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“Harriet” by Maya Ritz

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Your fingers hit the keys at just the right time, in just the right way. Music resonates around the room, filling the corners and delighting your ears. You play the opening notes of Gestard de la Nuit with effortless grace. In the corner to your right, other pianists glower at you. On your right, the judges, sway to the rhythm of the music. "Are you feeling okay, sir?" A quiet voice asks from the side. Your eyes open, and your head swivels to see a woman dressed in yellow scrubs next to your bed. "I'm feeling fine," you answer, your voice ...

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“Broken Strings ” by Kari Warner

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There isn’t a day where I don’t stare at my violin and remember the symphonies I dreamt of playing. My fingers wish to play the strings as gracefully as my youth allowed but time and depression has taken my motivation. You see...I wasn’t always this tape of self loathing, I used to have dreams and passion. But something, something changed that spring. I told my mother about the competition. I asked her to drive me to the institute so I could enter. It’s a free ride scholarship, I’d be paying nothing and I’d get to study at the best scho...

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“A Sweeter Song” by Iona Cottle

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The wedding was a small affair, at least by the standards of their families. Only thirty people had been invited, although plenty more had threatened to turn up anyway. As it was, one of the uninvited aunts- who was always one to take everything personally- had organised a separate gathering in a nearby function room, so the rest of the extended family could get together. This had been mentioned to the bride and groom, and it was the groom Marcus who immediately decided that they should stop in there after the church. “That’s a little mean, ...

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“Prodigy” by Sam Kirk

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Amy walked into the room and looked around. It was only a bit smaller than the entire studio apartment that she had been renting for the past couple of years. To her right, there was a robin egg blue couch, which looked like a cloud. Amy reached out as she walked past it. Her fingers elegantly glided through the velvety silk. In the corner, there was a TV on the wall and a table with a Keurig and everything you might need to make a cup of coffee or tea beneath it. To her left, there was a mirror that took up almost half the wall. In front of...

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“Wren during newlife woof fly at warp speed” by Matthew Harris

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This preface so real (profess aerial), yours truly chokingly (chicken or egg thing) conceived in sin (rated quirkiness), i.e. Cincinnati, Ohio (asthma most up to date version of Matthew Scott). Any attempt for garden variety generic fecund woman (applicable to mother dearest back during her pro creative years), whose departure early May 2020 delineates fifteen blockchain twelve month calendrical time spans) tries to successfully counteract biologic reproductive force to whit deserves grudging testes meant to garner at least tidbit prematurel...

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“A Virtuouso's Virtue” by Kai S.D.

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He’ll show up, I tell myself. Two more minutes pass. There’s no more feed for me to scroll through. I look around. No one. I light a cigarette. A few drags later, I crush it into the ashtray. The damn thing’s made me nauseous. Still, I’ll probably smoke another one in a couple of minutes. It’s better than having no distractions. I take the cheap coffee, that’s still way too expensive for my current income. It’s scorching, undrinkable. I can barely hold it. At the same time, a burst of wind assaults me, scurrying down my neck and bothering ev...

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“The Sapper” by Alan Prout

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The SapperBy Alan ProutDeep in the Thai countryside, ubiquitous with meticulous rows of rubber trees, is the ring. The square muay thai boxing ring rests tranquilly sheltered from the glaring equatorial sun by a rough-hewn wooden structure. In the yard around the ring, the majestic junglefowl roosters with their shimmering red coral crests, orange and yellow manes, and dark turquoise breasts strut their jade-green elegant tails. Their modest hens peck the dirt with down-turned yet avid eyes. Dogs sleep in the dusty drive. A crested oriental ...

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“Clouds” by Shalom Aranas

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CloudsAman arrived from somewhere on the planet. He arrived at my door with his bag and clothes soaked with rain. The clouds behind him was dark and torrential, it seemed to usher him in to our house.My husband approached from behind me. He is Indian and is a most welcoming man but when he found the sores in this man’s neck and arms, he stopped in his tracks eyeing the man, nudging me not to let the stranger in. I had to explain he is a friend from a previous relationship.The clouds thundered and clipped lightning. My husband naked from...

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“Until my fingers burned and bled ” by Aleksandr Lehr

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As a child my mother urged me to play an instrument, wether it be piano, guitar, even the triangle. She didn’t care. She said it was because she saw something great in me, but I think it was because as a child she had always wanted to be a musician...but her parents refused to support her dreams, and by the time she was old enough to support them herself; she was too swept up in the current of life to spend hours a day learning and perfecting a tune. I was used to her living through me at this point. At times I wondered if that’s a...

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“The Shadows” by Sage Henry

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The hardest thing about living in someone’s shadow is when you’re the one who cast it in the first place. Lonely children who raced their shadows in the sunlight always lost when the sun was on their backs. No matter how fast the child would run, the silhouette would always be faster. It wasn’t until they turned back to face the sun that the shadow would be forgotten, the loser in the sad one person race. Life often felt like a sad one person race, especially to those left out, cast aside from the others. Only children had no one else to ent...

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“A pair of misfits” by Lilly Isabelle

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This is a story about Adam Robins. An ordinary name for such an unusual boy. As a kid Adam rarely talked. Instead, he drew. When he had access to pens, paint, markers or anything that could leave a mark on paper, he created art. At first his parents Tom and Melissa saw his passion for creating as a good thing. They often bragged about their son’s artistic abilities and encouraged Adam to continue. He became quieter and quieter as time rolled by and more obsessed with his art for every day that passed. Tom and Melissa were of course gravely c...

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“An Obituary for Henry Kalmar” by Cara H

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IntroFrench Quarter Scene Magazine, February 2014Welcome, dear readers, to our special Ghoul Patrol issue, featuring an exclusive article by series creator and longtime FQS contributor Placid Calms, plus a reprint of his obituary for the one and only Henry Kalmar VI, our beloved Rainbow Brother forever. We hope you will enjoy this inside look into what we believe is going to be an exciting and deeply meaningful new television program with the potential to change lives. Ghoul Patrol will be filmed right here in New Orleans and will feature mu...

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“The Cause” by Jacob Marshall

Submitted to Contest #26

It's very difficult to make a living off of a career in music. All it really comes down to is catching the right break, hoping lady luck smiles on you. If not all you can do is cash your check, buy a bottle of jack, and keep going with the flow. At least that's what i thought. Until I met Evie. Some people don't need luck. Some people are born to change the world. I truly believe that now. Her father brought her into this shabby little music shop that I was working for, I was retired and teaching lessons out of this tiny little back room. I'...

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“Forgiving Mrs Shaw” by Deborah Mercer

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At least, thought Adam Eliot, Tara hadn’t told him that what he really struggled to do was to forgive himself. He had been on the point of walking out and stopping the whole pointless business many a time – after all, he was there of his own volition, wasn’t he? If she’d said that, if she’d so much as hinted at that, their Monday afternoon sessions would have come to an end, and in some ways that would have been a shame. Tara Munday. It was the right kind of name for a therapist, and not just because he visited ...

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“The child prodigy's secret” by Charlotte Moore

Submitted to Contest #26

Everyday ever since I felt it. And although no one talks to me, I can feel it. I can see it but no words. And I passed every grade ever so fast but it felt like an eternity It was the days that I had felt the wind bristle but yet no sounds nor noises it was as though it was an abandoned town but it was full of people. People with light and hope but as the days had passed I knew there was nothing left.I'm a kid who go to school everyday just like any other child. I eat food just like any other child. But unlike any other kid I have a secret t...

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Write about a character who was considered a prodigy when they were young.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 61 stories

“Harriet” by Maya Ritz

“Broken Strings ” by Kari Warner

“A Sweeter Song” by Iona Cottle

“Prodigy” by Sam Kirk

“Wren during newlife woof fly at warp speed” by Matthew Harris

“A Virtuouso's Virtue” by Kai S.D.

“The Sapper” by Alan Prout

“Clouds” by Shalom Aranas

“Until my fingers burned and bled ” by Aleksandr Lehr

“The Shadows” by Sage Henry

“A pair of misfits” by Lilly Isabelle

“An Obituary for Henry Kalmar” by Cara H

“The Cause” by Jacob Marshall

“Forgiving Mrs Shaw” by Deborah Mercer

“The child prodigy's secret” by Charlotte Moore

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Write about a character who goes by many different names throughout their life.

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Write a story about a musician struggling to find work during wartime.

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