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Write about someone finally making their own choices.

Posted in Middle School on Oct 26, 2022

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Moira's Day Off

Winner of Contest #95 🏆

“Sandwiches or Thai?” I ask aloud, out of habit. I can imagine Moira’s reply: You’re not on track with your calcium and folic acid targets today. Spinach is advised. Maybe a green curry?But today there’s no level, pleasant voice in my ear. Moira is, as they used to say, “in the shop” today for her annual updates and maintenance. I don’t know why they can’t just upload the stuff into them, but these maintenance days are a fact of life we all deal with. I guess even artificial intelligence is entitled to one vacation day a year.Most peopl...

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Mystery of a Frog

Submitted to Contest #95

Date 24/05/2021 The Mystery of a Frog I was going to my school in the morning as usual, I noticed a frog hopping a little far away from me. It looked very preposterous to me nevertheless I kept on walking towards the school building. I was startled seeing the same frog sitting on my desk in the classroom. His face looked quite similar to one of my friends called Rajvansh. I didn't believe myself so I went to the class teacher and told her about the mystical thing I had been through since morning. She pretty much believed me that the frog’s f...

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A Sky Filled With Freckles

Submitted to Contest #95

Vivienne stands alone in a desert of blood-red sand as she watches the only person that has ever mattered drift even further out of reach.“Weird, huh?” says the face in the hologram. “It’s almost identical to the sand back home, except it’s red because of trace amounts of iron.”Red, Vivienne thinks numbly as she cradles the small metal cube projecting the hologram. Red like your hair, Fae.It’s one of many visual logs she’s uncovered, but how long ago it was recorded, or whether those who’d recorded it have survived, she has no clue. “Ju...

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The Fairy and the sleeping Princess

Submitted to Contest #95

The Fairy was in her cottage. This last sullen attempt at protecting her life has failed, and now she is tasked with accepting it. So, in her nature as a much tamed thing, she does. she was the only collateral left for her own gifts, and it was only right, of course, that she be taken. She knew her place in this, and could only be grateful that the Fairy herself was familiar.  But she should’ve thought better of the woman before her, as she went and asked, “What do you want to do?” She didn’t know how to respond really, she always tri...

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Adulting

Submitted to Contest #95

 The irony (well, apart from the fact that I always used to tell the girls off for overusing or misusing that particular word!) is that so far as many people, both my colleagues and our clients, are concerned, I am the capable one. Oh, not necessarily capable at what you might call individual skills – I’ m not the one who does the trouble shooting when the laptops go wrong, nor the one who has the knack for unblocking the loo and saving us the cost of a plumber. I am just, in some generic sense, the capable one. The sensible one. Sensib...

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'I' am also important

Submitted to Contest #95

Sometimes it's hard to live with people, because most of the hurting comes from the ones you devotedly love. My name is Rilan and this is my becoming I'm about to tell you. Everyday I woke up to the most wonderful family with food on my table and a roof over my head. I was always grateful, I still am. I had amazing friends and a lover I cherished. It's a beautiful plot line so far if you are wondering. So what is this becoming I'm talking about? Most times we do not see the entire picture because what we see in the centre is always so beaut...

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'Final decision '

Submitted to Contest #95

Avi was fed with living a dual life, and he wanted out. The stress was too much, and it was affecting his physical and mental health. It's high time he charted out a new course for his life and made a decision soon, he thought, or it would be too late. Today he would speak to his wife Nima and confess everything. She will be shocked and hurt, but he hoped she would forgive him eventually.The phone  rang, and he snapped out of his reviree, it was his Boss."Avi please come to my cabin with the project report."Avi picked up the f...

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The Gecko

Submitted to Contest #95

Dear diary,Tauktae. Tau’Te.Weird name, right?Well, it may sound absurd, maybe funny even, but it did quite a lot of damage to us. You see, (well, you read) I live on this little island in the Lakshadweep group of islands. I am the daughter of the tribal chief of our island where we've been living for over a century now, which, thanks to the Government of India, acts as a safe haven for us. No one can come here to preserve our culture and our heritage.. Whenever I go to Kavaratti {the capital of Lakshadweep Islands}, I hear India is develop...

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FINDING GEORGE HUGHES A BRIDE

Submitted to Contest #95

1802, London. Business was business, and seduction was seduction, or a nitwitted invitation to lust, whether George Hugh agreed or not.The young women at the pannychis flaunted an ungodly amount of their bosoms in satin ornates. One woman approached him, her plump lips flecked with Carmine, with a tam-O' shanter that reached her brows; though he could almost see her crinoline, and the chintz of her corset, he withdrew, feeling nothing but pity for her. She accosted him with seduction, whispered profanity in his ear and had almost brushed he...

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Decisions decisions

Submitted to Contest #95

Emma got to school. There were two kids running around the entry. “Hey Em.” Her friend Lola said. “Go run with them.” Even though Emma knew it was wrong she still went over and ran with the kids. She ended up getting in trouble for it. Later that day in her history class the class took a test.  “Hey Emma.” Her other friend Samanatha said. “Go peek over Jason’s shoulder and copy his answers.” “Wait you mean cheat?” Emma asked. “Yeah.” Samantha said. Emma knew this was very wrong and she was also very prepared for the test but she s...

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Stepping Into Adulthood

Submitted to Contest #95

Author’s Note Hello again! I thought I’d use this note to say a thank you to those who liked my previous stories and followed me. Could you kindly also comment on them? Thank you. I’m feeling the urge and am very curious to know why they got liked by you all, lol. Anyway, this is also a brief wording into what this story is. It is partially written based on a true-life story, and I hope you can understand whatever words I mixed and matched into this work XD. If you do, could you drop a quick ‘thumbs-up, you did a wonderful job’? Without...

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The World on Fire

Submitted to Contest #95

TW: Graphic violence, gun violence.The two of us stand together in a the living room of an abandoned house. Looking around, I take in our surroundings. It has incredibly ugly wallpaper, lime green with faded cream white starbursts. The fuzzy carpet is just as grotesque, the bright color mixed with dirt and debris from months of disuse. There’s a small wooden table, a bookshelf, two chairs, and a dusty old record player. Shuffling quietly around the room, we shut the blinds, hoping to keep out any intruders or hunters. The room sits in heavy ...

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Out the Door

Submitted to Contest #95

Wincing, Stevie tried hard to look calm and complacent as the heavy files landed on the table, the loud thud echoing through the room. “I’m telling you, this isn’t good enough!” his manager shouted, spittle flying out of his mouth and covering the smooth, polished surface. “I’m sorry sir,” Stevie murmured, glancing down at his tightly clasped hands so their gazes wouldn’t meet. “Stevie!” “Sir?” “Just look at me! Do I look like I’m joking?” Swallowing the lump in his throat, Stevie nervously glanced up. His manager glared back at him, his eye...

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Tiny Death

Shortlisted for Contest #95 ⭐️

TW: death of a child My navy summer suit hit me in all the wrong places. I had bought it for my twenty-fifth birthday celebration years before, and had worn it exactly twice. With the more recent addition of a white blouse, it had become my funeral outfit, and I had last struggled into the jacket and skirt for my parents’ joint service. Now I pulled at my lapels and fidgeted as I waited to sign papers as part of the procedure for transporting the remains of my infant brother from Springfield, Illinois to Indianapolis, Indiana. I was the only...

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Strings

Submitted to Contest #95

I’ve always been his puppet.  TW: kidnapping, suicide His tiny, porcelain doll; his perfect marionette. His strings attach to my every limb, my every joint, tying me to him.  Of course I’m not always bound. Only when he decides that he wants to play, and picks me up by the wooden controller that he designed specifically to fit his hand. He thinks that I don’t notice how he tosses me aside when he’s no longer interested. But I see it. I see it all.  For so long I’ve lived on his shelf. Tucked away and hidden from the world. I d...

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