Write about two friends who were once inseparable, but now find themselves growing apart — or even friends turned enemies.

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“Ash to Redemption” by Kylie Milne

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Ash to Redemption It was the second time the shed had caught fire. I was surprised that the Anderson's entire property hadn't burned down when another "accident" occurred on the 31st of October in 1995. And I knew from that moment when I locked eyes with Mr. Anderson's only daughter Sarah, that the fire was no accident. We were kindred spirits, Sarah and me. We were the only ones who hadn't been brainwashed by her father's wealth and her stepmother's lack of manners to the rest of us who didn't come from "money," as my father a...

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“Hawthorn Girls” by Sarah Cline

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Hawthorn Girlsby Sarah ClineSpring, in west Texas, just before the end of things.I frowned and nudged the gas pedal as I neared the side road that branched toward the kudzu-wrapped church where Anne and I had met the summer before first grade.Our families didn’t know each other yet. Just chance, that we’d sat next to each other one Sunday, when an ornery summer wind muttered at the doorway.The preacher had been in rare form, jowls aquiver and sweat rolling down one temple. “And in lakes of fire, the sinners burn! And in ashes and torment, t...

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“A Mountain Divides Us. ” by Chrissy Winters

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Nila snuffed her cigarette out on the bottom of her worn burgundy Doc Martin boot, and gulped a breath of blue tinged, ethereal misty air. She was sitting at the bottom of Silverburn mountain waiting, like she did every Sunday night.Tapping her foot impatiently she reached into her back pocket to check her phone. You’ve got to be kidding meThere were no messages and it was eight forty five. Devon was late. “Where the fuck is he?” Nila was fooling herself by asking herself that rhetorical little question because she k...

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“Growing a part” by Miriam Culy

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Sammie was staring intensely through her microscope at the petri dish before her. Her dreams of being a princess long behind her, she had swapped ballgowns for scrubs, tiaras for a facemask, satin gloves for latex ones, and a castle for a lab. The tissue cells she was studying had multiplied appropriately since her last observation, and a smile escaped the confines of her mask, spreading up to her grey-blue eyes. It had worked.With a stream of thoughts flooding through her mind, she pulled off her disposable apron and threw it in the hazard ...

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“A Fragile Faith” by Janie Holliday

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I am a heretic. There had been a time I would have never understood the path I am on now. A time I would have chosen not to understand. It hadn’t been so long ago. The sacred texts had explicitly stated that my actions constituted heresy. Or, at least, as our teachers had told us repeatedly. I have never read the sacred texts, nor anyone I know personally or those who claim to be its protectors. I will not begrudge them their faith; I, too, believed in the words of the Holy Doctors when I was younger. As a child, I dreamed of being o...

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“Lunar Cirque” by Astraea Persephone

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Lunar Cirque was a dwarf planet where the rain glowed fuschia and smelled like cotton candy. I hated cotton candy. I hated anything lacking in substance. My boots sloshed through the glowing puddles as the night sky showered over a slum of assorted box cars with windows and sliding doors stacked over one another. The Freights were unlivable quarters designated to razorbacks, carnies and human refugees like myself. It made me sick to my stomach that any existent could withstand the torture. Humans didn’t have two tokens to rub tog...

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“Killer” by Marie Perederii

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I had been to his funeral, I had seen him being carried down the aisle and I can tell you for the fact that it was not I who murdered him. There are many rumors and I suspect the real murder is the one behind them all.It is my duty to find out who decided to frame me. I have been unrightfully punished, it is as though the world has accepted that I, John Henry Keprate, murdered my dear brother. I do not understand how the world that I live in can be so cruel. But what I do know is that my brother was a complicated man with many en...

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“Olivia” by C. Charles

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**Author’s note: Finished but not edited! Busy week and I didn’t get to edit this as much as I wanted. Hopefully I will be able to tweak it before it is approved!**It’s strange how well you can remember seemingly insignificant moments with crystal-clear recollection while big moments are a little fuzzy around the edges. Whenever I think about playing in my first concert, for example, it feels quiet and far away, like I’m watching it on one of those countertop TVs my grandparents had that never had very good reception.But then I think about a...

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“Real Rebels” by Maya Peak

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The line between disobedience and taboo was plenty visible. Emboldened, marked with signs, lined with barbed wire, fraught with surveillance. Lacey and Damien, rebels and free spirits, spent many of their teen years together dancing on the side of disobedience, goaded by gawking onlookers and always with a bird ready to flipped out. The heat and the allure still was felt on the back of their necks when they thought about life on the other side. Could they maybe touch the other side without anyone knowing? Without the other knowing? Without h...

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“Friends II” by Cosmic Neon

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“Let’s get married”, Tyson and Diane lay on the lawn in front of Tyson's house, Diane kept breaking the petals off dead sunflowers. “Why?”, Tyson asked her.Diane sat up, “Because if we get married we can live in the same house and have so much fun together”“Like what?”, Tyson also sat up“Well we can stay up and watch movies together, we can eat candy and ice cream together, draw pictures together, and so much more”, Diane blabbed.“But what if we fight or argue”, Tyson stated, “My mom and dad always fight and argue, I don’t wanna fight you”Di...

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“You Killed My Daddy” by Michael Jefferson

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Casper, Wyoming 1891 Buck Brumley takes a long pull off his whiskey glass. “I wanted to run away, but I didn’t have any money, so I’d stay anywhere folks in town would let me. After a few days, I’d go home and face my daddy’s wrath. One time, Cade caught me sleepin’ in his brother’s livery stable. Despite him bein’ well off and educated, and me bein’ poor and stupid, we hit it off. Cade got me a job at the stable. I kept needlin’ him that he was too young to be so serious, that we should be fourteen-year-old pirates and go off on adventur...

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“dear mol.” by Mercy Haub

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TW: sexual assaultThis is a poem about how someone I was very close to sexually assaulted a friend of mine and how I cut her out of my life completely. The individual she assaulted was her double in our school show Peter and the Starcatcher. They played my friend/love interest Molly Aster and I played Peter (Pan).Please stop.Stop sneaking into my dreams,Lurking behind every door and plotline.Stop showing up in my photo memories,“One year ago today”.Stop echoing in my thoughts,My observations.Stop injecting adrenaline and anxietyInto my entir...

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“Where We Once Were One” by Bri Smith

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Three years before, I’d stood on this very field, encompassed by the richness that was the battle smoke, hand and hand with Esleigh while she swung her sword. Every whistle through the air took down the foe that dared to harm me. Now, she was the foe that dared to harm me. The moonlight was thick behind her, sharpening the curve of her set jaw and the sparkle of ash in her eye. Her grip tightened on her sword and her nostrils flared. Esleigh was a traitor to the throne yet she wasn’t ashamed to show it. In fact, she bask...

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“Some Girls Are Meaner Than Others ” by Diamond Keener

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HannahShe smacked Ahmed’s hand away from her shoulder. He was moving his hand absentmindedly. His fingers kept circling around the letters. As if his touch was emphasizing the name. Those four letters she wanted so badly to have removed. It was like having a permanent third degree burn. It irritated her to no end. In the middle of the night she would wake with deep scratches. It was as though she had been trying to dig it out of her flesh. It was her idea to get the tattoos in the first place. Her fault, Nina hadn’t wanted to. Nina said...

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“The time capsule” by Penny Winn

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“Twenty steps forward from door and thirty steps toward woods. Under the pile of rocks,” Krissy recited from the notebook paper in her hand. Hmmm, how many Ava-size steps today to equal the twenty steps of 13-year old Ava? How significantly could her shoe size have changed in 17 years? She’d always had big feet, for a girl. Could they have been size 10’s as a young teenager? Maybe. Probably. “One, two, three, four…” Ava started counting. Once she hit twenty, she turned to her right and started counting steps toward the woods. Krissy wa...

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Write about two friends who were once inseparable, but now find themselves growing apart — or even friends turned enemies.

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✍️ 79 stories

“Ash to Redemption” by Kylie Milne

“Hawthorn Girls” by Sarah Cline

“A Mountain Divides Us. ” by Chrissy Winters

“Growing a part” by Miriam Culy

“A Fragile Faith” by Janie Holliday

“Lunar Cirque” by Astraea Persephone

“Killer” by Marie Perederii

“Olivia” by C. Charles

“Real Rebels” by Maya Peak

“Friends II” by Cosmic Neon

“You Killed My Daddy” by Michael Jefferson

“dear mol.” by Mercy Haub

“Where We Once Were One” by Bri Smith

“Some Girls Are Meaner Than Others ” by Diamond Keener

“The time capsule” by Penny Winn

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