Write about an animal who causes a huge problem.

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“Charlie Brown: Our Rescue to the Rescue” by Keith Jenkins

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Charlie Brown: Our Rescue to the Rescue Charlie Brown – quite possibly the greatest dog of all time. A German shepherd rescue, Charlie quickly became both loyal friend and fearless protector to me and my four younger brothers. But this particular story starts in a garden. When you’re raising seven sons, it’s almost a necessity that you grow at least some of the food you eat. In addition to trading out work for a half a butchered pig, or a third of a slaughtered steer, Dad planted a garden just under an acre in size. We boys had most of the r...

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“Creatures of Habit” by Not Important

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Color, led by a deep blue shade, seeps into the black sky as stars that are already scarce fade completely from sight, and he might have savored it on another morning. While the sun peeks out over the horizon and the city slowly rouses from another frigid night, a young man sits alone in front of a computer. His fingers drum gently atop its keys, eliciting clicks without actually typing to follow the chaotic tempo of a restless leg: every hysterical movement sending tremors through a rickety wrought iron t...

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“Giant Corona : Bats and Snakes” by Ansh Jain

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In this story , I have described how animals have become a huge problem for the whole world like due to bats and snakes , Corona Virus had taken many lives. So , story is as follows :-In China and in the entire world, it was the last day of the year 2019. People in the entire world were celebrating the New year party. In China, people were also enjoying it. Eventually, at 12 am happened a weird and scary event with animals. One day before 31st December 2019, on 30th December 2019, there was happiness and joyness in China and everyone was bus...

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“The Elephant in the Sunroom” by Juliet Clementine

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Cordelia was a lively creature, full of the curiosity and adventure of her parade. They often bathe in the cooling mud and traipse through the tall savanna, but nothing intrigued Cordelia more than the little square hills. Though the other elephants acknowledged their surroundings, with careful attention used for lions, they did little to approach the square hills in the wild. Some hills had red caps and others black. Some were slanted and others flat. Cordelia could not yet leave her mother, as she was young but one day, she was able to mea...

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“An Absence of Wildflowers” by Taylor Pike

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For the first time in her life, Joan rode into her favorite campsite and found no wildflower in sight. She couldn’t remember a time she’d ever looked out the window and didn’t see a Texas Bluebonnet or an Indian Blanket or a Brown-eyed Susan. Yet there was nothing, only a field of green grass and the clear blue lake ruffling in the wind. The campground was nearly deserted. A few loyal campers remained but were quickly packing their things into their RVs, attempting to beat the ...

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“Cat Sullivan” by Romi Sigma-Beta

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We never gave him a proper name. He was “Cat” or “Le Chat”, or some silly variation of one of those names. We all felt free to call him by whatever name his face or his curled-up, sleeping body inspired. Cat lived in the ironing basket in a corner of the dining room, where he could keep an eye on Mother when she was cooking in the kitchen. He liked to visit the kitchen, especially when Mother cooked fish or chicken, and he also kept an eye, and a paw, on the colony of roaches that liked to roam the floors of the kitchen at night. We al...

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“Worst Christmas Ever” by Pete Zenz

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It was Christmas morning at the Merten family household. Mom and Dad (Tom and Kate Merten) were in the kitchen making pancakes for breakfast. The kids - Felix, Brittney, and Louis (aged 8, 5, and 4, respectively) – were crawling around the tree, seeing which packages were whose, comparing how many each had, and trying to guess what treasure might be in each ornately wrapped box. The kids had been begging for weeks for a puppy; three puppies, preferably. Their hopes were high, as Kate had been dropping little suggestive hints that such a gra...

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“The Master of the House” by Sophie Clarke

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“... and then he picked up the slice with the coffee bean still on it and ate it. He was so drunk that he didn’t have a clue; he just kept eating!” All of the tall ones yipped and yelped and doubled over. One even clapped his paws together as he roared and another’s eyes made her face wet. The Master of the House was a people pleaser. My Girl titters along with them, but I know she’s lying; I can feel it. I can feel it in the way her paw tangles in the fur at my scruff. My Girl only cares about pleasing The Master. It’s safer that way. ...

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“Buried” by Thomas McLeod

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This lake was the sort that you brought to live out their childhoods, because didn’t your father do the same? And his father? It was an old lake, with old people and old stories, new coats of paint flaking off to show the colours beneath. Everyone from the nearby town also had a house on the lake. Folks checked in on each other, welcomed their neighbours, passive-aggressively drove out rowdy newcomers. Signs painted with the family name at the foot of gravel driveways, a thriving general store, community-wide events. But under the glassy wat...

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“Zerta” by Cynthia Cronan

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REEDSY.COM 15MAY2020Writing prompt #190Write about an animal who causes a huge problem.Zerta by clcronan 2020There are definitely times when you have to ask yourself, “ Why am I a good person? Is it even worth it?” Like that time I found the dog crate by the side of the road and took it upon myself to play rescue hero. I spotted it and for some reason started to pull over right away. Then the crate wiggled and that sealed the deal. The mighty trumpets played a superhero theme in my head and I was going to “bring goodness to bear where ...

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“Cleo and Fudge” by Brooklyn Madsen

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"Good night Cleo," whispered His mother, Becky. "I will see you in the morning," Cleo looked at her with tired eyes, grasping his white, red ribboned teddy bear, Fudge tightly to him. " Aren't you forgetting something?" He asked in a fatigued voice. He gestured towards Fudge. "Oh, yes, and good night to you too, Fudge," She said understanding what he meant. Cleo smiled at her. "Good, night mom," and with that, he fell to his pillow, and didn't remember the rest of the night. He dreamed that him and Fudge were on an important mission to save ...

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“There’s more than nothing ” by Mia Russell

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Darkness that’s all there is nothing more nothing less it feels as though i’m trapped into my brain and no matter what I just can’t get out. The air tonight was so thick I felt as if it was pushing me back into the cold rough ridges of the brick building at least I think that’s what i’ve been trying to keep my back stable on. I felt sickly as the shiver took over my almost bare body the most sensation I have gotten so far to remind me that my senses are still one to call my own and I haven't gone completely insane from no...

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“WHAT A DAY WITH FRESH” by Godfrey Collins

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woke up feeling drowsy, like i hadnt slept at all, like i slept for an hour which to some extent i had. had slept around ten in the evening and had been woken up by my poor bladder around 1 am, and because of my poor aiming had peed myself and the other half was either on the floor or on the sit. having to clean that mess really woke me up, by the time i was done cleaning was definitely wide awake. tried to find someone to talk to on my phone but non were interesting, non were susanna my future wife, damn i love that girl and just mentioning...

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“Of Freedom and Fishes” by Liana J. Douglas

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PearlSo this is what death feels like. Somehow, I expected it to be… wetter, I suppose. But then, we don’t have much of a choice in how we are to die. It just… happens. Then again, maybe we do have a choice. I could have prevented this if I had known what it would mean for everyone. But perhaps I should stop this melodramatic rambling and get on with the story. His name was Finn. It’s not a terrible name, I guess, if one likes to be named after one’s own appendages. He was the sort of chap that just falls into your life whether you...

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“A Newsworthy Jam” by Jessie Val

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“Detective, you’ve got a call on line two,” Dodge heard as he walked through the station's door to start his day. He had a pretty tough night and woke up in a hangover blur. Now, just barely making it to work on time; he didn’t want to think before he got his morning cup of joe. “Penelope, please just tell whoever it is to call back in an hour.” “I can’t do that sir. It’s Rebecca Rabbit from Carrot & Co. Farms. You know, the big carrot farming industry, on the east side. She has been calling since six this morning about some missing prod...

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Write about an animal who causes a huge problem.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 99 stories

“Charlie Brown: Our Rescue to the Rescue” by Keith Jenkins

“Creatures of Habit” by Not Important

“Giant Corona : Bats and Snakes” by Ansh Jain

“The Elephant in the Sunroom” by Juliet Clementine

“An Absence of Wildflowers” by Taylor Pike

“Cat Sullivan” by Romi Sigma-Beta

“Worst Christmas Ever” by Pete Zenz

“The Master of the House” by Sophie Clarke

“Buried” by Thomas McLeod

“Zerta” by Cynthia Cronan

“Cleo and Fudge” by Brooklyn Madsen

“There’s more than nothing ” by Mia Russell

“WHAT A DAY WITH FRESH” by Godfrey Collins

“Of Freedom and Fishes” by Liana J. Douglas

“A Newsworthy Jam” by Jessie Val

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Write about an animal who changes a person's life (for better or worse).

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