling and running along the flashing BMW car was Rose, the flower girl, at the intersection where the car waited briefly for the signal to change from red to green. But before the passenger could decide, the light changed from Red to Green and the traffic moved like a giant wave leaving Rose behind like an abandoned sea shell on the beach waiting for the next wave to wash it back to the sea.  The name Rose stirs our imagination of royalty, soft te...

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The next celebrity

Submitted to Contest #66

Wake up. School. Practise. Sleep. It’s always been the same, I guess. Well less of the last one if we’re being serious as nights always fade into dawn’s arrival. Ever since I was seven these days of routine have followed me around, haunting me into being something more than the average. Into being someone worth something. It is weird though, I guess, how little value I place on myself as a person, elevating my skills and attributes above anything and everything else. But it’s going to be worth it. Just one more day, one more day until t...

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