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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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✍️ 97 stories

“I can't be killed.” by Dhananjay Mhasawade

Submitted to Contest #94

“Because I said so…” She heard him. Even though he was hiding in the dark corner; whispering through exhausted lungs, she had to listen to him. His shaky hands pointing an AK57 at her daughter. Her legs were stuck to the ground. She had to lean forward to make her legs move because the banging on the door had started sounding desperate and insecure. She opened the door. It was a young Indian BSF soldier. Border Safety Force. It was ironic that this soldier was on duty in the midriff region of India’s Gadchiroli district, Maharashtra state. T...

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“My Job🤬” by Ava Villa

Submitted to Contest #94

This story starts off with a girl named Skye, and how she herself changes, but remember, there is always a calm before the storm...I look around at the rolling hills to my right and the dense forest to my left. All I see are thin, long green stems and simple, but beautiful pink appendages that roll off of them. The smell is intoxicating, like the smell of a sweet breeze on a warm autumn day. I walk closer to one of the things, wondering what it is. Sharp needle-like spines cover the green stem and the pink appendages tickle my finger lovingl...

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“You Stubborn Fool” by Jessie Winterspring

Submitted to Contest #94

He is Apolaki, one of Bathala’s children. The sun god and the war god. No one and he means no one other than Bathalang Maykapal, the supreme father of the sky can stop him, not his mortal mother, not this tiny Filipina woman hugging him.“Move woman,” he commanded looking at the man he's been chasing for days run out of the door.“No, I’m not letting you chase him!” Her arms wrapped around his waist tightened.One swing of his hand and her fragile body will break at the cement wall of her small house, but every muscle in his body tense at the c...

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“The Bullmans Wrath” by Taylor Hunter

Submitted to Contest #94

The following text was found inside of a shredded, leathery journal strewn beside a battered field from a war-torn era. Its contents catalog the detailed thoughts of a man known only as 'The Bullman,' and the general greivances that plagued what we can only assume to be his final days. *** The weather was bleak, again. The troops are currently laying camp with the same rhythmic, morose humming that seems to constantly keep their plebian minds busy. It's the decorations that I've come to call home while living in this incessant battle f...

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“Someday's Today” by Chic Halliwell

Submitted to Contest #94

"Because I said so! Andrew, why don't you understand when I say there's nothing going on between me and Asher!" I yell at my six-month boyfriend Andrew Jenkins. We're just in tenth grade and the tension has caught up. "I don't believe you even a bit!" He said sternly as if I'm a child who needs some scolding. "I saw how you looked at him," he hesitates but continues anyway, "You'll never look at me that way Veronica. I know his apartment is right beside yours and you guys meet up when you need help for exams and stuff but I...I've always fel...

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“Mother knows best. ” by Jarkara Kerr-Jones

Submitted to Contest #94

I was nervous. I had never brought a guy home with me to meet my mom before. Shirly could be a scrutinizing woman with a keen sense of smell for bullshit and sometimes I just want to remain blissfully ignorant.I had told her all about my last boyfriend and it had only taken her an hour of viewing all of his social media to deduce what I couldn't, or maybe what I didn't want to see. All of his red flags and narcissism were laid out in front of me by my mother and even I hadn't been able to deny he was a bit of a wanker. But now that I had fou...

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“Why?” by Skylar Clemons

Submitted to Contest #94

Walter grumbled as he was sweeping the house, the dust not even collecting but spreading as he aggressively brushed through it all. His little sister sat in the living room playing with two of her stuffed animals lost in her imaginary world. He’s only two years older than her and she’s already six so she should have to do chores too. Walter wasn’t happy when he first found out that he had to help clean the house, he always asked why and his mom always said, “Because I said so.” That’s honestly not even a valid point in any argument and it se...

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“The Pain of You” by Aileen Andrews

Submitted to Contest #94

Her hand slipped from mine. So feeble, fragile and cold. Her eyes turned away from me in shame, that same awkward smile dancing over her lips. She couldn’t bear to look at me.  Her cobalt eyes had frozen over like a lake. There was a time I would have dug away the ice with my nails just to get her back. But now I just let her go, unable to move, to breathe.  I pictured all the previous fights. The way she had spoken to me.  There was something nagging on my mind, a voice that had been there for a while now. Of course, I knew...

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“Stay Inside” by Julia Lechear

Submitted to Contest #94

There are some things you can’t explain. I’m sure it’s possible but words have never been my strong suit. I want to stay out after dark because I want to.  I don’t like it inside, I never have. It’s stuffy and boring and it’s so, so loud. Every second is full of the muffled screams from my younger siblings playing in a different room. I’ve tried getting them to be quiet but, go figure, negotiating with toddlers isn’t easy.  Not that negotiations with mothers are much easier. Every time I try to make her understand it’s the sa...

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“collin” by Zachary Merves

Submitted to Contest #94

Fabricated Time and distance is the true creator, churning and dumping life into the endless nebulas forever growing and consuming the darkness ahead. One of these tiny bits of life spun out through this endless generation is the Daughtrees Solar System. Uniqueness is a beautiful byproduct of creation and this system holds no exceptions. Quite the spectacle of science, it is not a heliocentric type, but rather all other stellar forms orbit around one planet, C.D-19. From the molten core to the crust this terrestrial body is packed to the br...

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“The Argument” by Hayley Carter

Submitted to Contest #94

I have had many instances in my life where I was treated like a helpless child. The because I said so argument coming from a respected adult honestly makes you feel like you are a worthless helpless ignorant child that should listen to your parents even if they are wrong. An authority figure should treat a child with respect and if they so happen to be wrong well it can prove how the child can learn debating and arguments and the truth. But this story is not all about me, no, on the contrary, it is about someone else. My name is Margaret M...

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“A Family Emergency ” by Julie McNeely-Kirwan

Submitted to Contest #94

Ellis solemnly took in the news, because that's all there was anyway. Talking heads and scrolling words were everywhere on his phone. Other people on the bus were also sitting up, staring tensely at their screens, transformed from their usual bored commuting selves. The talking heads on his phone were not only everywhere,  they were different. They looked scared.  The man his mother hated, the one with the fake hair, was openly crying.  Another notoriously upright pundit seemed to be taking a thoughtful drag now and then on ...

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“I'm Here For You” by Jamileh Lopez

Submitted to Contest #94

Dark-colored clouds covered the usual blue sky, the sound of birds chirping was nowhere to be found, and each animal kept hidden trying to stay warm. Heavy rain poured down on a young girl who kept running through, her soaked clothes clinging tightly to her body. Tears spilled down her eyes as the only things that filled her ears were the pitter-patter of the rain and her heavy footsteps. She stopped for a moment reaching a tall tree, leaning against it, and feeling her legs give out. She tried to wipe the waterfall of tears, yet they found ...

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“Choices” by Elsa Zhou

Submitted to Contest #94

Sweat collected on my brow, threatening to drip into my eyes. I pushed my hair back, wiping my forehead with a handkerchief and exhaling forcefully, the must of nearly rotting accounting books turning stale in the air. A pair of boots clicked cleanly on the marble floor of the bank as a crisply dressed gentleman arrived in front of my desk. Slowly closing the accounting book I had been scratching into with a pen, I looked down from the small elevated desk that was my station. The man took off a hat, his shoulders hunching slightly as he pla...

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“Monday Pancakes” by Matthew Potts

Submitted to Contest #94

TW: domestic abuse Prompt: Write a story in which a character justifies an argument with “because I said so.”   As I opened my eyes and saw the rays of light beaming through the blinds, I rubbed the crust away. All of the tears from the night before had coagulated into gross goop in the corners near my nose. Pulling the thick comforter away, I noticed the shades of blue and brown smattered across my thighs, felt the pain in my head and neck, and then dissociated back to the hell from just the night before.    “Put him down!” &...

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