Write a short story about someone accomplishing one of their resolutions.

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“The Follow” by Holli Harms

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Jack finished his notes from the night before. It was 5:30pm and he was going to follow again tonight. He read again the pages of his new book, How To Move Forward In Life And Still Have Fun. He knew he was doing just that. It was a new year and he was going to take it by storm. His one and only resolution; take this year by storm. Sounds vague but Jack knows the details. He has been a reviewer for a small but up and coming online review blog for almost a year. Reviews for theatre; Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Off-Off which pretty m...

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“A Fool for April” by Lisa Verdekal

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He met April in January. The dreary month after Christmas when you’re broke and cold and the only thing to look forward to is Valentine’s Day, unless you don’t have a lover. And Dave was single. Dave was lonely. He was painfully shy, as his mother always said. That’s why you’re a bachelor, she’d added lately, followed by a laugh. Not really a James Bond though, are ya.Nope, Dave didn’t go from one woman to the next breaking hearts. He didn’t have a phone filled with ladies names and numbers. He’d had a few encounters with work colleagues tha...

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“What We Promise Each Other” by Taylor P

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When dawn slips past her curtains, her eyes flutter stubbornly against the light. Distantly, she remembers the promise to rise with the sun; remembers that it was the sort of promise she couldn’t break. Remembers what she paid with that promise, and suddenly it’s not morning and she isn’t in bed. She is crouched on a parking lot curb in the dark, head in her hands, breath coming slow and then fast and then slow again. This was where he leaves her. Chest tight, lungs struggling, mind spinning. Head sliding lower and lower to the asphalt ...

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“New Years Resolved” by Renee Ferrell

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Running around the bend, sweat beginning to trickle down his back, Alex bobbed his head back and forth to the music funneling through his earbuds. He was hitting his stride now, the best part of the run, the part that made you feel accomplished for getting out there, the part that helped you feel alive. The sun had peaked out from behind some clouds, and he almost closed his eyes, to have that moment of peace with warm rays of sun tickling his face. This was how he escaped, put aside all other thoughts except what nature provided, this was h...

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“One Resolution” by Jennifer Riley

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“So, tell me your New Year’s resolutions.” I glance up at Sam, my coworker, who is, as sometimes happens, not helping me shelve books so much as he is tagging along while I shelve books. “I didn’t make any,” I say, and point at the book on the cart I need next. “Will you hand me that?” He raises his eyebrows at me and hands it to me without looking at it. “You didn’t make any?” “Nope.” I put the book in its place on the shelf and go to the cart he’s sort of just leaning on, ignoring that he looks kind of cute just leaning there. Mostly ignor...

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“A Long Time Coming” by Josiah Chia

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The minutes bled by like years as Cierra spent most of the night unable to coax herself to sleep. The night was restless in a foreign, albeit welcome manner, nothing like the countless ones she'd spent crying herself to sleep, wishing to be roused from the horrid nightmare that was her life.She glanced at the clock on her dresser – 1st January 2020, 3:52am. The new decade was just hours old, and she was already dreaming of a new beginning of untold proportions. She had but one resolution for the longest time, but each passing year had only e...

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“No More Ms Inbetween” by Deborah Mercer

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The hall is quiet, but with that not quite quiet that is less serene that silence. There are little noises, little rustles, little intakes of breath, and, intermittently, sometimes in quick succession, sometimes after what seems like an agonising wait, those noises of movement and shifting that people are never quite sure if they hear or imagine they hear. It is calm, or you might think it is, but there are ripples and overtones and undertones. Carole Richards is tense and quiet, too, but she is h...

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“When Pigs Fly” by Sophie Liu

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“You could always stop being such a stick-in-the-mud. And you could try getting rid of that pesky habit of yours called tattling. I’m sure you’d have more friends then. Oh! Or you could stop eating meat,” her sister offers in a faux helpful voice. “Although that would probably be impossible for you; what was your record? Five days? Four days?” her sister laughs. “Oh, shut it just this once, will you?” Alyssa grouses. She tries to ignore her sister’s awful suggestions and focus on the paper before her. New Year’s Resolutions have always ...

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“The breakfast date” by Tracy Wamae

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Life had been dull. There was nothing to do beyond going to work and coming back home to sleep. Lisa's schedule reduced her existence to one of pure exhaustion. She handled a lot at work, beyond her pay grade. The commute she endured every day added to her woes. She spent her weekends of late sleeping and doing chores when she could. Am I depressed, or is this just fatigue? Lisa had been mildly depressed earlier in her life. She, therefore, knew that it manifested through sleepiness. She also cried often. Something needed to change...

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“The Resolution” by Bya Hardy

Submitted to Contest #25

Once again I find myself at this inane display of indulgence and degradation, wallowing in self-pity. I could have said no. I should have said no. But for some reason, whenever Sophie asks me to a party, there is no refusing her. There was that one time I almost escaped by insisting that I was required at the hospital that day and couldn’t possibly attend her soiree doped up on painkillers. Apparently no. She picked me up, allowed me to babble about for the entire evening in a drug-induced stupor before suggesting “Craig” that nice guy from ...

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“A Writer's Block” by Isabel B

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Until then, Brice Darrow would keep doing what he did best. The End.I smiled, my heart filling with a rush of excitement. I just finished writing my first novel at 11:58 pm on December 31, 2019!It had taken me twelve months to write, but I finally did it! And, at eighty-four thousand words, my baby wasn’t anything to sneeze at.I stood up from my chair, waddling to the refrigerator for a can of pop. I waddled because I’m overweight.—overweight by at least thirty-eight pounds. The thing was, I had gained most of my excess weight just this year...

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“Bonneville Salt Flats” by Anastasia S.

⭐️ Shortlisted for Contest #25

There was something calming riding on a motorcycle—the roar of wind whipping by your hair, the thunderous rumble of the engine. The noise is deafening, and yet there is a sense of calm that sits in your gut like the empty feeling in your lungs after a sigh of relief. Once you get to a certain speed, you could compare the wind to the fluidity of water in a way—the rush, the feeling as it splits to pass the forms of your face and shoulders. The main difference I would say is that water clutches to your skin and hair like a clingy ex and it has...

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“UNKEPT PROMISES” by SHYAMALA BHUVANACHANDRAN

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Shakuntala was lying on the table with her skirt lifted a little above, so that her knees were prominently visible. Not that, she was on any photo-shoot or committed to be a poster girl for any popular magazine. She had to cooperate with the radiologist, who could do his job efficiently. Hence the exposure. Shakuntala was suffering from pain in her knee-joints and could not walk comfortably. She was putting up with the pain for quite some time. To walk even a short distance, it was a great attempt for her. Stepping out for taking up small er...

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“Lights and Everything” by Nathaniel Schwartz

Submitted to Contest #25

It was a New Year's Eve party, lights and everything, hosted in the most luxurious part of the city, talked about for days or weeks in advance. Now visited by three friends, who approached the tremendous wooden double doors with excitement. They had spent the whole evening debating their plans for the night. Jen had wanted something small, comforting, just the three of them on the living room couch. They might stay up until midnight and then pull out some mattresses or sleeping bags. Erica and Florence had thought differently. They saw a nig...

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“A Clearer Path” by Linda Peterson

Submitted to Contest #25

"This year," Carly resolved, "I'm going to de-clutter this house. Go through the place,top to bottom. Rid myself ofall the junk! " This was going to be a monumental task. She'd been a pack rat for as long as she could remember. From the rockcollection in her grade school desk to her many present daycollections all these years later. She had a problem getting rid of STUFF. But now, she was going to lighten her load, start pitching.She'd start with the hall linen closet. Except for the two middle drawers, this cupboard heldeveryth...

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Write a short story about someone accomplishing one of their resolutions.

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✍️ 54 stories

“The Follow” by Holli Harms

“A Fool for April” by Lisa Verdekal

“What We Promise Each Other” by Taylor P

“New Years Resolved” by Renee Ferrell

“One Resolution” by Jennifer Riley

“A Long Time Coming” by Josiah Chia

“No More Ms Inbetween” by Deborah Mercer

“When Pigs Fly” by Sophie Liu

“The breakfast date” by Tracy Wamae

“The Resolution” by Bya Hardy

“A Writer's Block” by Isabel B

“Bonneville Salt Flats” by Anastasia S.

“UNKEPT PROMISES” by SHYAMALA BHUVANACHANDRAN

“Lights and Everything” by Nathaniel Schwartz

“A Clearer Path” by Linda Peterson

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