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End your story with someone finally conceding to another’s point of view.

Posted in Middle School on Oct 25, 2022

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✍️ 97 stories

“Time traveler tells a story.” by Clinton Siegle

Submitted to Contest #94

I had just found Being and Time is the 1927 magnum opus of German philosopher Martin Heidegger. The year? 2017. The idea was something that I was arguing with my shrink about. Why? Simple. I say what I saw existed yesterday. And the shrink? He continued to point out that I was dead. I did not concede that point note. My expressions were getting worse. Why? Simple. I am a bit stubborn? I guess that is why I found myself living in hell for so long. Who know? I did not. I felt life was hard because I was stupid. Am I stupid? Maybe. I am however...

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“Her last goodbye.” by Allie Miner

Submitted to Contest #94

Once again on another boring day in Callisburg everyone was sitting in their houses watching movies they have seen a million times. Eating the same things over and over because they could barely get out of their houses. Everyday was a repeat of the same thing over and over again. Days got longer and longer by the minute. One day, There was a girl who went out of her house to get her family food, and supplies to last for the month. So one of them would have to go out and get the food once a month. While she was walking down the road to the st...

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“Kel’s Theory” by Lucas Baptista

Submitted to Contest #94

Three days passed without them speaking to each other. Kel was confused and feeling betrayed, even though he himself didn’t take any action to go after her. But, as he stared blankly at the book in front of him, rereading the same paragraph over and over without really paying any attention to the words, the reality that they would inevitably see each other the next day struck him. Yes, next day his evening class would be that subject. Ancient Forgotten Knowledge. Ministered by Professor Irannas, the woman who drunkenly kissed him and then va...

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“A Rather Interesting Road Trip” by Holly Reynolds

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By: Danie Reynolds "MOM! Matt's foot is in my face!" I shift around in my seat, and my brother's foot drops to the car floor. "Matt," My mother chastises from the front seat. "Leave your sister alone." "'Kay mom!" Matt has already rolled over upside down and is now playing his handheld video game. I roll my eyes and plug my earbuds back in, desperate to drown out the excitement and noise of the car. The excitement that the rest of the family is going to California for vacation. But not me. Mom first suggested staying at my aunt Jessic...

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“The end of the carnival” by Anna Tishchenko

Submitted to Contest #94

  The autumn rain lashed the windows in a serious display of nature's fury. I tried to recall if I had closed all the windows, picturing each in my head until the rain lolled me to a kind of trance. Lightning flashed. I counted the seconds until the thunder boomed overhead. This was my favorite time of the year. It gets darker earlier and earlier every day, the whole hemisphere yawning, getting comfy for the winter. When I was young, I loved the summer. I wanted nothing more than to hit the beach, swim, laugh, hike. Like a lizard I ...

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“James finally listen's to the Public” by Glenn Etzwiler

Submitted to Contest #94

James always gave his point of view on things and did not care. What anyone thought their point of view did not matter to him. James way of thinking sticking to his point of view on stuff. Usually got him in pretty good situations it landed him a job as a principal of a school. James was not satisfied with that position he wanted more. He decided to run for mayor running with his point of views. Which got him in office James used his point of view to fix a lot of this in the office. Plus the town the people that worked with the mayor...

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“From other's point of view” by KS .

Submitted to Contest #94

Many a times we are reluctant to listen to our well-wishers when they choose to guide us through their own experiences and hardships. Here we are trying to portray this truth of life through a small conversation. Our main characters Alina, the mother and Alisa, the daughter are just fighting like enemies. Alisa is totally disturbed with continuous taunting from her mother for something that she does not like. But Alina is always full of energy to show her right path and being a typical mother, she had chosen the path of comparing her with ot...

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“American Muscle” by Christopher O'Connell

Submitted to Contest #94

April 17 th  I actually met someone. Someone in this awful town that actually knows something interesting. His name was Ethan Revell and he seems to be the only one in a 100 mile radius that can talk about a car. It is so nice to finally have someone else. It was this perfect moment, we were walking down the street parallel to the beach when I saw this beautiful green Aston Martin DBS coming our way. I was already walking with him on the side of the road because we had a mutual friend in the group. I was watching the Aston Martin roll ...

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“Ignorance is bliss?” by Shaga Nesh

Submitted to Contest #94

For the most part, nothing terribly happy things ever happened in her life. Her parents were entrepreneurs who were rarely home. For the most part of her life, she grew with her grandparents. Her grandfather, Peter Jackson was a retired police commissioner who now spends his life fishing in a nearby lake. While growing up, she was close with her Grandma, Mary. Her heart shattered when Mary died in her sleep last winter.My name is Norma and pretty much everything in my life was normal.Until one rainy Sunday night,  It was a fine day...

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“The Ferryman” by Marie Moriarty

Submitted to Contest #94

“We aren’t lost.” my dad said through gritted teeth. I could tell he meant to deliver that statement with confidence and finality - an immovable end to the conversation. A brick wall against which my mother’s onslaught of passive aggression would inevitably fail. Instead it echoed whiny and unconvincing around the interior of our old, rusty Subaru.  From my vantage point in the back seat, I knew my mother was angry. She never raised her voice, but I could always tell by the set of her shoulders. My years spent in the back seat of thi...

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“FATHERS ARE ALWAYS RIGHT” by SHYAMALA BHUVANACHANDRAN

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Vasant recently joined a political party. He was told that people could make quick money once you became popular in the party. Vasant was a good orator. That was the reason, he was picked up by local party brokers for stage shows. Earlier, he did not take side of any particular party. He would be on the stage as and when any party wanted to hold meetings. He thus became a crowd puller and got established that way. He knew the art of retaining the crowd for a longer time. No wonder! All parties had an eye on him and were trying to drag him in...

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“Nobunny's the Winner” by Tessa Atwood

Submitted to Contest #94

“This is a bad idea,” mumbled Jack. Kayla glanced at him, crouched next to her in the shrubbery around the mansion. His glasses were all fogged up from one of those stupid COVID masks. “Aw, come on,” Kayla whispered back. “Where’s your sense of adventure?” “My sense of adventure caught the ‘rona and died,” he grumbled, wiping his glasses on his shirt. “How did I let you talk me into this?” She cackled quietly, turning back to the wide open yard behind the mansion. “The target is being held at the end of the yard.” She could sense Jac...

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“The Lost Finger” by Nusrat Ch

Submitted to Contest #94

The Lost Finger Short Story Asmat lived in a well decorated two-storey bungalow with her son Shaheryar and daughter Nousheen, though she was unable to understand the ups and downs and zigzags of life, but even if she wasn’t contained with it, she wasn’t fed-up of life. In her mid-forties, she loved and cared for her family, and was a perfect example of South Asian housewife.  Because of her children she used to ignore many things. She was married to her maternal cousin, if married life was a vehicle having two tyres, then it seeme...

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“That Houman Fire” by Carmen Schaller

Submitted to Contest #94

As nearly identical cousins, Greta and Meg had inherited the Houman family attitude. Both were confident, self-assertive, stubborn, and often loud. But most of all, they were competitive, just like the rest of their family. Family reunions meant unusually aggressive soccer games, scuffles over who would lead the hiking party, arguments that lasted for days, and the ever-growing “my fish was this big”.  “One-two-three-four-five-” Greta counted as her stone skipped across the surface of the lake. “-Six. Beat that!” “I will, thanks,” rep...

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“Duo” by Christina Stueland

Submitted to Contest #94

I took a deep breath as I walked to the front of the class, gripping my music sheets in my right hand. This was my time. Time for me to perform my solo. But Mrs. West grabbed my arm before I could step onto the stage. “Jack is going to perform with you,” the teacher whispered. My eyes widened in shock. “No!” I protested. Mrs. West gave me a look. “He has to leave early,” she explained. “His uncle--” “No!” I said again. “This is my solo. My time to shine. Not anyone else’s.”  Mrs. West’s gaze hardened. “Millie, he will either perfo...

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