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Write about an animal who causes a huge problem.

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“The Curse of the Swans” by Thistle Arellano

The swan wouldn’t go away. The windows rattle as she slams into it again, letting out an indignant squawk, her white feathers ruffling as she tilted her head to the side, staring at me as if trying to say, Come on! I reach over, fumbling for the remote, throwing the blankets off me. The TV snaps off with a satisfying click as I walk toward the window. The swan is still perched on the fire escape, staring at me. Frost coats her wings and feathers in a glistening coat of silver. I look past her, into the alley illumin...

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“Happy little Hero” by Sucheta Regikumar Nair

Lucy walks into the shelter with her mother, shaking with excitement. While her mother chats to the lady at the counter, Lucy wanders around the shelter, peering at all the lonely dogs in their cages. As she walks down the rows and rows of cages, she notices a small Pomeranian puppy trying to squeeze its face through the bars of the cage. Lucy walks over to it and pats its small, fluffy head. She looks around the whole shelter. “I wish I could keep all of you, but mummy would get mad” she sighs. Lucy skip...

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“The Turtle Who Yearns for the Moon” by Jan Querubin

“Luciana, can you swim?”Luciana looked down at the coursing water lightly reaching for her feet. “Of course, I can. As the daughter of the best fisherman in the island, swimming is almost like breathing.”She glanced back at the children she was playing with but they’re already running towards the other side of the beach. Except for her great friend, Tala, the only daughter of the island Leader, and the only girl her age. “You sure know how to boast, Lulu. But we’re living in a place where swimming is li...

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“taking meemaw down to sunny dunes” by Masha Kurbatova

“Are you sure?”“Yes! I took two different tests from two different brands and they all said the same thing!” Mary says into her iPhone, biting her lip to trap a sob. It’s not fair to cry during a phone call - the other person is forced to silently bear your auditory snot, unable to give much real comfort. Mary sits on the toilet, knees to chest, back curved, a disheartened queen upon her porcelain throne.  “Who’s the dad?” Lily asks from the other side. “Coope...

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“A Loaded Donkey Doesn't Stand Still” by Rose Gaspard

A loaded donkey doesn’t stand still. Those were the first words she thought of when she saw the donkey from her hiding place. Celine was in trouble again. She was always in trouble. She tried to behave like everyone, she really did. For a fews days she would hold her tongue, keep her observations to herself and not challenge anything her Mother told her. Then it would happen, the words would crawl out of her heart, swim though her mind, and break loose from her lips. Gran would get that smile on her face, the one she tried to hid...

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“The Lohi Bher Cougar” by Hiba Nasir

If truth be told, the incident mounted to not even a sliver of what it has been boasted to be. But of course, pointing that out would ruin the much built, mythical hype. It would give mothers one less threat to discipline their children. It would give those children one less incident to recall when they grow up. Not to mention it would reduce the zoo sales considerably.The affair had been quite mundane, really. The zookeeper at the Lohi Bher Wildlife Park had simply forgotten to inspect the wire meshing at the back of th...

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“I Spot Trouble” by Ivy Moonlit

Jenny was a fresh graduate from college, still looking for her full time dream job as a vet. She had a steady part time job as a pet store clerk, which she thought was enough for her to find herself a place to live. While house hunting, she realized she spent way to much on entertainment, and the only place she could really get was a basement. A rich snobbish middle aged couple lived there, and they had a son who was hardly home because he was working in the military. They were strict, and didn’t seem very nice, but they seemed to keep to...

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“Birdbrain” by Kathleen March

“Tell me all you know about starlings.” It was a writing prompt like the ones Natalie Goldberg gives to students, only Goldberg had actually said “Tell me all you know about mashed potatoes.”Mashed potatoes cannot compete with starlings. My story will try to illustrate how that is true. Please bear with me.***The woman knows her story must sound odd at first, maybe even give the impression that she has some issues with, say, her mental st...

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“King of The Everglades” by Andrew Zaino

Nothing can be heard or seen as far and wide as the marsh lands let visible. None of course except the endless chatter of the birds. But all is calm and still. Not a plane nor a boat. Just the sound of nature humming its tune. From the water’s edge there can be seen deer. A female doe. It gracefully bends its neck down to the water almost as if it is completing the image of pure peace if nature were to be photographed. But in an instant faster than the flash of a camera a beast emerges from the water. Several feet higher than a one would...

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“The Interrupting Meow” by Josh C

The cat meowed and pawed at the front door. Richard tried to ignore her. Amidst the commotion in the house it should not have been difficult, but the little brown cat kept at it. She was tenacious when she wanted something. Eventually he could stand it no more and shoved his laptop aside and opened the door. The cat paused for a couple of seconds in the doorway before slinking outside. Richard shook his head and dodged his children running through the house to get back to his laptop. The month had been chaotic enough al...

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“The Mighty Orion Project” by George Georgerfrost@gmail.com

I remember when he was born, a hairy, squirmy chimpanzee infant weighing in at about two pounds whose mother instinctively put him to her chest to chest to suckle.  Orion came into the world at zero three hundred hours on the dot in the Bolton Animal Research Facility in late November. Little did we know then that this tiny infant chimp would be at the center of one of most infamous searches in history.  Watching him with his mother in one of our research cages, no one would have guessed that two years later his name...

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“The Christmas disaster” by Sahana Karthikeyan

The Christmas carols filled my ears as I woke up on Christmas eve. I ran to the window and saw the entire front yard covered with snow. I quickly changed into some warm clothes and ran downstairs for a good breakfast of plum cake, pancake, and various other delicacies that I was fond of. I was greeted by my entire family as it was my birthday. I just always couldn't believe that my birthday was on Christmas Eve, that was the best time of the year. I ate as quickly as possible, enjoying each and every moment of this day's start. After havi...

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“Super Rat” by Joseph Ahart

Nobel Peace Prize winners Dr. Holloway and Dr. Miller were surprised to see an empty tank when they walked into the experimentation lab. What had once been a maze inside of it was now a haphazard pile of little walls and smeared cheese. "Dr. Miller?""Yes, Dr. Holloway?"Holloway cleared her throat. "You, um, didn't let the super-rat go, did you?""No, I did not." He took a deep breath, as prescribed by his therapist. "Did you?""Nope." Holloway wat...

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“Tails from Ibbetson St.” by E. Christian

When I was 22 years old and a new college graduate, broke and working a mindless job while I tried to figure out what it was that I was going to do with the rest of my life, I lived with three roommates in a falling-down triple-decker apartment building at the top of a hill and had adventures.  We moved in the week after college graduation and found that the previous tenants, all graduating law students, had left most of their furniture behind. We were pleasantly surprised; after four years of campus living, no...

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“Goose” by Mike Ox

Gooses are fucking stupid cunts who deserve to die. They are arrogant as fuck, because they can swim, fly, and walk and they chase after me when I'm minding my own god damned business. Like, seriously? I don't have a car and I'm having to walk to campus when it's snowing like fucking Canada (btw fuck Canada, pussy ass polite cunts!); do I deserve this too? I've often fantasized about snapping their cunty little necks but I've managed to hold my temper. Fuck this competition, I just needed to vent. Seriously, a minimum wo...

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