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Start your story with someone accepting a dare.

Posted in Middle School on Oct 25, 2022

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Building up

Submitted to Contest #94

   The sound of someone yelping, followed by a thud, made the blood gush through her veins again, struck her back to movement and attention; her legs, which were wobbling a few minutes ago, suddenly took her down the stairs hastily. *********     “I will give you a thousand pounds if you go down stairs in this dark and if you’re able to convince your friends to accompany you,” the worker said.     He was middle aged, shabby, smirking, with hands blackened with dirt, with two&...

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The Noble's Wife

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--- A Totally Unabashed Fully Loaded Space Opera ---/ Planet Tagabu. /“How is it we always end up at this same damn bar, on this same damn mud-hole planet?” Alex says, handing me a drink.“Because the Noble’s officers don’t like to get their boots dirty?” I chuckle.We tap our cups together.“Stayin’ alive, with money to thrive,” we chime in unison.This has been our victory chant ever since our first days of smuggling. Call it superstition, but it works.“The Noble’s patrol ships were all over this run,” Alex says.“I noticed. I had to use a dirt...

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No One, Nowhere, Nothing.

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“I dare you to climb up to the top of that house, or I’ll tell everyone you're a chicken,” I said to my friend, Toby. “No,” Toby replied simply, “I’m not an idiot, my health matters more to me.” I stopped in my tracks, “Toby,” I said coldly, “no one says no to me.” Toby froze, “fine,” he said, “I’ll do it,” I smiled, “there’s a good friend,” I said. Toby grabbed onto a pipe attached to the house and started climbing, soon he was half way up. “Keep going,” I called up, Toby continued up the house. Snap! The pipe broke, Toby tumbled to the g...

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I Realize Dares Can Change Your Life

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"I'll do it." Three words. Three words that sounded so simple yet three words that changed the course of my life. I'm Luis. You might know me, or you might not. At this point, that really doesn't matter. I'm the protagonist here, but I think you figured that out, didn't you? Anyway, let's cut the pleasantries and get to the main point. I'm writing this all down because I know it's the only way this account can survive. I'm not kidding or anything. I am dead serious. Because by the time this gets to you, I might be gone.Wh...

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Triple Dog Dare

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 Buzz, buzz, time to get up. I threw my phone across the room and fell back asleep. “Get up Noah!” my Mom yelled. Nah, I’m good. 10 minutes later I’m ripped from my bed and practically pushed upright.  Everything in my life seems like a blur. I don’t want to do anything. I don’t feel like doing anything. School is such a waste of time and energy. No one wants me there anyways so whats the point?  I’m sat at the back of the school bus with my airpods in. They always seem to never be loud enough you know? Sometimes you just want...

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The Dare 🧛

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"I already told you I was going to do the dare. You know that I always do the dares, babe." I told Devon. Devon is my girlfriend and yes before you start judging me, I am a lesbian and I'm proud to have a girlfriend as wonderful and supportive as she is. Devon is 17 years old, also my age. She has long wavy sandy colored hair, emerald green eyes, slim with curves in all the right places, palish skin and she's 5 ft 5 inches tall. She's like the beach on a perfect day. And here I am 5 ft 8 inches, shoulder length curly dirty blonde hair, slim,...

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Carrying Stones

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The last moon of the old year was not visible in the sky. The sun had vanished early in the afternoon and the moon refused to appear, leaving only black and bitter night. It had been an unusually cold winter, and by the time what should have been the beginning of spring arrived, snow still splintered underfoot.  The islanders celebrated the new year anyway, with the same stubborn tradition they did everything with. When their ceremonial fires sputtered out in the cold, they smudged the ash across their children’s faces to protect them...

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Double or Quit

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I should never have accepted Jonny’s dare, as I’ve never had a head for heights. He was used to teasing the stratosphere and dive-bombing into the abyss and his career trajectory reflected his ability to recover from anything; everyone in the business agreed he was indestructible. Jonny put it all down to self-belief and boundless good fortune. However, he now believed the hype. #Did I feel that lucky? No, I didn’t, but then maybe I had more to lose. His life was a rollercoaster of endless speculation and gamesmanship. He’d risk ev...

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Over a Barrel

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The deafening roar of Horseshoe Falls is what draws so many people to this natural wonder each year.  I would like to say that is why I am here, but as they put the padding in a wooden barrel that will carry me over the 167-foot drop is what happens when you let your mouth overload your courage.  Wearing my full body wetsuit, there are gawkers all around me who are watching in awe, wondering what is going to happen next.  It should be obvious.  Stupid man enters barrel, lid is fastened, followed by barrel bobbing over th...

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To hell with the dare!

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We were sitting in a group playing truth or dare game just because my drunken best friend insisted me. I already feel tipsy as I finished my 5 th cup for the night. I looked over Daisy , she looked like she will puke right away if she had anymore of alcohol. "It's my turn, I will rotate it now" some random guy in the crowd told everyone. It straight away landed on Daisy. She never let me interrupt as she answered "dare" as she giggled by her own answer. "Dance with that man" the guy told pointing to a man sitting at the other end of room loo...

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The Dare

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“FINE. I’ll give it a go.” If just to make you shut up, I silently added. Marie put down her pad to do one of those stupid little toddler claps where the culprit beats the heels of their palms silently together, fingers splayed. “Yes! Oh, Alyssa, I’m so, so pleased you’re going to give it a try. I just think if you really put your mind to it…” I watched her lips forming the words but I didn’t take in what was being said. My last drop of energy for the day had been spent sealing my fate. I alternating next between looking at her earri...

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Alessia Dares

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TW: death, horror scenes Four of them sat around the fire with stolen wine in their hands. Alessia’s boyfriend Teo had pinched it from his family vineyard to bribe their friends Marco and Serena. The tree and vine the two had grown in a field of yellow woad flowers had to be moved.   Magic had grown the oak tree but had not helped them uproot it and plant it again in the nearby woods. Sweating and swearing the four of them had shifted the tree and the grapevine on plastic tarps.   Drinking to their victory the four raised their unl...

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Dare you to take the Mandela effect test with me..

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Dares? Sure, I can dare you. I take the dare almost every day since I awoke that day in 2016. Why? I expect like many people you are not from here. And if you are not from here and I am not from here. We have different stories to tell. Dare you tell me your story? I can tell you mine. I ain’t from here. That got me a trip to the shrink. Who stated I was living past lives. He wanted me to waste time with him. Scheduling me for one appointment after another. If you have read me, I dislike wasting time. So after the fourth appointment I proved ...

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A dare to dream

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”Come on then, I DARE YOU!” Never in a million years did I expect to end up here; getting on a plane and changing the course of my life forever. Yet here I am, passport and boarding pass in hand, and everything I own crossing the sea ahead of me to my new home. Two hours until I board, as I check my phone for the 100th time. “a watched pot never boils,” my mother’s words of wisdom chimes in my ears. How incredibly right she is, as I put my phone away. With a slight chuckle to myself, I think back to how I found myself on this journey in the ...

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Trapped

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Tristen was trapped with the person he believed hated him the most. It was her fault they were stuck there. It was her fault they were about to die. Had she not been stuck in the same trap as he was, he would have died thinking she planned it all. As to how they got trapped or how they would escape was impossible for either to deduce. What Tristen did know was that Kendra was to blame, her and her stupid Dare.All the magical students were on a field trip for the purpose of integrating the factions in the school. As Professor Qweill had said,...

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