Start or end your story with someone realizing that life isn’t like the movies, for better or worse.

Posted in Kids on Oct 31, 2022

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“Walk of Shame” by Anita Wilson

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It starts within the same room, scheduled by shadows that darken the day. A pin cushion of pain, how it needles its way along the grey corridors of mind, how it tricks her into believing it's all about time. She can do time, she’s done time. It's these thoughts that continue to prick at the images sewn under the surface of her scabrous skin; like a deep vein of deceit, it runs its own colour of red inside her now. Her anger builds over the slow creep to where those psychological games were played. It’s become the very space she doesn’t ...

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“Baggage Claim” by Catrina Bowles

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The recently landed passengers of the red-eye from Calgary to London make their way from customs to the baggage claim. All eyes are on the LED sign indicating which carousel is designated for which flight. The businessmen with small carry-on suitcases bustle past them, too well acquainted with travelling and in too much of a hurry to bother with checking a bag. I move with the flow of the crowd, letting the overeager dads who hurried to the front guide me to my destination. My fellow passengers locate our carousel and all claim their ...

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“Mortality of the bubbles” by Rae McKnight

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Bubbles cling to the liquid covered sides of the wine glass. With a smile my fingertips tapped at the cold glass , watching with wide eyes when the bubbles burst. Fizzling through the sprite with the speed of a shooting star . What a show it was but a rather short one . It took half a breath for the giant bubbles to melt into many tiny ones before the liquid finally devoured them completely. With a sigh I took a sip from the glass , wheezing when my taste buds were greeted with lukewarm sprite .&nb...

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“Seconds” by P. W.

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I should have guessed that about Anna the second I met her. I was working a crap job, fast food burger joint. I had gotten hired way back at the start of high school and planned to be there until the end of my degree. Lucky me, living in a big city that my high school, job, and college are local. Fifth year into my employment - which (spoiler) ended at year eight - I was a lower manager in the store, a high step-up from the “front counter kid” I started as. In fact, I was the guy who did most of the on-job training for the new ...

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“Not Paid Actors” by R W Mack

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The apartment was only until she calmed down. He expected she’d be angry, but lying to her turned his stomach. He’d been forthcoming about his fling. She deserved as much after their years of marriage. She’d arranged for things like his clothes and computer to be sent to his new address, but he’d committed to winning her back. They’d been through hard times before. No one tosses that aside so easily for the same of one mistake in a moment of weakness. He’s send flowers and letters with the wax seal and rose petals like when they were firs...

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Start or end your story with someone realizing that life isn’t like the movies, for better or worse.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 35 stories

“Walk of Shame” by Anita Wilson

“Baggage Claim” by Catrina Bowles

“Mortality of the bubbles” by Rae McKnight

“Seconds” by P. W.

“Not Paid Actors” by R W Mack

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Write about a relationship that has been greatly impacted by a movie.

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