End your story with somebody stepping out into the sunshine.

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“The Journal of a Teen in 2054” by Maddie Heritage

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Entry 107: I Chased A Goat Are you guys seriously making me go through with this? I've already written 106 entries, how much more do you need to know? I get it that your trying to take up a survey of all the teens in the United States to make sure our future generation is doing great but guess what? The future generation has better things to do than sit around journaling 200 things in their lives!!! But fine. If your going to keep making me doing this then I will. Maybe when you read the notebooks you'll actually realize that the 13-17...

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“IT WAS NOT MY PLACE” by Elizabeth Michelle

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I had been walking for hours and I did not seem to be getting to my destination. As I went further, I met a crowd. The first face I saw was my musical mother. She came as Whitney. Around her was a throng. It looked like many people had been birthed in our house. I couldn’t remember when that happened but I felt like everyone in the crowd was my relative. Then Alas! I met my twin sister. We somehow looked alike!. She was musical. She had everything in talent that our musical mother had. She received all the attention in the room. Her voice ...

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“Two Years Later (Part 3: Prison Break)” by Phoebe DeNeve

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"If you try to escape I will not hesitate to end you." Harris threatened, pushing his hostage down the halls of the prison. Despite the warning, Thomas gave a small struggle, that he knew his captor wouldn't notice, at his restraints that kept his hands behind his back; unfortunately, it was in vain. "You got that?" Harris ordered, after receiving no answer from Thomas. The detective gave an eye roll, and muttered, "Yeah, yeah, I got it." Thomas kept the anxiousness out of his voice, but deep down he was terrified for both him and Rean...

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“I Wish I Could Love You (PG-13)” by Pippin Took

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Trigger Warning: parental abuse, mention of mature themesI wanted to love you freely. I really did. But I can’t. I can’t. Melanie Stevens sits on the old shag rug in her run-down house. She clutches a photograph covered in her oily fingerprints. The picture is of a boy, and on the back of the picture is a name scrawled in black pen. Henry. They met last year, and Henry fell in love with her. Melanie wants so badly to be able to love him back, but her parents hate him, just because he is Asian. But making love forbidden only streng...

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“THE PANDORA BOX” by Devi Anil

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A blaring sound of a siren woke me up, eyelids pushing themselves hard to show me the place where I never expected to be. The darkness around scared the shit out of me. Trying to move my legs and arms,I don’t know why I imagined myself as a snail, moving at a leisure pace. I soon realized that my hands and legs are tied down. I am not aware how many days or months would have passed me dropping off here.I gathered myself little energy and moved my body slowly.I got myself hit to a metal and my legs trashing to hardwood. My palm tried to touch...

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“Mila Rising” by Melissa Laussmann

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I watched the sunrise through iron bars. A small window in my cell was all I had left of the world. There was nothing else. Family and friends turned their backs on me after the verdict was announced. Guilty. One word threw into oblivion my sense of self worth and all the people I held dear. Memories were just fading illusions. A group of strangers gathered together and made their decision. She is deemed unworthy to be a part of society. She is the lowest form of humanity walking the earth and should rot in jail. I reached for the plast...

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“Bonding Soulmates ” by Chacha Jaramillo

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I always thought that people with powers were special. Not on my list. I’m just getting out my teens into becoming a woman, another human being fighting for a survival in a surreal world. The fist chapter is completed. Went to school, did ny homework, listened to mom and dad, they were proud of me. Was not into drugs, was not a recruit for gangs out in the street. I stayed home, at dawn, when school activities ended, went home, either to finish my homework or preparing for a test. Nope, I was not a nerd. No way, NOT on this life. I fel...

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“A New Light” by Anji Shah

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Old buildings had always fascinated her. Governmental structures, old temples, and ancient castles had all left her in awe. They had seen so much, so many feelings had been etched in the walls. Important decisions could’ve been made in the room, wars could’ve been waged right outside the doors. Maybe even a hundred years ago or more, someone her age, long passed now, had run their hand over the wall of the building, in the same exact places she would run her own hand over now. Maybe someone had stood in the exact place where she was standing...

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“The Prisoner” by Colleen True

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In the center of Arcadia sat the newly-reconstructed palace. Although by far the most elegant structure in the city of Solelia, it contained a certain humility. There were larger mansions, ones that glittered with gold to display the wealth of their inhabitants. The king, however, had seen the consequences of such apparent power. He lived through and fought a war against them. Though many descriptions could be made—of the tall, stone towers with pointed roofs; of the throne room containing many columns; of the multitude of palace servan...

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“Aurora Sun ” by Heather Starling

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She entered the void, boots echoing as they scraped across the glossy black surface. The stars winking above looked as if they were conversing in a secret language that somehow or someway she knew. “Aurora Sun.” The black stretched ahead for miles into eternity, yet she decided to continue on the path. Darkness, nothingness, hollow emptiness filled ...

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“The Dusk to Dawn Encounter” by Tracey Hébert

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The Dusk to Dawn Encounter Haniya and I had not been in touch since our Mount Holyoke College days in the late 1990s. But true to the sisterhood bond, when I reached out fifteen years later to let her know that I would be in Cairo on assignment, she graciously agreed to give me after hours access to the Zamelek Library so I could photograph the renovations. As I walked up the concrete stairs to the turn of the century yellow mansion that doubled as a library, the sun was slowly setting as the last ribbons of light rippled acro...

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“Subject 17” by Katharine Widdows

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TRIGGER WARNING: Kidnapping, murder, injury detail, swearing.I lie here, suddenly awake. Unable to move, but I can feel. I can feel the blanket over me and the heavy cuffs at my wrists and ankles. I seem to be paralysed. An intermittent beeping reminds me of TV medical dramas, hospitals. I will my eyes to open, straining the muscles around them.My last memory is of being attacked from behind in the alleyway at the back of the Reaper Club. It had been a good night, a very good night. I was woozy from the drink at 3am but only ten minutes from...

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“The Arc” by Eva R.

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The 14th of June 2053 is the day when Clara thought she was going to die. She would cease to be the main character of her own story and would turn into one of those novels that sit in library books gathering dust with no one reading them ever again. Ten years earlier Clara was working a dead-end job which, bit by bit, was being replaced by robots. Working in New York wasn’t all it cracked up to be. Clara grew up on a farm surrounded by plants and animals and she loved it. She won prizes many times at county fairs for her impressive vege...

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“Mon Rayon de soleil” by Geshanie Dias Desinghe

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Gabrielle was walking home after work. It had been quite a rough day at work. A day like no other. “I was tired but there was something unusual in the air that lifted my spirit. The tang in the air was definitly a boost to my spirit.” The birds flying home created a beautiful pattern against the sky filled with fluffy white cushiony clouds while the blue sky popped out here and there. As I kept walking down the road I spotted the great ball of fire retiring to bed beyond the mountain. The retiring sun was telling me something...

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“My Cousin” by Kirrtanaa Thanesh

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It was the summer holidays, and I wasn’t too excited about that because we go to Aunt Doe’s every summer. It’s not that I don’t like Aunt Doe- that’s not the reason I don’t want to go. It’s her daughter, Celia. We’re the same age but Celia looks a lot older than me. That’s probably because of the clothes. Celia shops on her own but I’m not allowed to so Mom picks my clothes. Every time I go to Aunt Doe’s, Celia stays in her room and only comes out at mealtimes. She always brings her phone with her when she...

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End your story with somebody stepping out into the sunshine.

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✍️ 211 stories

“The Journal of a Teen in 2054” by Maddie Heritage

“IT WAS NOT MY PLACE” by Elizabeth Michelle

“Two Years Later (Part 3: Prison Break)” by Phoebe DeNeve

“I Wish I Could Love You (PG-13)” by Pippin Took

“THE PANDORA BOX” by Devi Anil

“Mila Rising” by Melissa Laussmann

“Bonding Soulmates ” by Chacha Jaramillo

“A New Light” by Anji Shah

“The Prisoner” by Colleen True

“Aurora Sun ” by Heather Starling

“The Dusk to Dawn Encounter” by Tracey Hébert

“Subject 17” by Katharine Widdows

“The Arc” by Eva R.

“Mon Rayon de soleil” by Geshanie Dias Desinghe

“My Cousin” by Kirrtanaa Thanesh

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