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Write a story based on the song title: "To Love Somebody"

Posted in Nonfiction on Oct 26, 2022

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“Canis Familiaris” by Abby Lyon

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        I knew from the very first moment I saw you - you had to be mine. I called out to you, and you turned and noticed me. That room was so cold and filled with concrete and metal. I couldn’t be the loudest, though I tried. Instead, I wiggled as hard as I could up against the chain link. As soon as I heard your voice, my tail wagged. I couldn’t stop it. That’s when I picked you. I knew first and then you knew. You pointed at me and said, “Him, he’s the one. That’s my dog.”    &nb...

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“Pearl” by Mike Dettmers

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Looking into your eyes, I still see a scared and lonely child trapped inside the quicksand of an adult, an icon of an age. And I am the double-edged sword that brought about your success and your destruction. I saw you the other day on a television documentary. It was the fiftieth anniversary of Woodstock, and the film maker had clip after clip of the key performers, names that in today’s light are pillars of entertainment but at the time were not all household names. I was listening with one ear when I heard you, and there yo...

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“The Cardinal” by Nora Sheppard

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The CardinalBy Nora SheppardKay sat watching the Destination board at Union Station. She rarely traveled by train, so she was excited to do so on this trip. She had visited her son, Ben, in Washington, D.C. and was taking a side trip to visit her Aunt Nettie in Newark. Nettie was the only older relative left in the family, following the death of Kay's mother the prior winter. It had been years since Kay visited Nettie; she didn't make it to the area often. She spent most of her time in Atlanta with her husband, Sean;...

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“LAST TRIP TO WOODSTOCK” by Tony Hall

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Last trip to Woodstock by Tony Hall Even though he wore an over-sized bamboo hat to cover his bald head for shade, the old man couldn't escape the sweltering heat of the marsh. Nor the clouds of mosquitoes. They constantly swarmed around him, eating him alive. The old man stooped painfully, using a small scythe to cut the stocks from the many rice plants surrounding the soggy field. He placed them by the handful into a large burlap bag hanging heavily from his shoulder. He was vaguely aware of fellow workers beside him performing the sa...

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“Unspoken” by Natalia Wojcik-Smith

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Adam never really understood love the way many people seemed to. He thought he'd understood, a long time ago, while living in that cozy cabin with a man who'd promised him the stars. That was a while ago. The same person still passed through his thoughts, every now and then, a ghost wandering through his mind. Before Adam knew him, he was completely sure he didn't know. Some of his friends had said it. But they were just affectionate, and they always said it with that goofy smile.Despite being more committment-averse than anyone else Adam kn...

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“Me or them ” by Levi Hampton

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The nightmare was the kind that seemed so real, so vivid, for a while after I woke up, I believed it was true. I really thought it had happened. The worst kind, I have been able to adjust, and realize, usually during the night mare, that, a dream was all it was, and sorry if pull myself out of it, or pull myself awake. That's what it feels like anyway. We were in my dad's old truck. A 94 plum purple Ford ranger, the cab with the fold down jump seats in the back, and bench seat up front. Not exactly an off road truck, per se, but the stock si...

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“To Love Somebody by Neil J Milliner” by Neil Milliner

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To Love Somebodyby Neil J MillinerWe all have a need to love somebody it seems.All of us. Every nation and every culture on this little blue dot we call Earth love in one way or another.This could be in the form of love for a child, a love for the tribe, a love for our family. To love somebody is a need just like any of the other basic needs we humans have: food, water, shelter, etc.Did you know, for instance, that newborn babies can die without human touch? This is a proven scientific fact. To love and to be loved is a basic human necessity...

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“Somebody to Love” by Ben Kauffman

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I was 7 when my brother was 21. When I was younger everything revolved around Matt. Anything he told me was truth, and I never doubted what he said. Growing up my brother filled in the spots of a Mom and Dad. In Matt’s third year of college Mom and Dad died in a car accident. Everything changed in that year. Matt and I ended up moving in with Grandma Lucy, all doing are best to get used to her tight fit apartment. As older brother and roleplay parent, Matt did the grocery shopping And the back to scho...

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“Breadcrumbs ” by Holly Hollenbeck

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Breadcrumbs … by holly hollenbeckMy eyes are always scanning for him. Will he come in tonight? I know that when he comes over to speak to me, I will no longer feel the suffocation of the hot and crowed bar. I will be able to breathe again. And in my pathetic drink-clouded mind, I think it is no good to breathe at all when I only wish to breathe for him. My too full drink drips down my hand as I sip from the rim. I catch his eye and his sweet smile sears my skin. It is a smile o...

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“To Love Somebody in Waves” by Carly Goulart

Submitted to Contest #4

I remember it hurt. Looking at him hurt. Being with him hurt. Hearing his name hurt. Passing by his house hurt. Even seeing the car he drives everywhere on the road hurt. I wonder to myself "How can a boy I like this much make me feel so hurt?" or "Why do I feel this way about him if he hurts me so much?". My brain immediately comes up with a million different excuses to these terrifying questions. I think this is just how he is. He will change. I will change him. But then I remember I can't change him because this is really how he is. I thi...

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“Waiting for love ” by Katrin Jahn

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To love somebody, that's a curious thing. We are taught to believe we love our family, the parents, the siblings, the kids. We are taught to believe we love our friends. Not as we are supposed to love our family of course, but a close second.We are taught to believe there is this one big true love. A love like the one we see in the movies, read about in books, dream of and expect to find one day. If we are just pretty enough, and skinny, enough, and willing enough. Willing to do whatever it takes to be worthy of such a love.Up to a few month...

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“The Bed Where She Sleeps” by Mike Cohen

Submitted to Contest #4

She lay on her side, the crumpled top sheet and a coverlet tucked against her cheek. Eyes closed, knees pressed together, she breathes gently—silently. I watch, hoping I’m in her dream. My back against the headboard, I touch her hair, lift it and feel it flow through my fingers to fan out on the pillow. I lean closer to see her face. She enchants me in the bed where she sleeps. Drawn to the back of her neck, I gaze at the skin just below her ear. Fragrance lingers from our lovemaking, a mixture of light perfume and sweat. I need to lick the ...

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“Purple and Million Greys” by Valerie Wang

Submitted to Contest #4

“Purple,” my mother had repli­­ed when I asked her the color of my new dress. I giggled and twirled around the house, catching my reflection in every mirror and trying to imagine what the color purple could possibly look like. At the young age of five, my world existed only in shades of blacks, whites and greys. “One day you’ll see,” she promised me, repeating the same thing everyone had been telling me for years, “the day you meet your soul mate, your world will explode into a rainbow of colors and it’ll be the most amazing, overwhelming fe...

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“An Incidental Merger” by James Freeze

Submitted to Contest #4

                 [An Incidental Merger]Adam and Ashley were in love, real love, not an overnight affair. They were young, with unleashed passion and ready to experience the joy poets sing about. Fear rippled through them again and again, almost extinguishing their desire to experience that intoxicating feeling only the bodily appetite can deliver. Ashley is thrilled as her body is awakened, but panic grips her at the same time. What will ...

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“To Love Somebody” by Iyke Michael

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A story Titled: To Love SomebodyBy: Iyke Michael“Ican do this,” he exhales, “yes, I can do this, one, two, three…,” Jared saidand stood up from the wheelchair. With pains all over his joints, he wasdetermined to take his first step after the fatal accident that put him in awheelchair for two years. His two legs could not carry his body, he keptbreathing fasts while fastening his hands on the wall. The pain kept him fromstanding straight, as he tried to suppress the pain, his eyes fell on thepicture frame that hung on the wall. He tried to re...

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