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Write a story about an established group of people welcoming (or not welcoming) a new face into their midst.

Posted in Kids on Oct 26, 2022

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The Dragon Warrior

Submitted to Contest #56

The sun shone brightly on a fine Sunday morning.A large meteor had impacted Earth. It had been years since a meteor had attacked Earth. It caused a lot of damage. Scientists had come to examine the meteor.There was a man inside the meteor. He was dying. The police took him out of it and admitted him to the hospital. Miles, the thin sub inspector of police, came into the hospital room and looked at his patient- a muscular man with black hair and tattoos on his hands and feet. He checked the eyes- brown. He read the file on his myste...

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Remember Who You Are

Submitted to Contest #56

"She remembered who she was, and the game changed-" Lalah Delia.“I told you to come back home, Adanna. You’ll never be good enough there.”My mother. The woman I know loves me so much, but times like this, I'm not so sure. I’ll never be good enough for her. It doesn’t matter what part of the world I am.“I’m not coming home, Mum. I can’t.” I could. I know that, but coming home means accepting defeat. It would mean I had failed and while I have, a couple of times actually, I don’t believe failure means total defeat. I refuse to go down.“Igá fu ...

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A Childish Debate

Submitted to Contest #56

  Nancy thought she must be hallucinating the morning she saw two babies fist fighting in the park. She had had a long raucous weekend. Is this an after effect of eating macaroni and cheese made with weed butter, or drinking too many Irish car bombs? Had she finally pickled herself?It was a typical Monday morning, and she was already running late for work. She grabbed her purse, careful not to wake the man in her bed. ‘Dave,’ she thought he said his name was. She stepped over her crumpled up clothes from the night before. The singl...

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The Crowned Virus

Submitted to Contest #56

A Week BeforeBOOM! A missile shot by the enemy had rattled the ground. I had jumped out of the way as the shockwave made by the projectile threw my troops to the ground. I had taken my gun and shot blindly at the opposition. They shot back. A lot. So much that the tanks couldn't take it, and exploded, as the bodies of my allies showered the ground.“No,” I had whispered through my lopsided helmet, “no.” The enemies were killing us, and bodies had been falling like puppets cut from their strings. The helicopters had to collect the su...

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Sunrises Over Afra and Gervassi

Submitted to Contest #56

"I just don't see why you had to bring her." Eleanor and Gervassi stood on the porch together, standing several feet apart and whispering. It was some of the most aggressive whispering anyone ever heard, and yet that was just the dynamic the two seemed to have. Gervassi wished that Afra hadn't gone inside, but he knew too that this was a battle he had to fight alone. His ex girlfriend, and maybe now ex friend in general, glared at him from across the porch. "She's wasn't part of our group growing up. She doesn't belong with us." "I don't kno...

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A Scoop in the Night

Submitted to Contest #56

Of all the strange things that had happened in Eddie Dent’s life - and death - the incident involving Julia Garcia was perhaps the strangest. The night had started normally enough. The politics reporter had slammed down her phone, cursed and raced out of the office, late for the city council meeting. The sports reporter had filed on the tennis tournament and also raced out, late for the high school football game. The crime reporter had stayed hunched over his keyboard clicking and clacking, occasionally swearing, until midn...

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Intergalactic Culinary Preferences

Submitted to Contest #56

The arrival of extraterrestrial visitors had been so widely featured in popular culture that when it finally happened it was something of an anti-climax. The strange, oblong-shaped craft touched down on the front lawn of the White House to minimal fanfare, not a single reporter in evidence. Conspiracy theorists, had they known, would surely have cried ‘government coverup’ and rushed to their blogs and Youtube channels to share the ‘truth’ with anybody foolish enough to listen. There was no coverup, though. Given all the goings-on in the wo...

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Soulful singers

Submitted to Contest #56

                                  Soulful singers  Whatsapp groups are a common medium of interaction these days. Especially after the pandemic that has struck the entire world and any kind of social gatherings, movements and interactions are restricted, it is the music groups which act not only as medium of information but entertainment as well. MUSIC GROUPS wh...

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Hellfire Eyes

Submitted to Contest #56

The sea was nothing short of angelic, but it was far below Adelie’s feet. The city was vibrant and majestic, but Adelie still longed for the sea she had come to know Spain by so well. The sea that had defined her life for so long, that she had lived by and grown up with. Still, however, she loved the sights she could see, the people, and the overall way of life in the beautiful Madrid.  There was one sight Adelie couldn’t figure out her feelings on, however, and that was the one right in front of her. 666 meters on top of the beautifu...

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Haunting: A How-To Guide

Shortlisted for Contest #56 ⭐️

When I agreed to go to boarding school for my last two years of school, I really did not expect to face death. Bullying? Yes. Homesickness? Absolutely. But death was not on the agenda. It was something I had hardly thought about - and even then, it was something that I only ever thought about in terms of others. I thought about my grandmother, a particularly unpleasant woman who was undoubtedly asking to speak to the manager of hell at any given moment. I thought about my cat Judas, a scrawny, thin-haired creature who, despite what his name ...

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Agent Three by Blessing .O.

Submitted to Contest #56

PROLOGUE  "You saved my ass out there today. Thanks" said One.         "I'd do it again" Three said. The water from the shower head cascaded down her shoulders. Drowning out the usual shouts of "FBI!!! Don't move!!! Hands where I can see them!!!" whenever they burst through a door, washing off every form of filth, purging her of bloodstains and making her feel brand new like a baby wrapped in a shawl and placed in a cot after a bath. She dried her hair softly, slid a t-shirt and...

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Strange Inmate 2

Submitted to Contest #56

Tris stuck to the bars and almost shivered.“Fendi,” She whispered, as if afraid that if she used a louder voice, the entire world in front of her would hear it.“Fendi, did you, did you just ...” Fendi shook her head like a well delved therapist, turning her body away from the huge hologram that glowed before them.“ Actually no, you probably just heard that in your head Tri, you have a cute imagination.” Fendi smiled.Tris wanted to slap her. Of course she’d heard it in her head, but who said it? Fendi! No other explanation. After all she...

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Everything Is Made Of Itself

Submitted to Contest #56

I once heard it said that the hardest thing you will have to do on any given day is simply to wake up. Then again I may have made that up myself. It certainly sounds like the sort of thing I would say. In my particular situation it can be more difficult than usual to draw a solid line between self and other. As a result I often get confused about which tidbits of wisdom I created and which I discovered. Luckily, as I have come to discover, that difference means absolutely nothing in the grand scheme of things. However it is something I am fo...

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A New Kind of Monster

Submitted to Contest #56

A tiny bubble popped at the sea surface, spraying salty droplets around its little temporary crater. “Dear God, have mercy on our souls!” Onboard the ship, men that saw the bubble panicked - some running below deck, some preparing cannons and swords, others saying their last prayers. Land was only a few miles away, yet it could just as well be a hundred. “Hold on ta yer last breath, lads,” the captain bellowed. “Do not let ’im have yer glory along with yer guts!” They all stared intently at the water.  It was calm, without a ripple. The...

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The Hot Spot!

Submitted to Contest #56

(Write a story about an established group of people welcoming (or not welcoming) a new face into their midst.)Sarah is so tired, so very tired, of these annoying medical appointments. Simple answers, that’s all she really wants. Just give it to me straight but they talk in medical terms, the printed reports she receives are just full of words and descriptions she has no idea about. When she goes on the computer to look up the words, it gets even more confusing the more she reads. A simple term could be a condition th...

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