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“Who I Am” by ℙ𝕖𝕒𝕔𝕙𝕪 𝐻𝑒𝒹𝑔𝑒𝒽𝑜𝑔

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September 14It’s 4 A.M. right now and I am officially awake. Yay. What’s the point in sleeping anyways? Sleeping supposedly helps you learn, though I’m not learning anything in the slightest from anyone, and it won’t happen for a while, if ever. So I am beginning to think, like all people do at 4 A.M. when they can’t sleep. I suddenly thought of a question I don’t dare to answer: who am I?Identity. What is it? Does it define who you are, or simply how you appear? I have struggled to figure this out my entire life, but I, as an extreme introv...

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“The Similarities Between Me and E. coli” by D. Holmes

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The lab instructor claps to get our attention. “If you’ve read your lab manuals, you know that today we’re performing transformations.”***According to biologists, transformation is the act of introducing foreign DNA into bacteria.I am a biologist.At least until I get into med school.***Step 1 in a transformation is to retrieve the competent bacterial cells from the -80oC freezer and thaw them on ice. “Competent” here means that our E. coli cells have been treated with calcium chloride to make them pliant and more likely to uptake foreign DNA...

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“The Most Beautiful Thing” by Harken Void

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“Mom?”She paused by the door. “Yes dear?”The little boy hesitated in the dark.“You want to hear it?”The gentle rustling of bed sheets indicated her son was nodding his head.“Alright,” she said and turned the lights back on. Her four year old was tucked neatly in bed, covered with a blanket full of cars and planes. Only his tiny head and the tips of his fingers protruded out from the safety of the bed covers.As his mother walked back to the bed, the boy sat up and a wide smile spread on his face. He pulled his legs closer so she could sit at ...

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“Struggle of a young girl” by Anshika Srivastava

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Life is full of struggles and our future depends on our way of crossing the struggles. This story is of a girl who decided to cross the struggle and not to give up on it. Even she was so young and inexperienced she decided to learn. CH.1 DepressionAll reporters were taking pictures of her, Suddenly A reporter asked her, “Mam, how was you able to achieve such big post in such an early age?” She replies with a smile “you need to….7 YEARS BACK……………………...

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“The Weatherman” by Lori Colt

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My mom left so many years ago, abandoning Ernie and I, her two sons, to our grief and anger and simply to wonder. We never understood why. Growing older I settled for knowing that I probably never would understand but that never stopped the pain I always felt. My father, a prominent congressman in Texas, dismissed our inquiries so we asked them less and less often. Our mom simply disappeared. She evaporated into thin air and no one knew where she went. “End of story”, our Dad would say. Ernie took it the ...

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“In the moonlight” by Marte Van Der Linden

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There were four of them in the litter. Felix was the biggest. He could stagger about on unsteady legs when he was only two weeks old, and was sticking his nose out of the den just a few days later. The next pups were Thora and Varg, who were inseparable from birth. It was impossible to tell where one ended and the other began in the whirl of grey fur and wagging tails. And then there was Luna, the runt of the litter. She had small ears that were usually folded back against her head and dark fur that made her hard to spot in the thick undergr...

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“In the known. ” by Anja Z

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It has been one week since I know three weeks since I been. I could already imagine feeling the life force grow inside of me. How did this happen? O wait, I remember, back in Michael’s club. How could I have been so stupid?The first day I realised I was so shocked I grabbed a cigarette and went outside and smoked it in less than 2 seconds. Then I remembered what my mom had told me. “Smoking is bad for a baby.” O mom how I wished you were here now, but you can’t be you had to leave for Tony’s sake. My little brother he was four at the time an...

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“Polar Opposites” by Anna Mosqueda

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Darkness is just a feeling, but it's also my personality. I've come to the conclusion that I'm superior over everyone. They don't talk to me because they're intimidated. The people that do talk to me, they want to be like me. I walk through the halls with a subtle smirk on my face that turns heads and summons laughs. Laughs of nervousness of course. Sadly, none of that is true. My reality just barely crosses the line of being forced to sit beside the trashcans in the school cafeteria. My mind and body have adopted the aura of the goth kids a...

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“Half Breed” by Kaysie Davis

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Just breathe, Clementine, there is no reason to panic. Like Grandma used to say, ‘The power to be brave is in you.’ It’s only the first day of senior year. Sure all the other students have always treated you like the dirt on their shoe, but maybe they have finally grown up.I used to look forward to school a lot. But years of being picked on there because I am only half-human have taken a toll. It didn’t help that my mom refused to tell me anything about my father. He could be a troll for all I know. Every time I dared to ask my mom about him...

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“KING COBRA AND HIS PRINCESS” by Skyler Woods

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Mark Gonzalez disliked people, but he loved his wife and daughter. Mark's wife, Victoria, died tragically several months ago, so he only had his teenage daughter, Sarah, in his life. Mark was a space pilot. As a boy, he dreamed about building a home in space away from people and Earth. Mark's dream came true, sort of. He dreamed of space travel, but he dreamed of traveling through space alone. Transporting thousands of vacationers into space on a luxury starship was not Mark's desire.Mark worked as a space pilot for twe...

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“Welcome to Wonderland” by Taylor Robertson

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There they stood. The literal end of the world. The impostors had won.Alice looked up at Conner. She couldn't believe this was it, couldn't believe everything their ancestors had worked for, everyone they had lost was for nothing. Their parents, their siblings, Kelsey. All for nothing.Alice looked back down over the Valley, watched as the line made it's way closer towards the mountains where they stood. They watched the beautiful green land they loved turn into nothing but sand."Wow." Conner breathed. "I thought we would be the heroes to sav...

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“The Wedding.” by Marsha Webb

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Nicola slowly opened her eyes, her head felt fuzzy and the room was spinning. Suddenly she remembered … her stomach knotted and the familiar sick feeling returned. She sat up slowly, she could not go on like this, her eyes were sore and tight from all the crying the night before. She looked around the bedroom, it was a mess, used mascara covered tissues over the floor, empty wine bottles, chocolate wrappers, wet towels and discarded clothing everywhere.Hauling herself to her feet Nicola caught a look at herself in the full-length mirror...

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“Thank you. ” by Elaina Goodnough

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The power of two words still surprises me. How a thing that someone utters can change your life in an instant. I learned this the hardest way, and it broke my life. Later on it fixed it, but that's for a different story.It had been a day in late September. It was dreary and my mind was as cloudy and depressed as the weather looked. I had just sat on my sofa, an old antique that my Aunt had passed on to me. Almost my entire house was put together by gifts and the cause was usually pity. Pity I lived by myself, pity that I was poor, pity that ...

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“You Can't Judge” by Kathleen March

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The figure in the mirror looked pleased, calm, ready to go out. The pants fit well: casual, perfect length, black, more or less traditional in their cut. The top was also casual: cream-colored, tailored, natural cotton. Nothing that would attract attention, yet the fit and quality of the garment could possibly turn a head or two.The cuffs on the nicely-tailored sleeves almost begged for cufflinks, but instead had been given a turn or two so that the sleeves reached only just below the elbows. The arms teasingly peeked out and led t...

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“Rebellion, Repentance and Redemption” by Catherine Stevens

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Blades of light stab her eyelids in an attempt to pry them open, but she refuses to concede and throws her arms across her face. She feels a sweaty body lying against her side. She scoots over to break the contact, the body rolls with her. Disgusted, she climbs out of bed and looks for her clothes, spying her shirt among the trash and empty beer cans, she grabs it. Who is that guy in the bed? ...

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Write a story about transformation.

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✍️ 172 stories

“Who I Am” by ℙ𝕖𝕒𝕔𝕙𝕪 𝐻𝑒𝒹𝑔𝑒𝒽𝑜𝑔

“The Similarities Between Me and E. coli” by D. Holmes

“The Most Beautiful Thing” by Harken Void

“Struggle of a young girl” by Anshika Srivastava

“The Weatherman” by Lori Colt

“In the moonlight” by Marte Van Der Linden

“In the known. ” by Anja Z

“Polar Opposites” by Anna Mosqueda

“Half Breed” by Kaysie Davis

“KING COBRA AND HIS PRINCESS” by Skyler Woods

“Welcome to Wonderland” by Taylor Robertson

“The Wedding.” by Marsha Webb

“Thank you. ” by Elaina Goodnough

“You Can't Judge” by Kathleen March

“Rebellion, Repentance and Redemption” by Catherine Stevens

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Write a story about the relationship between a parent and a child that spans several years.

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