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Write a story that ends by circling back to the beginning.

Posted in General on Jul 23, 2021

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✍️ 219 stories

“Your Story” by A. Y. R

This is how your story begins. You read that correctly. YOUR story, and yes, this is the beginning - with you reading my words.  There was nothing else before this. Your world, your universe, begins with my words, and you. You've come into this world reading my words. This is the truth - your life before this has been a lie. A lie which I crafted. You could try proving me wrong. You could confirm with your friends and family that the events you experienced did indeed happen. But I've just written...

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“Life is full of sunshine and roses, thorns included ” by Roshna Rusiniya

Today “What are we all celebrating today everyone?” Shouted the petite Indian woman standing next to the huge picnic table, her hand raised to gain the attention of the small group of people gathered around her. A chorus of equally excited voices responded. ‘Anniversary’. ‘Honeymoon’. ‘Birthday’.   I exhaled deeply, unaware that I was holding my breath all this while. ...

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“Living A Lie” by Daryl Gravesande

They told me to just wait in the damn car! Why didn’t I just listen? I would’ve been better off this way. I want to tell you how this ends, but I suppose I should start at the beginning. When this all started. When everything was perfect. Cut to a family of 6. Me, my brother and my two sisters. We were a nice family. A good family. Before this all started. We lived in a quiet, suburban town that hardly gets any action. I THOUGHT that was us. I could've never been more wrong. I never knew that m...

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“Just Another Choice” by Zea Bowman

1.You are Dr. John Freeman, a 34-year-old millionaire for finding the cure to Leukemia. You have recently been put in jail for accused murder, and have been sentenced to 113 years in prison. You know you are innocent, but there is no proof. You must get out of here somehow. You get one call with somebody, and you know you must pick wisely. After a lot of thinking, you decide you want to call another doctor, who helped you find the cure but got no credit. You know she would want some money. So now you sit across Dr. Diana Cross, who...

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“The Evil Magician Boy” by Rhondalise Mitza

His soft footsteps pad gently along the carpet of the backstage. He is the essence of coolness, complete with tuba and magician’s wand. His hair flows ever so neatly in the direction of his audience and they are watching in rapt silence as he demonstrates his talents. They are many. His teeth glisten like lined up marble marshmallows; straight and white in his mouth like soldiers of a bonfire army ready for battle.  This boy is no ordinary boy, but instead a boy so full of shrimp and crackers ...

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“Sisterly Love” by Tori Routsong

“Beth, please! Don’t do this! Magic shouldn’t be used like this, you can’t bring her back, you—” “Can’t I?” Beth casts a snide grin at me before looking back at her computer. “No, you can’t! I asked Mal, and he—” “Mal is a child. He never knew the whole of what this power could do.” I squirm. I have to crane my neck at such a severe angle to see Beth from my vantage point of strapped to the floor that it hurts my neck and eyes both. “Only one person has ever succeeded, and they only—” “They only brough...

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“Forest People 2” by B Ro Ok E H As A C Ow Bo Y H At

I looked up at the stars. Jackson and Caleb had already been sleeping for a while, but I couldn't fall asleep. After Jackson and I's conversation before he fell asleep, I had a sick feeling in my stomach.I had lost everyone I loved, except for Jackson and Caleb. They were great, but it wasn't the same. You love so many people, but only certain people do you really love.I heard a rustle in the bushes, crawled into my lean-to and grabbed my bow. I pulled the arrow back and aimed at the bush. There was more rustling fo...

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“Open Your Eyes” by Reuben Howard

Open your eyes, the world is waiting. Slowly arise from the allure of your stupored state and join the living again. Now, get up and walk out the door. Make a right, a left, a right, and you’re home-free. Walk down the street that is etched into the back of your eyelids and take one hundred and thirty-seven steps. Upon taking that last step, try to contain your excitement. Give your knock that has become an exact science from the thousands of times you’ve used it. She greets your unannounced intrusion with a smile that makes your day. Ov...

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“The First Winter” by Lynn Penny

There once was a time when the world was young and held no more than a village. It was a time before hatred, war and suffering. The mortals of the village had only seen peace and happiness, death was of nothing to the villagers, for they didn’t even know what death was. There was only life.The villagers worked together to keep balance within their land, each having a different job. Some would prepare meals for the village to feed; others would keep the buildings strong to withstand the storms. Everyone had a job, but two...

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“Wish You Were Mine. ” by Avery Mason 🍍😇🤩

Thanks to Brooke D. who gave me the grand idea of completing my series!!! Thanks, so much Brooke! If you have not already, please first read “Wish You Were Here,” then read, “Wish You Away!” Thanks for supporting me.“Wish you were mine.”I whispered, as I pulled a daisy out from the ground, the soil spilling over my dress.I watched him with fascination as he showed his friends how to shot a free throw. The orange basketball hung in the air like the sun. I leaned against the old oak tree...

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“Next Life” by Corey Melin

I opened my eyes to behold a beauty that I’m sure few, if any, saw their entire life. “Where am I?” I muttered, as I looked around. Stranger yet, I was standing on my feet when I came to. I stood by a lake that is crystal clear.  I could see far out into the water, seeing fish and other underwater life moving about.  Life that I figured you would not find in freshwater, but out in the depths of the ocean. I looked to the left and right of the lake where t...

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“Lilith's Sister (Sunrise Part Two)” by Holly Pierce

“No way! It’s not possible that we’re sisters. When I was born she left… she went to California.” Lilith's breathing quickened and her face paled to a lighter shade of violet. I could tell she was trying to stay polite, but she clearly did not appreciate the fact that she was related to Arantxa. “No. I was born before you, and she went to our planet. It was impossible for her to hide when she changed to Nyx every month. She… she had to come back to our planet. Before she died, she told me that if I ever found you I would need to te...

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“At the Start of the Rainbow” by Gip Roberts

She had it all figured out. Well, sort of. The fine details didn't matter, all that did was escaping from her tyrannical parents. Jocelyn Journeycake was a big dreamer, but this was one dream she would make come true. "No more chores!" the nine-year-old chanted like a street protester, hugging the straps that held the backpack in place with an exhale of alleviation and a grin hanging below blinking, obsidian eyes that faced the long stretch of yard leading to the road to freedom."I will see Canada first!" The itinerary w...

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“Imogen's Paintings” by Waverley Stark

Imogen sat by the fire and listened to the windows shake. Sounds like the frozen devil, she thought with a shiver. Come to take over the world by storm and ice. Well, you aren’t getting me, mister Devil. She glanced up above the fire to the line of portraits marching along the fireplace then over the walls, till they burst out alongside the cottage. She loved her pictures.  Robert E. Lee gazed at her stoically from above the flames, his gray beard curled like clouds. A small oil painting of a girl fee...

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“A Life for Garrett” by Karen Kinley

No one expected much from Carly. She was a screw-up from the beginning, the "accident" baby who was routinely ignored by her family. She did poorly in school despite her best efforts and private tutoring by the teacher. And even then she barely graduated high school. This was due to not only her grades (marginal) but also her pregnancy (knocked up by the drum major of the marching band). When she did graduate and subsequently delivered her baby (a little boy she named Garrett), she moved out of her parents' home and rent...

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