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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“Kind Hearted💞 Edward and Mike🧒🏻🧒🏻” by Caymen Kho

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Once, there were two noisy little boys. They were Edward and Mike, who were seven years old and were siblings. One time, they chased a cat and the cat was chasing a mouse. Hehehe...... it was very funny. One day, on Christmas eve they were at their daycare. After a few hours, it was tea break so they ate their food quickly and went to the library to read some storybooks. When they reached the library, they found a table for two people. So, they went to get some books to read and when they went back to the table, two students were sitting on ...

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“Subject to Change” by James Dart

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The noise turned out to be a young couple making out ferociously behind the shelves of the Science Fiction and Fantasy section, their hands down writhing under each other’s clothes. Marvin struggled to find his voice, not only were they doing this in a library, and making an unbelievable racket with their moaning and groaning and humping, but they were doing it in his library. The girl opened one eye, which widened as it caught sight of Marvin. She pushed her friend away and glared. "What do you want?" she demanded, as if he were trespassing...

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“Be Quiet” by Jane Doe

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“Shhh! For the last time, be quiet!” Jackson and Nora immediately stopped giggling as Mrs. Harrison eyed them up and down, an irritated look on her face. This was the fifth time today she had told them to be quiet, and the pair were starting to get annoying. “Listen, you two,” Mrs. Harrison started as she walked toward them. “-if you don’t stop with all that noise, I’m going to have you leave for the rest of the day,” Mrs. Harrison told them in a serious tone. They eyed her sympathetically, and then Nora spoke. “Mrs. Harrison, we’re so...

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“The Missing Book” by Bella Spencer

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Ben “Keep it down over there! And use your inside voices,” Ms. Marge, our slightly senile librarian said out of habit. It was honestly hard to take her seriously, though, because whenever she would scold Javier and I, who admittedly, had a habit of well, getting scolded, she would end up forgetting about it two seconds later. “Sorry Ms. Marge,” I said, as I looked up at her pointer finger pressed hard against her chapped, wrinkly, lips. I looked over to Javier, my face filled with angst. “Come on, keep looking!” “I know, I know...

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“Crimson Coloured Honey” by Mackenzie Wallace

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Hush, she said. Hush, Hush, Hush, Hush. I was making too much noise and I knew it but I couldn't stop. She hushed me for balancing the disorganized and deafening silence. There was the turn of a page here, the click click of a computer's old, overused keys there and the steady humm flowing out of me. Hush, she says again, you're being too loud. I don't hear her. I am aware of what she is saying somehow, but her words are just syllables floating around me, beautiful little bees with their own buzz. They harmonize nicely with each other, comin...

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“A Library To Be” by Goitseone Thapelo

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“You keep telling me you’re working on something but I never see the results!” “Am I going to have to maintain you for the rest of my life?” “You can’t depend on me forever. I won’t always be around!” “To me it seems like you’re playing. When are you going to take your life seriously?” “You’re twenty-five now, you’re old!” “Where do you want to take your life?” Neither of us have an answer for her. I don’t feel adequate enough to articulate myself not that it would make a difference if I did. All that will calm her is all that I ...

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“Wikket or Nice? ” by Vic-Favour Zira

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Helen Wikket straightened from her crouched position in the Fantasy section aisle of the Downtown Limora Library. Helen was an older woman in her late sixties who had found no absolute peace unless right here, surrounded by pages and pages of inked tales. If asked, Helen would tell you she had lived an uneventful reality but was the most adventurous soul everytime she dived into a book, which explained her dedication to this Limora Library. It was her first home. As Helen turned to push the cart out of the aisle, the familiar, hushed s...

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“Fun times” by Emma Tallbacka

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The librarian shushes us for the fifteenth time, spit flying from how hard she’s shushing. Her eyes narrowed to slits as she points her spit covered finger at us. I hold up my hands in surrender as a snort escapes my lips. I turn towards my friend, who is doubled over the table. His shoulders jumping from trying to hold in his laughter. I smack the back of his head. “Ouch, what did you do that for?” he whisper yells as he rubs the back of his head, half laughing. It’s his fault we’re getting shushed all the time. Bastard keeps mocking the wr...

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“Mr. Librarian” by Lenny Catcraft

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Tik tok tik tok tik tok In the heat of the afternoon sun outside the room is the contrast temperature of the breeze cool air coming from air condition on this library chilling the core through my bone since my thin body is doesn’t have many muscles I look around as many books are neatly arranged. Silence got the most out of the time as fewer people are going into the library at this point. But not for so long. I groaned as I heard a familiar voice break the silence in that peaceful time of day. “You have a nice sweet thoughtful f...

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“Miss Wellington of Lindfall Library” by Colin Glynn Davidson

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The boney finger of Miss Wellington rattled against the plastic board she had placed on her desk. With the deliberate placement of her table, as you entered Lindfall Public Library, the sign was, for most, the first thing they would see on arrival. Young Tony and Miguel were standing in front of the irate woman as she again listed the library's rules. Rule 1 - NO Food or Drink inside the library Rule 2 - NO talking while inside the library Rule 3 - Books must be returned to their designated shelf space Rule 4 - Books must be treated with e...

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“When You Can Read” by Gisela Glasow

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One rainy day, a six-year-old girl sat on a couch in the library after a long day at school. She thought grumpily that her life could not get much worse. Every day she woke up, and instead of being free to spend time with her friends, she was shipped off to a colorful building and forced to wrestle with her least favorite thing in the world: words. To top off this injustice, every afternoon following school she was dragged by her parents and brother to the library where she was made to sit while her brother finished his homework. She did not...

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“Frozen Sleeping Beauty” by Ellie Vlogs

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Slam! The ruler pounded on the table. "What did I tell you about all of this noise?" the stern librarian scolded, "next time you are banned from this library." "Sorry Mrs. Chesler," Henry and I chime. We continued trailing down the endless hallways of the library, quieter this time. "Aha!" Henry whispered, "folktales." We walked down the aisles of the folklore section. "Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Hansel and Grettle, Jack and the Beanstalk, we are getting close," I whispered to Henry. Henry lays his hand on the dusty book in the...

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“The Murderous Twins” by Marco Bagnoli

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The McKellen twins felt the librarian’s stinky breath brush against their nape, so they quickly slid their dirt-and-blood-stained hands under the table. “Shut up, you two!” hissed the librarian. “Sorry,” said Milo McKellen, with the fakest of smiles. The librarian stomped back to his dimly lit desk, where he resumed his scribbling on a notebook. Occasionally he raised his bald head to survey the hall like a living security camera. Martin McKellen peeked under the table. A few droplets of blood had stained his jeans, and now it would be impos...

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“The Photo” by Arch R

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“Girls, shhhhh,” a voice admonished them. Claire and Diana sheepishly peered toward the librarian, instinctively reaching to cover the phone in their hand. “Sorry, Ms. Rose,” Claire responded first. Always a favorite of the teachers, she liked keeping it that way. “I can see the phone, girls. Do you really need that to complete your homework?” the librarian seemed to enjoy living up to her role as the stern caretaker of library sanctity. “We are using it for our algebra homework, unless you would like to lend us the abacus in your draw...

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“That Old Librarian” by Quirky Being

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The First Encounter “You come to the library to read and you can’t read the sign at the door. Keep Silence! This is a library, not an amusement park if you have some talks to do then go outside but not here” said the librarian. “But sir we are studying only not gossiping. I was struggling to solve the question and he was helping me” said the boy. The librarian turned to Raghav. The 15-year-old lad was prepared for a blast in his ears, but the old librarian had lowered his pitch when he asked “Are you a teacher?” “Do I look so old?” wondered...

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

Submissions are closed

✍️ 116 stories

“Kind Hearted💞 Edward and Mike🧒🏻🧒🏻” by Caymen Kho

“Subject to Change” by James Dart

“Be Quiet” by Jane Doe

“The Missing Book” by Bella Spencer

“Crimson Coloured Honey” by Mackenzie Wallace

“A Library To Be” by Goitseone Thapelo

“Wikket or Nice? ” by Vic-Favour Zira

“Fun times” by Emma Tallbacka

“Mr. Librarian” by Lenny Catcraft

“Miss Wellington of Lindfall Library” by Colin Glynn Davidson

“When You Can Read” by Gisela Glasow

“Frozen Sleeping Beauty” by Ellie Vlogs

“The Murderous Twins” by Marco Bagnoli

“The Photo” by Arch R

“That Old Librarian” by Quirky Being

🌟 Similar prompts

Write about someone going to extreme lengths to return an overdue library book.

Write about a character who meticulously catalogs everything in their life, until something disrupts their system.

Set your story in a library, after hours.

Write about a character stumbling upon a library book that changes the course of their life, for better or worse.

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