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Write a story in which a character justifies an argument with: “Because I said so.”

Posted in Middle School on Oct 26, 2022

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“Life’s a struggle when you’re a muggle.” Whichever Harry Potter fan posted that on Pinterest was a genius. This not-so inspirational quote was what Sara long would have used to describe her life, if she had been asked. At least, that was what happened in the discussions that took place in her head. In ‘real life’ as other people put it, sara said very little. And that very little rarely included her opinions on her life, and was mostly confined to “Yeah”, “No”, “Bad idea”, and other such answers to the questions posed to her. Despite outwar...

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Average Joe

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The boy sat at the table, staring at his homework. He fell back against the chair, blowing an exhausting sigh through his puckered lips. “I hate it.” He looked over at his mother. She was turning the stove’s dial to Hot and then flipped the beans sautéing in the hot sizzling oil. “I hate it!”                                          &n...

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Because I said So!

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I stood by the sink, hands in hot soapy water looking out as the rain poured endlessly down. The Devon hedge was full of beautiful spring growth, bluebells glistening and in a quiet daze, I pulled myself back from the calm countryside to the shrieks, shouts and screams. Thinking to myself I hope everyone is Okay but I didn’t dare ask. The noise was my children Ronny 5 the quiet wind up merchant, acting like Perfect Peter and the Butter wouldn't melt one etc and Jemima 10, the loud easy to wind up, you always blame me, no- one understands me ...

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Impatient Ambitions

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"What do you want me to do?" I screamed, throwing a pillow at her. She picked up the pillow quickly and threw it back at me. "Just do this one little thing for me, please?" she pleaded, giving the puppy eyes tactic a try. My cold unforgiving eyes repelled the attempt at making me give up. "Why should I do it?" I shouted. My arms folded across my chest as I stared her down. She humphed and replied, "Because I said so." When I met Ana, she was this sweet little girl. Every day, we'd meet up after school and share an ice cream together. The s...

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In the Back of Your Mind

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In the Back of Your Mind By Heather Ann Martinez If you think about it, your life is a series of choices that can take you in so many different directions. There are some choices we make that can change the course of our lives and others that we know will only result in a stomach ache the next morning. There are some choices that linger in the back of your mind. These are the ones that cause you to question your faith, your abilities and many of your other decisions. Sometimes, we allow ourselves to imagine what it would have been like...

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Eden Unvarnished

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The garden is beautiful, the fruit trees and twirling vines a resplendent wave of greens and golds and blue-orange-and-red medleys. Before this, she has only known the darkness of the earth. No one had told her that the darkness could produce such splendid things.“Wow,” she says, and the man at her side smirks in satisfaction.“Pretty great, right? And the best part is –” He nudges her with his elbow. “We’re in charge.” He pauses. “Well, I am. But you can help.”She turns in a slow, wondering circle, blinking at the bright, incandescent beauty...

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Gladiator Bait

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“What makes you think I’ll get any sleep at all tonight?” “Because I said so.” Septimus answered. He scratched his stubbly chin, and the sound reached Primus as clearly as his own voice. “That’s what.” Dark had fallen. Cold bore down on Primus, making him shiver, heavy and painful as the animal dread in his chest. A few yards away, a bony tiger slept in a cage of its own. On Primus’ other side lay Septimus, wrapped up in his cloak. The shock of his braided white hair stuck out at one end, and his leathery feet stuck out of the other. “It is ...

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Stones Throw

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  The sun is already high by the time I get up. Its summer and the days are long and bright and hot. I escape from the house early in the morning. There is nothing much to do today but I can’t sit around at home. Not after last night. I’m still so raw and angry.               Outside a light breeze is blowing but I don’t appreciate it. Instead, I scowl and put up my hood. My shoulders are slumped, and I can feel my angry walk. At least I’m making good tim...

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MOM

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I have always known my Mom would be this stubborn. Whenever I wanted to do something. She always contradicts. I even think that she doesn’t love me that much because she doesn't want me to be happy. Ever since I was a kid. I always live to her rule. I always nod and agreed with whatever she says. It’s always been her and me as far as I can remember. She worked hard to feed me and give me the basic needs that a normal kid should have. Shelter, clothes, food. That’s it. We seldom go out and those were the best times for me whenever it ...

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Strings

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TW: self-harm I breathe out. The words have escaped. I can let myself go. She may be hurting now, but I’ve been holding on by a thread and it’s begun to fray.     My face flushes red with anger. I can feel my blood start boiling. Balling my fists so hard that they pierce the skin on my palms. I stare into his eyes. For a second my mind goes blank and I’m no longer listening to the ever flowing stream of ignorance coming from his lips. “Hey! Are you listening to me?” I look at the floor racking my brain for any semblance of an answe...

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Because I Said So

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“Because I said so!” “Mom, that isn’t a reason…” Stephen exclaims but is cut off by his mother, Charlene. “Oh yea? Why not? I am older than you, I am smarter than you, I am bigger than you, and you are my son, I know what’s best for you.” Charlene stated with an agitated tone. “I said no, so it is a no.” “Mom, can we at least have a discussion about it?” Stephen pleaded. “I don’t think we even need to have one, hunny, it’s not going to happen, not while you are living under this roof.” Charlene grabbed a stack of magazines into her hand ...

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The Old Oak

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The older I get, the harder it becomes to climb this damned hill. I feel as though each passing year has progressively increased the seeping thievery of time’s demands on my body, and in no place in the world am I reminded more of this fact than when I come here to see you. It’s not simply because of this hill, mind you. It’s this entire place, with its immortal chorus of fluttering leaves, as green and alive as they were in those days when we were young, and these rolling, grassy hills where we used to chase each other, stick...

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Gianna vs. Genesis

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“Mom?” Gianna peered into her mother’s study where she saw her working on what was probably her latest sermon. Her mother is a pastor at the First Methodist Church normally prepares sermons relating whatever is going on in the world with the Bible. No, really. She likened Jesus multiplying bread and fish to Gianna cookies with her younger sister and Mary Magdalene washing Jesus’s feet to her husband washing the car! “Just a second Baby, mamma is working,” she cooed, holding up a well-manicured index finger. ”Baby?” Gianna thought. She wa...

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The Strange Case of Alfred Dent

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A group of people stood around a man laid out on the sidewalk. Two construction workers were bent over the sprawled-out figure as others gathered around, staring at the spectacle unfolding in front of them. “Everybody! Stand back and give the man some breathing room,” one of the construction workers yelled out to the onlookers. “Hey buddy, you ok there?” the other worker said while he gave the half-conscious man light slaps to his cheek. “Whoa…what…hey there. What’s going on?” the dazed man said as the construction guys started lifting...

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The Annual Dog Debate

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There is bright red circle around today’s date on the Dog Life 2021 calendar hanging above my cluttered desk. The date marks one week before my tenth birthday. Today begins the annual dog debate with my parents. I have dreamed of owning a dog ever since I was old enough to spell d-o-g. I pull my purple World’s Greatest Dog Lover sweatshirt over my head and grab the Why I Should Own a Dog list from my desk. My list of reasons has grown longer as I have grown taller. Maybe this is the year they will say yes to my request, I think as I close th...

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