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Write about someone finally making their own choices.

Posted in Middle School on Oct 26, 2022

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“Forbidden love” by Spescozia Juma

Submitted to Contest #95

Dad was extremely anxious about letting me go to another city i'd never left home alone ever since I was a toddler but this time he had no choice but to let me go since I was a young adult and I was joining college to pursue my course in business management. We lived in Nairobi a six hours drive to Kisumu the place where I was going to undertake my studies. Leaving home was more difficult than I thought but still I left so as to pursue my studies. I was unable to acculimatise to the surrounding of college but with the help of my cousin Sulli...

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“The Curse of Happily Ever After” by Ash W

Submitted to Contest #95

People don’t talk about the real side of every fairy tale. They don’t talk about how there is no gold at the end of the rainbow. How there is no Prince Charming. How the shoe fits more than one. That there is no happy ever after or that there never was one.   They don’t want to talk about the way that the story really ended. They don’t tell the stories of the people who didn’t have such a happy ending. The stories of the people who never even got close.  But wh...

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“Subject: We need to sit down and talk” by Joanna Jameson

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from: marias_haven@heaven.comto: rheyannesars5774322@gggmail.coSubject: We need to sit down and talkDear Anne,I see it in your eyes as you bring your lips to the bedside coffee mug, to taste the dregs inside. The slight tremor in your fingers, the half-smile as you realize you have woken up to another day in your life. The panic with which you view your white blanket. The deep-seated melancholy as you toast the bread, spreading the butter, as you think of the fuss you used to create over marmalade. How you long for your friends yet fear thei...

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“My Truth” by PJ Aitken

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Mental. Health.  Mental? Health!  YAY MENTAL HEALTH! WOO HOO!  I’ve never liked the term “Mental health”. It makes you sound like you’re a bit bonkers and that’s not what I’m looking for in the playground. I guess they find mindfulness too much of a mouthful. It seems to be the buzzword of the moment in the same way it used to be the “Floss” or the “Macarena”. Soon enough people will move onto the next craze whilst my pain and anxiety will remain and I will cope with it as best I can.  Celebrities are everywhere...

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“Simulated Sympathy” by Olivia Writes

Submitted to Contest #95

My head is aching as the blazing sun beats heavily on me. I’m sweating buckets and my legs are strained. Standing out here in the sun is one of the many sacrifices my brother and I must overcome in order to fulfil our duty. But, what is our duty exactly? No one told us before we left, so maybe I should think about what would make Master happy. Either that or we wait for him, I don't really know. I glance over at Michael and he’s seated on the pavement, I wonder what made him do that. I’ll just wait for Master, because I can't possibly think ...

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“Awaited Death” by Wild Rose

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She dropped down on her bed, waiting…. Waiting for something, but what? Her whole body somehow shook with terror, yet a feeling of relief. She looked sad and disheartened, but still had a calm light in her eye that showed gumption and determination. She looked around the lonely bedroom. Harry was not there, still in the hospital. She had the time to think for herself. She had time to make herself steady, to assure herself. The bedroom, suddenly, looked shabby to her. The walls were a dull yellow with paintings forcefully crammed on it which ...

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“This Maddest Moment” by Kathleen March

Submitted to Contest #95

I still remember the day when I decided to decide for myself. It was a Monday, the start of the week. The sun was shining and the sky was an intense blue. However, I can’t recall if it was summer or winter, or somewhere in between. All I know is that Monday and the sun moved me to take charge of my life. I was ready to listen to my ‘secret desires’, none of which is earthshaking, as you will see. They weren’t all secret, but all of them were things I had never proclaimed to want to do. Maybe the sun just looked me in the eye and said, “I dar...

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“Photographs” by Gayatri Ramanezhuth

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PHOTOGRAPHS. Veer walked in to find the house in complete darkness. “Natasha? Honey I’m home”. Dead silence. Veer sighed. This was not unusual behavior. He and Natasha had been living together for almost three years now. They had met in college and he had immediately fallen for her. Even though she was the reserved kid in class, only talking with her gang, he fell for her quietness and the grace with which she carried herself. Although she never talked to him outside of college, she would often help him and his friends with their studie...

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“Saunmour Manor” by Elaine Price

Submitted to Contest #95

Francis Males rose from his study at eight o’clock every evening to eat dinner with his two daughters, the eldest called Celia, and the other Victoria. And every evening, Celia and Victoria cooked the dinner and set out the silverware before their fathers arrival.  Francis was a truly wealthy man. He came from an important family from which he inherited a very large estate called the Saunmour Manor, and more importantly a substantial sum of money. He was good looking, too, at least in his youth. He had fair colored hair and green eyes ...

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“The Silkworm Bride” by Jay Simz

Submitted to Contest #95

On the day of Tuma's 8th birthday, his father opens his small hands and in them places a little silkworm with a hearty smile as he says "This will be your bride." "This will be my bride?""Yes Tuma, so treat her well for she will be your bride." He looked down as his heart dropped and splashed into his gut. This niggling, wriggling thing so small was meant to be his lover? This thing that crept within his palm deep green like unripe mangos? This furry thing in many years would be his children's mother? He felt his tum...

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“Our Song” by Ashley Hassan

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How did that song go again? Oh yea... "Right from the start you were a thief, you stole my heart, and I ? Your willing victim." They say that it takes certain experiences in life for you to feel the music that you listen to. Unfortunately I had enough experiences to relate to every old, new, and classical era love song. "I'm sorry I don't understand where all this is coming from? I thought that we were fine.." Yea, guys never really understand. They never truly understand what it means to put your all in and be destroyed. There was a disti...

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“Refugee” by Julia Abelsohn

Submitted to Contest #95

No matter how many times I poured over the details of our fifteen-year marriage I couldn’t detect the first signs of decay. It had been a gradual fraying away at the edges of a tapestry that we had stitched together, piece by piece, child by child, mortgage by mortgage. Now, it’s those very same pieces that are being dismantled, categorized and evaluated. How to put a value on family? Eventually, it’s all about money and power – who gets the Mercedes and who decides whether or not the kids are going to go to French immersion?  There i...

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“The Things We Cannot Say” by Alexa Mae Pecora

Submitted to Contest #95

“You’ll go to Fleur’s Dress Shop and purchase a lavish rogue pink gown. When they ask for a name, tell them it’s for Miss Holmes.”  I’m not allowed to choose. This is one of the things the government has taken from me; my right to decide and take on responsibilities that I see fit. The president sent Miss Holmes to me on my sixteenth birthday. As if I don’t have a brain, or my own thoughts for that matter, Miss Holmes has taken away my right to speak in public, decide for myself, and take on challenges or responsibilities.  “Yes,...

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“A Child Till Now” by Godwin Efu

Submitted to Contest #95

Silly GraceLife had been good to him so far. His father was a wealthy politician and his mother, an entrepreneur. Massi was the last child of a family of three siblings, two of which were women and married. Till the age of twenty-nine, Massi had had no interest in women. Not that he was a misogynist. There never was any real reason for him to enter a relationship. At least, his smart mother assured him when the time came, he would know.As stated, Massi did not hate women. But this was with the exception of his sister in-law. She was a nosy g...

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“New Beginnings” by Vince Henry

Submitted to Contest #95

Chapter 1A gentle breeze blew past. Finn pulled his coat closer to his thin frame. Beside him, Larry stood still, cradling an urn in his hands. It had been handmade by a local potter and had an Indian Gate mural etched on its body. That was all they had left of their comrades. The battle ground had been so decimated there hadn't been any bodies or mementoes of others to collect.“Cold?” He asked, glancing in the boy’s direction.“Na, I’m good.” He replied. His eyes fell on the urn. “So, are you gonna do it?”“Not yet," Larry said.He nodded, tur...

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