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

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“The One Resolution” by Crystal Graeber

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My hand trembled as my fingers curled around the cold doorknob and I paused, taking a deep apprehensive breath. This had been at the top of last year’s list of resolutions, but I put it off to the last possible minute.“She won’t remember you.” The dark circles under my mother’s eyes told a story of all the days and nights she’d gone without sleep. She took a sip of her coffee and forced a smile. “Don’t take it personally. She doesn’t recognize any of us anymore. But she’ll still be really happy to see you.”I pressed my lips together and nodd...

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“Runnin' on the Rez: A Story of Redemption ” by Derek Williams

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Jimmy Runs-Like-The-Wind lived on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in southern South Dakota, just north of the Nebraska border. He, like many of his people, lived in very poor conditions. He lived with his grandmother, grandfather, and eight cousins, in a single wide mobile home. He didn’t know who his father was, and his mother stayed drunk or high all of the time, trying to escape the hard life that she knew on the reservation. This kind of life was really hard on him, but it was all he knew. He had gotten his nam...

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“Acceptance and Love” by Brooke Davis

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“Bullshit!” Kayla spat out, the scale had to be lying – she was supposed to lose weight, not gain it. It had been six months, and despite her best efforts, Kayla had not even made it to her goal of 200 pounds yet. She knew that she was overweight, she always had been, and she hated that about herself. She’d always been the fat kid in school, but she just learned to live with the fact that she was never going to get rid of it. Diet after diet, work out after work out, nothing. Admittedly, she most likely had some issues with her hormones or t...

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“The Resolution” by Barbara Eustace

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It was September, and the young woman reflected that yet again she had failed in her resolution. Each year it was the same. Each year she failed. It was not that she hadn’t tried, she had, but success was beyond her, and she knew if she tried again, she would fail again.Her name was Casey. She clutched her bag to her in the early morning sunshine. On autopilot, she was already late as she hurried towards her destination, her job.An anonymous man bumped into her in the throng, no malice intended, yet no care taken.&nb...

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“Rose” by Bethany Hall

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The iron cuffs on Fawn’s wrist were feeling more and more like shackles every day now the closer she got to the end. There was something particularly constraining about them as she clung to the cliffside and was bombarded by sheets of rain and seaspray but she had come too far now to give in to their attacks. After a moment of hesitation, Fawn mustered all of her strength and was finally able to pull herself over the top of the cliff. Once she was safely on the stable ground she took a moment to steady herself. Time was running short a...

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“Letting him go ” by Jade Gross

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I wonder if he knows. I wonder if he knows how hard it is. How painful. It’s been eight years and I still think about him when I get up in the morning and when I go to bed. I wonder if he likes me back, I wonder what all the signs mean that make it look like he likes me. He never talks to me, never will. But about three years ago, I made myself go up to him and talk, at least have a decent conversation. It may have been fift...

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“From Blood to Born” by Iella Sackett

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I remember the last spring. It was eighteen years ago. Ever since then, the magical practices of blood have increased, at to which I am apart of. It may not be a respectable job, but it’s something. It’s anything to be able to get the parcels of chips that pay my rent and support me to save up and someday find my daughter. I must tell her that I love her and that I will do anything to support her current life. No matter what it takes. When winter took over, that’s when they took my daughter. Barely two seconds old. Her father died trying to ...

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“To Me” by Mia Hern

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I, Elizabeth Leslie Lachey, Will Be Better and Braver in 2021!I glared at the post-it note taped to my monitor. After a whole three hundred and sixty-four days, I only have fifteen hours thirty minutes to fulfill my New Year’s Resolution.“I can’t believe we’re at work today,” Kate said.Never-mind, ten hours and thirty minutes to make sure I am better and braver than I was last year.I will do this. “Well,” I said my eyes swinging to her, “at least tomorrow is Saturday and we don’t have to work. We can party all night long. Are ...

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“Whole Again ” by Ainsley Y

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Don’t move. Don’t move. Don’t. Move. I repeated the silent mantra as I took in shallow breaths, trying not to make too much noise. I could hear the woman’s footsteps, and the porch light clicked on. I braved a glance at the front door. It was creaking open, flooding the rickety porch with light. I pressed myself tighter against the house, praying that the woman on the porch wouldn’t see me, and ask why I was creeping around her yard with a knife in my back pocket. She turned her head m...

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“That might be so, but we all have to try in life. ” by William Elbert

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The painting of a landscape unfolded before me as the sunrise lit the shadows and brought forth the sad and ugly world that we inhabit. The sun brought the dark asphalt to bear that was once melted into the horizon and was only exposed by my moving headlights and the occasional liquor store or gas station. I remember thinking to myself that there was something to be said about the sun never setting on the British Empire and how they always quip "The sun will rise tomorrow and the world will turn," but frankly, I wasn't in the headspace to ma...

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“The last station” by Viral Bilwal

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The last station. My eyes woke me up in the morning. How, they open up and my day starts. Extraordinary things, this eyes. They know when to open and when to close. What if they didn't make it tomorrow? What if they decide to keep shut. Will I be able to wake up then? The chances of it actually happening seems very much likely now. I was having these thoughts regularly. I wonder about the death more than life. It was because , the fact that I spent 6 and a half decades on this earth and i was just tired of...

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“For Better, Not Worse” by Shaneka Murphy

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January 1, 2019She took out the black gel pen from her desk drawer along with her 2019 planner. Year after year, she'd write the same unfulfilled New Year's resolution. Time and time again, she'd tell herself that this year would be different, but things always stayed the same. "Not this time," her conscience whispered. She thought about his last words as she walked out the door for work this morning. "You just don't look like you did when we met. Don't you care about yourself anymore?" She thought about t...

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“RESOLUTION” by Esther Bella

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“Turn left,” I informed the taxi driver. It took him a second to make out my words before drowning back to the smooth reggae music playing quietly on the radio. Any other day, I could have hummed along. My eyes fell back on the streets that I had walked on almost half of my life. Nothing had changed. The roads were still dusty and the buildings even more rusty and faded.It was the last day of the year and as everyone was preparing to usher in the new year with new resolutions, I was on the road to fulfil my previous resolution. One thing I h...

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“Sorry” by Matthew McLean

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Amanda had come to expect to hear ‘sorry’ multiple times a day, each of them meaningless. Particularly in the South where she had been raised, particularly from women who would apologize for multiple things, often mysterious and frequently for nothing that was their fault. They apologized for dropping things, for passing too close in the supermarket aisle, for their children’s perfectly acceptable level of noise.This was to such an extent she had resolved not to use the word ‘sorry’, or apologize in general, as her own personal stake in the ...

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“A Resolution Kept” by Gary Crawford

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He started smoking in his teens. To be cool, just like his friends.The habit continued for his whole life. Here and there he tried to quit, or cut back, but never quite stopped. When the price of cigarettes went through the roof, he switched to those little filtered cigars. You could get two packs for the same price as a single pack of cigarettes. The cigars smelled worse, as did his clothes, his car, and everything else, but they provided the nicotine satisfaction he craved. Not even a month after his fiftieth birthday, he awoke one morning...

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

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✍️ 54 stories

“The One Resolution” by Crystal Graeber

“Runnin' on the Rez: A Story of Redemption ” by Derek Williams

“Acceptance and Love” by Brooke Davis

“The Resolution” by Barbara Eustace

“Rose” by Bethany Hall

“Letting him go ” by Jade Gross

“From Blood to Born” by Iella Sackett

“To Me” by Mia Hern

“Whole Again ” by Ainsley Y

“That might be so, but we all have to try in life. ” by William Elbert

“The last station” by Viral Bilwal

“For Better, Not Worse” by Shaneka Murphy

“RESOLUTION” by Esther Bella

“Sorry” by Matthew McLean

“A Resolution Kept” by Gary Crawford

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