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Write about a character who was raised in a musical family.

Posted in General on Feb 4, 2020

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“Moon’s New Solar System ” by 𝕂𝕖𝕟𝕕𝕣𝕒 𝕊𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕖

Submitted on 01/29/2020

My parents were whispering softly in the living room. It was so quiet—they sounded like the soft, drizzling rain that was falling on our window a few days ago. I couldn’t go to sleep. Half of me wanted to go back to my bed, but the other half is to listen to what my parents were talking about.“…when to tell her she’s adopted,” Mom was whispering.Adopted?“Moon needs to know,” Dad said softly, like the stars in the sky.Me? I need to know?I felt like fifty people were stabbing my bod...

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“Hard Lessons ” by Abigail Airuedomwinya

Submitted on 01/25/2020

Back then in a family of five, Gerald was the black sheep. Which meant that he was the useless one who couldn't handle anything or make things go right. There was the pretty twenty-year-old daughter who could play the banjo so well; there was Jack who played the piano like a second skin and then there was mother and father who sang songs that reached the heart.Gerald was the one who couldn't play a thing. Father tried hard to make him just right, after all, theirs was a family of musicians. But not much could have been done. Gerald...

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“Poison Ivy - stage 1” by Twilight Bee

Submitted on 01/31/2020

You and I are like poison ivy. We irritate ourselves or others until they are swollen, then we leave them. We delegate our pains to be like bubbles. Like bubbles? Like bubbles who rise up in water in a pressurising pan, pushing others down, popping them out, then we rise or pop ourselves. Sink: pop. Rise too far above: pop. So keep your toes on the ground and float. You stay down then you will be delegated on, fly too high then you will fling your burdens to others. Poison ivy.Gentle though they seem to appear, pounce on you like a...

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“People and Dogs and a Harmonica in a Car” by Zilla Babbitt

Submitted on 01/24/2020

Ricky. Me. Marlinspike. Toots. Charey. Coley.Okay. Then the dogs, Persimmon and Beans. The guitar and the harmonica. Luggage and camping junk. And car keys.Daddy slammed the door of the trunk and the car windows shook. Charey shrieked. Marlinspike hushed her, first quietly, then when Charey kept giggling, louder and louder, Daddy had to glare at Marlinspike for yelling, “Shut up Charlotte!”Rickey was buried in his comic...

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“The Music Box” by Morgan Elbert

Submitted on 01/30/2020

“Couldn’t we just hang out here?” Hugh pleaded. “No! We spend enough time here already!” Nella responded, gesturing around them.  They were sitting on a crumbling concrete stage in the amphitheater of a long abandoned park.  This is where the old circus used to set up when it was in town. Performers of all sorts would stand on this very stage and do their acts.&n...

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“Li’l Chev” by John k Adams

Submitted on 01/30/2020

“Adean never forgave you, you know, Chev.”“I know, Mama.” “What will you do if he doesn’t show?”“Carry on, as usual, I expect.”“He doesn’t think it’s fair, you expecting us to play for free.”“You can tell him I never had such expectations. He’s welcome even if he leaves his fiddle at home. Always has been.”“I know…”“Anyway, I thought Daddy said family shouldn’t expect family to pay.”“I think he was talking about the food, Chev.” They laughed together. “You might be right, Mama...

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“Musical chairs” by Sam Kirk

Submitted on 01/30/2020

The house at 4 Wheel Drive was always filled with music, dance, and laughter. Mr. Roberts was a music teacher who played the guitar, the piano, as well as the trumpet. He never met an instrument he was not able to tame. Mrs. Roberts was a professional wedding singer and a ballroom dancer. Together, they made a perfect duo, often entertaining their neighbors and friends with song and dance. From the outside, looking in, their lives seemed like a one, long musical. Even the most mundane of chores were accompanied with one of them at lea...

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“A struggle for survival ” by Ola Hotchpotch

Submitted on 01/30/2020

The girl's voice, haunting and mellifluous, reverberated in the hall of the club restaurant where she was performing as a guest artist for a charity function. She strummed the guitar in her hand creating magic with its strings. The charity function was arranged by Mr. Lords the chairperson of the charity club. The audience mostly comprised of members of the club who were distinguished who and who. Luckia, as she was called, was a singer in a local five star hotel.She sang popular old numbers at the request of the guests and patrons...

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“The Adventures of Malachi Norton: In Which the Mind Atrophies” by Lee Kull

Submitted on 01/31/2020

After a sincere bout of marital troubles, the nature of which I am loath to disclose, eventually resulting in a writ of divorcement and a settlement signing over the house and property to my wife, I found myself without accommodations. Through the graciousness of my good friend Malachi Norton, I once more found myself sharing room and board in our old lodgings at 122 High Street, St. John’s Wood.To-day, Malachi seemed to be in a mood which his friends would call taciturn, and others morose. He smoked incessantly, played snatches on...

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“The Talents of Alice” by Tim Law

Submitted on 01/31/2020

“You are a waste and a disgrace to this family, Alice!”“Yes, a disappointment and a waste of talent!”Alice’s mum and dad would never understand. Their youngest daughter was not interested in the grand theatre, playing for a packed house at the Albert Hall. At fifteen Alice was far more interested in the flashing lights and base beats of a rave on the beaches of Ibiza.Like all dutiful daughters Alice had practiced her scales until they were faultless, mastered Mozart on violin and Beethoven on piano. Dux student of eve...

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“A Bird in a Golden Cage” by Daniella Cressman

Submitted on 01/28/2020

   My name is Miranda. My mom is a pianist for the local classical band: Strings and Keys. My dad is a singer for the rock band Leather and Roses. He shouts about angst, murder, stealing, and all kinds of other things. The two of them could not be more upset. I’m honestly 100% sure I am tone-deaf. Yes, it sucks.    If I had to play an instrument, it would be electric guitar. It’s a beautiful instrument. My dad’s less of a perfectionist when it comes to technicalities. He tells me passion’s more importa...

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“Destiny’s Future” by Deanna West

Submitted on 01/31/2020

Destiny’s FutureYou know, growing up in a musical family you tend to be cast as “The Jackson Five”, “New Edition”, or the town’s favorite “the Destiny’s Future”. Destiny is my mom’s name and as you can see, she wears her name proudly… My mom has five daughters (including myself)… There’s Mia, Amber, Talia, and then there’s me the youngest by 2 years. I’m Olivia. I’m sure you can only imagine just how crazy and hectic it can be with nothing but girls in the household… My poor parents… my poo...

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“Didn't your Mother ....?” by Deborah Mercer

Submitted on 01/31/2020

You could hire me as a mind-reading act, and pretty impressive I’d be too. As long as you stuck to one sentence, that is. To that sentence beginning “Didn’t your mother …..?”     Then I know what’s coming. Not Once live next door to us? Not Have a dog called Puggles? Not Make wonderful coffee and walnut cake?     No. It was always “Didn’t your mother write Tapestry?”    &nbs...

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“No Good Deed” by Allison Cellura

Submitted on 01/31/2020

No Good Deed “Why don’t you introduce yourself, and tell us three interesting things about you,” my teacher suggests. This happens every time I begin at a new school, which is often.  "My name is Alanis Abbott. I have four siblings, and we are all named after musicians. We moved here beca...

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“She Deserves It” by Paige Weber

Submitted on 01/31/2020

Erica Rale, a seventeen-year-old girl who was always been the best when it comes to playing the piano. Like any other parent, her mother was very proud of her daughter's achievements. Gold. Gold. Gold. That was all she had. She never received other awards than being the best than the best. Her school was so proud of her, for whenever she presents her academy to a musical competition she has no doubt to have her name on that first place. They all started to declare that h...

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