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“Dal” by Mala Moragain

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The twins sat in the back of the car, eagerly waiting to see their new home. As soon as the estate grounds came into view, they forgot the iPad. Just off Settlement Road, the car turned onto a small, barely perceptible dirt path. Not long after they turned onto the unmarked laneway, a large hedge sprung into view, lining their course. They had to have traveled a couple of miles before the entrance came into sight. Large, wrought iron gates loomed before them, blocking their path. It had to be at least 15 feet high, Edu insisted. Et...

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“Magic Beans” by Sam Harvey

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Let me start by telling you that I hate gym class. Like, I really hate it. It is anathema to me. In short, it sucks all kinds of balls (like kick balls, baseballs, and basketballs). This hatred started back when the gym teacher pointed and laughed at me after the school bully threw a kickball right into the back of my head and I went sprawling. Of course, all the other kids started laughing too.Then there was the time that same bully a basketball overhand at my head. Hoping to prevent it from hurting my face, I protectively put my hands out....

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“Colin Crouse the River Mouse” by Emma Clint

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Colin Crouse the River Mouse sat on a stool in his house.Chin in his paw, a long sigh he did draw, for a problem he never foresaw.“Let me in!” yelled the grouse, who, with his spouse, the infamous mouse,Sawney O’Hoolighan-Reed, wanted to feed on Colin’s last bit of cheese! “Oh my, oh me! How could this be?” With their plea Colin could not agree.In vain he sought to change their thought, but tempers ran hot, and, alas, he could not.From outside the door, Sawney yelled once more, “Hand over the cheese or be sore!”Colin daren’t get caught ...

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“Inseparable ” by Juliet Pope

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I was minding my own business as I walked out of art class, when all of a sudden some girl walked up to me. Her name was Elise but everyone called her Liz. She was popular and everyone knew her, yet not everyone liked her. I looked at her weird, there was no reason for her to come up to me. No one ever did. My school is one of those cliche schools. We separated ourselves into cliques. I happened to be known as the loner of the school and I liked it that way. Ever since my mom died 2 years ago, I shut myself away from everyone and everything....

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“AN UNFRIENDLY FRIEND” by Techrockiez Tamil

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AN UNFRIENDLY FRIENDIt was 2015 when I moved to an international school. Yes, all of us know there would be a lot of cultural differences a child studying in 5th standard to suddenly move from a CBSE school to an international school have to face. All of it happened to me too, being a guy who does not care about technology, fashion, and other overrated things followed by the international culture followed by my country people. The first day of my new school was a total disaster where I didn’t engage myself with the whole class or show ...

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“the memories you gave me” by Jenna Tolls

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NOAHI shoved my hand through my knotted hair. Going through the same monotonous routine of getting ready for school, I trudged down stairs seeing yet another familiar sight of my very hungover dad passed out on the couch. He wasn’t always like this. I relived the bitter sweet anamnesis, a hand clenching around my heart. Mum sang a peppy song sweeping around the kitchen half covered in cake flour. I whined at her appalling lack of tune even as I felt the corners of my lips tug upwards.. Dad chuckled at our antics, looking up from the newspape...

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“Two Unsuspecting Hearts” by Zoe Steinberg

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“I thought you wanted to be a writer?” her mother said sarcastically casting her gaze around the untidy room. “Fine, I’ll go. Happy?” “Yes.” Louisa, known by her friends as Lucy, rolled her eyes. Like any average girl of sixteen, she had her aspirations but rarely had the motivation to actually do anything about it, usually leading to a small disagreement with her parents. This time, the topic was the Writer’s Convention. Every four years her town held a big shot conference where writers came together to develop their ideas over ...

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“The one-eyed man is king” by Anna Forsyth

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The first thing I remember thinking once I emerged from the fog – that’s not a metaphor for my mental state, it was actual fog, it was November after all – was “Why do they even make these?” A strange thing to be preoccupied with when not two minutes ago I woke up face down in the parking lot of one of those god awful 24-hour McDonald’s sure, but also a train of thought I couldn’t shake off. As I stumbled my way through the eerie autumnal mist, the golden arches glowing fiercely like the gates of Hades before disappearing in the murk, a...

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“Travel Friendships” by Ida Abbott

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Walking into yet another travel rental, I was amazed yet again. The apartment I had rented for the next four days was on the top floor of a quiet residential building. I walked straight to the back patio, and gasped. I was overlooking an old monastery. To the right was a quaint courtyard with the sounds of the city in the distance even though just one street over was the main drag.“The monastery is an archaeological site,” the owner of the apartment said as she walked out behind me. “There is an entrance inside a few streets over. There are ...

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“Friendship Unlimited.” by Korede Ojelade

Submitted to Contest #43

Some friendships are fleeting and based on such things as convenience, geography, social class or occupation. Others are unlikely and last a lifetime. I was a gawky 14 -year old when I met Nan. Ours was a friendship that was to be a source of surprise to many yet greatly rewarding.Father was seldom home. Once, during a spelling bee my fourth- grade teacher smiled confidently at me as she asked the class to spell the word 'expatriate'. My childhood memories of him are sketchy. There are albums filled with photographs of him squinting in the M...

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“Treats ” by James Bell

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Once upon a time, there lived an old mouse named Bessie. Bessie was blind, but she could still do many things we could, like bake! She was a doctor, and loved to pick berries from her tiny berry garden to make them into medicine for her young son, Harold, who was quite ill. He had been ill for a few months now, and she made the berries into all kinds of tasty treats for him: cakes, teas, and even little bits of cheese! Because she was blind, she had a routine: in their little house, right next to the garden, she would put on her pink d...

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“A secret between friends” by Leila Adams

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Darren hummed to himself as he carefully stacked the breakfast dishes onto the trolley. He'd only been working in the care home for two weeks but was finding it shaping up nicely into an enjoyable job.That was, until the old lady in the armchair in front of him snapped 'do you mind? SOME of us are trying to listen to the tv without that racket!"Darren sighed. Doreen. Or 'Doreen the destroyer' as he'd heard some of the carers refer to her - rumour had it that she'd reduced some very experienced staff to tears whilst she'd been...

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“Elizabeth” by Maggie Writes

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Our bus driver Merv was reasonable, if he saw you running down your driveway, he’d wait for you. Most of his passengers had long driveways. Settlers had often built their houses on the top of hills, to avoid flooding, I guess. Our house was a century old, most of our neighbors’ houses were the same age. If Merv didn’t see you, he kept going. His bus was never late like the Chatsworth bus. Merv rarely spoke. He nodded at us as we stepped onto his bus. He was respected. There was no bullying on Merv’s bus; no rowdiness or disrespectful behavio...

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“SIMPLY, ALEX” by Gerard Watson

Submitted to Contest #43

All eyes followed Kenya King as she walked down the aisle of the school bus, searching for a seat. Forced to move across town, she was angry. What made it worse, her father, Robert, accepted the job of principal at her new school. Dad explained why we had to move, but still, Kenya didn't want to. He told us he would be the first person of color to be an administrator in this school district. "This is a historically significant event that would be an example, and give hope to the future Black and Latino educators," he felt strongly ...

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“What Green Feels Like” by T.B. Nelson

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It was a breathy spring, the year I thought about what green feels like. The kind of spring where you lay in the dewy grass and let the wind roll over you as it races the rivers. I went to visit my cousins in the north-west in April. Everything was green there, the gardens, the cities, the hills. Everything that wasn’t green was emerald. Between the scattered rain and the sunshine, in the splendor of it all my cousins said that they had never seen anything like it. This was my mom’s side of the family. They had been farmers for generati...

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Write a story about an unlikely friendship.

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✍️ 113 stories

“Dal” by Mala Moragain

“Magic Beans” by Sam Harvey

“Colin Crouse the River Mouse” by Emma Clint

“Inseparable ” by Juliet Pope

“AN UNFRIENDLY FRIEND” by Techrockiez Tamil

“the memories you gave me” by Jenna Tolls

“Two Unsuspecting Hearts” by Zoe Steinberg

“The one-eyed man is king” by Anna Forsyth

“Travel Friendships” by Ida Abbott

“Friendship Unlimited.” by Korede Ojelade

“Treats ” by James Bell

“A secret between friends” by Leila Adams

“Elizabeth” by Maggie Writes

“SIMPLY, ALEX” by Gerard Watson

“What Green Feels Like” by T.B. Nelson

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