Write a story that focuses on the relationship between siblings.

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“Safe” by Allen Roy MacPherson

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The hand that rocked the cradle was not my mother. It was my 2 year old cousin. I could not have been one year old and 60 years later, I still remember it as clear as if it was yesterday. I think the memory stays with me and is incredibly and indelibly etched in my mind, because the only really recognizable thing, the only truly and newly unumbilical attachment, to a 6 month old infant is its mother, even more so than her nurturing, nourishing breasts, and maybe, used to turning to see her tender hand and slender fingers, when the crad...

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“Broken hearts” by Grace Earrey

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They were twins but you wouldn't have guessed. One glance at them and you would think they were strangers to each other. Sure they dressed the same, had the same taste of music and had similar hobbies but their relationship was the very opposite.The older brother, Mike hated everyone and everything. Even his younger brother. He felt nothing towards him except hatred and spite. His fist clenched, his blood boiled just thinking about him. Mike did not care if he hurt people's feelings. He locked himself in his room most of the time, isolating ...

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“They Can't Have Him” by Wolfe Montgomery

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We have been together ever since his birth, held each other through the hardest times, held on when our parents let go. Now they want to split us up, to take him, to break me. They don’t know how hard it’s been, they don’t know the truth. They don’t know the hopelessness. The only thing we had was each other, for survival, for life. They don’t know the way we held each other through the night. I was his comfort and he was mine. Hoping, praying for survival. Cold and shivering in the dark. They don’t know the love between us, they want to tak...

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“A Father's Last Fix” by Raissa Abrahamson

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They stared at me, like I didn't belong there as much as they did. He was my Dad too, he loved me just the same as them, yet I ended up the black sheep. On the outside looking in we were the perfect family: two boys, two girls, and a set of very loving parents. Inside it could be brutal, you'd have to watch every step because anything was fair game for ridicule. "It's lovely to see you again Quinn." Aunt Mary, nobody's favorite. She always smells like old lipstick and coffee. "Have you talked to them?" "What's the point? Give them some more...

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“White Knuckles” by Charlie E.D.

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“Well, I… I guess this is goodbye,” Jay says, reluctantly pulling his hands out from where he’d tucked them in his pockets half an hour ago so he can sign. He’s not sure if he was trying to stop them from shaking, or trying to keep them from asking Penelope to stay. “I’m gonna miss you, Pen.”“It won’t be that bad,” Penelope says. She’s speaking slowly, because she’s got a carry-on bag in one hand, clutching her boarding pass and jacket in the other. “We’ll text and video chat.”“Yeah…”“Besides,” she adds, smirking, “you’ll be fine. You’ve got...

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“The Magnet” by Sarah Newland

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Kneeling at the foot of my bed, I search through my backpack for my missing heart-shaped eraser. I discover my Oklahoma magnet in the front pocket, buried under dirty tissues, candy wrappers, and dried out pens. I thought I’d lost it, but here it is. Guilt punches me in the gut and I squeeze my eyes shut. I had wanted Lily dead. Two years later and I still can’t forget. I stroke the magnet’s smooth surface with my thumb, feeling each of the fourteen ridges along the edge. The pea-sized Indian face is still as stern as ever. I stare at the O...

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“My sister and I” by Jerry Lambeth

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I never thought that my sister and I will be as close as we are now. Sure we still bicker with each other, but she's the closest thing to a best friend I will ever have. I guess you have to say everything started back in September the 9th 1988. My mother just given birth to me, a almost healthy baby boy beside the fact my umbilical cord was wrap around my neck when I was born. My father holding my five year old sister was looking through the glass into the nursery room. In that week only four babies was born, and I was the only male that was...

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“Conquering Dragons” by Kenneth Johnson

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Though it was a warm day, Jeffery felt a chill as the wind gusted. ”You can do anything you set your mind too!” His brother’s words circled his mind. He grabbed them and focused on their meaning.“Yes, I can!” He reached upward, straining.“A little more to the right,” Frank’s guiding words whispered in his ear.Jeff stretched until his fingertips found the small ledge. He carefully shifted his weight and raised his left foot. Finding a solid purchase, he pulled himself up another foot.The wind danced in and out of the fissures, playi...

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“SHE WAS THE YOUNGEST OF SIBLINGS” by Azemina Klobodanovic

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In the suburb of a Bosnian town, one winter night, she was completely conceived by mistake. It was not planned that her father, after three marriages and ten children who had already, to be the father of this eleventh child in a row. He was already in the years, and just at that time he had got grand-daughter of the son from his first marriage, therefore it was not questionable whether is it okay to come into the world this child too. If it would be born it would be pure surplus, burdensome and shame for this family, and Good heavens, d...

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“Peanut and the Volcano” by Dawn French

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Peanut and the VolcanoPart of the series Peanut Tales© A. L. Dawn FrenchSabastian James was deep in thought as he sat at the desk in the study, typing away on his laptop computer. He did not hear his younger sister Sabine, known as Peanut to all, entered the room, until she spoke.Peanut got the nickname when Daddy Max, one of her grandfathers had given her the name. As he said, she was as small as a peanut when she was born.Peanut’s full name was Sabine Clementine James, but she got called Sabine only when she was in trouble.At eight ye...

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“Chirping from its Nest. ” by Suraj Abhishek Gerata

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I'm shaving. Why, you ask? Well, whenever I see myself in the mirror with my beard and mustache, I see myself as some ISIS escapee lost within the white world. Except with a scarf missing over my coal dark hair and down around my long towering neck.I put the razor blade on my bushy cheek and began moving it. Then I received a video call from my sister."Brother, what are you up to?" my sister asked with a questioning look on her face. The background around her seemed so white and grandly lit. I could see massive glass doors near the corner of...

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“The Weird Sisters” by Caroline Eddy

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The Cleaver sisters had acquired more nicknames in their short years than a small city. The Ghouls, the Crazy Cleavers, “those three”, the Weird Sisters. (That was their personal favorite, the Weird Sisters. It was poetic and subtle in the way Miranda and Katy appreciated, but dramatic enough to satisfy Emma.) When your family bounced from Air Force base to Air Force base, state to state to state, you became stran...

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“ MY SISTER” by Yuva Shree

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There is a little village with a beautiful climate. It has a small range of mountain and cuckoos are singing with their sweet voice. Near a small waterfalls a group of boys are playing, one of them named jack who is lying of the rock asked "why this day is so silent?" and Richie his friend replied that silence always ends in danger. At the moment he said, the boys hear a huge sound coming from their village. Birds are scattering here and there. Richie and his friends run towards the village. There Grace who is a year elder sister of Hannah b...

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“Together” by Dominique Sahir-Walls

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Our mom had a way of shooting a person dead with her words. Like an automated gun, she could fire off insults with effortless speed that needed no guided target. Her enemies' emotional being would be so riddled with holes it wouldn't matter if any arteries were hit, the damage alone was the death. But in that way that all weapons had little say over their use, my mother found herself falling into the wrong hands on more than one occasion. Hands that would hold her in all the ways she was built to be controlled. Hands that laid waste to ...

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“Dark Houses” by Sheryl Barbera

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The lights are on inside the house. The young woman sits in the car, in the driveway, hands on the wheel, and her little sister sits beside her. The young woman is looking at her hands, at her cuticles in the light from the house. Her little sister is looking at the house next door.“Do you ever think about dark houses?” her little sister asks.“What?” the young woman says, and then with exasperation sighs, “No, I don’t.”“Like that one,” her little sister points, “I wonder if anyone’s inside.”“I don’t think they’re at home.”“Oh.”&...

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Write a story that focuses on the relationship between siblings.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 57 stories

“Safe” by Allen Roy MacPherson

“Broken hearts” by Grace Earrey

“They Can't Have Him” by Wolfe Montgomery

“A Father's Last Fix” by Raissa Abrahamson

“White Knuckles” by Charlie E.D.

“The Magnet” by Sarah Newland

“My sister and I” by Jerry Lambeth

“Conquering Dragons” by Kenneth Johnson

“SHE WAS THE YOUNGEST OF SIBLINGS” by Azemina Klobodanovic

“Peanut and the Volcano” by Dawn French

“Chirping from its Nest. ” by Suraj Abhishek Gerata

“The Weird Sisters” by Caroline Eddy

“ MY SISTER” by Yuva Shree

“Together” by Dominique Sahir-Walls

“Dark Houses” by Sheryl Barbera

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Write a story in which societal rituals and expectations play a key role.

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Write a story about unrequited love.

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