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“Zita” by Batool Hussain

Submitted on 07/05/2020

You are busy finishing your caramel apple when you see her. Her long, blond hair is being whipped into a frenzy by the wind. Her eyes are a very unique shade of honey brown. Peeking out from her flat denim jacket is the prettiest striped suit you’ve ever seen. She catches you looking at her. A mischievous smile plays across her plump lips. It is, definitely, love at first sight.After a year of tremendous convincing for your parents, you get married to her. ‘The perfect match' your friends call you. What the...

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“Thought Spirals ” by ℭ𝔢𝔩𝔢𝔰𝔱𝔢 𝔍𝔦𝔪𝔢𝔫𝔢𝔷🧸

Submitted on 07/09/2020

“Even silence has a story to tell you. Just listen. Listen.” - Jacquline WoodsonI tried to listen.Listen to the silence.All I heard was: ‘you suck'Silence gets me thinking.Something I do too much.Thought spirals.And I think about how nothing is really an ending.This wasn’t an ending.There are no happy endings. Maybe happy middles, but that’s the thing with life....

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“Hidden Surprises” by 𝕂𝕖𝕟𝕕𝕣𝕒 𝕊𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕖

Submitted on 07/07/2020

June 2nd The oldest child of the Quinn family is Cindy, my older sister. She will be turning fifteen in two weeks. We will be celebrating her birthday a week early, which is in another week. I cannot wait to see her reaction when she finds out what I got her. Our mother has been acting strange lately, and I think she’s trying to hide her surprise. She said the gift was hidden downstairs in one of...

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“Grandma's Cardinal” by Sarah Greenwood

Submitted on 07/06/2020

“When I die I’m going to come back as a Cardinal,” my Grandmother told me one Saturday afternoon as we sat at her kitchen table watching the birds and squirrels frolic on her patio. The Cardinal was her favorite, she named him ‘Peep.” He would stare at us through the screen door, his plump little chest heaving as he sang his melodious mating song, waiting for us to feed him stale peanuts and sunflower seeds.Every Saturday I walked down the street to Grandma’s house, picking my neighbors’ Black-eyed Susans along the way to...

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“ROAD to REVENGE ” by Adhi Das

Submitted on 07/06/2020

The nastiest lies are often told in silence. Revenge is a tart notion born not only in a criminal’s mind even in a common man’s mind after all it is said it is due to circumstances. Are you ready to hear a real story on Revenge? Then let’s see where this road to revenge leads to… The sky was weary carrying...

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“Birthdays” by Abigail Airuedomwinya

Submitted on 07/05/2020

7. The moon is awfully quiet when he asks you why you died. He is seating on one of those chairs that can't hold his weight while his hands rest diligently on the door frame. And he is looking at you because he is waiting for an answer, like the one he knows you can't give. You feign ignorance as you wrap your burning hands around the teddy bear on your lap, like the one he gave you when you were ten which you lost when you played with Hannah at Sio. Where is she now?You look over at his fragility ...

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“Seventeen Saints” by Emily Nghiem

Submitted on 07/10/2020

"A Message from the Universe"by Sister Helena St. Martin"Behind the Iron Curtain,Beyond the Fall of Rome,There's hope in the uncertain,And truth in the unknown.”My last conversation with Helena was a one-sided argument, which I recall too vividly. How can you forget the joy of yelling furiously at someone who refuses to speak.Sister Helena knew how to torment me. As a Pulitzer-nominated poet and political...

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“Mattress or Box? ” by Rhondalise Mitza

Submitted on 07/05/2020

“Would you rather live in a box or sleep on a bed with no mattress?” Afra asked the stranger next to her on the bus, being careful not to lean too close to them. She had just eaten her lunch and the onions were pretty strong, so she didn’t want to knock the poor kid out. He didn’t answer her and she crossed her arms in front of her chest. What a prick. He was probably up in the clouds somewhere, bugging out on ham and c...

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“Dojo at the Mountain Summit” by A. y. R

Submitted on 07/10/2020

Master Zayo – the name which echoed greatness and honour across the land of the rising sun. The world was vast, yet tales of his might and victory swept like gale winds across the oceans and foreign soils. His legend told shared by children on the playgrounds, who one day dreamed of being heroes as epic as him – spearing tales of how the great martial artist vanquished all evil that dared defy peace, and spread wisdom like a prophesied messiah. Many had lost their lives scaling the unforgiving mountain in the valley of shadows...

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“The Most Important Question of All” by * ค๓คຖฯ *

Submitted on 07/09/2020

Logan The cool breeze sweeps past us. My heart beats faster, and faster. Every inhale feels like it takes years, and every exhale decades. I can feel the stares as people file in and out of the movie theater. Thump Thump Thump Though I don't dare break my gaze from her beautiful face, I can see in my peripheral vision a couple stopping to watch the show. This ...

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“Strawberries and Cigarettes” by Johan Stones

Submitted on 07/10/2020

September 29, 2018. Dear, John Wesley. How are you? It’s been a long time. Oh, not really I guess, since it’s just almost a year, but you know what, John? it feels like many decades for me. John, somet...

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“My Anpanman” by Deepti Kumari

Submitted on 07/10/2020

This is a story of me and my 'Anpanman', I think it is easy for me not to reveal myself.'The wind was blowing from West to East and I was standing on my rooftop, facing towards the direction of wind.' I was alone at home and not in the mood of doing anything that's why wondering about my past experiences with my parents. I was trying to recollect memories of my childhood. It was really difficult to find even a single of it. There must be reason behind this , either I have a bad memory or I don't want to keep my past experiences wit...

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“Nebula 13 (Chapter 2)” by Elliott Laurence

Submitted on 07/11/2020

Fight for Briem Or Fight for None The message that materialized on my ship’s screen read⎯Onyx Blake. You have not been authorized to assemble a force to engage (this) the Briem. Nebula Council of Planets (NCOP) I know that a council member is likely at my ship’s entrance. We won’t survive tangled in red tape. I need to depart quickly as ...

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“Silence” by 𝔸. 𝕋𝕣𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕒𝕝𝕖

Submitted on 07/10/2020

Fascinating was the birth of my first child. A boy. One so pure and innocent, yet so unaware of the cruel world outside the bland hospital walls. Ignorance is bliss they say, but is bliss truly the ignorance of it? Unfortunately, I'd find out soon enough. I had never experienced such bliss as watching my son meet this unrefined world, and all that was in it. But that moment of pure joy was the clearest, most mo...

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“Another chance” by Anushka Binoy

Submitted on 07/10/2020

I can’t play the waiting game anymore. I can’t get through another day. The clock on the kitchen wall stares at me, blank-faced, as I watch its slender hands gently tick past. The sink cluttered with dirty dishes and remnants of last week’s dinner screams at me, begging me to stand up for once and get my act together. But their cries fall on deaf ears. Every morning, I make myself a cup of watered-down coffee, and then p...

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Write a story about a person waiting for an answer to a question.

Submissions are closed!

✍️ 187 stories

“Zita” by Batool Hussain

“Thought Spirals ” by ℭ𝔢𝔩𝔢𝔰𝔱𝔢 𝔍𝔦𝔪𝔢𝔫𝔢𝔷🧸

“Hidden Surprises” by 𝕂𝕖𝕟𝕕𝕣𝕒 𝕊𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕖

“Grandma's Cardinal” by Sarah Greenwood

“ROAD to REVENGE ” by Adhi Das

“Birthdays” by Abigail Airuedomwinya

“Seventeen Saints” by Emily Nghiem

“Mattress or Box? ” by Rhondalise Mitza

“Dojo at the Mountain Summit” by A. y. R

“The Most Important Question of All” by * ค๓คຖฯ *

“Strawberries and Cigarettes” by Johan Stones

“My Anpanman” by Deepti Kumari

“Nebula 13 (Chapter 2)” by Elliott Laurence

“Silence” by 𝔸. 𝕋𝕣𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕒𝕝𝕖

“Another chance” by Anushka Binoy

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