Write about two characters’ different perspectives of the same past event.

Posted in Middle School on Oct 26, 2022

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“The Night In Question” by Lin Darroe

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I often think about that infamous night our mother left. Oh trust me, I don’t recall this unbearable time every day, But that particular rainy night is something etched in my memory forever. Not a good thing. And here’s the ironic thing that I think about it. My father had a whole different perspective of what happened that fateful night. I will try and tell the story from my viewpoint as close as possible. It was a usual Friday night, and it was raining. My mom was a stay-at-home Mom, and Dad was an ...

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“In Memory of Rebecca Williams ” by Laveeza Ali

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Trigger warning: murder.Rebecca: Resonating sirens blared as flashing lights blinded me. The yells of people carrying someone on a stretcher started sounding muffled. Air did not seem to be going through my nose. Everything and everybody seemed blurred and going rapidly fast."Nancy!" I yelled to my horrified sister. "What's happening?" I clutched her arm."I don't know," she replied, shaking her head."Dad!" I trembled, running towards him. Anger, sadness, and confusion rose upon me. Why isn't he doing anything? Where is mom? Why is nobody te...

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“Aunt Rose Remembers” by D.a. Marullo

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When I think of the day my aunt confronted her sister, I have very mixed emotions.There was always a definite feeling of animosity between them, yet there was a sense that each protected each other in a strange familiar way. My theory was proved the day Aunt Rose came for a visit and old pent up feelings came to the surface, in a showdown between sisters, I’d like to call,The Day the Bullshit Ended.It was colder than usual in the South. Frost had formed and many crops were fro...

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“Just a Cemetery of Broken thoughts” by Britt Garman

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He couldn’t actually be here, not today, not after all this time. Yet, the image remained no matter how many times she attempted to blink him away. He wore a light gray button-up, a sharp contrast to her mental image of him in the black hoodies and tees that constituted the extent of his style range back then. She’d tried to get him to move into lighter colors, to compliment his skin tone, but he was set on the black. A reminder that there’s not one true black. There’s never one true anything. She knew the truth, that this was somethi...

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“Reunion” by JL Henrikson

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Mary with the green eyes and reddish hair and the wonderful clothes who all the boys in my middle school had a crush on sent me a message that she wanted to meet up. We hadn't seen each other much since we broke up when we were 13, she left a note in my locker saying that she felt like she loved me too much and that she was too young to get tied down, and how could I argue with that? She was doing the right thing, the adult thing. But that week we were together was the most blissful time of my awkward and tortured youth that I had spent, and...

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“Eddie” by Rosey Dickson

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Eddie sneezed. Dust motes flew around his head, refusing to settle. Sweat trickled under his arms, dampening his shirt. Unable to stand up straight, he struggled out of his jacket and threw it across the manhole cover beside him. He pulled another box, marked in Texta with ‘bedroom,’ across the wooden beams. Inside, his mother’s China dogs nestled in tissue paper. The paper rustled as brown and white and black spaniels, some with bows painted on their heads, appeared. His father had hated them. Balancing one on his palm, he ble...

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Write about two characters’ different perspectives of the same past event.

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✍️ 36 stories

“The Night In Question” by Lin Darroe

“In Memory of Rebecca Williams ” by Laveeza Ali

“Aunt Rose Remembers” by D.a. Marullo

“Just a Cemetery of Broken thoughts” by Britt Garman

“Reunion” by JL Henrikson

“Eddie” by Rosey Dickson

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