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Write about someone who falls back into childish behaviors whenever they’re around their family.

Posted in Kids on Oct 26, 2022

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“Best Times” by Jessica Beauchamp

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Best Times Just three days remained until they all gathered around the large oak family table. Christine drove the car along the highway, the kids in the back seat played a game called “eye spy” as the baby slept soundly in its protective seat, and her husband sat at the passenger seat with his face buried in his computer screen. “You’ll make a hole in the screen if you dig your face any deeper into it, love.” Harold laughed heartily and leaned back, then closed the screen to his computer. “Just adding the finishing touches to the workload. ...

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“Wallpaper” by YEMISI B

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“Damn it,” I muttered under my breath as I ran my hand under the running faucet in the bathroom. The mixture of soap and water were unkind to the tiny, curved indentions on my knuckles. I winced as the laughter resumed from the living room, reverberating the walls around me. I thought when I left this God-forsaken place that it meant things would change. Not necessarily the place or people, but my ability to handle them. And even though I was fully aware of the cushioned mantle of sanity that took me nearly ten years, for half of which I w...

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“Generations” by Ramon Martensen

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A warm air hits me in the face as the electronic glass doors open and the melody of an old children’s song that I’m too young to know announces my arrival. Folded wheelchairs lean against the wall of the lobby and there’s a rack with informational booklets for family members of Alzheimer’s patients. I’ve read them all. “Good morning sir, can I help you?’’ the receptionist asks. She is new and has the stern smile of someone whose job it is to be condescendingly friendly without taking any shit from derailed elderly people.  “I’m here f...

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“The last born ” by Joan Opoyi

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There is a saying that says the first borns says 'hello' to the world; the last borns says 'goodbye' to that cold fridge inside a womb.No matter how old I continued to be;but the blood in me kept on singing in my veins- yeah! am still the last born.The world thought me to be an adult;doing all impossible things on my own. Hey,my name is Elizabeth Anderson married to a lovely husband Antonio with two kids Livedy and Lovy;and this is my story. ...... In September 19,2012 was the day of thanksgiving; the family gathered in a white palace in our...

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“Light Being Alignment Laws” by Jessica Inman

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John almost retched as the sharp taste of tobacco smoke brushed the back of his throat. He quickly took another drag and looked at his watch. 11:58. He had approximately five hours to get used to this. The next Oasis track blasted through the speakers. Today is gonna be the day that they're gonna throw it back to you. He pushed away the shameful memories that began to surface.“I love this song!” He confirmed aloud. “I love this band! 'And all the lights that lead us there are blinding...'” Singing along, he remembered countless drunken night...

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“memories are always here ” by Emmie Bray

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This place will forever bring back memories. Too many memories. And yet, not enough. I stand on the front porch stairs and take it all in. My entire childhood comes rushing at me like a flood and all I do is welcome it with open arms.I welcome the faint whispers of, “I can’t sleep.”, we would whisper when it was past our betimes. I welcome singing songs on the car radio that I didn’t know the words to, but always being content in my ignorance. I welcome laying on my mothers lap after a long day and just breathing.I have to shake myself out o...

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“Thanksgiving Rager” by Cassie Poormokhtar

Submitted to Contest #69

I paced inside the hotel room. We’d flown to Haley’s hometown to meet her family for the holidays. It would be our first Thanksgiving spent together as an official couple, and I hadn’t met her family yet.        Until two months ago, I hadn’t even realized she’d been so purposefully squirrelly about her family. When Bryce mentioned she had a younger brother, the information sent cold electricity through my veins. Brother? She’d never mentioned a brother. And then it dawned on me that she had never ment...

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“Home for Christmas” by Kelly Ann

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The wind talks to me, I swear. It says my name the same way my mother speaks it, cuts it. It whips when all I feel is Red. And today, it definitely whips. When I arrive at my father’s house for Christmas Eve, the wind is as hollow as can be. As soon as my engine goes quiet, I realize I can’t stay here long. The cold creeps in my car too easily, like the door’s already open. For some reason it makes me want to cry, the emptiness of it all. But I hear my mother’s words say, “You are not a baby anymore. Crying solves nothing,” and climb out.&...

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“Family Spirit” by Floraine Thwin

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               This week was the week before Lunar New Year time. All family members will gather this year so Papa Weilong, Mama Shin Yi and Meimei are all prepared for go back to Papa’s side home of grandparents’. Nina who was the eldest daughter in this family didn’t want to go to grandparents place. She was out of her family plan but Papa warned her to pack things she wanted to take over to Nainai’s place. But she said “Papa I didn’t want to go, can I leave here li...

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“Season Guardians” by Sara Blanch

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Geniveve Stoter the 6th child of Mary and David Stoter is how she was known as back home. She was the quiet one, the good daughter. Out of a family of 5 older brothers she was the baby of the family and the only one not to have gotten into trouble with the law by the time she was eighteen. It's not that her brothers were bad people...they just got bored. Growing up in a sleepy country town that suffered serious small town syndrome meant that to add even the slightest bit of excitement in their life normally meant breaking petty laws, such as...

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“Child Like Wonder” by Yoana Corro

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      “Yes,” she stated. “Yes, I’ll make sure the product launches within the given time frame. Thank you. Happy holidays.”            Lisa waited for a response, but all she got was a busy dial tone. Sighing, she hooked the phone on its stand and stood up from the chair. Removing her glasses, she rubbed her temples, hoping the migraine would dwindle. When it did not, she quickly grabbed the nearest bottle of Tylenol that wasn’t empty and gulped down two pil...

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“The Toddler Whisperer” by Mildred Achoch

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[NEWBIE entered Official Assistants of The Band Members (OATBAM) Chat] Rules of the chat: What is said in this chat stays in this chat. Betrayers will be shot, I mean, will have to buy the rest of us shots. Owners of overly bad spelling and grammar will be shot… by the Grammar police. *smiling face emoji* *see no evil monkey emoji* *hear no evil monkey emoji* *speak no evil monkey emoji* Newbie: Hello? [KAREMEHOME entered Official Assistants of The Band Members (OATBAM) Chat] Karemehome: Hey newbie! [MOSHIMOSHI entered Official Ass...

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“Turkey Toots” by Ryan M

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It used to be my pops who woke us up at 4am for the journey to Louisiana. I’d be jarred awake by an abrasive knock on my bedroom door as it was being opened. “Come on, son. Time to wake up.” I would hear his heavy steps on the thick carpeted floor but could only see his silhouette passing down the hallway by the time I cracked my eye open. As I sat up, I would hear him at my brother’s door then at my sister’s running the same wake-up routine. He started at my door since it was furthest from the stairs so he could catch the others o...

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“A Holiday with Her” by Denny Vell Devaras

Submitted to Contest #69

It was the time of the year again. The christmas lights and the lanterns that surrounded the old house brought a lot of memories for Chanel. Her heart was filled with warmth as she opened the gate and felt the familiar atmosphere that she longed for. It was Christmas day and she decided to go home for Christmas this year after two years of studying in Switzerland. "Nelly, you're here!" Rhea, Chanel's older sister, greeted her with a grin while her two-year old son was in her arms. She smiled widely as she ran to her and hugged her tigh...

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“Childish Utopia” by Conrad Chia

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Ngwa Primus, got off the phone with his dad, he had just confirmed his plans to travel to his native village of Bafut, he had agreed with his dad he was going to be spending Christmas in his village, which is about 300Km from the city of Douala where he worked as an event planner and promoter. He was sitting at a bar at a bus station called “Vatican”, with his friends Ngia Ndoh, and Tse Papy. They were drinking a locally brewed Cameroonian beer known as Kadji beer, chatting and laughing hysterically when the loud horns from the 70-Seater bus...

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