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“I Can't Escape” by 【ↇ𝔸𝕂𝕆⇝𝔹𝔼𝔸ℝ 】

All of us soldiers were packed into a van, like cows in a pen. I saw the battlefield, with falling and fallen soldiers, with blood and rain carpeting the once-green field. Bullets were flying everywhere as the sound of firing and explosions rang through the battlefield. The soldiers in the front line dropped dead one after another like trees being uprooted in a massive tornado. Everything seemed to happen in slow motion...

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“The Enemy*” by Litlover ⌛🌌🦢

TW: war, violence, PTSD “Run, Percy! They’re coming!” The sound of gunshots infects the air, poisoning my ears. I can feel the gas seep in through the barracks, setting my lungs aflame. There is no mercy, no prisoners. Only pain and death. Tossing my rifle over my shoulder with a grunt, I make for the next camp. You didn’t need to be in the crossfire to know what was going on outside. The Nazis had come, and they would kill us all. Running ac...

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“The Edge of Time ” by Nainika Gupta

March 1807John Coulter slowly took off his hat and fell to his knees, staring down at the canyon glowing with dark orange, yellow, and tinges of red hues. The roaring river fell hundreds of feet and meandered its way down the canyon that it had carved into for millennia. A sharp cry made him flinch and his eyes tracked the flash of brown and white as an osprey carrying a fat trout winged its way to its nest. He smiled as he watched it drop the carcass to its hungry chicks and returned to gape at what he had quite literally...

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“It Changed Our Lives- The Story of the Bill of Rights ” by Izzie P.

James Madison scratched his forehead. Sweat dripped off of his face as he wrote the last part of the Constitution in smooth, delicate calligraphy. The huge group of men murmured in agreement behind him, increasing the pressure. “And t-the Constitution shall be ratified when…” James stammered. “When nine out of thirteen states approve our Constitution,” Alexander Hamilton finished. “All we need is the approval,” Alexander Hamilton said. Without sayin...

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“A Vessel of Death” by Maya Emerson

𝓐𝓾𝓽𝓱𝓸𝓻'𝓼 𝓝𝓸𝓽𝓮: 𝓘 𝓭𝓸𝓷'𝓽 𝓱𝓪𝓿𝓮 𝓶𝓾𝓬𝓱 𝓽𝓸 𝓼𝓪𝔂 𝓪𝓫𝓸𝓾𝓽 𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓼. 𝓘𝓽'𝓼 𝓹𝓻𝓮𝓽𝓽𝔂 𝓼𝓱𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓫𝓾𝓽 𝓘 𝓯𝓮𝓮𝓵 𝓵𝓲𝓴𝓮 𝓲𝓽 𝓶𝓸𝓼𝓽𝓵𝔂 𝓯𝓲𝓽𝓼 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓹𝓻𝓸𝓶𝓹𝓽. 𝓘'𝓶 𝓱𝓸𝓷𝓮𝓼𝓽𝓵𝔂 𝓷𝓸𝓽 𝓼𝓾𝓻𝓮 𝓪𝓫𝓸𝓾𝓽 𝓲𝓽, 𝓼𝓸 𝓯𝓮𝓮𝓭𝓫𝓪𝓬𝓴 𝓲𝓼 𝓪𝓹𝓹𝓻𝓮𝓬𝓲𝓪𝓽𝓮𝓭. 𝓣𝓱𝓪𝓷𝓴𝓼 𝓯𝓸𝓻 𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓭𝓲𝓷𝓰!Six years.That’s how long I spent on that ship, the ship that never seemed to go anywhere good. The wind took our sails from one bomb to another, one battle to another. Never anywhere good.I didn’t have a purpose there, they could have survived this thing they call a “war” without me. A few extra ...

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“Stories and Memories” by 💜ᴀ ᴍ ᴇ ᴛ ʜ ʏ ꜱ ᴛ 💜

The rocking chair rocked back and forth, forth and back, squeaking like a mouse.Creak creakThe dark wood was polished and smooth, little tendrils of chestnut snaked across, covering the whole chair. Creak creakShe ran her hand across the armrest, her light skin illuminated by candlelight in the winter storm. The wind blazed and tore at tree branches, the temperature threatening to lower below sub-zero, so even the penguins in the zoo would be sh...

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“Chin Up” by Amany Sayed

“Keep your chin up, Ciara.” Her mother pressed cold fingers at the bottom of her face, forcing it forward. She was angry, not at Ciara, but at the world for making it seem like she had something to hide away from. Something to be ashamed of. “You be ashamed for something you chose to do, you hear? Like those nasty men rotting away in jail cells for their own bad and wrong decisions. The darkness of your skin is ...

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“Cold Hearts” by Nancy Drayce

“My body felt numb. The dirt over my green uniform made me feel sick. The innocent people's blood, stained the piece of fabric the military granted me. Crest of freedom; Homeland crest; for me the betrayal of humans. Do I regret the day I accepted to wear that uniform as an honour? Yes. I should have fought and stood by my ideals, but I was weak. We were all weak for following the rules so blindly. Kill or be killed. Instead, there shouldn’t have never been that phrase. Don't go, don't fight, don't kill, and we wou...

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“Here comes Trouble” by Ari Reynes

13th part of Home. Nothing to do with prompt.Daniel yawns, and sits up. He reaches for his phone, then remembers it’s broken, and his hand drops. He wants to call TJ, so he goes to Angel’s room to see if she’s up.Music is playing from behind the door, so he assumes she is. He knocks on the door, and after a second, she opens it, and smiles.“Morning, Daniel.” She says. “What’s up?”“Um, I was wondering if I can use your phone to call TJ?”She thinks about it for a second. “First...

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“The Next Right Note” by A.g. Scott

Isaiah knows he is ‘black.’Nobody will let him forget it: not his mother, not his doctor, and certainly not his fair-skinned private school classmates. Rarely does he think of race when he is all alone, but everywhere he goes, from the time he makes his bed in the morning to the time he crawls back under the sheets at night, he faces sobering reminders. For reasons he doesn’t quite understand, this wears him down, little by little, until he is far more fatigued than a ten-year-old boy has any right to be. Mostly, it leav...

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“Plaguing Memories” by Sophie Maselli

TW: PTSD, HolocaustI got up from my spot on the ragged yellow couch, worn beige pants rustling and my knees groaning: small pops and cracks in my limbs. The popping of the joints sounded like far off gunshots: echoes in the harsh, biting wind. For a moment, I was transported back to Europe. Back to--I shook my head, ridding myself of the horrid memories that threatened to flood my mind.I walked to the bathroom, shuffling my slippered feet. Slowly--as if to not break my old, run-down, beaten limb...

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“The fifth child” by Abigail Airuedomwinya

It was the fifth child that did it. Nana was seated on a chair outside of her home, counting the children who skipped past her home. When the fifth child skipped past, Nana called my mother. "It was the fifth child," Nana cried on the phone. "That boy is bad." My mother glanced at her wristwatch, the one that had gone from gold to silver over the years, and frowned. It was two in the afternoon and the sun w...

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“Grandma” by Christina Marie

“Let’s play a game.” Grandma pushes aside the flyers and coupons littering her kitchen table to make space for the yellowing cribbage board—a brittle piece of plastic molded into the number 29.I collect the dishes from the coffee and stale cookies she’s been saving for my visit and place them in the sink. Using the crocheted rag that always hangs over the faucet, I douse the cups and saucers down with soapy water and rinse and stack them in the drying rack. Despite our persistent pestering, there’s still no dishwasher.

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“Rise and fall of a...... wall ” by Palak Shah

Tearing up pages, Stephan hauled them into the bin; missing a few shots that went directly into the vase next to it; but he couldn’t be bothered to pick it up. No, he had to write a 500 words history essay, which was due in for tomorrow, and unsurprisingly he forgot about it. Moaning and groaning, he scribbled out everything he had written; whilst slashing through the page and ripping it into shreds. ...

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“Viva la Revolucion!” by Kristin Neubauer

Author's note: The return of Dr. Ingalls, psychotherapist to historical figures. His first appearance was in "'Tis a Lie!" way back in September (Contest 57), featuring his session with George Washington. In the comments, I'll put a note about what is true and what is fiction in this one.Dr. Ingalls is tapping his pen on his legal pad as he waits for his next client. He looks at his phone. The client is already eight minutes late and Dr. Ingalls underlines the observation he made the previous week....

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Write about an elderly character who was part of a historic movement years ago.

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✍️ 148 stories

“I Can't Escape” by 【ↇ𝔸𝕂𝕆⇝𝔹𝔼𝔸ℝ 】

“The Enemy*” by Litlover ⌛🌌🦢

“The Edge of Time ” by Nainika Gupta

“It Changed Our Lives- The Story of the Bill of Rights ” by Izzie P.

“A Vessel of Death” by Maya Emerson

“Stories and Memories” by 💜ᴀ ᴍ ᴇ ᴛ ʜ ʏ ꜱ ᴛ 💜

“Chin Up” by Amany Sayed

“Cold Hearts” by Nancy Drayce

“Here comes Trouble” by Ari Reynes

“The Next Right Note” by A.g. Scott

“Plaguing Memories” by Sophie Maselli

“The fifth child” by Abigail Airuedomwinya

“Grandma” by Christina Marie

“Rise and fall of a...... wall ” by Palak Shah

“Viva la Revolucion!” by Kristin Neubauer

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Write about someone who never planned to make history but is now about to deliver a speech in front of millions.

Write about a child witnessing a major historical event.

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