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

Posted in General on May 27, 2020

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✍️ 244 stories

“Your Story” by A. y. R

Submitted on 05/19/2020

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

Submitted on 05/22/2020

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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“Forever and Us” by Abigail Airuedomwinya

Submitted on 05/19/2020

I must have been smiling. Or laughing. He smiled back at me, touched my hair, and collapsed on a chair. He spoke French fluently but interpreted it with fervor as though it mattered. He said, "Que pensez-vous du mariage avec moi? What do you think of marriage with me?" I did not reply to him in French nor did I let him know that it mattered. I smiled at him. I could not answer.He whistled a tune until the light came up and when it did and it was bright enough to warm our hearts, he asked me the same question. His French ...

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“Open Your Eyes” by Reuben Howard

Submitted on 05/16/2020

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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“Living A Lie” by Daryl Gravesande

Submitted on 05/22/2020

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

Submitted on 05/22/2020

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

Submitted on 05/19/2020

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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“Sisterly Love” by Tori Routsong

Submitted on 05/17/2020

“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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“THE OUTCAST” by Patricia Buyu

Submitted on 05/16/2020

The OutcastI was born after a heart-throbbing love story between two young lovers went sour. My young mother had her whole life ahead of her, but I brought it to a stop. My coming was unplanned, unexpected, not welcomed, yet imminent. My mother met my father when she was still at the thresholds of her teenage years, still swayed by my father’s boyish cat calls along the high school hallways that led to their classes, ‘corridors of love’ they called them, and nicely written ro...

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“The Evil Magician Boy” by Rhondalise Mitza

Submitted on 05/15/2020

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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“Muddy Scars and Dry Thistles” by Zilla Babbitt

Submitted on 05/18/2020

I was walking down the limestone gravel road, kicking at the clumps of mud on my shoes, and trying not to remember what the song of the painted bunting sounded like.  This is what I remember of the hill country. The white, near-yellowed limestone poking out of the scruffy ground, the clawed gum trees and juniper trees bent over in the wind, the hooting of the night owl as the white sun began to rise in the cool morning air. The tops of the Indian paintbrushes waving in the low...

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“Door of Doom” by Kioni Richards

Submitted on 05/23/2020

Dinah Dugery couldn’t remember why it was important that she sought help from this grungy house but she knew it was absolutely necessary. It’s mystic mystery called out to every fibre in her body as she slowly approached it’s ebony door. A dreary feeling ran through her body with each steady step. But all her life’s lessons could never prepare her for what would become of her once she entered that slummy door.With a deep intake of breath she went to knock on its coarse surfaces but instead it was opened and he...

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“Summer Ritual” by Jessica Orenstein

Submitted on 05/21/2020

It was a humid summer night as Sydney, Sasha, and Simone, the "three S's" as they were often  called, sat on the beach just after midnight, a week before school started. The water stretched out in front of them, smooth and calm, a mirror, reflecting the moonlight.  The sky was dusted with 1,000's of stars that twinkled and winked at the girls, just as they had done each year, every year, since the summer after 1st grade.  This had been their special tradition for as long as they could remember- a precious ceremony, ...

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“Ants” by Smudge Himmel

Submitted on 05/18/2020

Peter was staring at ants. It was an easy thing to do: crouch down and watch as their red and black bodies spun over the pavement like a roller coaster in two dimensions. His breath fogged against his glasses. It wasn't a cold day, far from it, but wearing a medical mask over his nose and mouth had that effect. The elastic straps pulled uncomfortably at his ears. The sun was hot on his neck and gleamed off of the ants' carapaces. Peter pulled out his phone and without looking dialed his friend Celia. After five rings she picked up....

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“Back to Dreams Aphotic” by Mackenzie Littledale

Submitted on 05/19/2020

A Short Story by Mackenzie LittledaleInspired by a poem by Shona MossNarcoticOrland let out a primal grunt as he climaxed. He collapsed and rolled onto his back beside the foreign woman, whose name escaped him. “You can go now,” he said, losing interest in her. Orland moved to sit at the edge of the bed with his back to her so he didn’t have to see her delicate porcelain features out of sorts. Sneering, he reached behind to push her clothes in her direction.She gasped, clutched her clothes...

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