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Write a story around the theme: Be careful what you wish for.

Posted in Novel on Oct 26, 2022

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Some Nights You Wish you had Stayed in Bed…

Submitted to Contest #16

   Last night I dreamt that Daphne Du Maurier was here.   Well, actually, that’s the way I phrased it afterwards for Peter – who had slept all through – and for most people. But to you, I can tell the truth: I know that it was no dream. She really was here! There was this flowery fragrance clinging to her, that was still floating around in the morning – a sure enough olfactory proof.    I am a young and inexperienced writer. I am fascinated to think that once upon a time, there was a big bang and ...

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To Sell Her Soul

Submitted to Contest #16

She spent the entirety of her year gazing at him from her little rocky cove. The handsome sailor used her waters to catch fish each day from sunrise to sundown. Unless the weather rendered it unsafe, he was there first thing in the morning on his dingy paint-chipped boat. She’d always considered herself to be as happy as any mermaid could be. Freely she swam in the azure waters of the sea, her home, her whole world. She soon found herself thinking that perhaps she could expand her horizons, now that she was beginning to feel something entire...

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Willy Wish

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It seemed logical. I, Willy, had a wish, I love my dog, and I wished my dog, Fifo, could speak, so I could understand what he (Fifo) was trying to tell me.  I spend all day at work as an executive assistant (a fancy name for a secretary), and go home on my lunch break to walk Fifo, feed Fifo, eat my lunch, and go back to work. But, there are a lot of times I’m not quite sure what Fifo is saying. For example, one time I was eating my dinner and Fifo was begging at the table and I scolded him. Then, Fifo went to the do...

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Incessant

Submitted to Contest #16

Joseph Newmaker inched the door of his home closed for the last time — the divorce had been brutal. Ostracized not only by his friends and colleagues but by his ten-year-old son. He padded out of town with his son’s school bag slung over his shoulder and stuffed with necessities. He ambled along the shoulder of a stretch of desert highway in a soiled business suit and a pair of jogging sneakers until a middle-aged man in an old pickup truck pulled over beside him. “Where to?” the man said with trepidation in his tone.“Someplace where th...

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Wishes Have Consequences

Submitted to Contest #16

It was the last week in May. The spring carnival was in town, and Darren and his friends, Ty and Chris, were going. They were excited. The town’s spring carnival was one of the most fun events of the year, and it happened right before school let out for the summer. There would be food, games, prizes, good music, and fun rides. Soon, Darren was in the car with his mom and dad, and on the way to pick up his friends. Darren and his friends were the undersized, over-intelligent, lower classmen version of the “nerd p...

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Wish your Life Away

Submitted to Contest #16

The dim light covered the tables of the coffee shop as the breeze carries the sweet smell of coffee beans throughout the shop. I sat there enjoying my coffee, and writing my essay for English class. A man started walking towards me, a tall, dark figure got closer and closer to me. He finally got to me, and started talking. He read my mind, I didn’t have to open my mouth to communicate.     “Hello Melanie.” The tall figure said.    “How did you know my name?” I replied, confused.    “I know ev...

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On the Darkest Night

Submitted to Contest #16

"So will you grant my wish?"Even the way she sat was arrogant. Her back straight, leg elegantly resting on the other, and even though she was shorter than him, the way she held her chin made it seem as though she were looking down at him. He bit back a sneer, instead giving her his best version of the English smile, lips curved upwards, and just a hint of teeth."Was it you who summoned me?" The dark haired boy inclined his head the side, feigning curiosity. Of course it was her who had summoned him, that much was clear. He had heard much abo...

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The Danger With Wishes: They Often Come True

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Why do you wish that things would happen? What would you do if your wish came true? A group of girls had a slumber party and they were six middle school girls who always looked for the next best thing. They got together after school one day to plan this awesome slumber party. Their parents would be out of town but knew about the slumber party. The girls names were: Jazmine, Erica, Alexis, Carmen, Kelly, and April. All of them had been friends since kindergarten and their parents trusted them. None of the girls have a second thought to what w...

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Being Me

Submitted to Contest #16

Wake up in the morning, take a shower and brush my teeth. Feed the cats then eat my breakfast, then go online and hope my friend is there. He been gone for a couple of days, and I was worried. Not to mention lonely.Sure, I am married but he is busy with his work most the time. I sigh and start drawing to pass the time. I look at my drawings and smile, they always have a way of making me feel good. Then I try to work on one of my stories, but find I don't have much muse for it. Sometimes I wish I had more friends, and people I could hang out ...

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WISH

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Three friends find a magic lamp and cannot help but think of the story about Aladdin. One going as far as to rub it and jokingly state “Oh Jeni of the lamp, grant us wishes.” their sides aching in lighter. No sooner than the friend had, a Jeni appeared with all of them picking their jaws up from the ground. The remaining two left presuming this had to have been planned. Resembling nothing like the Jeni from Aladdin. ‘You ask for three wishes?’ the voice sounding as if it came from everywhere but nowhere at the same time, each noddi...

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THE INHERITANCE

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THE INHERITANCEThe thorny bushes had grown so thick it was almost impossible to make out the old footpath. John Christian carefully pushed the branches aside as he ambled down the quarter-mile into the woods where his family home stood. Memories came closer with each muddy step he took. He recalled how the doctor and the sheriff had been unable to get their autos down the path because, even way back then, it was only three or four feet wide. He remembered how they’d had to park alongside the main road and make this same trek on foot. He was ...

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What this table holds....

Submitted to Contest #16

“Well… as delightful as this has been…” Garis put his hands on the table and pushed himself up, “I have homework to do…” The table gave more than it should and answered back with a groan. The corners of Lynn’s mouth pulled upward, reluctantly; her eyes cast down at Garis’s hands, “I remember when you were so little… your chubby little hands on this table… and now you give it all it can handle…”“Oh no, mom’s crying again…” Grace was laughing at her mom without making fun of her. As much as Grace didn’t want to admit it, she was a lo...

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Ekeko

Submitted to Contest #16

“Don’t step there!” Meg said. “C’mon, Meg,” Jess said. When they started the dig, Jess didn’t mind Meg’s attention to detail. But now, three weeks in, Meg’s meticulousness was working Jess’s nerves.  “We have to do this right,” Meg said.  Jess paused and chose her words wisely. “Ok,” she said. Sometimes Meg had a point. They were high in the Andes and deep in a cave with a large drop off into what looked like a bottomless abyss below. Meg had placed safety ropes along the edge of the chasm. Every morning, Jess threw ...

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I Don't Want To Grow Old

Submitted to Contest #16

I Don't Want To Grow Old Steve Hale, a forty-year-old billionaire, lay on a couch in the office of Dr. Mark Carr, a psychiatrist. “So, Mr. Hale, what brings you here?” “Worry. Anxiety. Fear.” “What do you worry about?” “My fortune. I’m afraid I’m going to grow old and die and have to leave my estates and my yacht and everything I’ve worked for behind. What I have belongs to me and I don’t want old age and death to take what’s mine away from me. Dr. Carr, I grew up with nothing. My father ran off, and my mother cleaned houses to put food on t...

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The Fox and the Vixen

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Once upon a time, there was a fox who had fallen for a red-haired vixen at first sight – she was young and frolicking in the tall grassy meadow. The little white tip of her tail gave her away when she thought she was hiding, readying herself to pounce. She was mesmerizing to him. Through spring, summer and into fall, he watched her play and turn her nose up at other admirers. With hope in his heart, the harvest sun warming his back, and the crisping leaves bristling in the breeze, he laid down on a smooth rock and fell asleep. “Wake up,” sai...

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