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“unfair circumstances” by Alexandria Pierce

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Alexander care suspected something was a little off when his strong alexandria tried to kiss him when he was just six years old. Nevertheless, he lived a relatively normal life among other humans. It wasn't until he bumped into the devilishly fast witch, hope walter, that his life finally began to make sense. However, hope proved to be dumb and seemed to have an unhealthy obsession with studying. Alexander soon learnt that hope had taken an oath never to hug a human being. When Alexander's strong alexandria is injured in a plane crash accide...

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“Math Miracles” by Mary Wood

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Anyone can be a teacher, all you have to do is graduate college and get a job. Sounds simple; in reality passing the math praxis would prove daunting to this student who hated math and ponders why 3 X 2/3x + 4 = ? matters. I need to know the why, those silly terms meant nothing to me. I could not wrap my mind around the why. Every time I asked a teacher, mentor, classmate, tutor the why question, I would try to make it clear that I just need to know why I would ever need to learn this? They looked at me like I had 3 eyes in my head. I ...

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“Crown Prince? Me?” by C. Fallaci

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I wasn't born into Royalty or Nobility.My mother had married the King of Arcadia after they fell in love. Now me and my mom live in the Castle with the King and his two children, Princess Sophia and Prince James.They had seemed to hate me at first glance. More so the Princess than the Prince though. I got it, we were of different statuses.I was excited to be their step sibling at first but then I started to dislike the idea after a while. They were just like the other nobles and royals.Stuck up and spoiled.I never wanted to be a Prince. I di...

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“I Am...” by Debbie Teague

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I am worthless…I am a failure… Meet Melanie – a customer service representative in a large company who very soon would make a life changing decision – one that involved learning a new skill which was essential to her success but in no way came naturally to her. Her supervisor knew of an evening class for just such a skill and enrolled her in it – Positive self-talk. Melanie balked at the idea but agreed. The first night her stomach was full of butterflies – she wasn’t sure if she would make it through the evening. She look...

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“Reborn in Teluria” by Adam Hughes

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Kizane was the first person out of the school doors - which was not unusual on a Wednesday evening - and ran towards the portals at the edge of the road. The portals were, from the outside, the sole indicator that this was not a normal school - well, not normal when compared with the schools humans go to. They were also the most beautiful thing about the school. Staring into the portal was like staring into a nebula, it’s different shades of dark purple swirling around each other like velvet clouds, and it was easy to imagine the clouds wrap...

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“The Failed Guitar” by Anne Benita

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THE FAILED GUITAR It was about 6 am in the morning. The mild wind entered into Dani’s room and woke him up. He woke up with much upset. Dani’s eyes ran to the corner of his room. His broken guitar was not there. He jumped down from the bed and started to shout. Suddenly his father entered into his room with his broken guitar. He asked him why he was shouting to the core. Dani said that there was nothing and also added that he woke up from a bad dream. Dani’s father went closer to him and sat on his bed. Dani stood near to him and put his fa...

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“Diamond in the Rough” by L.B Rinker

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Herald sits elbow-to-elbow with fellow classmates on uncomfortable metal bleachers looking down at Lincoln High’s baseball field. His father, the coach, stands at third base waving his arms wildly towards home plate. Herald’s brother, Ray, rounds second base. He had always been faster than Herald, but right now he was like lightning. How had Herald ever thought that he could compete with that kind of athleticism? The right fielder whips the ball into the glove of his cut-off man. Ray rounds third base. Herald can’t hear himself think ...

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“Time Traveler's Second Chances” by Megan Thayer

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Realistically no one asked me if I even knew how to time travel and everyone in my village acted like it just came so naturally to them. My family was one of five that lived in a small gathering of huts just outside the Appalachian Mountains. Many generations ago we were given the “awesome responsibility” of traveling through time and setting things in motion but no one remembers how we got these powers or who gives us our instructions. At the end of every year we get an envelope with a list of things that were supposed to happen but didn’t ...

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“The Mind: An Excellence and Incompetence. ” by Michael Baker

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Breathing is fairly easy, truth be told. It’s all inhale, exhale -it’s not all that difficult to get a hang of to be honest. We can call that the bottom of the skill tree, the roots really. It’s very much the easiest skill a person could ever be expected to master. Those who don’t get the hang of it don’t typically get very far. There aren’t a great deal of those, though, thankfully. I’ve personally seen a great many people breath competently in my time, some of them even babies. Even that one dimwit from high school who held the absurd noti...

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“THE GRANNY OF THE TEAM” by Claire Tennant

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The phone was ringing, interrupting the news broadcast, ‘Oh well’ I thought ‘it is probably history now, rather than news.’ “Barbara?” the person on the other end of my phone spoke quietly but I knew the voice, that of my friend Hans. As he did not call regularly, I wondered the reason but did what one does. “Hello Hans, how are you?” I said turning the TV off. “I’m fine, busy as, and all that. Are you still practising?” he asked, with the blunt no-nonsense approach of his. Were all Dutchmen the same? no, the Scots w...

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“Hello World!” by Art U

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Alya hadn’t slept too well. Tossing and turning past dawn, she just gave up and went for a run. Still early for her interview, she had finished her shower, thrown on a comfortable white blouse over yoga pants. She couldn't eat so just sat down on her task chair and logged into her computer. This was the new normal during COVID - applying to new opportunities and waiting for the interviewers to grill her given this wasn’t her background. She knew this wasn’t her first, and she was sure it would not be the last. She just had to keep trying tho...

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“Grandma Petunia's Misadventures” by Kya Ryanne

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Grandma Petunia had spent most of her retirement baking, going shopping, and doing an adequate job at quilting. At least she thought she did a good job at quilting. She entered a few in state fairs and things similar to it, but she didn’t pull out any of the blue ribbons or things like that. But by far, Grandma Petunia baked the best chocolate chip cookies known to womankind. It was passed down by her mother and her mother before her. Most of it was a guesstimate on what ingredients go where and what kind of measurements went where, but Gra...

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“Piano Frustration” by Sapphire Burgess

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I glare at the notes until I get cross-eyed. The trill in particular seems to be mocking me. Not that there’s anything wrong with the trill, I mean I love a good trill, but it’s the grace notes that follow are bothering me. Now those are definitely there to spite me. Oh, how Mozart must be snickering at me. I take a deep breath in an attempt to regain myself. Not today, Wolfgang. Frustration will lead you nowhere, I remind myself. I used to think that that wasn’t the case. Truthfully, I still think that. Anyone could do some good wi...

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“To Have IT” by E Deven

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There were people who had It, and people who didn’t. Normally those that didn’t greatly outnumbered those who did, so those without never really had cause to care. The general philosophy ran along the lines of the less magic in the world the better.The midwife assisting at the time of Gwendolyn Collinine’s birth took one look at the blonde-tufted, brown-eyed, pale-skinned baby who wailed almost immediately, and shook her head at divine planning. The seventh child of Analiese and Colton Collinine was obviously without It, and i...

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“Morgana and the Well of Wyrd” by Ian Wilson

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“Wrong note... Again,” said Taliesin, grasping his brow. Morgana grinned sheepishly and began the song again. Her voice cracked as she hit a note that was far too high for her. Taliesin cringed. Morgana halted.. “I should just give up,” she said. “Giving up never accomplished anything useful,” said Taliesin. “Keep trying.” “I’m pretty hopeless, aren’t I?” said Morgana. “I don’t think anyone is truly hopeless,” said Taliesin. “But I don’t understand it, Taliesin!” cried Morgana. “This... thing. My hands just won’t pluck the strings...

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Write a story about someone struggling to learn a skill that in no way comes naturally to them.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 154 stories

“unfair circumstances” by Alexandria Pierce

“Math Miracles” by Mary Wood

“Crown Prince? Me?” by C. Fallaci

“I Am...” by Debbie Teague

“Reborn in Teluria” by Adam Hughes

“The Failed Guitar” by Anne Benita

“Diamond in the Rough” by L.B Rinker

“Time Traveler's Second Chances” by Megan Thayer

“The Mind: An Excellence and Incompetence. ” by Michael Baker

“THE GRANNY OF THE TEAM” by Claire Tennant

“Hello World!” by Art U

“Grandma Petunia's Misadventures” by Kya Ryanne

“Piano Frustration” by Sapphire Burgess

“To Have IT” by E Deven

“Morgana and the Well of Wyrd” by Ian Wilson

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