"Just say it," you silently reminded yourself. You knew you'd regret it if you didn't.

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“Just say it!” by Madisson James

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‘Just say it, you silently reminded yourself. You knew you’d regret it if you didn’t. It made you angry but so what? There wasn’t anyone who cared and you didn’t have the privilege to be upset anyway. You looked her in the face and tried to grimace a smile. It was your thousandth false smile and you were getting better at it. “You’ll have to sleep with the kids in the attic. I have guests tonight.” Babsey said not in the least concerned with my response. ‘Just say it…” I muttered under my breathe. But Babsey was already half way down the cor...

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“High School Darling” by Nahyan Mottalib

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Bored out of your gourd, just fiddling the only pen you carry, as you are forced to sit through a six-hour-long business lecture in high school. Resting your head on the table and dozing on and off into slumber, you try hard to keep myself awake. Your eyes, desperate to keep themselves from shutting down, start to explore the classroom you are held captive in. The bright charts that add color to the classroom, a dozen or so empty seats surrounding you, the polished, white tables reflecting every spectrum of light, and the professor’s thick, ...

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“Never Enough” by Kendall Blankenburg

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You are dragged from your sleep when you hear your alarm blasting Eye of the Tiger at you. Yanking your covers off, you stumble to the bathroom, where you keep your alarm to make sure you don’t fall back asleep. You understand you are weak and would hit snooze for another hour if you kept your phone right next to you. After you turn your alarm off, you start your day. You strip off your pajamas and step on the scale you keep in your bathroom. 130 lbs You feel a wave of despair. You were 129.5 lbs yesterday morning. Weak. Lazy....

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“Me Love!” by Payal !!

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As I sat on the dining table early in the morning revising for the Geography test we had today and having my breakfast, at the same time. I felt really nervous, what if it was an oral test instead of a written test, I don't think I would be able to answer. However, I had to overcome all of these feelings since it was eight and I had to leave for school right now, not to mention that I was surely going to be late. I arrived at school exactly at eight-fifteen, just on time.. like always. When I entered the classroom I saw that all of my peers ...

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“The Time Travelers” by Otareri Samuel

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1.“Just say it,” you told yourself. Somehow you knew you’d regret it if you didn’t. So as the Greyhound’s engines started and rolled away towards downtown, you crossed the street, hitched your backpack which was heavy with copies of your canvasses carefully tied with a ribbon, stuck between your books. Ryan was sitting on the park bench with his back to you. Birch trees provided shade, birds sang in the boughs, clouds drifted above and the sun’s not as hot as the weatherman said last night on TV. Once again, the weatherman was wrong.You...

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“You'll Regret It. ” by Kyle Courteau

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“Jane, are you okay?” His voice pulls your focused attention away from the pavement. Daniel’s a few feet away and you can see the concern illustrated in his furrowed brows. His soft blue eyes grow more intense as he steps closer and takes your hands within his own. You can hear your heartbeat begin to spike. Heat rushes through your cheeks as the veins in your neck begin to throb. Deciding that it’s too much, you look back down. He’s dressed in an old pair of denim jeans and a new brown leather jacket. An image flashes through you ...

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“Diary of a teenager.” by Bikky Onueze

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It was the middle day of February, The morning sun was no where to be found. It seemed to have been devoured by the clouds. We were all preparing for our middle term test. Though in my state, book was the last thing in my agenda. Everything looked so gloomy or maybe it was just me. But the skies were moody, looked like they were going to shed a large amount of tears. I woke up a bit late, not surprising cause I barely slept all through the night alongside the fact that I wasn't interested in anything, For the first time in my life I felt the...

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“My MBTI Says I’m an INFP and It Didn’t Lie ” by Dee Lee

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The familiar chirp of mayas urged you to stir from where you’re comfortably bundled up in bed. You’re still cuddling your trusty, fluffed up pillow and when you turned around to look at the window, sunrays are already filtering through your blinds.“You have class today.” your mom supplied when your brain began to panic at the sight of your blinds open.You exhaled a sigh of relief, ran both of your hands down your face before you looked at her again. “Mom, why are you in my room?” She simply shrugged, grabbing a book ...

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“It Should Have Been Said” by Valerie Preston

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It should have been said I’m not sure anyone will completely understand why you did what you did. Many people probably think you quite awful but you made a mistake and sadly paid for it for the rest of your life, thus far. You should have just said it …..’I have a boyfriend’. You wouldn’t be a forty something spinster now. You probably now realise that what you had was enough. Ok then I’ll go back to the beginning of the story. It must be nearly twenty years since that day. It was the day and the following weeks, that changed your life. It w...

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“Behind The Bars Of Memory” by Cam K

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You smear sweat off your forehead as you slowly start to regain consciousness, first realizing the sudden displeasing stiffness of your bed, then the dark stone wall, one that looks nothing like your room with a plushy bed and actual furniture that you got back in…you can’t remember. People, especially you forget simple things all the time and you brush it off, more concerned about what you were doing in this musky room. “An accident maybe?”, you think, staring at the itchy fabric that barely covers the flimsy mattress you slept on. Thoug...

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“Dream Girl's True Identity ” by Vishakha Mukherjee

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If secrets were threads, your mother had a collection of crimson turtle-necked sweaters. Trophy wife to the neighbors, considerate saint in church, and your father’s best friend- titles she rigorously upheld. But you could always sense that none of them suited her. You could always tell that something, beneath the peach lip-stick, and porcelain smiles, there was just… something. It clawed at her core, poking its impish head out to him when she thought no one was looking. At times it possessed her, freezing you dead in your tracks, like a r...

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“Long-awaited Words” by Asg Gun

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At his bedside, looking down at the cadaverous bulk, everything that he once put you through, starts flowing like a river of random scenes. How would they say it? Your life flashes before your eyes like a film strip, right? With only one slight difference, though. It was nowhere near being a movie but indeed was too real. All those nightmares, all those dark times, all those scenes that you were subjected to… And all that pain that came with and followed even after many years did not help it all. You are shaking your head to come back to the...

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“Should of say it” by Jessyka Roy

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"Just say it," you silently reminded yourself. You knew you'd regret it if you didn't. On the other hand, would you really? This was your constant train of taught, back and forth, between those two. Your head keep telling you to stay proud and endure. Meanwhile your body is telling you it had enough, to quit the game. And once again, when your body is about to win, your mind brings back the same memory. Many, of so many years ago. The day you decide to take this path. It was a rainy day, like some many up here, you were exhausted by your wor...

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“Second Chances” by Eesha Irfan

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Life has a really round-about way of teaching you things you never thought you needed. You made plenty of mistakes in the past and when you realized it, you said you’ll do things differently if given another chance, while secretly hoping that the moment never comes because just the thought of it makes your heart thud loudly in your chest with fear. Uncertainty has always been a struggle for you, it drives you into deep, anxious states and you try to avoid it at all costs. That’s how you spent most of your life; in fear of uncertainty, so muc...

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“Three More” by Dom Goodwin

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The sound of a metal water bottle hitting the ground nearly gives you a heart attack. The girl in front of you apologizes to the teacher and the student currently presenting. You suddenly become very aware of the coffee cup on your table. Just to be safe, you down the rest of it and possibly prevent a disastrous mess. You are okay. You will make it through this. You check the clock, 36 more minutes. There are three students ahead of you and if they each spend at least 12 minutes on their presentation, you’ll be free until Monday. You...

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"Just say it," you silently reminded yourself. You knew you'd regret it if you didn't.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 217 stories

“Just say it!” by Madisson James

“High School Darling” by Nahyan Mottalib

“Never Enough” by Kendall Blankenburg

“Me Love!” by Payal !!

“The Time Travelers” by Otareri Samuel

“You'll Regret It. ” by Kyle Courteau

“Diary of a teenager.” by Bikky Onueze

“My MBTI Says I’m an INFP and It Didn’t Lie ” by Dee Lee

“It Should Have Been Said” by Valerie Preston

“Behind The Bars Of Memory” by Cam K

“Dream Girl's True Identity ” by Vishakha Mukherjee

“Long-awaited Words” by Asg Gun

“Should of say it” by Jessyka Roy

“Second Chances” by Eesha Irfan

“Three More” by Dom Goodwin

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As you check your mail, you notice a letter that makes you stop in your tracks.

You looked out the window and, not for the first time, thought about how wrong the weather forecast had been.

Suitcase in hand, you head to the station.

You check the time. Perfect. As intended, you've arrived fashionably late.

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