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Write a story about two friends who find themselves competing for something: a job, a prize, a love interest, etc.

Posted in Funny on Jun 9, 2023

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Night Shift

Submitted to Contest #202

“My shift changed again,” these were James’ first words to Brian that early Monday morning.  Brian zipped up his jeans while entering the kitchen. The sight of James leaning on the counter surprised him. Between the two of them, Brian always woke first. “Why are you up at five in the morning?” he broke the collar of his uniform. Crissy’ Coffee required all employees to wear white polos. On the left breast was its logo containing a coffee mug.  James sipped a beer nonchalantly. He wore a tank top and shorts as pajamas. Under the...

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Hung Out to Dry at Central High

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Hung Out to Dry at Central High“You dirty, double-crossing rat.”  - James CagneyAscending the ladder of ignominious incidents of betrayal, from least egregious to the most consequential- Benedict Arnold, Brutus, Ephialtes, …Vince! Temper your ears, prepare your mind, fortify your soul for the recounting of the most dastardly, horrific, deplorable, cowardly, despicable, and wretched act to ever cast its ugly shadow across the bow of mankind’s journey through the universe. For that one calamitous moment in time, the antiquated, under...

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Friend vs. Friend

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Hi, my name is Kali. A year ago, today I almost lost my best friend. Over a guy. Insane right!! Lemme tell you the story. His name is Caleb. He was a normal white boy, blonde curly hair, blue eyes, gorgeous, but what I liked most about him was his personality. He was shy and quiet but funny. He never disrespected anyone and always stood up for himself and others. Now me, I'm nice but not always. I am not mean unless it's necessary. My bestie, her name is Penelope. She's not your average girl. She's the opposite of me in a way. She's into the...

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A Winter’s Walk

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           It was just the two of them, trudging along for what felt like an eternity. They walked that first night and hid the next day. At some point they’d given up on trying to hide; there was no one to hide from. The weather had been kind enough at the beginning; cold, not too cold, and kind of dry. Until today. A thick fog had come in, heavy and wet, and there was a rumble off in the distance. And flashes. Lightening maybe. Or guns. Probably guns. It was getting really cold, that d...

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Hello Dave

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Oh! How they laughed when first they heard the other’s name. This was a story some would dine out on, but not Dave and Dave. Dave, always Dave. Never David. Someone once asked whether it might be a little easier if one of the Dave’s used the full version of their name. Dave narrowed his eyes and told the wrong-headed miscreant, “Dave is the full version of my name.”  The other Dave said nothing. He didn’t see the point in repeating the same conversation all over again. Later, Dave would ask him if he was coming down wi...

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Street of Sisterhood

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“I’m not competitive.” “Neither am I.” Kaley and Sam thought they knew themselves, but how well did they know each other? They’d been friends for what felt like an age. They’d done everything alongside one another for decades. It wasn’t planned, but their lives just seemed to converge time and again, like planes in a coordinated display -  but they’d never been the fighter kind, just the friendly kind. Friendship is a tenuous thing. It can all change in a minute over something seemingly innocuous, like something slight that the wind car...

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Ziggy's Mystery Plant

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My sister called, asking, “Can you help me identify a mystery plant?” This was an unusual question because she'd never shown an interest in plants.“Sure, Jen!” I was a bit full of myself having recently graduated from the Master Gardener course and thought either I or my friend Shirley would know. "Can you bring me a leaf or take a photo?"“Not really. I see it from my office window since they moved us up to the third floor. The people who live near there have a billion kids, and with all the 'stranger danger' talk lately.”“Fair enough. When ...

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A Trip to Target

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Walking through the sliding doors of a Target store is a familiar experience. It is predictable and safe, especially when they are the same doors you have walked through consistently throughout your twenty-six years of existence. However, walking through them for the first time after living somewhere else for a year can feel like a fever dream. The familiar gust of AC when you first enter now feels aggressive, the bright fluorescent and flashes of red carts and baskets zooming by seem surreal, and the same faces you have seen in passing all ...

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A Dime a Dozen

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“Divina, you’ll never guess what I heard this morning!” My best friend Savannah wrapped her thin arms around mine and huddled close. I could smell the new floral scented body spray she’d applied liberally after gym class; Her blonde hair was gathered up in a perfect ponytail, perky and shining as though she hadn’t just finished a mile.            “What did you hear?” I asked, as I traded my literature book out for my science textbook. Our lockers were next to each other- that was how we...

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The Jacket

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The Jacket  By  Anthony Mendoza  Mike stepped into the bar and searched the room for a familiar face.  “Of course, you’d wear the damn thing!” came a voice loud enough to be heard over the music. It came from his right. He turned to the sound and spotted Andy, along with Sarah and Rhonda seated at a booth against the wall. A cheesy grin, as large as Andy’s matching one, spread across his face as he walked towards his friends and fiancé. The bar was half full for now, but would soon be at capacity. It was open mic nigh...

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The Boat.

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" I cannot believe you won a free trip to an island!" Sonya clapped gleefully as she took in the fresh ocean air. Sonya and I waited in line behind a much older couple, pushing at least their late Forty's. When the couple over heard what Sonya had said the husband spun around, a wide smile across his face. He held onto his brown straw hat with one hand and a can of Modelo in the other. He pointed to Sonya and I with the Modelo hand. "You said free trip?" The man chuckled making his round belly jiggle. "My wife and I won a free trip too!" His...

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The Bake-Off

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When it came to baked goods, the humble town of Crumblington was, to put it mildly, a place of modest appetite. The local populace, who considered a slice of bread with an overly generous spread of butter a gourmet adventure, had little use for the creative expressions of flour, butter, and sugar.  Gerald and Harvey had been friends since they were little boys sharing a sandbox in Mrs. Muffin's kindergarten. Their shared dream, rather at odds with their hometown's ambivalence towards carbohydrates, was to open a bakery. The seed of th...

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A Quest for Trust

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“I’m going to be the first person to find Aurensall.”  Saphine looked up from her book, black eyebrows furrowing. The orc on the floor continued polishing his axe, completely unphased. The dark elf maneuvered her way off the bed to face her friend, red eyes narrowing. “Forlux, what did you just say?”  “I said that I’m going to find Aurensall. What, those shadow-spell-book-thingies getting to your hearing too?”  “No,” she muttered, going back to her book, lazily scanning its contents. “I just think you’re crazy for saying that ...

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The Fight For Fluffy

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“Jee-Anne!  Jee-Anne!  Jee-Anne!”  At the sound of her name, Jee-Anne ran downstairs, red pigtails flying, into her living room. “What is it Gol-Lee?” Jee-Anne asked, panting.  “Oh Jee-Anne, you’ll never believe what I just got!” Gol-Lee exclaimed.  She had her hands behind her back, her long dark braids covering the wriggling object her hands were clutching.  “Oh!  Let me see!” Jee-Anne squealed.  If Gol-Lee was excited about something, then Jee-Anne knew it had to be something big. Gol-Lee took ...

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Wesley's Wager

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      “You know something?” Wesley said. Anders peeked over at his ship; a bit of flame was coming off his nose.       “What?”       “I’m bored.”       There was a silence on the line that Wesley could virtually feel Ander's eye’s staring at him with that squint he had when he thought you said something stupid.       “You’re…bored?”       “Like a bird with no wings...

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