Write a story about somebody reminiscing on an event that happened many summers ago.

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“TURN OF THE HERMIT” by Sivaram Govindaraj

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(This story is set in earth’s twin planet GAIA2 which is 800 years younger and is evolving.)He is a hermit. It was his 70th birthday and he sat recalling a significant event of his past which happened 20 years ago:‘Far in a wild, unknown to public view/From youth to age a reverend hermit grew;/The moss his bed, the cave his humble cell,/His food the fruits, his drink the crystal well:/Remote from man, with God he pass'd the days,/Prayer all his business, all his pleasure praise./' That introduction can’t be put better than by that poet*...

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“The Summer Has Just Begun” by Masha Kamenetskaya

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The Summer Has Just Begun We stopped the car – Dad said there was something he had to look at through the binoculars. He looked at something that I couldn’t see without binoculars, and said: “Nah, we can’t swim there.” Then he restarted the engine – I was thrown back a little bit – and Mom said: “Hold on!” We drove further. This was a field of rye (Mom said it was a rye), dry-yellow on the edges, cocoa-milk in the middle, and simple green in the background. After the rye field we passed a sunflower field, and then Mom said: “We’ll stop ...

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“Summers With Him ” by Faustina H.a.F

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It was four years ago, when I met him... I had gone to summer camp, with one of my close friends, Aphrodite McGee. We used to be just like sisters back then, her boyfriend at the time was showing up a little late. He was my childhood friend, I'd known him longer than I've ever known anyone. Henry Hephaestus. Aphrodite went to the dining hall to save us all seats before dinner. The lake... man I remember that lake. I loved the lake, with the full silver moon shining over the deep blue water. I stood there at the dock, I wanted to dive...

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“The Seventh Survivor” by Daniel Peyton

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My car turns down these roads as if it remembers them better than I. It has been two decades, yet I know every curve, every tree, that one leaning telephone pole, the old farmers pond where the cows take a sip in the hot Oklahoma summers. Time has forgotten to continue here, at least along these dusty roads.I arrived at a place that time had not stopped for. The building looked so new, so fresh to me. Yet, I researched this place and learned that it was built fifteen years ago. The church has a nice steeple, pretty stained glass windows, and...

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“Five More Minutes” by Sabrina Pebblebrook

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We are always running out of time. Like oil in our hands, it slips between our fingertips, spilling at our feet. The stain will haunt us forever, as we regret what we should have done with our time. How we should have spent our time in better ways. Sometimes, we love too late. If I had five more minutes, maybe she wouldn’t be out of my life forever. Perhaps if I stepped away from my distractions, maybe I wouldn't be living with my parents at thirty years old. I thought about these things as I lit a cigarette at my b...

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“ My Sweet Apple 🍎” by Jade Orien🍀

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I was only 9 years old when I lost my mother to terminal cancer. At that time I remember thinking why was this happening to me? My mother was more than just my parent she was my best friend and taught me vulnerable lessons about life. Today is my mother's birthday and every year my father and I cook a delicious supper as family and friends join us.After supper, I sit outside on the swing that is in my parent's backyard. This swing brings back so many memories of that summer 5 years ago. During my mother's dying days, I did all I could to spe...

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“Solstice” by Richard Powers

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David was startled out of his reverie by a car pulling into his driveway. It was the detailer returning his vehicle in what he knew from experience would be pristine condition. David always wanted a clean car and clean windows any time he took a road trip. He usually loved road trips, but the destination of this one had made him a bit apprehensive. Savannah, Georgia, is the home of Jim Williams, The Lady Chablis, and Anna; Savannah was his destination. While Jim and Chablis had pass...

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“The Discovery” by Jack Karolewski

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THE DISCOVERY It was a hot, humid July in 1961....

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“A morning to remember” by Anupama Iyer

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“Ah. These bulbs are replaced. But you need to change the compressors in the bedrooms soon, Miss Thomas. Otherwise you won’t be able to bear the heat this summer,” the maintenance man said, as he packed his things and shut his suitcase. “I’ll send over a guy tomorrow at ten in the morning, if that’s okay with you?”“No problem, Mr. Evans. Here’s your check for this quarter,” she handed over a check to him.Mr. Evans said his good-byes and Hanna Thomas was left alone by the kitchen counter. She looked up at the bright, shiny kitchen lights and ...

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“Here's a Secret Nobody Knows” by Chinthanika Iddamalgoda

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Here’s a secret nobody knows: I know who killed them all back then. It was way back, I think. When we were all little kids, just out of school. We were riding the highest high of all highs; rich, cocky, dumb, and certain of our own immortality. We were young. Too young to drink, too young to drive, definitely too young to die. But well. Death waits for no one. There were five of us. You, me and the rest. There’s no point mentioning their names. Wouldn’t want to throw you out of joint again and they’re all dead anyway. It...

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“Flying South” by Pattie Hamburger

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The birds didn’t go south for the winter because, this year, the winter forgot to come. School started in September, and we began harvesting the potatoes, but Ma didn’t take out my shoes. Thanksgiving passed, but by the time all the trees were leafless and all the pumpkin pie was eaten, Ma still hadn’t taken out my shoes. Through December, the days were long and warm and I spent the evenings rocking on the porch. Last summer still felt like just a...

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“Rest Now, Friend” by Emily Thompson

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I sat in the wide bay window of my grandfather’s old cabin, one of those old log structures barely holding on by loose nails and scraps of insulation. It was a weary place, but the squeaking metal fan on the table provided a breeze and the spices and vegetables slowly stewing on the stove wafted warm and comforting odors around the small room. I turned my attention away from the stained paperback I found on top of musty sheets in the hope chest to where a white bunny circled the area around a fallen tree and he looked... famished. I wat...

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“My name with yours” by Leah Li

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I had always hated my name, well, more specifically my middle name. I was named Mary Stephen Jones on the 21st of March, 2004. A little girl with a boy’s middle name that had no correlation with her first name whatsoever. I blamed my parents, of course. Who, when I asked the reason for my name merely answered, “That was your grandfather’s name.” And perhaps it was unempathetic of me but I never understood why I had to carry my grandfather’s name. I had never met him, so I assumed he passed on before I was born, or at least before I had enoug...

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“Simple Pleasures” by Ruth Fernandes

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My father was not a great philosopher. He didnt leave behind for me a memoir penning down his pearl's of wisdom for me to remember and reminiscence about. He didn't leave behind a legacy of anecdotes for me to be able to refer to and live by. What I do have of him are just the simple memories of him. Memories of simple days with him or times we spent together that created meaning in our lives. An inherent memory of events, a simple day perhaps spent doing nothing, yet somehow it became ingrained into the deepest recesses of my mind for some ...

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“Catfishing” by Chris OBrien

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I suppose everyone’s daddy looms large in his life: standing all tall and strong, nearly blocking out the sun, the moon, or the stars. So it was with my pa. I remember his favorite shirt for the weekends, a blue plaid thing with the subtlest of red-ribbon lines running through every third or fourth checker column. It was short-sleeved and sometimes, when it got cold, he wore a long-sleeved white or black t-shirt under it. In the really cold he wore a CPO jacket over it of a non-committal, mud-colored plaid not the same size or weft as the bl...

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Write a story about somebody reminiscing on an event that happened many summers ago.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 217 stories

“TURN OF THE HERMIT” by Sivaram Govindaraj

“The Summer Has Just Begun” by Masha Kamenetskaya

“Summers With Him ” by Faustina H.a.F

“The Seventh Survivor” by Daniel Peyton

“Five More Minutes” by Sabrina Pebblebrook

“ My Sweet Apple 🍎” by Jade Orien🍀

“Solstice” by Richard Powers

“The Discovery” by Jack Karolewski

“A morning to remember” by Anupama Iyer

“Here's a Secret Nobody Knows” by Chinthanika Iddamalgoda

“Flying South” by Pattie Hamburger

“Rest Now, Friend” by Emily Thompson

“My name with yours” by Leah Li

“Simple Pleasures” by Ruth Fernandes

“Catfishing” by Chris OBrien

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Begin your story with somebody watching the sunrise, or sunset.

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Write a story about characters going on a summer road trip.

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