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Write a story in which someone experiences discrimination.

Posted in Novel on Oct 26, 2022

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Men Zoned

Submitted to Contest #2

It's 21st century and world still is struggling with a problem of zones. Like geographical zones and regional zones etc. but these zones are really big and somehow they are made by us, for our comfort zone. But there is one more zone which we name as men and women, this story is about that zone. The day she got married she was happy and started to think that she is in a good place now and now she don't have to look behind which is her past.She is moved on in her mind. She thought that marriage is the only answer to her issues of life....

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The Slim Jim Caper: A True Story by Timothy N. Gocke. This is a story about discrimination created by carelessness and incompetence by a small-town police department.

Submitted to Contest #2

It all happened on a chilly night during the Christmas holidays in 2002. Our son, Tim Jr., was a senior in high school enjoying an evening out at a home of one of his friends. It was around 10:00 in the evening when Tim decided to drive down the street to the Marathon station for a Slim Jim. That had always been his favorite snack since he was a little boy. It happened to be around closing time when Tim went to the front door of the Marathon station but it was locked. He left there to go to another convenient store that was about two hundred...

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The Color of Justice

Submitted to Contest #2

 The Color of Justice     “Look Mr. Walker I’ve already offered your client a reasonable plea agreement of three months court supervision and a small fine. If your client behaves himself after three months the case is dismissed like it never happened. You know how these things work. What’s wrong with that?”     Jamal Walker veteran defense attorney looked down at the young assistant state's attorney sitting at the prosecutor’s table. “What’s wrong with it is that the state still makes mo...

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