Write a story about another day in a heatwave.

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“Prairie Summer” by Sue Marsh

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Prairie Summer Suzanne Marsh June, 2000 Bartlett, Texas Having just moved from Buffalo, New York to Bartlett, Texas was a major shock to me. The weather was incredibly hot. It was the second straight month of temperatures over the one hundred mark. I was already questioning myself as to what had ever possessed me to move to Texas. I went into town to the Red and White grocery store, it was more convenient that driving to Taylor or Temple those were both roughly twenty miles away. While I was in the store I saw a grizzled old man, purchasing ...

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“Burned” by LeighAnne Ferreol

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A bead of sweat slid down my nose slowly. I heard a resounding plop as it joined the growing puddle beneath me. I glanced over at the electric fan sitting in the corner of the room, the plug too warped from the heat to plug into the socket. God, I really wish I hadn’t left it by the window that day. Not that it mattered. It was dangerous to plug in electronics nowadays. Tile floors were usually so cooling, that’s why I tried laying on it. It did less than nothing. I don’t know what I expected though. I doubt even a glacier could help ...

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“man made tribulation” by Philip Ebuluofor

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MANMADE TRIBULATION Weather report in television is what most people don’t toil with in prison in China. It is part of everyday life of most of us. not that we are in control of lives there, but because we are in charge of our clothes and so on. The decision to tak...

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“Jack and Jerry” by DERRICK CHU

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“Uh!!!! It is so hot!!!” complained Jerry. “I know, right!?!” Jack replied. “What are we going to do about this heat wave?!?!” “What can we do?” Jerry groaned. Just a quick introduction. Jack and Jerry are twins. Most twins fight a lot, right? Not Jack and Jerry. They are the best of best friends. Of course they have other friends, but they will not do anything without each other. They rarely fight, and even when they do, it doesn’t last long. Today is an especially hot summer day, and they are in the basement with only a fan to cool ...

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“Resuscitating a Frog” by Annika Christensen

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The dry heat trespassed through the front door of our small, quaint, and empty Arizona home. Many bodies crowded together in a cramped living room to say their goodbyes and well wishes. Most of my family's belongings had been stacked meticulously into every available inch of a small rented moving truck. My mother’s beloved family heirloom, a very heavy and slightly out of tune piano, had in no way spared the backs of our kindly neighbor, nor my worn out father. My toddler sister, who had been filled with ripe indignation over her seeming lac...

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“Like Before” by J.L. Schuhle

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A knock on the door lures me out of a deep sleep. Maria is yelling for me from the hallway. I can hear a man in traffic shouting for somebody to get out of the road, followed by the rowdy laughter of teenagers. My neighbor’s dog is barking over their radio. It’s another hot summer morning like yesterday and the day before. I turn over; bury my face into the mattress and allow myself a second to ignore the whole world. I imagine the city is quiet, that Maria is quiet and for a moment I feel the weightlessness of sleep start to creep back into...

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“A Mental State of Affairs” by Blane Britt

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I'm walking in 4 feet of white snow with a pinch of yellow here and there and I can no longer feel my toes. My face is frost bitten and I’m feeling like a human Popsicle. Yeah, being homeless on the coldest day of the winter in Cleveland is as serious as a homeless panhandler trying to swindle a Chiquita banana from a homesick lonely orangutan monkey at The Franklin Park Zoo in Boston. Cleveland the big mistake by one of the Great Lakes. I'm trudging on in spite of a wind chill factor of 22 below zero. I got to thi...

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“Its Just Another Day” by Harish S

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Cap!! Cap!! “Take a deep breath, tell private.” “200 yards from here, 200 japs, 4 tanks, marching towards this shit place.” “Ok, where is zap, zap!!, Zap!! , Come here.” “Cap, we are f*****.” “Keep down sergeant, how many men do we have?” “20 plus 2 plus 1.” “What's that plus two plus one?” “Two greenies joined 10 min back and a medic.” “Elaborate the team zap.” “Four snipers, one motor, two machine gun.” “Fine, there are about four five-story buildings to the right and four to the left. Our job is to secure the road. Let's call the two bu...

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“Coulomb Barrier” by Sjan Evardsson

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The deuterium-deuterium fusion cycle as employed in standard spacecraft engines is made possible through the use of extreme heat, exciting the atoms to crash into each other energetically enough to overcome the natural repulsion of the weak nuclear force, and get within range of the attractive strong nuclear force. This is what is meant by overcoming the Coulomb Barrier. - Dr. Fatouma Tigana Fusion Basics for Power Mechanics The announcer stood in front of a graphic of the sun over a landscape of identical grey blocks stretching into the di...

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“a day in the life of a heatwave” by Derek Brown

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Both sides of the road shimmered like a water color dreamscape, painted with the rays of the dizzying sunlight. They heard that this was the quickest way to get to where they were going. But time felt like a commercial with its run time padded to make a feature length film out of it. Their A.C. smelt like burnt plastic and the breath of the exhausted air coming out of it, as well as the, warm wind from the rolled down windows, did very little to elevate their situation. Jeremy's throat was like crispy bacon, he had gone without water, long...

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“A Trip to the Store” by Mirabella E.

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I’ve had about enough of this heat. It had been over a week of constant heatwaves. After a particularly brutal winter, you would have thought that the heat was a good change. It was till it wasn’t. My Mom had woken me up just fifteen minutes earlier just to run to the store. She said she couldn’t go because she had some work to do one her computer. It was quite upsetting she didn’t mention the date but brushed it off she must have just forgotten. I pulled my dark blue hair into a ponytail and checked it in the mirror and deemed it ...

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“What Not To do with Olive Oil” by Barbara Burgess

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I can’t tell you how many times someone has asked me about the scars on my skin. The blobs, patches and discoloration.I don’t mind telling them because I really haven’t got a clue as to why I did it to myself. Yes, I admit it was my fault and I should have had more sense, but at the time, for some reason, I didn’t.I’d been listening to mum and dad talking about their holidays with nan and granddad. Their childhood and the things they did that people don’t do any more.They used to spend a week at the same B & B each year at Bognor. They’d...

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“The Earth's Golden Skin” by Ridge Kelly

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If the vulture riding warm air currents far above my head craned its bald neck downward, it would see a mite inching across the earth's golden skin. If it tucked its mottled brown wings and dove towards the ground with eyes trained at it, the speck would grow and split into a mule caked in sand, and my long figure ten paces behind her, both walking. My rough cotton robe billows and snaps in the wind and my legs are locked in low repeating strides forward, varying only to step over a clump of dung occasionally produced by my tired mule. Sand ...

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“A heatwave from hell” by Isidora Labus

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God, another day in this godforsaken heat! I feel like I can hardly take it anymore. Living in this awful region really sucks during the summer time. School has been out for months and that was the only best part of this summer. Every year it seems to be getting worse. Five years ago you could actually go outside during the day and not feel like you're being burned by the fires of hell, insert ironic smiley face here. It's only August, but thanks to the virus it feels like we've lived three years in one. We had all four seasons in on...

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“Corny Dogs” by Sarah Heroman

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The child’s dark hair clung to her face in damp strings that she ineffectively but repeatedly tried to push out of her eyes with dimpled hands spread like starfish. Her mother had been wetting her head with water from the kitchen sink in an attempt to keep her cool. The window AC unit in the apartment was broken and the absence of it’s hum meant that they could hear the TV their neighbor kept on continuously. Mama kept every light off and all the blinds closed to keep out the heat. She stood in front of the closed fridge, tapping her fo...

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Write a story about another day in a heatwave.

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✍️ 177 stories

“Prairie Summer” by Sue Marsh

“Burned” by LeighAnne Ferreol

“man made tribulation” by Philip Ebuluofor

“Jack and Jerry” by DERRICK CHU

“Resuscitating a Frog” by Annika Christensen

“Like Before” by J.L. Schuhle

“A Mental State of Affairs” by Blane Britt

“Its Just Another Day” by Harish S

“Coulomb Barrier” by Sjan Evardsson

“a day in the life of a heatwave” by Derek Brown

“A Trip to the Store” by Mirabella E.

“What Not To do with Olive Oil” by Barbara Burgess

“The Earth's Golden Skin” by Ridge Kelly

“A heatwave from hell” by Isidora Labus

“Corny Dogs” by Sarah Heroman

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