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CONTEST ENDED – Thank you for submitting your stories!

Write a story that ends by circling back to the beginning.

Posted in Short Story on Oct 26, 2022

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“Fallen Angel” by Dawn Austin

Submitted to Contest #42

                        Fallen Angel      The first time I saw the Devil.  The wind blew south, and the air hanged with metaphor. Fireflies stained the white sky green. Sparks lit and blood poured. The sun was on its way down and super eagles swept across the blue horizon.I stood watching the line where heaven touched the earth. It was like the frame of a taste...

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“Hilarious” by Niveditha Praveen

Submitted to Contest #42

“There is nothing wrong to have the gun in my hands now."He aimed at his assistant and shot him in his head.Then with the gun, he ran to the next room for his next target, the chief of operations, when the firing started from outside. Some days ago – Hussain was leaving the Birmingham Railway Station when he got the call from his roommate Jamal. He needs to pick up the call, because unless it was very important, Jamal will not call him, when he is at work. He parked his cab nearby, pulled down the glass between him and the passenge...

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“Purple Flowers” by DJ Bundst

Submitted to Contest #42

Dear Saul,This is Virdra, and these seeds (see envelope), are from Katy. She wanted you to know something, and had meant to tell you when she got out of the hospital. When she got the bad news, she decided she wanted to write you a story. I received an envelope from her with her story, and a note to me saying, "Virdra, my dying wish is that you be my editor. Polish this and send it to Saul". You know her sense of humor. Here's her story....Once upon a time there was a Mother who gave birth to a smart and pretty ...

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“Arielle” by Sam Kirk

Submitted to Contest #42

Simon entered the train station with a bouquet of flowers in one hand and a hand-made sign in the other. In red, big, bold letters, the text spelled out a female name. Arielle. He looked up at the clock above the tunnel leading down to platform number four and then down at his wristwatch. The first one had just struck 4 o’clock while the latter was two minutes ahead. Placing the flowers and sign gently on a nearby bench, Simon adjusted his watch to have it match the big station clock down to the second. He cleared his throat, picked the flow...

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“Door of Doom” by Kioni Richards

Submitted to Contest #42

Dinah Dugery couldn’t remember why it was important that she sought help from this grungy house but she knew it was absolutely necessary. It’s mystic mystery called out to every fibre in her body as she slowly approached it’s ebony door. A dreary feeling ran through her body with each steady step. But all her life’s lessons could never prepare her for what would become of her once she entered that slummy door.With a deep intake of breath she went to knock on its coarse surfaces but instead it was opened and her breath caught as she gazed at ...

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“Love spell to hell” by Lea Vida DEL MORO

Submitted to Contest #42

My name is Margaux and I was pretty scared and close to death and i guess I can’t make it alive when I’ve been fighting my friend Lance.           I’m running that night so fast I didn’t notice some distorted roots in my way and i stumble into the ground and broke my legs. I tried to rise up but i cannot move because the sprain hurts a lot so i crawled slowly just to escape him.            I heard the crows from the sky squeak as the...

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“The Writer Who Hated to Write” by Logan Feiler

Submitted to Contest #42

Whenever someone would ask me what my least favorite class in school was, my standard answer was always English. “I’m just not an English, history sort of person” I would tell them. Instead I would focus on math and science, subjects I actually enjoy. But one year something changed. English and History rose, while Math and Science fell. The one common link, the one reason for these sudden changes, THE TEACHERS!Let's start at the beginning: Grammar Class, 6th Grade: day 2 or 3: I was sitting in the back of the classroom listening to my t...

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“Hello, Darling” by Whitney Trang

Submitted to Contest #42

She stared at the man with tears in his eyes. He approached her slowly. “Genna?” He asked in a whisper. She nodded. He took her hands. “Do you know who I am?”     She looked into the man’s familiar face. Of course, she knew who he was. They had spent over two decades together. He was Neil, the love of Genna's life.     “Hello, darling.”~ ~ ~    “Aren’t you going to wear the earrings?” Neil asked gently. He was getting dressed to play a round of golf with his buddies. A radi...

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“Lily” by Sunshine Charlie

Submitted to Contest #42

At what point in your life do you start being tired, and never stop? Is it the same for everyone? I don’t think so. Do most people reach a point of exhaustion where they couldn’t bear to smile? I was tired as a child, when the angry sounds of hateful words and breaking glass filled the smoke-stained walls of a cold house. But I was happy too. That’s when I made my first friend. She always kept me company, my parents didn’t notice her but then they didn’t notice much that didn’t involve some kind of substance induced release. I didn’t have a ...

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“Water-demon witness” by Chloe-Ly Grimont

Submitted to Contest #42

There was a crackle and hiss. Faint though they were, I felt them down to my core, beckoning to me. I stirred from my prolonged sleep, latching onto the sound, searching for its source, and caught onto it. It flared up, the rush tingling through my limbs as they stretched out, like yawning babes waking from a deep slumber only they could muster. I licked at the air, the chilly evening far too cold for my liking. Far too cold for the man who stood before me too, apparently.He rubbed his palms together, the dry calluses whooshing together rhyt...

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“The Only Living Girl In Denver” by Taliah Dietiker

Submitted to Contest #42

Denver’s nighttime skyline is enchanting until you’re actually nestled in its guts. Trilby felt like that little yellow asexual person in the corner of a Google map, being clicked and dragged by her scruff and dropped into a random quadrant of the city. Her unsuitable, inadequate black flats tapped her away from Building G of the hospital campus, past the parking garage and buildings E and D as she clutched her equally unsuitable, inadequate peacoat to her petite body. The light pollution mixed with water in the clouds to highlight the night...

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“I REMEMBER SIMBA...” by GLOW Gloriatsu@gmail.com

Submitted to Contest #42

I remember when our neighbor, Mr. Makhuyu proudly brought Simba’s lifeless body in a sack ready to collect his bounty from my father. A bounty that had been issued almost a year before this sad, sad day. There was an air of loss coupled with a sense of relief that hung uncomfortably in our compound that day. I come from a traditional African home. We do not mourn the death of animals and especially not those ones that had practically terrorized the whole village and made my father pay two hospital bills on their account. Simba was not always...

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“THE END OF THE DAY” by P. Jean

Submitted to Contest #42

Sitting on his porch at the end of the day was one of Andy’s favorite pastimes.  They always began the same,  filling his pipe,  letting the fragrant tobacco relax him,  feeling the weight of the day slip away,  like shrugging off an old pair of overalls. Drawing deeply on his pipe, he lets the smoke out slowly, the blue gray haze hanging there on the evening air like it is waiting for directions.He would often sit this way just relaxing and on different evenings,  something, a  noise like geese honkin...

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“Granny’s Love” by Christopher Lane

Submitted to Contest #42

Oh what happiness and oh what joyAs they await the arrival of the little boy. Things are moving quickly, they cannot get to the room.Little boy is coming quickly, and he will be here soon.No one shows the courage except for one old farm girlWho slams her purse into another and says “I will give it a whirl.“She steps in with hardened handsAnd catches the oncoming little man. Instantly a bond is made.One that for years won’t die or fade. The farm girl turn proudly and said, “that is how it is done”.there for me and so many more when others tur...

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“The Warrior's Quest” by King Sacrificer

Submitted to Contest #42

The man was laughing hysterically. In the pitch darkness of the dungeon, the warrior could not make out the appearance of the man. He raised his torch high but he could only see ropes trapping the man hoisting him up to a greasy wall, his flailing hands, and his bloodshot red eyes. He continued laughing hysterically, his voice echoing in the dungeons. The warrior pulled out an arrow from his quiver and landed it into his chest. The man withered, and the laughter ceased.The man’s body tore apart, and a flood of light engulfed him. The warrior...

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