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Write a story in which the same line recurs three times.

Posted in Fiction on Oct 26, 2022

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“How Swift Charger Did Not Win the Yacht Regatta” by Justin Rogers

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John Green, semi-retired owner and part-time proprietor of Green’s Convenience settled back in his chair and tried not to let the reporter understand just how much he was enjoying himself. “That’s a great question,” he said, failing completely. “We’ve been here since the beginning, my daddy before me, and truth to tell John Jr. mostly runs the place now, but I’ve been sitting here the best part of my life. I seen everything.” He nodded towards the picture window of Green’s Convenience. The store was on a slight rise across the street from ...

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“The Beast of Skowronka” by Adrian Stolecki

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"They say that a monster lives here," Pawel said between heavy breaths as we loaded the last bale of hay onto the back of his father's wagon, "Did you know that?" "I've heard the story," I said, peering at him quizzically and wiping the sweat from my face. The sun beat down hard on us that day and both of our shoulders were glowing red, "What about it?"  "Do you think it's true?" He hopped up onto the back of the wagon and I joined him. My feet ached. I looked down at the battered boots on my feet, the soles coming apart, and ...

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“I'm ok” by Nora Germant

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She wasn’t sure why she was feeling this way. Like she had truly lost her marbles, this feeling of hollowness of leaving fragments of herself everywhere but contained within her. She inhaled again, tensing her shoulders, willing her tears to recede back into their sockets. She exhaled deeply. I’m ok. She looked up at the skies, reminding herself of the umpteenth time that evening of her blessings. A loving family, a roof over her head. A job she loved. I’m ok. Her brain ground with will power to forge the mantra into mind. Yet a sin...

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“Her Demons” by Bob E

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She told me she had demons.          “We all have demons,” I told her.         “Hmm,” she said.          She looked at me for a long time without speaking. Until I felt uncomfortable. It’s hard to be looked at for a long time. Especially by someone you don’t know. But I didn’t move. I stayed there and got looked at and, I suppose, I looked back at her too. But it wasn’t the same. I looked away and looked back and ...

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“Face Me at the River Ocean” by Hadiya Rudolfo

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My best friend’s older brother hates me, but you cannot tell by looking at him. Even now, as we cruise through the hills beyond the city, he makes no effort to be outwardly mean.            “When is Jazz supposed to be back?”            He fiddles with the radio. “Last day in August, I think.”            “UGH.” The guttural sound sinks me deep into the Jeep’s front passenger sea...

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“Mornings Are My Safe Space” by Dominique InBleu

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Mornings are my safe space. It makes me feel important to open the lecture hall’s windows as early as possible, to clean the white-boards, to take my first-row seat, and to work when I know everyone else is sleeping. Useful, responsible, organized. The work takes me beyond my austere fashion, beyond my plaid skirts and earthy coat, beyond my fountain pens and reading glasses and braided bun. It makes me feel real. The silence is calming. The constant shifting of the light’s hues reminds me of the passing of time. There are birds chirping, ca...

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“Slathered in BBQ Sauce ” by Natalia Nazeem

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The day was bright and sunny, like every day was the past week. Jamie stretched as she got up from the small wooden table near the kitchen. She looked around the cabin, noticing details that she didn’t realize when she first came. To be fair, she celebrated her first night at the cabin by drinking herself silly, so she doesn’t remember much. The cabin was small and quite cozy. Built like a large studio, the bed occupied a small nook in the far right, with the cabin’s only bathroom located about two steps from the bed. The kitchen was on t...

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“Monster” by Emma Sayers

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There is a creature.      It is a monster.      It creeps into the beds of the living, into the homes of families loved and alive, and it steals them away.      And Celia, Celia is going to kill it.      She hefts the antique rapier in her hand. There are things in this world that are heavier than others, she thinks. Hopes, fears, dreams, responsibilities. But the death she grips is an easy weight.    &n...

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“THE POWER OF WORDS ” by Nokwazi Sangweni

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Words have the power to build and destroy, even the bible says that the power of life and death is in our tongues. Words can heal and hurt. The bible also says that kind words are like honey, sweet to the soul and healthy for the body. It is important to watch what we say and hear.Words are more powerful when they are repeated over and over because they get registered into your mind and you starting believing and living your life according to the them. That is why it is important to watch what you listen to because it has the power to be bui...

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“The Case, The Ring” by Penny Polendina

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     “I just don’t understand. What exactly is the importance of the ring?”      Diana buried her face in her hands, feeling a migraine headache incoming. The group of investigators had been gathered in the police station for hours by now, gathered around the stiffening corpse of Sebastian. They had proposed a multitude of possibilities and tested every single one through, yet none yielded any results.      “Well there has to be an explanation!” Vincent said furio...

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“Wolves and Rabbits” by Joan McMenamin

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        Wincing at a thought wanting to come to her lips, the refrain was unbearable. What will make this diatribe stop? It does not appear that anyone wants to come to any closure and the whole gamut is predicated on one change in the document. Only one, not an entire paragraph or a couple of sentences, a notation concerning the right standard to reference for this new drawing that engineering seems to have created completely backward from their original version. Biting hard on her lip,...

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“the morning train” by Farrah Gowar

Submitted to Contest #101

Clemmie always sat by the window on the train, head resting against the glass, so she could stare at the country for a little bit longer. The dry, sunburnt meadows, littered with untamed wildflowers and the quiet creek, hidden by golden grass. From the train window she could just about see the forest nearby her Gran’s house; the house itself couldn’t be seen through the dusty train window but she knew it was there. Just behind the trees.  Clemmie had been making the journey from her house to her Gran’s twice a year since she was a chi...

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“Favorite Memory” by L Moon

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I knew, at that moment, you would soon become my favorite memory. The summer breeze floated softly the day I met you. We had that kind of cordial greeting like two acquaintances who ran in the same circles of mutual friends but had never formally met. There was something so familiar about you even though I knew we had never met. We both took a leap that day. A chance on one another. I trusted you in a way that I had never trusted before, that you had not been trusted before. We knew without words that this was something special, merely the ...

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“FLORIOGRAPHY- THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS” by Favour Brown

Submitted to Contest #101

Roses are red, violets are blue, but roses can be red and lavender too. An ordinary flower just like violets and daffodils, magnolias and marigolds but what they represent is more than beautiful. Sure you already know this but, there are many shades of roses like there are many shades of black, each representing a different emotion. It is said that the yellow rose is given to one you consider a friend, lavender for one you find enchanting, most probably a sign of love at first sight. Yeah, you got me; I love flowers, roses in particular. Som...

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“Self-Pity” by Nico La Jay

Submitted to Contest #101

The silence was deafening. Then came the sound of blood rushing in his ears, his heart thumping, and his own laboured breathing. These internal noises faded as he tuned in to the sounds around him; moaning, wailing, calling out. Ricardo felt knocked about, maybe even bruised – but as he dared to lift each arm and leg in turn, nothing on his copious anatomy hurt enough to suggest something was broken or fractured. Sitting up slowly, he ran a hand over his number two haircut, and down the goatee he’d grown to give the impression he had a jawl...

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