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“Your Forever Friend; Part Two” by Tvisha Yerra

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Six months before “Your Forever Friend” “Kush! A little help maybe?” I call to him. He looks up, and frowns. “With what?” Kush immediately goes back to his textbook, flipping another page. I roll my eyes, would it be so hard to actually make eye contact? “Just come here,” I whine. Kush looks up once again, and purses his lips, but gets up anyway. “Okay…” Kush leans over, figuring out what exactly I need help with. “I'm so tired. I need some fresh air, do you mind joining me?” I put the screwdriver down, and stare at the huge hunk of me...

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“Chasing dreams is changing life” by Anjali Malik

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"this is not the way how I want to live ,this is not the way how I want to feel it anymore",one day I woke up and said this to myself. I looked into the mirror and really wondered myself that how am I living? I thought "my life is without any motto where I am just left with killing my childhood dream and what I expected from my life never got that. I am just living a life killing my innerself and taking breaths without happiness." I sat down recalling my childhood memories . When I was 5 years old I saw a police officer as a cheif guest in o...

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“My twin nature is in danger. ” by Anja Z

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Have you ever felt as the world just stand still? As if nothing will ever matter as much as the moment happening right now. Well that’s how I felt when I had to say goodbye to my twin sister. She was lying on the hospital bed holding my hand and all I could think about was how I use to mistreat her. She was on her last breath and she said:“I told you, I’m always first.”Just my sister knows how to plug my strings so that I feel I had to say something to be first, but in this moment I had nothing to say. I just smiled and kissed her head.The o...

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“Point Hope ” by Nayab Ahmar

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WAKE UP I woke up with a gasp. Gulping in large amounts of air, my head shrieked in agony from the sudden intrusion in my mind. My vision was blurry, and all I could hear was a soft whirring sound. I tried to remember what happened, but my mind was blank.Slowly, my vision regained focus and the sharp pain in my head subsided to a dull throb, allowing me to take in my surroundings for the first time.The room was bare except for the bed I was on and a monitor on the wall, which was showing a stream of numbers and letters I couldn’t understand....

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“JUNGLED” by Mercy Ojonoka Musa

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Moyo opened his brown eyes. Hissed. Shut his eyes again. The thought of going to work to face his domineering boss, irritated and infuriated him. He had finally summoned courage the previous day and confronted him fearlessly, during a heated argument. Moyo had arrived at the bar, where he worked as an attendant, thirty minutes late, because he had been stuck in a gridlock of yellow buses, lorries ,loud hawkers and itinerants. His boss flung a broom at him in a fit of rage and rained curses on him. Moyo could not take it any more. He got real...

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“An Angel Evolved” by Tim Law

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Angelique heard the crunch of hot sand mingle with the deep base beat of the tune that blasted forth from her phone. The headphone buds she had picked up from the airport back home in America fed the latest track by artist Jay-Z direct to her ears, but still allowed the caw of the gulls above and the crunch of sneaker on sand to filter through. Angelique had the current song on repeat, trying to become intimate with the way the artist had constructed the rhyme and rhythm. She had to know this song by heart as the young girl had been selected...

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“Protect the Angels” by Pepper Mint

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Dear Mia, I haven’t written to you since you left me. I couldn’t dare to, so please forgive me. However, I should write to you now, and you will know why after you have read my story. Um… where should I start? Oh, yes, I should begin from our high school days. Well, I graduated the high school, and then went to college. After graduating college, I met Jeff and married him. Then, Evelyn, my daughter, came to our family. She is such a lovely girl. You will love her, if you can only meet her. I wanted my daughter to be friendly to everyo...

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“Will it ever change?” by ⛈️StormyNights⛈️ .

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One normal evening, Mrs. Wellers was making dinner while shouting at the little ones to lower the volume on the TV. Alice the oldest was talking on the single phone they owned, to her friend Cary. "Mmm, that smells wonderful dear", David Wellers, the head of the family was home. Jessica Wellers laughed, "Oh David, what took you so long?" She kissed him on the cheek and told the children to wash up for dinner. "Ok, one minute mom" Alice shouted. Mr. Wellers put his suitcase down, washed his hands and sat down at the table. "Come on, Alice! Ge...

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“The Last Step!” by Utkarsh Srivastava

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As usual, Candria was upset - the fact was, she had had no reason for despondency and chaos in her life. The clouds were pouring enormous rain and thundering to manifest its achieved eminence in threatening the rational creatures and obscuring the almighty of hope – Sun. The stormy wind made her ajar window slam – open and shut. The world enjoying the first rain of the season with Falafels and the Merlot but what happened to Candria? She couldn’t up with dealing with her despair. Candria was in the mid-21s but wrinkles on he...

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“Turn The Tides” by Eyona Choi

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“Big catch this morning, eh?” I glanced up from where I was kneeling on the salt-encrusted dock, sorting through a meager morning catch of fish, to see grizzled No-Bones Jones hobbling towards me in all of his ancient former-sea-captain glory. The early-morning sun soaked him in golden light. “No, sir.” I sighed and dumped the fish into a barrel along with some briny water. “Never a true catch anymore, amiright?” Jones asked. “No, sir.” I replied, brushing my fingers through my sandy blond hair and twisting the crooks out of my back. “...

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“I am You” by Harken Void

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I am black. I am white. I am of many nationalities, many are my national identities. My dwellings span from the scorching heat of the Saharan summers to the unforgiving daggers of the Arctic winters.I come in various shapes and sizes, my skin, hair, and eyes are of many wonderful colors. I live all across the globe, my feet walk over dirt and grass, pavement and asphalt, they walk over marbled floor tiles and soft carpets. Sometimes I walk barefooted, sometimes I wear boots and slippers, polished shoes, and crumbling plastic sandal...

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“The spark of uprising” by Palash Jhawar

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Matxino Matt was running from boulder to boulder as fast as his legs could take him. The middle of the summer season had arrived and it was one of the hottest days. The scorching heat made it almost impossible to roam around outside but he had no choice as he was in the queen’s hunting party. It was almost her lunchtime and he was yet to find any food. He searched from tree to tree, looking for anything to eat, but no luck. His search ultimately led him to the river bank, which for them was the boundary of their territory. He loved the riv...

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“Like An Equal” by ℤ ℍ☮️

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"Andre, come on up here! I gotta tell ya som in'!" A lady with dreadlocks tied with a big golden band yelled from the patio. "Comin' Mama!" Andre shouted. He sat crouched against white bark, looking at the reflective pond and at the hopping frogs that jumped from slick lilypad to lilypad. The aspen trees sang through the clear pink mist that shrouded him in the thick air. "Andre!" she yelled again, louder this time, "Ok, Mama. Ok!" he dropped the rocks he had collected and marched down to the white-sided house that was gleamin...

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“The Swan's Song” by Kathleen March

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Seriously, I am not vain, but if I were, I’d say Mary Oliver wrote this poem for me. Or maybe about me.The SwanDid you too see it, drifting, all night, on the black river?Did you see it in the morning, rising into the silvery air –An armful of white blossoms,A perfect commotion of silk and linen as it leanedinto the bondage of its wings; a snowbank, a bank of lilies,Biting the air with its black beak?That’s me, that’s my black beak. I bite the air, or sometimes just take a little nip of it. It tastes so good, so free, with its flavor of...

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“The Apartment in the Shadows” by Neha Dubhashi

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I have names for different days. They used to come to me in dreams, wisps of words, or flashes of stories. Today is anticipation. Today is fear. Today is courage. I can’t decide on one. A fat, shining sun hangs in the deep, mysterious shades of cerulean sky. Its warmth winks and disappears, soon coming back with a dazzling Christmas-tree lights brightness. The sun is unsure of what mood it is today. Just like me. On days when I’m unsure, days like these, I close my eyes, let color wash over and into my head, and pick the first word that come...

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Write a story about change.

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✍️ 164 stories

“Your Forever Friend; Part Two” by Tvisha Yerra

“Chasing dreams is changing life” by Anjali Malik

“My twin nature is in danger. ” by Anja Z

“Point Hope ” by Nayab Ahmar

“JUNGLED” by Mercy Ojonoka Musa

“An Angel Evolved” by Tim Law

“Protect the Angels” by Pepper Mint

“Will it ever change?” by ⛈️StormyNights⛈️ .

“The Last Step!” by Utkarsh Srivastava

“Turn The Tides” by Eyona Choi

“I am You” by Harken Void

“The spark of uprising” by Palash Jhawar

“Like An Equal” by ℤ ℍ☮️

“The Swan's Song” by Kathleen March

“The Apartment in the Shadows” by Neha Dubhashi

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