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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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Friendships

Submitted to Contest #91

  Marlena searched for her favorite book, but couldn’t find it.”Weird, I put it there before.” Marlena thought. Then she saw a girl about her age holding her favorite book. The girl looked up from the book and smiled at Marlena. “Hi?” The girl said nervously. “Hi, is that book good?” Marlena asked. “Yeah, it’s really good.” She replied. “By the way, I’m Cara. The girl held out her hand. Marlena held Cara’s hand and shook it lightly. “And I'm Marlena.” She said. They sat down together and chatted about how the main character in the ...

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The fruitless use of the phrase 'BE QUITE'.

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What the librarian said was said many times before and will be said many times after. A phrase that has echoed throughout time. First said (most likely) by Ashurbanipal, king of Assyria who, by all accounts… (it was Wikipedia, ok) was the first ever librarian and operated in the first ever library which was located in Mesopotamia, Iraq. He would first use this phrase to silence a drunken priest who called the mere concept of a library as “stupid, poop. This is stupid and its poop.” And the last person to say the phrase would be named Captain...

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Our strict Librarian and Touchstone Theory

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'Keep silence, no one will disturb the atmosphere of the library,' said one of the librarians of our government library. All the readers and students were so afraid of him. He all the time scolded those who used to whisper in the library. I started my study in that library. While studying, I got few friends who were so good hearted. One day, one of my friends had a problem. He wanted to solve it. But, our library was full of rules and regulations. To speak means to get lost from the place.He dared to speak with a low voice. Suddenly, a libra...

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Library trouble!

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Authors note: Hi! Here’s my new story, I know I hadn't been writing for quite some time, but here it is! This is based on a little bit of real life, based in a library, of course. I'll write some more stories soon, too!  * “MOOOM! Do we have to be here?” I moaned.  “Yes, we do. Besides, reading is good for you.”  “Whatever did it do?”  But my question was left unanswered, as the thin, stern librarian said, “NO TALKING IN THE LIBRA...

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Loud Love

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“For the last time, keep it down! I will remove you from this library myself if I must,” Ms. Whittaker warned, her hands circling with blue magick that burned brighter than any flame.  Farrah ducked her head and apologized. Miles, however, hid a smile behind his hands. Ms. Whittaker’s eyes narrowed briefly before turning on her heels and stalking away. Ms. Whittaker, a notorious librarian at Epileum Academy for the Magickal, hated everyone and everything. Despite being barely older than a graduated student, she saw them all as threats...

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Julia

Submitted to Contest #91

"For the last time I am warning both of you to maintain the silence" yelled the librarian Julia and I got to know each other on that day only as we both were holding the same book, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. I am sure none of us was reading the book; I was there because I relished the secrecy of the library. I sit near the self of 'Fiction' because those books pilot me to the world of fantasy. The world outside of the library is unpolished and dry and Julia believes the same way too. Days passed and we used to talk inside the libr...

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Scorned in the Wrong

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“You two again? Be quiet!! I told you to be quiet or get out!  So, either be quiet or leave!!!” Librarian Jessica yelled at us   Paul and I are the worst two kids in the library of all time! Jessica hates when we walk through the door. We used to be such good kids, but it got so boring. Sitting in the library being quiet, listening to all the rules, checking out our books, and then leaving. Well, then we thought why be so good it could be fun to get in a little trouble, right?  So, this is how our good stre...

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Ms. Begley

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The Vampire king Belthazar tenderly embraced his human lover, the fair maiden Norah, his eyes burning red hot with sheer passion for her. The Red Moon shone brightly down upon the two from the balcony of Belthazar's mighty castle. Wolves howled and owls screeched within the distant forest outside the castle. "Oh, Norah, I may be undead, but you make me feel so ALIVE!" said Belthazar. "But Belthazar, our love is forbidden! You are a Demon, and I am a Human!" Norah lamented, hot tears falling from her eyes. Belthazar held his fair maiden's fac...

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Hungry Librarian

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“Hush! You’re in a library, morons!” she hissed through clenched teeth.She was old and slim, slightly hunched with grey hairs floating loosely out of her bun. She was small and frail, but her attitude was merciless.She scowled at the group with a hint of disdain. The old librarian then went back to shuffling her folders on her mahogany desk.“Sorry,” a teen girl dared to call out.The woman turned so fast that the friends were scared she might’ve broken something.“I said hush.” This time her voice was dripping with poison.The old woman was don...

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The Crawford Redemption

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    The rain threw itself on the pitched roof of the structure, it’s muted sound resonating throughout the rooms within. It was a grand two-storey building, with tall double-doors on the front and back, overhangs on the sides, and two tall steeples at each end, serving as entrances. The windows were like a church’s, with arched shaped windows scaling the walls. The main room was a large atrium, with smaller rooms branching off, hidden in the maze of the many tall bookcases neatly aligned in rows. A large chandelier hung f...

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'Reading Material'

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‘READING MATERIAL’ A SHORT STORY BY TIM ROBERTS “Ssssh!” Crazy Stokesie the school librarian drenched us all in phlegm as a warning to be quiet as we lined up to stamp out our ‘Meg and Mog’ and ‘Fantastic Mr Fox’. It took more than the spit of a stern eccentric to stop Tizzy when he was in full bullying flow, though, so I ducked out of the queue and went back to the ‘D’ shelf to swap my book for ‘Danny the Champion of the World’. “It’s true.” I should have guessed Tizzy would follow me to the Dahls. He was nothing if not a persistent bul...

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Shhh!

Submitted to Contest #91

What I’m about to tell you is going to sound weird. I mean really weird. But it happened. I almost envy you, not living through it. Being blissfully unaware. But I need to tell you and you need to believe me or it will just happen all over again. It began when me and my friend were in the campus library ‘working.’ And by ‘working’, I mean we had our books open in front of us, of course, but we were really procrastinating and doing anything which didn’t involve having to read about Carl Jung’s mirror theory. We thought we were being quiet, b...

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A Little Noise in the Library

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“Would you be quiet?” Ms. Stern hissed through clenched teeth as a giant chicken approached. She drew her sword (standard librarian tool) and moved into a fighting stance. The chicken bwaked. Hazel giggled. I clapped a hand over her mouth. She put her hands over mine as Ms. Stern muttered, “I told Roger chickens were a mistake to add to the collection.” Fifty-Seven Minutes Earlier I took a deep breath as I stood on the steps of the Haversham Library. It was a week past my ninth birthday which meant I was finally old enough to enter the old...

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Karate Kid

Submitted to Contest #91

The fragile wood of the table enveloped the lazy yet muscular young arms. It doesn't seem like a nerd who spends hours in his own house called the "Library". Likewise with the clothes, the upper part of the sweater on the left side of the chest is bearing the letter "C" in light brown capital, the shoulders are brick red, the sleeves are white, and the training pants. What a young woman's dream jock. Her hair is curly but regularly blonde. The book he read was very thick, contrary to his appearance. Her feet are tucked tightly into the botto...

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Secrets Within

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The librarian was a mean woman who patrolled each part of the library. She did not tolerate any noise, not even the slightest squeak. The only thing that could be heard in the library was the echoing of her heels against the shiny freshly waxed floor.One dark and rainy day, a boy and girl rushed to the library for some books. They were doing a project together that required research.“Hurry up!” Alice called to her friend.“I’m running as fast as I can!” Henry shouted back at her through the pouring rain.Alice opened the door of the library an...

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