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

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“How did my long-distance relationship work?” by Jhen Ny

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How did my long-distance relationship work? You know, I really loved him back then. I don't really remember how my feelings matured and became love, but I remember the moment when he and I first kissed, we confided in our love and agreed to be together. It was no surprise to those around us because we are always together, in high school and at home. We study together, we listen to music together, an earpiece shared between his hear and mine, our backs crash on my bed. He was my best friend and became my boyfriend. The years passed and I ...

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“We Must Bid You Adieu ” by Brenda Liddy

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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. We Must Bid You Adieu Maria had never heard of Greta Thunberg, the Swedish climate change activist nor has she ever heard of the shrinking ice caps and the loss of habitat for polar bears. She has not seen the poignant images of polar bears on ice floes searching for food. But she knows something is seriously wrong with the climate. In her village of Tebontebike, in Abaiang she is photographed standing beside an uprooted cocon...

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“Salt in the Wind” by Aiden Solomon

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Rodrigo Prieto raised the mast. People stared at the man in grave concern. He dropped down to the beach and began to push the boat into the sea. More people came down to the shore. “Rodrigo, stop this madness!” Mama Estrella yelled as she made her way through the crowd. The sail submitted to the strong winds. Rodrigo jumped on the boat, scraping his knees in the process. People from all corners of the island watched the second man who was insane enough to leave the island. Two thousand staring faces did not bother him. ‘We Prietos are...

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“What is past paradise. ” by Lindaa G

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It was a remarkable, summery day.My hair was blowing in the breeze and the sand was slipping from my toes, as I was walking along the beach. The trees and the exotic creatures were all around me I felt like this was home, but for the first time in my whole life I started feeling like I want to get out and venture, Mystery surrounded my thoughts, curiosity ate away at my heart and soul. I grabbed a mango from a tree that towered over my small hut house. I sat down and stare out into the distance, the colours in the water glistening showing my...

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“The Same Sky” by Eduardo Garcia

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“The waves’ll kill you.” Jules slashed into the dry log with his stone axe. “If not the waves then thirst. Or hunger.” Jules took a sliced piece of bark and tossed it to a basket on his left. “Rocks. There’s rocks everywhere out at sea.” Jules repeated the process several times. “And whatever else is down there, hiding in the water.” Jules' grip continued slipping as the sweat crawling down his arms cooled his warm muscles and stuck to his fingers. A day’s work underneath the palms had come to an end. Grabbing the basket, Jules t...

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“Stephen” by Hani Farhan

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He was a man, a lonely man but the reason he was happy was that he lived in a beautiful, stress-relief island. He was a man about the age of nineteen. Once he fell off a boat when he was eight, his family didn’t notice but when they did they panicked but it was no use, Stephen arrived at an undiscovered island, the island was all empty not a single person there, Stephen owned the island. He grew up his whole life on the island, for twelve years. The island was about the size of ten houses combined. He also did not know how to talk properly. ...

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“Out of the box.” by Ark Vandal

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The house hunkers on its rough rocky hill, listing and tilting to its side, and as the ocean slaps at the hill, spraying fine drops in the air when it surges upwards, the house almost seems to reach for it. The house is made of windows; glass and metal and nothing else, overgrown with climbing vines and almost bare poison oak, still shedding the last of its deep red leaves. This is where my life may end. At least, the life I have lived for all of my sixteen years. The horses slow at the foot of the hill and send the lantern swinging in its p...

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“Adam” by Patricia Turner

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Mama had told me that, if I ever saw something at the line where the water meets the sky, I should build the biggest, smokiest fire I could on the beach and keep it going until the thing went away. That had only happened once before and nothing had happened, except the thing went away, but I did what Mama told me to anyway. This time, the thing got bigger. Soon, a smaller thing started coming towards the beach from the big thing. Mama had said t...

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“Under the Sun, Lost and Found” by Nandini Singh

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It is my wedding tomorrow. Not the one I imagined under the tropical sun. They are sending me away. It is for my own good, I am told. I am the only child of my parents and an obedient one too. So when they decided to send me away, I quietly obeyed. That evening I go for a stroll and as I walk, I near a tiny, almost desolate cave by the sea where I first fell in love. We usually don't get a lot of tourists but that summer my island was swarmed with buzz and splendor. I was 18 then and had taken an extra shift showing the tourists around. ...

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“Tropical Dungeon” by Arthur Lee

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trop-ic-al: adj. hot and humid; torrid. I wake up. The distant cawing of the birds reminds me of my existence on these lands. This land. It's been a while since I've seen a blue sky, or a thick forest, or even a sandy white beach. Lately, I've begun to wonder whether the books are lying. Whether the pictures are lying. Whether my memory is lying. The sky is black. Not blue, not grey, not littered with clouds, and never lit up with lightning. Black. Black, like the birds which caw in the trees each morning. Black, like the color of the pa...

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“NO NEVER. I WILL NOT.” by SHYAMALA BHUVANACHANDRAN

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Mohini was once very stubborn that she would never step out of this island nestled in the group of Car Nicobar Islands. But today she was nudging her husband to go to mainland India. The island Kamorta, which she hailed as a paradise on earth, everything about it was very beautiful. What with tall coconut trees, bushy green woods, swinging winds, roaring waves striking the sandy shores, the receding waves leaving behind small fishes, clouds with the help of sunlight painting the sky with varied hues and designs… all so enchanting and ever de...

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“The Flowers of New Orleans” by A. L. V.

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In the Roth Mansion, there have always been a strict set of rules to follow. It's been our lifestyle, our history, our morals, our principles. But possibly for the first time in generations, or ever, the most important rule that we lived by was about to be broken. Never leave the mansion. And for the first time in my ten years of life, I was going to step outside the mansion. I am Azalea Charles Roth, one of the youngest, currently living members of the Roth family, and the great, great, great granddaughter of Charles Lee Roth. I t...

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“Greed” by Evan Schoettle

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My roots were, and have always been, planted on the island of Ruderic. A very small corner of paradise, hidden away in the thousands of islands of the Philippines. Here, the sun was abundant and seemingly a key role in our existence. This was made clear to me come the rainy season where I felt wilted and depressed with little to no activity on my part. Others, though, were not affected as me. Others flourished, thrived and grew. Things seemed to come back to life for many as I...

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“IVAN THE HERMIT” by Robbie Kirk

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IVAN THE HERMIT They called him the hermit. He hadn’t left the island for twenty-two years except to sail tonight to the Cleveland Jetty with his unmarried younger sister. The cream sails filled with the breeze and the yacht was on a reach as if on rails. Ivan’s hand gripped the tiller, his eyes searching the coastline for the two massive Bunya pines that were said to mark the entrance to the settlement. The sound of water gurgling along the gunwales was mus...

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“A Small Red Ball And A Little Brown Friend ” by Daniel Rhodes

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A Small Red Ball and A Little Brown FriendA young boy kicked a small red ball across a land of golden-fields. The sparkling-crystal liquid laid at the top of his foot. At his side was a brown little mutt, covered in dirt and riddled with fleas. The two played upon the golden-fields for hours until the end of the days.Once the yellow-globe fell and the black-blanket covered the golden-fields. The boy and the mutt knew it was time to go home. The golden-fields were different under the black-blanket. This always confused the boy. He would stand...

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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.

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✍️ 83 stories

“How did my long-distance relationship work?” by Jhen Ny

“We Must Bid You Adieu ” by Brenda Liddy

“Salt in the Wind” by Aiden Solomon

“What is past paradise. ” by Lindaa G

“The Same Sky” by Eduardo Garcia

“Stephen” by Hani Farhan

“Out of the box.” by Ark Vandal

“Adam” by Patricia Turner

“Under the Sun, Lost and Found” by Nandini Singh

“Tropical Dungeon” by Arthur Lee

“NO NEVER. I WILL NOT.” by SHYAMALA BHUVANACHANDRAN

“The Flowers of New Orleans” by A. L. V.

“Greed” by Evan Schoettle

“IVAN THE HERMIT” by Robbie Kirk

“A Small Red Ball And A Little Brown Friend ” by Daniel Rhodes

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