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Write about someone who’s lived on a tropical island their whole life and is leaving it for the very first time.

Posted in Dystopian on Oct 26, 2022

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“Journey to a new place” by Miy Smith

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Analise used to dream about going to the states. She used to dream of what she would become, the friends she would make and the home she would live in. It had always been a dream of hers to start over with opportunities to grow. Analise was from the virgin islands. Warm weather and sandy beaches surrounded her, but she always wondered what it would be like to live somewhere else. To not live the same routine repeatedly. One day Analise was walking by a build board and notices an ad saying, “Great opportunities in the U.S., caregivers wante...

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“Island Getaway” by Lizzy Duffield-Fuller

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The day was endlessly blue, the heat rose in shimmering waves from the sand, painting everything with a golden glow, birds bickered in the treetops and I was utterly miserable. I scrunched my bare feet deep into the sands, feeling the grains congregate between my hooked toes and I sighed. Another day in paradise. I didn’t turn around as Tony threw himself down beside me, sending a spray of golden grains into the breezeless sky.   “There you are, Celeste. Your mum’s looking for you.” I scowled at him but he only laughed. He never...

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“The Modern world” by Xiao McdonaldsWorker

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Chapter 1 I picked up a coconut. I sliced it open. I lived on an island for all of my life with my family. I loved it there. That was why I was devastated when I heard what my mom had said. “Anna, can you come over here?” mom called. I walked over to the tent we made over the years. “Yes?”  “Anna...you’re going to the modern world.” Mom said. “Umm what?” I asked. My eyes lingered on...paper? “Mom...where did you get paper?” My mom showed me the paper. I could read it since my parents taught me how to read. To Annalise Blockwood, Hello...

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“The Rising Sun ” by George Frost

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Emerging from his sleeping quarters, Akihiro heard the low rumbling of a large diesel engine. He had lived on this small unnamed island ten miles due east of the Isabell on an atoll in the Marshall Islands for many years.  He had no way of knowing exactly how long he had been here, the sun would rise and set marking another undistinguished day.  Listening to the engine, Akihiro wondered if today was the day he would meet his enemy in a final showdown.  His officer’s uniform hung on the hook near his bunk.  He spent time ...

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“New In Town” by Patricia Green

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NEW IN TOWN. Tommy sat on the white sandy beach, a gentle breeze blowing his long, blonde curly hair, watching, and listening to the tropical blue waves roll gently into shore. He had sat here every morning for as long as he could remember and would never grow tired of this scene, but today he felt like something was missing, or more like he was missing something. Tommy’s Mother May, walked down the dunes and sat down beside her eldest son. “It’s so lovely at this time of the day, but it’s going to get very hot later. Are you okay Tommy? Y...

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“A view You'll never Forget” by Scarlette Ash

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The ocean breeze whips my unmanageable hair in various directions, blocking my view of the light blue sky in the horizon. Where we're going, will my hair suddenly be tame? Will I die of such changes? Running barefoot on my island and growing with the grass, the trees, the meadow, it's been my whole life. Why must I leave it? Marriage, honor, tradition, it is the way of our people. These are words my father has repeated thousands of times, yet I cannot bear to hear them once more. For I fear that if I do, I will run into the embrace of the se...

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“The Villain” by Amy Utami

Submitted to Contest #83

Let's greeted our villain in this story, Re. A young loner gorilla with seven years of experience living on the earth. His dad died early and mom was unable to protect him from her lover's ruthless behavior. At a very young age, half-dead, he was saved by humans and sent to his new house. Where his so-called foster-human-mother, Nenna, spoiled him with tons of delicious fruits and sometimes insects. Even though, Re was never favored one. He thinks those bugs were giggling like a jelly with too much acid, didn't tasty at all, yuck! And eve...

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“Land ahoy!” by Vanessa Queens

Submitted to Contest #83

-        Land ahoy! shouted the watch from the crow’s nest of the main mast. That was good news for the crew; they had been at sea for such a long time that they were almost running out of both supplies and patience. They all ran to the poop deck laughing and squinted in the distance, or used their hands to block the scorching sun. An island was visible in the distance. The men felt lucky. It definitely wasn’t the first island they explored, but it had been such a long time since the last one. Captain...

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“The Tsunami” by Roger Crane

Submitted to Contest #83

Note, wrote this between 5:15 pm and now (about 6:30) today, just to keep my hand in here. Hope you like it, although there is only a little dialogue in this one.It had only taken a short time for the tidal wave to cover the island. It was seen offshore on its way in and ten minutes later it arrived. No one was prepared—how could they be? A massive wall of water three-hundred feet high does not take much time to cross many miles of ocean—on the other side of which a volcano had split off one side, sliding it into the ocean with a giant “kerp...

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“A Chance of Hope” by Jacob Rainey

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"Let's see here, 8,072 days... That's a little over 22 years that I've lived on this island." A darkly skinned man counted out loud. "I know, my baby boy. I know that you want to see the world beyond our home. I just wish that you wouldn't leave with them. In fact, I encourage you not to." An  elderly  woman  spoke,  as  she  sat  down  on  a  roughly  cut  conifer  bench. “Lano,  our  family  has  ...

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“The Reader of Runes” by Carole Cobos

Submitted to Contest #83

I have written records all my life. About the stars, the runes. Everything- never once have I written about myself.But here it goes; When I was young- five I think?My mom would tell me scary stories about other islands, bigger islands. Islands where the weather always changed and no day was exactly the same.Where lightning- a voltage of light and power- struck sand and trees. Where the trees fell onto houses and killed families. Where the earth shook and floods- which was when the nearby body of water acted up and drowned the area-...

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“Taken ” by 𝒮𝓊𝓂𝓂𝑒𝓇 𝓑𝓪𝓻𝓽𝓸𝓷

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She ran through the undergrowth, as though she were a rabbit, or a hare. "One. Two. Three. Four...", she heard her mother count from behind an oak tree. Eri smiled. She knew her mother would never find her new hiding spot, at least not this time! She ran down a worn path, taking a shortcut. There was a strange object in the water, floating, like a majestic being. It was big, and brown, and the newcomers that came off of it said it was called a boat. The boat took the across the water, they had explained at the camp. It was big. Bigger than a...

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“Escaping Havelock” by Tanvi Jeph

Submitted to Contest #83

Escaping Havelock Maitie was as beautiful as the Havelock Island of India, her face was as calm as the cool sea-breeze and her eyes were shiny like the scorching sun, her skin was like the tanned sand of Havelock and her hair swayed swiftly like the lofty palm trees which she used to tie up with the joined petiole of the leaves, She was very young about sixteen years old. Maitie and her clan used to inhabit the south-west region of the archipelagoes which was away from tourists as they thought that they were very threatening to their livel...

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“Blood brothers” by Sando .

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If you follow Omura’s whale to the place where palmheads dance on the sea’s bravest mountain, that is where you will find it.I never wanted to leave my island, for it was a paradise.Her name is Nagui, which means ‘the fearless one’, and my brother Nop and I had grown up happy in the arms of her lagoon.Nop and I often walked together to the far side of the island where he would spearfish and I would search for the nests of sea turtles beneath the dunes. It was on one of these walks that he asked me how our island got her name, for althou...

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“A Sip of Home” by Samantha Young

Submitted to Contest #83

The light brown sand, already hot from the sun's rays, squish between my toes as I step off the pitch paved road and onto the beach. Ten feet from the shore-line is my brother, Jeremy, and my best friend, Brian, hunched over in a stooping position, waxing their boards. Hundreds of black birds, similar to vultures, fly through the air, going from one end of the beach to the other, and back again. The rush of the waves bring my eyes towards the ocean; Maracas Bay. The number one beach on the island, known for having the best surfing waves an...

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