Write a story that spans a month during which everything changes.

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“North To Alaska-Or Not” by Daniel Norton

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Free food has my total attention whenever or wherever. And it did when AAA travel invited me to an evening presentation on Alaska. My parents had been there twice so with nothing else to do I went to the presentation and the free food. A trio of speakers painted a picture of our fifty-ninth state that was hard to resist. Starting with a cruise ship where there were several places where they would dock and the passengers would then be treated to various land excersions as they had pruchased. The main port that was used was at Ska...

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“Running with the Zebras, a tale of medical stripes” by Jamie Forrester

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The day had finally come, the car was packed, and we were on the road. It would take just over five hours to arrive but it would change the course of our lives forever. We just didn't know it yet. August 2nd, my dad's birthday, so it was easy to remember. I made sure to call him on our way out. I could tell by his voice that he wasn't feeling well, the strong winds and gloomy clouds weren't the only things dampening the day. We stopped several times letting the kids run around and stretch their legs. I watched with gratitude as my little...

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“When Change Lives With You For A Month” by Mylena Rogers

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Change. A small, delicate word. Change can happen suddenly and without warning. Everything can be fine one minute, but then change flies at you, and your life becomes different. I was visited by Change. It walked in unvitiated and made itself at home. Asked what I liked to do, where I worked, who my children and husband were. Change didn't have a care in the world. It was here and it was staying. June 2- "Gen!", I yelled up the stairs to my 14-year-old daughter. She was taking her time like always getting ready. I sighed and got ba...

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“The Broken Blade” by Memphis Haven

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This is it, my final performance. I can hear the crowd cheering, the slight rumble of the ground when the crowd gets more and more excited. The lights go dim and I take a deep breath, breathing in the cool crisp air of the rink, the smell of sweat and ice, and a memory of when I first started to skate. The music starts, the memory is interrupted and I’m off. I go around the rink once then stop in the middle, I bow to the audience and the judges, and then the music changes and my feet start to move. They move like fis...

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“My retriever tries to wipe my tears.” by Kiruthika M

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Another month with another day, which is dated as one “1”. My soul expects a change but time doesn't seem to bless me with. My life didn’t have any swaps for the past 10 months, continuations of lockdowns stabbed my happiness unreservedly, but nowadays I learn to make myself contented without any reasons, and also learned to luxuriate myself which automatically makes to love myself to the moon and back, my fatigued life was turned into an adoration this happened with me by the 5 sense bird and with my plants. In winters on my balcony rooftop...

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“A month of losses ” by Sim Sidhu

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I’m tired. Of the chilling sunlight characterising this malicious month with it’s rollercoaster of emotions and indissoluble anguish. Like an avalanche consisting of the demonic outcomes of my innocuous looking decisions at the time, collapsing on top of my body suffocating my will to live-getting it to dry up like a raisin. A month full of loss. I remember the smoke billowing from departing trains that carried the patriotic hearts of soldiers ready to serve their country into battle, on a war ground, inevitably to their ...

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“The lonely road that I've taken” by Melina Verhoff

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In April of the year 2021, I remember feeling like something was going to go wrong. Somehow, someway, some shape or form, I'm going to mess up. A few years ago, during my 8th-grade year, I went to this church that felt like home to me. Everyone, there was welcoming, very kind, and shows respect and pure kindness that just makes the church a whole lot easier to get comfortable in. I made close relationships, in the Youth events, which soon became my life-long friendships. The church is possibly the only reason why I'm st...

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“The chance of a lifetime” by Hayley Carter

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C/W: substance abuse, homelessness, abuse At this moment, I knew everything was going to change. I had been on the streets for decades and I was finally given the chance to get a job, get a house, and a puppy. My life has changed greatly in the past month. With every turn, I have become a better man for it, and here is my journey. I never was on drugs, never had a family, and had a job when I was in high school. But I was a drifter. I had nothing except a lean too and old radio to call to my name. My worldly possessions have been lost...

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“Cady's Harvest” by Robert Vucsko

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Cadence sung softly as she dug clover and dandelions out of her spring garden, “And little Sir John sprung up his head, and so amazed them all.” This season’s early spring crops had surpassed expectation. She pushed in the trowel and wiggled out a turnip, holding it up for inspection. These had been transplanted from the greenhouse barely two weeks earlier but would be ready in days. Her newest compost mixture clearly made a difference, but for the second consecutive season, she had planted nearly a month earlier than expected. “No clim...

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“'Into The Furnace Of Life'” by Eremo Dilli

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EVERYTHING THAT went from bad to worse started last four weeks ago, the week I was offered admission into college. It was a dream coming true for me; except that it wasn't. On that Monday of the second week, my mum came to me; "Sheila dear, get dressed up. You need to resume today remember?""Mum, please! I'm not sure I want to do this; I need time to think this through." I was to become a cleaner in the Johnson's mansion. Mummy Aquila was a respected elder in the community and mum said she had agreed to help with my college fee and the price...

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“Interstice” by Poonam Desai

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As I stood devastated before the family court building, a lone tear spilt and left a blotch on the divorce papers I had clutched hard in my hands. I couldn't believe it was all over now. I looked at Jason walk towards his car, half heartedly hoping that he might turn in my direction and may be just maybe change his mind. But who was I kidding? It was over. I sighed and got into an Uber. I let myself sink into the seat and the floodgate of my emotions opened. By the time the cabbie dropped me, I looked like Rudolf the reindeer on a bad day. I...

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“The unexpected day” by Juliana Meyer

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When I woke up that morning I heard a scream it scared me. I looked outside and Grandma was here then I knew it was Freddy screaming. I tried to go back to sleep but Freddy came in “Mable Grandma is here!” I got up “I know Freddy” “come say hi please she came here for you” “she came here for me?”. That made me actually get up. I walked down stairs “Mable honey” Grandma said I hugged her “I got a present for you” she reached into her purse and she poled out a beautiful bracelet it was silver with letters that spelled Mable “thank you Grandma,...

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“The Key of Living” by Ana Perez

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I remember going outside to my garden, lying down on the grass, playing with my dog, without a care in the world. That was a month ago, now everything has changed.We all knew that we were having some problems with Germany, and that conflict would come up, but we didn’t know it would be this bad.It all started about four weeks ago. My older brother, Aleksander, and me, had only just come back from Warsaw centre, where we had gone to buy materials for my mother’s dress shop. They didn’t produce the fabrics we needed in our town, Zbytki. It’s a...

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“Metamorphosis” by Daniela André

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It’s over. The time is up. I have to face this. My heart should be racing but somehow it isn’t. My mind still can’t make sense out of all of this. This was not supposed to be happening. I wish this wasn’t happening. I know what the answer is, but I don’t want to. I want to go back in time. I want to be wrong. I need all of this to be just part of a nightmare. I need to wake up with my heart out of my chest and try to calm myself down to sleep. I want to be safe in my bed. The timer sets of again.We are still facing each other. Non...

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“What a Month” by Valerie Preston

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TW: death, suicide The Month was June and the worst month of my entire life. The month of May was a terrible lead up month but nothing like how I felt throughout June. My life wasn’t exactly caviar and chocolates – I wasn’t born with a silver spoon in my mouth, as the saying goes. There was no fanfare or ‘welcome to the new bundle of joy’ balloons swirling around when I popped out – just an alone single mother whose family disowned here when they found out I was on the way. The little life growing inside my mother was unaware that she was ca...

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Write a story that spans a month during which everything changes.

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✍️ 131 stories

“North To Alaska-Or Not” by Daniel Norton

“Running with the Zebras, a tale of medical stripes” by Jamie Forrester

“When Change Lives With You For A Month” by Mylena Rogers

“The Broken Blade” by Memphis Haven

“My retriever tries to wipe my tears.” by Kiruthika M

“A month of losses ” by Sim Sidhu

“The lonely road that I've taken” by Melina Verhoff

“The chance of a lifetime” by Hayley Carter

“Cady's Harvest” by Robert Vucsko

“'Into The Furnace Of Life'” by Eremo Dilli

“Interstice” by Poonam Desai

“The unexpected day” by Juliana Meyer

“The Key of Living” by Ana Perez

“Metamorphosis” by Daniela André

“What a Month” by Valerie Preston

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Start your story with a character taking a leap of faith.

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Start your story with an ending and work backward toward the beginning.

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