In the form of diary/ journal entries, write about someone who's up late at night because they're having trouble sleeping.

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“Ms. Adelaide Reba Baker” by Neha Dubhashi

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_________________ Ms. Adelaide Baker December 31, 1903 _______________ Dear Diary, The house is cold. Its floorboards ache with untold stories, its walls creak and moan in the night. I know Mother said that this house has been passed down the Maybelline women for generations, but I don’t want it.Some distant great aunt passed away recently, and we’ve been entrusted with its upkeeping. I long to go back to Chicago and dance with Samuel under the streetlights. Young and free, he seventeen, and I sixteen, had our whole lives ahead of us. And Mo...

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“Dear Diary, I'm so sad” by Trichelle Meador

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Dear Diary, hey, it's me again. Are you surprised to hear from me so late at night? or would this be considered early in the morning. I think this would be considered late at night since I haven't slept since I woke up this morning to go to work. It is 4:48 in the morning. I guess it's a good thing I don't have work tomorrow. Today has felt so long. Like it would never end. And me not being able to sleep has only made it so much worse, so much longer. Sigh, I really need to get a hang of my sleep schedule. Sleeping pills have stopped working...

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“Dreaming in Lilac” by Julie Le Blanc

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11:10pmWell, here we are again, diary.Thanks, I’m great, you?No, I haven’t taken my sleeping pills, and I won’t be taking my sleeping pills. The last time I took them, I tripped balls for three days. During the day. At work. Everyone thought I was possessed, or just that I’d finally tried going to the gym and had broken myself.I’ve been very good, actually, I’ve only checked to see if he’s messaged me twice. Ok three times, but one of those I was brushing my teeth, so it doesn’t count cuz I was multitasking.Maybe I should check again.No, he ...

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“DIARY” by Sandra Claros

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Dear diary: I am really sorry that I could not write for one day.Do you know what happened?Check it out : Yesterday at around ten thirty or eleven I arrived home after a seriously busy day, going to school, then to the market and finally to help around my grandmother's house - it was her birthday!! – Totally tired, I took a cold shower as the afternoon was so hot – and started to watch television.Sleepy, I put on my pajamas, and crawl to my bed, almost closing my eyes. But, specifically that...

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“Counting Stars” by Britt Michielsen

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Dear diary I know boys aren’t supposed to cry or show any emotion at best so, I guess I’m an exception on that rule because you should see me bawling my eyes out right now. I can’t believe I’m whining like a little girl, or any girl. I guess, if you think about it, I have more feminine flaws then just the crying. The fact that I’m writing this down in a diary for example. The fact that I even own a dairy is even more doubtful. But I’m blabbing which is, not to my surprise at all, another one of my feminine personality treat. I’m sorry for ab...

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“The Nightmare Muse” by Smudge Himmel

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05/06/3019I must write this down, if only in an effort to quell my fears. If I write it down, perhaps I will not dwell on it, and that is all I can hope.I have just awoken from a nightmare. Not my usual nightmares, which haunt my sleep with the images of those long-ago days, those horrid creatures with their long pale teeth and thinly fleshed limbs and lolling eyes. Those are shallow imitations of this nightmare. In dreams, most things take on an ethereal quality. There is that film of separation that lets you know it is a dream. Tonight the...

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“Nocturnal chaos ” by Destiny T

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Dear diary, 4th April 2020 So it has been a week since I used to see my mom's room lights still gleaming at eerie hours of the night way past midnightI very vividly remember all the events I had seen 6 days ago when I walked towards my mom's room in the quiet of the night, as I kept hearing some muffled voices in the distance coming from her room. I heard them grow more and more...

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“Night 37” by Perry Williams

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"I can't sleep. It's almost like I can hear the zombies outside the camp. I'm worried that they might get through the fence. Jerome and Felix are doing tonight's patrol, and that worries me. They're not really known to be the most observant guys here. They might not notice one of them sneaking in. I don't want to die. All I want to do is see the sunrise tomorrow. The view from the top of this parking garage must be epic. I've also finally made some friends here. Maybe I should go out and check on Jerome and Felix. In case I don't come back, ...

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“To Help A Lost Child” by Jan Querubin

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Dear Diary,It’s been three weeks since I’ve last written here. It’s funny because the last time was also the first time and so many things has happened since then. I guess I really just can’t commit to writing.That says a lot about me but hello, here I am again. I never really thought I’d be coming back to write here but I figured that I should since I couldn’t sleep. And for some reason, I brought this journal with me here.What I wrote last time was of the same reason. Trouble sleeping had been pushing me to do things I don’t usually do. Bu...

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“Dear Diary” by Randi W

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Rose flipped onto her back and opened her eyes; staring at the dark blue ceiling, she sighed, ‘Apparently I am not meant to sleep tonight.’. Rolling onto her side, she turned her lamp on, flooding her bedroom in a warm yellow glow; swinging her legs over the side of her bed, Rose picked up the soft blue leather diary from the bedside table and walked to the window seat. After she had settled onto the overstuffed cushions, with a soft blanket covering her legs; she opened the di...

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“Night Trekking in My Time” by Joy Saker

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Dear Diary, I really shouldn’t watch Tales from the Loop before bed-time. Last night was a no-show as far as sleep is concerned. I tossed, turned, rearranged my arms and legs, fluffed pillows, got up for a leak then had a drink of water, turned on the light to see the clock, and generally was starey-eyed awake until dawn. Only managed 1 hour of sleep. It was hard staying awake long enough to get the kids off to school with next to no sleep, then I crashed. Dear Diary,One week to an opening is not a happy format for a diary.&nb...

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“Dear Diary” by Tayyibah Adelaja

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September 23 Dear Diary: It's 2:00 A.M. and I can't sleep. It always happens! I don't know what to do anymore. People may think that writing in a diary is wimpy, but for me, it's really helping. Anyways, I think I've tried everything. I've even tried sleeping pills which only made me feel sleepy at school so that was a bust. There was this thing on the internet and you had to tense up all your muscles and then like, relax. As you can assume it didn't work for me. See you tomorrow when I give more reports on my sleep! Good night Diary! &...

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“Tomato Sauce” by Katelyn Davis

Submitted to Contest #36

Journal Entry #34Yeah, that’s right, guess who ate tomatoes again. Hint, she’s wearing Jayden’s spelling bee shirt and she can’t sleep...for the third day in a row. You would think I would try to justify it, but at this point I honestly can’t be bothered. I should know better. Anyways, today was mostly uneventful. Mom wouldn't let me see Jayden because she was in one of her moods again. The same old “you can see her when you can drive yourself there” thing again. I’ve basically accepted my fate at this point. I’m just gonna die alone in my p...

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“A Clever Story?” by Rob McGregor

Submitted to Contest #36

April 9th/2020Where do I begin?Today is my sixty first birthday and I am trying to come to terms with the world in complete and utter chaos!I felt 2020 would be my best year in decades.So much so that in January I proudly announced on Facebook and to family and friends, my plan to make it happen in the self guise-titled theme of “Rise Up 2020.”A year to which the promise of finally publishing my first book would come to fruition after ten painstaking years of plodding along in quest of its eventual completion.I also started the year in the t...

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“Katie Milburn Is Alive” by Charlotte Poe

⭐️ Shortlisted for Contest #36

I, Katie Milburn, am alive. I’ve been awake nearly two days and I’m pretty sure I want to die, but I’m also pretty sure that right now, in this moment, I’m alive. So that’s terrifying. Lots of things are terrifying, I think. Which is kind of the problem. I mean, look at the universe. Nobody really understands the beginnings or the ends of it, or if it even has beginnings and ends, and I think, well, isn’t it kind of subjective?Like, before I was born, hell, even for several months after, nothing really existed for me until somethin...

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In the form of diary/ journal entries, write about someone who's up late at night because they're having trouble sleeping.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 237 stories

“Ms. Adelaide Reba Baker” by Neha Dubhashi

“Dear Diary, I'm so sad” by Trichelle Meador

“Dreaming in Lilac” by Julie Le Blanc

“DIARY” by Sandra Claros

“Counting Stars” by Britt Michielsen

“The Nightmare Muse” by Smudge Himmel

“Nocturnal chaos ” by Destiny T

“Night 37” by Perry Williams

“To Help A Lost Child” by Jan Querubin

“Dear Diary” by Randi W

“Night Trekking in My Time” by Joy Saker

“Dear Diary” by Tayyibah Adelaja

“Tomato Sauce” by Katelyn Davis

“A Clever Story?” by Rob McGregor

“Katie Milburn Is Alive” by Charlotte Poe

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