Write a story about an unlikely friendship.

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“BFFL” by Cheryl Ferguson

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Starting a new school is never easy, but it’s even worse when it’s April and everybody else is already settled into the school and has made friends. Of course, I didn’t have a choice. Mom said we were moving, so we moved. Again. I had started new schools before, but this time I was in high school and had been with my old friends for a few years now. I had even made the softball team at my last school. I loved playing third base; hearing the pop as a well-thrown ball landed in the mitt of the first baseman.&nbsp...

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“Kindred Spirits” by John Meiners, Jr

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Kindred Spirits by John Meiners, Jr. &n...

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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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“SIMPLY, ALEX” by Gerard Watson

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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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“Jim & Kathy – The Call” by Jay Botten

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The phone rang.This surprised Kathy.She didn’t receive many calls, and when she did, she usually anticipated itShe would know both the caller and the time of the call. The datum would flash in her consciousness minutes, sometime hours before the call would actually take place, the variables only depended on how long the caller might have been thinking about dialing her number.Throughout most of her life, the moments between the first sound of the telephone ringing and the time she choose to pick up the receiver from the cradle, were moments ...

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“Jackie Lee Is The Only One That Comes Knocking” by Melanie J. Walker

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I should have known when I saw the blackbird at the window. I should have known whatkind of day it was going to be when Jackie Lee came knocking. I should have known that hedoesn’t know all the things… but hey, I’m just a kid.Jackie Lee told me blackbirds at your window are just like the luck of heads-up pennies,or light switches going in the same direction. Jackie Lee insists it’s all in my head. He calls meMeathead Milo. I pretend not to care. Jackie Lee is the only one that comes knocking.He tells everyone that he was named after JFK. Eac...

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“All Backwards, and Perhaps Sideways” by Clive Kerrell

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There had been many things that had confused me about the boy, his very existence turning everything I thought I knew about myself and the world on its head. First, how could someone so young survive in a wasteland alone? Second, how did he enjoy it? Last, what sort of upbringing had made him this way? By that, I mean flirting with my soldiers and insisting he's never met a woman. In fact, when we first said the word “woman” his dark eyes narrowed in confusion.“What man?” He asked.“What?”“Who man?”“No. Woman. Wu-Man.”There was a moment of si...

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“The Motorcycle Man” by Gaelyn Kennedy

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I was a nine year old boy growing up on a prairie farm in the 1950s. My mother was sick so my grandmother came to take care of her but she did not have much time for me. My father was a farmer busy trying to get his fields ready and his crops planted so he didn’t have time for me either. I was lonely and scared. I was afraid something terrible was going to happen to my mother and no one would talk to me about it. They all thought I was too young to understand what was going on. My father decided he needed help on the farm so he placed a...

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Write a story about an unlikely friendship.

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✍️ 113 stories

“BFFL” by Cheryl Ferguson

“Kindred Spirits” by John Meiners, Jr

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

“SIMPLY, ALEX” by Gerard Watson

“Jim & Kathy – The Call” by Jay Botten

“Jackie Lee Is The Only One That Comes Knocking” by Melanie J. Walker

“All Backwards, and Perhaps Sideways” by Clive Kerrell

“The Motorcycle Man” by Gaelyn Kennedy

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