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“Tiramisu, the cat, goes to Dallas” by Paul Holland

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It is 5:00 in the morning outside the Samuel Mather Building in Cleveland, Ohio. I am standing by a small black Ford Tempo, called Little Car. We are getting ready to head for Dallas, Texas. The adventure is going to begin. The Samuel Mather building houses my office and I am gathering a handful of items that I need to take with me to Dallas. My clothes, some important items, and personal effects are in the car but the car is small and does not carry as much as would be preferable. In part because, there on the front seat, in her carrier, is...

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“Worried dog” by Hannah Abrams

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Jamie let out a cough, and the dog that hadn't left his side all day looked up and tilted his head to the side, then gave him a kiss. Jamie chuckled and coughed. He buried his face in the dog's fur and wiped his runny nose. He'd been doing that all day. Man, when he got over this, he'd need to give Spot a bath. Jamie felt so achy and tired. He was so sick. His friends were at school, his dad was at work, his step-mom was doing whatever it was that she did, and his dog was right besi...

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“Basil, a dog who saved a life. ” by Deliliah Smith

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This story contains issues surrounding mental health (depression) and suicidal actions. Amelie and Basils relationship didn’t get off to the greatest start. Effectively, he had been dumped on her doorstep when her best friend Natalie and her husband had decided to go to Thailand to be teachers. Basil appeared with the promise of “He will make you feel better, he’s good company, no trouble at all.” She remembered to keep him fed and watered, she didn’t walk him. Understandably he grew bored, anyone knew dogs needed to be walked at least ...

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“Genes & T-Shirts” by Barbara Nosek

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Genes and T-Shirts Barbara J Nosek Her looks are alluring, disarming, the textbook definition of adorable – and totally deceiving. This kitty is able to hide her true nature behind her ragdoll mother’s contribution, china blue eyes in a perfect cool gray triangle with matching soft plump paws and showpiece tail, surrounding a fluffy cloud of snow white fur. But of course that's only half the gene story, and as experience proved, not the dominant half. Nope. That’s the province of her daddy, feral and full Bengal, a breed born in the 70s ...

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“Frazz” by Cliff Pratt

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The Dwarf turned and looked behind him. Nothing. Just a bare hillside. “Ugh! Dammit! I thought that they were following me. Apparently not. Apparently I have to do it all by myself,” he grumbled. He turned and strode down the hill. A bird took off from almost under his feet, chirping its alarm call. “Now where is that damn Dragon?” He hefted his axe in his hand. There wasn’t much cover for a Dragon, he thought, as he looked around. A few boulders poked through the tussocky grasslands, but there were no caves or canyons that a large and...

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“Fluffy's Home” by Teresa Brown

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On the way to school, Bobby was slowly walking on the side of the dirt road and heard an unusual sound coming from the ditch. He stopped, just for a moment, to be sure he was not imagining the sound. It got quiet and so he kept on walking. He had fun in school that day but his mind was on that noise he heard earlier in the day. The bell rang, he said goodbye to his friends and started the trek back home. Bobby started walking slowly when he got near the spot where he heard the noise before and decided to try and find out what was making it. ...

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“The Midnight Wanderer” by Karen McDermott

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It was a cool July evening when Erinaceus europaeus finally accepted my offering. That’s their scientific name. The hedgehog. I learned it just in case he responded to it, but I still had to look it up again to remember how to spell it. I’m doing more of that since Horatio died. Not just with scientific words that you wouldn’t expect an 85-year-old retired seamstress to know anyway; but with simpler words like ‘fruitcake’, ‘newspaper’, ‘remorse’, and ‘lodger’. The difficulty with that last one struck when I was trying to place an ad for ...

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“Lucy’s pony adventures - where it all began.” by Lisa Lawrence

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It was Saturday, it was summertime, and Lucy was so excited she was getting ready for her first-ever riding lesson at the local stables. It was Lucy’s 7th birthday and her Mum and Dad had bought her a new riding outfit, cream jodhpurs, black jodphur boots and a lovely silk hat cover with lots of unicorns on it; Lucy loved unicorns. She loved anything horsey. Driving to the stables with her Dad Lucy had a funny feeling in her tummy, her Dad said it was called butterflies. Lucy wondered how butterflies had got...

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“The adventures of Nemo, the plush fish” by Dao Huy Kien

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Nemo was a plush fish with the same figure of the young clownfish in Disney’s cartoon “Finding Nemo”. He was born among other cotton animals in a workshop in Saigon. After only one day staying in the workshop, he was moved to a truck to go to the seaport, where they put his box in a container. After being filled with boxes, the container was loaded on board. Nemo asked other cotton animals where they were and where they were going but no one knew. Nemo only felt a strange taste: the salty taste of the sea. Nevertheless, he didn’t know what t...

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“Embracing The Vast Unknown” by Frisk Quiroz

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Aurelia woke up from her slumber, greeted by a pair of familiar brown eyes, just like she would on any other morning. The pair of brown eyes were Cinnamon’s, her pet fox. She giggled as the little fox stood on top of her chest, sniffing her face. - “Good morning, Cinnamon.” She said in a sweet voice, as she nuzzled against the fluffy little fox. Cinnamon responded with a little whimper and nuzzled her back before jumping off the bed to let Aurelia get started with her day. She didn’t have much to do really, though that was completely normal....

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“My furry best friend” by Rudy Greene

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It was Christmas morning, my girlfriend Sandy and I were spooning and in a deep sleep. We spent Christmas eve at her house. A very noisy ruckus disturbed my bliss. I sat bold upright and for a few seconds was totally disoriented. What was that large doll doing on the chair across from my bed? Since when was my room painted pink? My girlfriend’s hug and kiss reoriented me but what was that horrendous noise? It sounded like someone was dying or being murdered. “It’s my cats and dog. It sounds like it’s coming from the garage. They must h...

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“Filsuf” by Jack Webster

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“Oh my goodness, look at those statues!” Standing behind her I smirked to myself. Throughout our trip in Bali, it has been Alejandro’s favourite phrase to exclaim with each new statue we saw. She first uttered it on the taxi ride from the airport, in reference to a forty-foot statue that made the central island of a roundabout. The second time she said it, on that same ride, actually cheered me up enough to forget about the taxi-driver who gleefully bolstered our fare mid-trip. To defend her, these pair of statues deserved the praise. It w...

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“NEW FOUND FRIEND” by R. J. Garron

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The door blew wide open, the blast hole serrated and peeled. “Go! Go! Go!” he shouted. The infantry followed orders and slipped through the smoking orifice. They were pitched into the blinding darkness with the exception of a thin shaft of light from outside. The night blindness was no longer relevant when they switched to infrared in order to pick up any heat signatures, friend or foe, abounding in the zone of action. There had to have been at least a few survivors, but Keller was ordered by the general to find one ...

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“Feathered Lessons” by Karin Eriksson

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Miraculously, I did NOT become a hoarder. From what I understand by watching hours of compelling reality television, hoarding is a condition that can manifest after a trauma, often by losing someone through death. Having lost my husband 2 yrs., 10 weeks, and 5 days ago, thankfully, it's safe to say, I didn't choose that route. There are no piles of newspapers, clutter, or rotting garbage, making it challenging to navigate through the rooms of my home. Instead, I became, what I like to call, a "selective collector" to help me process th...

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“La Lupa ” by Mia Long

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Tobias kicked a patch of grass as he strode further away from the schoolhouse. His fair face was thunderous beneath the sweat soaked strands of his bright hair. The skin around his left eye was red. It would soon turn a mottled purple, maybe even black.Harvey Foster always threw the hardest punches. He was older than Tobias, stronger than him, and meaner. The stinging urge to cry grew the further away he got from the building. Tobias wouldn’t give him the satisfaction. He wouldn’t give any of them the satisfaction of making him drop a single...

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Write a story involving a friendship with an adorable animal.

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✍️ 50 stories

“Tiramisu, the cat, goes to Dallas” by Paul Holland

“Worried dog” by Hannah Abrams

“Basil, a dog who saved a life. ” by Deliliah Smith

“Genes & T-Shirts” by Barbara Nosek

“Frazz” by Cliff Pratt

“Fluffy's Home” by Teresa Brown

“The Midnight Wanderer” by Karen McDermott

“Lucy’s pony adventures - where it all began.” by Lisa Lawrence

“The adventures of Nemo, the plush fish” by Dao Huy Kien

“Embracing The Vast Unknown” by Frisk Quiroz

“My furry best friend” by Rudy Greene

“Filsuf” by Jack Webster

“NEW FOUND FRIEND” by R. J. Garron

“Feathered Lessons” by Karin Eriksson

“La Lupa ” by Mia Long

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