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Write a story in which a miracle happens — or everyone thinks it did.

Posted in Middle School on Nov 1, 2022

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“Miracle Man” by Kevin Alphatooni

Submitted to Contest #152

“You are not fit to live among us!” My feet dangled above the marble floor as Father held me by the throat like a weed plucked from his favorite garden bed. There was no point in resisting his grip. He was Enki, god of creation; maker of man and keeper of the divine wisdom. Here in heaven, he held a sacred position among the gods that could not be challenged.  “No! I…” He lifted me higher and the floor beneath me cracked, split, and fell away, revealing a dark pit with flecks of swirling starlight within. “Tamm...

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“Save the Stain!” by Lauren B

Submitted to Contest #152

A hundred years ago, Big Timber was a busy logging town. Then a pest moved in, the forest died, and the people moved out. I’m one of three employees at the Big Timber Tribune and I can probably name every member of our subscriber list.  Most of the stories I cover are like this one: boring. It’s either human interest or something about our local economy, which has been on life support for over a decade. Lately there had been talk of a tech company called Perseus moving in to revive us.  Unlike so many other plans to bring back in...

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“Autumn Hues” by Thanja Van Der Horst

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September 14th, 2019 She trailed her hands on the light carried by the wind; at times it caught the dark streaks of her hair, mimicking iridescence. Today she held earthly colors in her being: shades of burnt coffee and fallen leaves made up the blush in her cheeks, the wisps of her dress. By habit I had the urge to call out to her, to lay her down and bury myself in the softness of her honey eyes, letting them feed my soul with their sweetness – instead I remained against the rough edges of the doorframe, not letting the little pricks of sp...

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“The day I walked on Water” by Michelle Castillo

Submitted to Contest #152

                 The Day I Walked on Water        It was a sunny weekend in 1968, and I was the precious age of Thirteen, and took the bus with my two brothers to the San Francisco Ocean beach. When we arrived, we walk down the steps onto the sand and pick a spot to lay down our towels, threw off our shoes and socks, and strip down to our bathing suits. I walked toward the water and waded in up to my thighs. I stood there ...

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“The Old Year's First Refrain” by SJ Latrice

Submitted to Contest #152

Kendra had been a ghost for twelve months, but this was the first time someone had walked through her. She dug red nails into her dark brown hands, shaping crescents as she watched the man who had done it. His back faced her as he thanked the owner of the newspaper stall and moved further into the open-air market, whistling all the way. He was light skinned, of middling height with a bald head, and wore a tan suit, shoes, and hat. The man was nothing special, and why would he be? It was Kendra’s fault.She bit her lip and turned back to the p...

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“The Path of Moonlit Feathers” by Gem Cassia

Submitted to Contest #152

Stories are not always formed in straight lines, but in circles. Picture a conical pendulum. Can you see it? It’s just like any other pendulum, only it hits different points each time it swings. If you connect these points, you’ll end up with something round. Back and forth it travels on its predetermined trajectory, always cutting through the center, always without a finish line in sight. This is how our story moves. We’ll start at whichever point the pendulum decides to swing towards next. It’s beyond my control, you see. Ev...

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“Healing My Clubfoot” by Hope Linter

Submitted to Contest #152

“John, we have to get you up to the front, as near the front as we can,” I could feel my older sister Macy pulling my hand. My club foot was aching, and I didn’t want to be in this enormous tent that was already teaming with so many bodies. I wiped the sweat from my brow. “If God means for me to be healed, He’ll part this sea of people.” I looked down on Macy’s head of thick almost black hair that was only a little less unrully than when when she was younger. When she was ten and I was six, one day, I’...

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“The Screaming Hole” by Vincent Paiement Désilets

Submitted to Contest #152

The hole had never been there, but this morning, somehow, it was. In the middle of the park. A black spot in a sea of green. A dead pixel in the aerial view.            “Aaagrooooooomn,” the hole said.            Nearby, a boy dropped his ball. He stared at the hole, then approached with as much precaution as a kid could have.            Half an hour later, six other kids had joi...

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“A MENACING HEART” by Del Gibson

Submitted to Contest #152

TW: Some graphic scenes, and drug use. I wake to piercing screams, ripping me from sleep – it takes me a few seconds to realise it’s Danny, my 14-year-old son. Deathly still I listen, as his screams turn into sobs. Eventually they subside. It’s quiet, the rain lulls me into a discombobulated sleep – it’s no use, tossing and turning only gets me frustrated. Passing Danny’s bedroom on my way to the kitchen, I can hear him talking to himself again; a chilling cold shivers down my spine. After boiling the kettle, I make the strongest black cof...

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“An 11th-Hour Miracle” by Valerie Johnson

Submitted to Contest #152

The doctor rushed into the room yelling, “Wait!” to the hospital staff that were getting me prepared to go to the operating room. Thank God because we needed a miracle asap and it had not happened…. yet. My husband, Arthur, and I dated a little over two years and were married on June 21, 1980. After a very large wedding and beautiful Hawaiian honeymoon, we returned home and began life as Mr. and Mrs. Johnson. After a few short months, we found out that I was pregnant with our first child. In those days, it was common to wait until the bab...

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“The Five Petalled Flower” by L. T. Pitkin

Submitted to Contest #152

My name is Terratei. It means miracle, a rare word nowadays. The Averdi scoff at miracles. We’ve replaced faith with reason, choosing to find causes for everything. My life could never be explained, however. My parents had always wanted a child, but a doctor told my mother it was impossible. She would never have children, he said, and she needed to accept this reality. I was born less than a year later, and quickly became a study across the medical field, along with my mother. I was poked and prodded so much as a child that I suppose I devel...

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“I Want to Buy a Miracle” by Michael Shaw

Submitted to Contest #152

A fine coating of sweat on his brow, his furtive glances, and the way he was incessantly scratching at his palms gave the man, third in line to order his meal, away as paranoid, nervous, or both. The lunch crowd at Marigold Masala Fine Indian Cuisine & Takeout had been a steady one, giving Kamya Kumar, who was working the cash register, little time to pay attention to anything but what each customer was ordering. Still, she’d noticed the man the moment he’d stepped into the restaurant, and had hardly taken her eyes off him as he made his...

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“The Miracle Food” by Lars Krøgholt

Submitted to Contest #152

They had made a post on Facebook about the fellowship meal. In the months ahead meals were being served in the various housing areas in the city where they lived. They were refugees. But they chose to see themselves as expats with refugee experiences unlike how the government saw them. They came out of Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Eritrea, Syria, and Congo to Denmark. Nations around the world where there had been war, violence, and terror for years. Many of them were deeply traumatized by what they had been through in their home country...

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“E.R.M. - Awkward, Strange and Unexpected Emergency Room Miracles” by Angel Vargas

Submitted to Contest #152

What is a “miracle? A quick “googling” of the words  “miracle definition” on your mobile device’s web browser might elicit the following: 1- a surprising and welcome event that is not explicable by natural or scientific laws and is therefore considered to be the work of a divine agency. "the miracle of rising from the grave" Similar: supernatural phenomenon mystery prodigy sign 2- a highly improbable or extraordinary event, development, or accomplishment that brings very welcome consequences. "it was a miracle that m...

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“Pranav Bisht ” by Snehil Mishra

Submitted to Contest #152

​​__________________________________________ “How many times have I asked you to get a mobile phone? '', he recalls his maa yelling, “even I got one”. “Maa you don’t know the mobile phone; how can you speak to someone you don’t know” Oh my poor dumbo, what would happen to you after I am gone, you don’t speak to the mobile phone, you speak to the person who is on the phone” “No maa, the person on the phone is the devil, it’s not the person speaking, it’s the devil. “You mean your aunt Kavita is a devil” He gave her the “cmon even you know i...

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