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Write a story that focuses on the relationship between siblings.

Posted in Middle School on Oct 26, 2022

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Piece of Candy

Submitted to Contest #9

  If the world was a piece of candy, then the first thing that Rosie McQuentin would do, would be to eat it.   She was awfully greedy. The men who secretly smoked next the forbidden alley agreed. The women with long blonde hair who always crowded around each other and squealed at everything, would certainly nod furiously without any hesitation. Little Johnny Parker from down the street would give a big thumbs up to that statement. Even Mr and Mrs McQuentin would sadly shake their heads and say that unfortunately it w...

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The Touch

Submitted to Contest #9

 In an instant, Rizzi Devlin was fighting for her life. Her whole universe was suddenly engulfed in water, Rizzi immediately knew she was drowning. The last image she recalled was standing on the old dock at Lake Travis, and now she was in total darkness in a world that was foreign to her. She was scared to death. When Rizzi was six, she was so afraid of the water she refused to take swimming lessons, and now her life was fleeting away a second at a time. Rizzi’s instinct was not to breathe, but the agony of running out of air was ...

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Cross the river

Submitted to Contest #9

"Why can't I cross this river?" he mumbled, staring at the ceiling fan. Its blades spun monotonously, creaking every two seconds. He should have fixed it the day before, or probably even earlier, but getting out of bed seemed too hard of a task. 'Similarities,' his mind whispered. 'There are certain similarities, don't you think? She's known me ever since I was born and keeps saying we're different. But there are similarities.'A brown cockroach was struggling to ascend the wall to his right. He turned, and followed its path with curious eyes...

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Bros

Submitted to Contest #9

Mike awoke to the sound of the doorbell. He looked at the clock and tried to make sense of things. “What the… My God! It’s two-thirty.”Then the knocking began. He went to investigate, hoping Sarah, his wife, wasn’t disturbed.The banging was insistent. Mike peered out and saw his brother Griff standing under the porch light. “Hey Bro! Let me in! I’m cold.”Mike opened the door. “What do you want, Griff? Come back tomorrow. Everyone’s asleep.”“C’mon Mike. I’m freezing. I need a place to crash.”Mike let him in. Griff made a show of how cold he w...

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PAIN less

Submitted to Contest #9

My sister, Pam, had been severely depressed for too many years. When she lost her first and only child, and her ability to have more children, PPD (Post Partum Depression) imprisoned her in bed for months. Siblings, parents and friends rallied to support, feed and clean her. Despite feeling her deep depression saturate our souls, we struggled to avoid echoing it back to her. We all felt a moral obligation to keep a stiff upper lip and ween her back into the world of survivors. Her proud, staunch refusal to get professional help was a result...

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The love's still there

Submitted to Contest #9

The man sat in his car in the dark, drumming his fingers on the wheel and chewing his lower lip. The car was silent, and had been for the twenty minutes that he had been sat there, the popping of the engine cooling having long ago finished. Evening had fallen while he’d waited and the street lights had buzzed on over head, throwing shadows across the dashboard and tainting the car with their warm amber hue. A dozen times or more he had reached for the keys, to start up the car and drive away and forget all of this. But every time his hand ha...

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Killer Blossoms

Shortlisted for Contest #9 ⭐️

An extremely rare and late bloomer, the Palm of Casper is one of the most dangerous plants in the world. Experts say a single milligram of its beautiful, ivory blossoms is enough to kill five men. It’s the last flower you’d expect to find in an assortment of edible flowers on top of a wedding cake. The bride and groom certainly had no idea. It was rarely tested for in toxicology reports by medical examiners and its effects mimic severe food poisoning and can cause paralysis.When Henry nestled the narrow, vase-like flower among the other blos...

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Precious People

Submitted to Contest #9

Dear Brother, Fun fact: This is a letter you do not have to write back to. You have more supreme duties to focus your strength on and I do not want to distract you. I, on the other hand, am not married and doubt my life is ever headed in that direction. I have plenty of time to revisit things past and things as they could have been. The main purpose of this letter: To pour out my thoughts to you, as I was used to doing. Barred from owning your attention and relying on you as a brother, I am now unable to do so in person with any real satisfa...

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Right

Submitted to Contest #9

There are only two of us. That should make us two peas in a pod, right? The best of friends, right? Except we aren't. And we never were. Not even from the start. We've been polar opposites ever since birth. You came just two and a half years before me, yet you were never someone I could look up to. Oh, if only I could tell you how badly I wanted to.  You used to tell people we weren't related; they’d think I was adopted. In school, you avoided me like I was a plague. You come and go, but you’re still always around me. At every angle and...

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Manfred and Me

Submitted to Contest #9

Manfred padded into my hospital room wearing bedroom slippers and no socks about three the next day, not wanting me to expect regular visits of compassion, his being busy with his cockroach collection and all. Told him I neither expected nor wanted them, his camaraderie being something I had gotten used to doing without some fifteen years ago around the time we began sharing the dim little flat I hated to admit was home. He did tell me he wouldn’t rent out my room while I was laid up, felt he owed me at least that since I was his brother and...

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Firefly Wishes

Submitted to Contest #9

  “Okay now what?” Laura asks her big sister Jenny. She has a lightning bug pinched between her fingers. She giggles, and her nose does that weird thing where it gets all wrinkly in the middle. It is a hot and humid July night in Virginia. Jenny and Laura have been living with their mom and grandmother for a few months now. Jenny likes her grandmother’s house and everything, but she prefers their old house. That one had two stories and a fireplace where they would hang their stockings for Santa. She also had her own...

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The Ruined Car.

Submitted to Contest #9

This was the most bored Ava had been in her life.She sighed. It was no use trying to go to sleep. She kicked off the blankets on top, and sat up in bed. "Jimmy!" she whispered loudly, crawling over to her brother's bed and poking him in the temple.His bed was incredibly close to Ava's, since the room they both slept in was nothing but large. And, Ava and Jimmy felt a bit more safe sleeping next to each other. "Jimmy!" Ava repeated, nudging him. "What is it, Ava?" he mumbled, peeling open tired eyes. "I can't sleep. Can you help?" s...

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The First Murderer

Submitted to Contest #9

"Abel!" I held firmly the arm of my brother as I got him a hundred steps or so away from our tent. "For heaven's sake, how did your sheep got to MY crops?!""Why are you blaming me for that?" He pulled his hand back "Father...""Don't Father me. I saw how he went into the tent, limping. And that was at noon. It's sunset now. And I'll tell you what, by that time, my crops were totally fine.""Well, my sheep also need to eat, you know.""Oh, dear me, how could I think they are able to live with just eating grass? Wait, I know how, they did it unti...

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TWINS

Submitted to Contest #9

TWINSBy Andrew Paul Grell“Amah, why are there holes in the world?”“Whatever do you mean, BaoBao?”“We walk on the world but then there are holes in it, some go down, some sideways, holes.”“You mean like the yaodong cave we live in? Those are holes so we can have a place to live in peace. Would you rather live in a city, in a box, with everyone knowing what you say and do, and then they try to correct you if you do or say the wrong things? That’s why there are holes in the world, Bendan. Don’t you like our television, our b...

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The Garden

Submitted to Contest #9

“Remember how red Mom’s roses used to be? Like crazy red, right?”Only clinking plates replied from the other room. Susan was packing up the kitchen. The flowers weren’t that great anymore. Weeds had started to choke out what was left of the garden.“Yeah, crazy red…Hey, sis. Need some help in there?”“I’m fine, Dylan. Go pack somewhere else.”How did we wind up strangers? Me. It’s always been me. Dylan, the screw-up, at your service.We were tight as kids. Freshman year there was this kid—Frankie, horrible guy, bullied me every day. I was smalle...

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