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Start your story with a stern librarian scolding two characters for making noise in the library.

Posted in Middle School on Oct 25, 2022

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Only Three Weeks

Submitted to Contest #91

“I swear if I find you two… two.. hooligans making noise in this library again, then you will never hear the last of me! I am giving you both a three week suspension from the library!” The old library hag yelled at us as she marched away to go find others to howl at. What does a librarian expect? Two 15 year olds found a new comic book. It’s not like we weren't going to enjoy it. I guess people just have different ideas of what enjoying a good book is. I glanced over at Cadence to see what her reaction was to this almost funny form of a scol...

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The rid of unwanted Librarian / Library

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When discussing their picked calling to an overall crowd, custodians definitely hear "You should truly adore books!" And while this is likely valid for a significant number of us, I have discovered that it's the non-curators who appear to be more appended to books, regularly derangedly along these lines, particularly while doing their own weeding projects or seeing our own. Book deal gifts, while superb for gathering pledges, can be the most despicable aspect of our reality when they contain such jewels as midcentury "Reference book Britanni...

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Golden Traces

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I yank out an earthy, musky book, crisp from its flake-ridden shelves, sitting untouched from the pitiable show of powdery shelves, playing its loyal role of anticipation. Neglect steals the centre stage, pulling back at the curtains of a desolate theatre, the seats as empty as the expanse of inhabitants of this library. Its once-teeming days of traction and glory now pale in the motionlessness of a freeze-framed scenery, the snapshot of bookcases in an unkindly light capturing a dulled reality and laughable longevity of such articles; what ...

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Listen to your little friend

Submitted to Contest #91

C/W: homophobia, transphobia She walked over to where we were sat with a scary grin. I have never seen a smile this frightening before, so I got nervous, however Sangue seemed calm. ‘Is there anything we can help you with?’, they smiled back at her and reassuringly looked at me, ‘It’s okay,’ Sang mouthed. ‘Oh hello, ladies, you...’ she couldn’t finish because I interrupted her. ‘We are not ladies, sorry, miss, continue.’ ‘Yes, I was saying that you, girls…’ this time Sangue didn’t let her finish. ‘As my friend have already corrected you, we ...

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Don't Talk

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I give Richard an evil stare mouthing the words “You will pay for this!” He gave me a look saying “You started it!” Then we both look at the librarian, Mrs Mcdonald. And together we start to shake all over. This could not be. I wish this was all a dream but the pain in my head is still throbbing of what happened to my poor face. Pain does not happen in dreams. Not even nightmares. Mrs Mcdonald’s eyes start to go all red, as if she's wanting to shoot her laser eyes at us. I did not believe those legends that maybe this librarian was a witch....

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The Library

Submitted to Contest #91

Note: This story was really rushed and it didn't really have a point but I hope it's still...well...okay to read. 😶✌Bella and Kelly were in the library. It was school break and they had a whole week to do fun activities but here they were, in a boring library.“Why are we in a library in the first place?” grumbled Kelly.“Because the swimming pool is full and the park is closed,” said Bella.“Let’s go, I don’t want to spend today in a library,” said Kelly.“Ssh!” whispered Miss Faser the librarian.“Okay, but where are we going to go?”“Anywhere,”...

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So Many Books, So Little Time!

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“Get out of my library,” screamed the librarian from the doorway. She would never raise her voice inside. The two young lovers had tested her ability to keep her blood pressure from bursting veins. Their crime? They were fiddling with each other under a desk. “Whatever next, this is a place of learning - from books!” she yelled after the giggling teenagers. The young couple ignorant of other footpath users forced a lady and her two children onto a grassy verge. “To think I was like them a few years ago, now look at me,” talking to herself wa...

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Blowing It

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“He’s looking at us again.” I glance up from the tiny square table, past the aisles of books, and there he stands, glasses perched on the end of his nose, unflinching gaze penetrating through me. He’s clearly glowering now, and he brings his finger to his lips when he sees me make eye contact. I divert my gaze back toward the table, where three books lay, props whose purpose was solely to keep attention away from the fact that I’d been sitting here all morning doing absolutely nothing useful. Gabe chuckles as he reads off one of the titles....

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Twisted trap

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"you women always making noise in the library! you want to steal my books, eh? you want to steal my books?"baba Rodney's library was a shed but it didn't look like a shed.it was more like metallic shafts balancing together with stuffed dampened booksinside, a large wooden plank used to cover them from the rain."We weren't stealing books, now. nor were we makingnoise" Peninnah complained, hugging her plastic bag of borrowed textbooks.the old man didn't look convinced. there were only three tablesin his library and 12 chairs. he'll be able to ...

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Something Immortal

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"Shut it, the both of you!", the librarian hissed at us. I sighed and nodded towards the back. Eve nodded and we slowly got out of the seats and headed to the bookshelves at the back. We reached a mostly secluded shelf where the librarian wouldn't hear us. I looked to Eve, her lustrous black locks framing her beautiful face.  "So, where were we?" I asked. "Right," she said blinking, "I believe we were exchanging ideas for our books," "That's right. I believe vampire Vikings is a cool concept," I said. "You think so?" she asked. "Yea...

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Wild West Book Club

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 The week had already been long and was going by slowly, with each day seeming like it took a week to go by, while it was the same ole hum drum daily churning of school work and classes with the usual lack of excitement. That is when things started to change because in their History class they took together that day John and Billy had been assigned a book report on their favorite subject by their teacher to be done over the weekend while they was off from school. They had decided to do their report on a famous gun fighter from the wild ...

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The Rumour of Truth

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“Shhhh!” The voice is harsh and grating, like nails on a chalkboard. The librarian gestures pointedly at the ‘No Talking or Laughing’ sign, eyebrows arching sharply as they struggle to pull themselves over the ostentatious bird wings fanning out from the frames of what this woman deems a pair of glasses. Her narrow, reptilian eyes follow me quizzically as I turn to continue talking to Grace. “You know, there’s a rumour that Mrs. Atkinson had a couple of court-funded trips to an asylum.” Grace’s eyelids snap open wide as she shoves a panick...

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The Night with Natalie in the Library

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“Now you two need to be quiet. This is a library you know. Better yet, why don’t you go sit at the table in the far corner where you will disturb fewer people.” The matronly librarian in a navy print dress pointed to the back of the room away from the dozen tables surrounded by aisles of books older than we were. Her high pitched, crackly voice continued, “What are you studying that is so funny?” As I grabbed my backpack off the back of the sturdy, oak chair undoubtably as old as the library, I said, “We’re working on a report about the Rom...

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SOULMATE

Submitted to Contest #91

Altair was trying so hard not to get furious but Kossa was pushing it. Kossa had been flipping the pages of the book Altair was reading back and forth for the past 20 minutes now, exactly around the same time since Kossa found him in the library, and now he wished he'd hidden from him like everyone else does. "Who comes to the library on a Saturday?" Kossa asked clearly mocking Altair yet they were both at the Library on a Saturday. "The pages are making too much noise you'll get us kicked out." Altair hushed in his soft voice. Altair had ...

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Prom Queens

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We aren’t making that much noise but Ms Pritchard is giving us the evil eye from across the room.  “I think she’s going to come over here any minute,” says Janie. “If looks could kill.”  But it is hard to contain our excitement. Dave asked Janie to prom and Steven invited me so we are discussing the details in hushed whispers but now and then a squeal erupts from Janie. After the last one, I was sure that Ms Pritchard would come storming over to our table and sure enough, she is over like a shot.  “What on earth are you ...

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