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Write about the longest day of the year, or a day that never seems to end.

Posted in Summer on Oct 26, 2022

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“The Fifteenth Day” by Anuji Withana

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The morning wake up call. A loud blaring in my ears and I pulled down the sheets to hit snooze before another trigger.  I spend a few minutes cuddled up in the sheets.  My family was away at 'home' and I had prompted to stay at the apartment, when lockdown struck. Since the era of the pandemic, everything was distant, virtual and online. Well I wasn’t occupied, so it was a quarantined day.   Alone all along... I make my bed, freshen myself before I tie my hair in a messy bun and walk up the corridor into the living room....

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“Midsummer 101” by Marie McLaughlin

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It was the Summer Solstice, the longest day of the year in Middleton. Early in the morning, a group of college students studying Agronomy at their local community college walked into the campus classroom for their next Agricultural lecture. The students, all ranging in age from anywhere between 18 to 40, all took their seats, got their notebooks and pencils ready, put away their phones and tablets, and looked towards the professor's podium. A few moments after the class got settled in, the professor walked in the classroom and took his place...

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“The Longest Day” by Lilia May

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The date June 21, 2018 is tattooed into my mind forever. I sit at the big table in the dining room, years later, as the day breaks. The sun pushes through the thin kitchen blinds and I blink, remembering the exact scene years earlier. Connor, shaggy hair hiding his eyes, black t-shirt, way too loose as always. My husband walks downstairs at 7:15 am. Thump, thump, thump, as he always does. Predictable, if nothing else. Trustworthy. Safe. “How long have you been up?” he asks, but he can sense from my face that he won’t get an answer. “The ho...

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“One of Those Days” by Kayley Dickins

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He had even been woken up early this morning to another episode of the soap opera that the life of the neighbors opposite him had become. This time he was pretty sure someone must have chucked a wardrobe out of the window to make the amount of noise that had abused his poor ears at ungodly hours. He could even pick out the sound of the wood splintering. Glancing at the clock, he laid back on the cold pillows and accepted his fate. It was going to be one of those days. Those days that won’t get better until they’re over, until he could pull a...

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“Bummer Solstice” by Karen McDermott

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To: charlot49@gmail.com From: missychrissy1982@hotmail.com Subject: BUMMER SOLSTICE Hey Charlie-girl, How are you doing today? Sorry my reply is so overdue – you must be fed up with me saying that! You know how it is though, I’m trying to devote more time to my special project. Hopefully in the not too distant future you’ll be receiving an email from me with ‘book launch invitation’ in the subject line. They say one of the top tips to achieve your goal is to envisage it happening…so please start picking out what you’re going to wear ;D ...

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“A Sun's Solace” by Nathan Endress

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When you open your eyes, what is the first thing that you see before anything? No it is not your room, it’s not the face of a loved one, not even your own self. What you see is light that welcomes you every single day. Light that fills the eyes that turn into the shapes, turns into color, and turns into the people you know and love. That’s what we all see, yet we never seem to remember what it is that brings us these cherishing tales and moments. We ignore it, sometimes hide from it, and even hate it at times for doing what it always does. S...

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“Unplugged” by Joe Swanson

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I had never met Abernathy Holcomb. I had registered the usual assortment of ancillary references, rather statements, that he was either a genius or and idiot. Having been taught to differ judgement until having at least tasted the soup, I put the lid back on, and reserved the right to judgement for a later time.As life often does, it provides the means necessary to take a stab at fulfilling the improvisational requirements we set for ourselves. I am introduced to Abernathy, who seems at the time, either concerned with the worl...

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“Summer Nights ” by Dann Jamal

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Triger warning: mention of domestic violence and rape.I am lying on my back on the rooftop of Shahrazad’s house, in Morocco. The sky is clear, the stars are glittering and the smell of the incense (a substance that is burned for the sweet smell it produces, frequently use in Arab countries) is filling the air. My name is Khadija Hassan and I am a reporter from Lebanon, I came here on the request of my boss Gazzi something to investigate some peculiar incident that potentially happened thirty years ago. Before going on about what is the incid...

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“The 100 Hour Day” by Faustina H.a.F

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Imagine living in a society in which turning eighteen meant you had to spend a day that lasts a hundred hours. A day full of trials and challenges to find out if you’re strong enough to help build society up. My name’s Mia Long, and today is my eighteenth birthday, meaning that today I have to go through my hundred hours day. My live in a colony, on Mars, and in order to prove we’re gonna help the growth of the Mars populace, 687 children are taken a year and are trained. The children are sent to the dead planet of Earth upon their eighteent...

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“Paused ” by 2 7

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There’s too many things and nothing to think about, there’s too many books and no books to read, there’s too many muscles and no muscles to move. And there’s Ma, outside the room, screaming, snapping, growling, trying to drag me out from my room but I tell her I will finish my breakfast after I’m done studying, though the truth is I can’t finish anything. Brain on a grill, that’s what I’m feeling, brain on a grill, melting, melting, melting,I rub my temples, flipping through the pages, my eyes burning from exhaustion, words and pictures danc...

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“CornFlower Moon” by Harley Seesholtz

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CornFlower Moon Harley Seesholtz Aaria was just another part of just another normal day. A day on a planet that was so, so special. This planet was called Soha, and Soha’s days were years and years long. They never ever seemed to end, and nobody on Soha really counted anymore. Aaria loved the warm, welcoming sunshine on her face, even if it was artificial. She wasn’t sure how the big corporations and producers did it- made fake sunlight. It seemed impossible, she thought. She loved the warm feeling on her face when she walked outside, bu...

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“Sun Poisoning ” by Alexander Katz

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(Author note: the following is potentially disturbing.)“The sun is stuck in the sky.”The anchor for channel 4 said it with a hysterical chuckle through the screen. The man’s hair a shaggy mess of brown reeds, dropping down to a five-o’clock shadow that was getting closer to midnight. Dread sat atop each word he uttered, riding them through the airwaves and into the ears of every single person tunning in. Including the family of three currently tied to the chairs of their kitchen table. Everyone except for The Burnt Man, who stood on top of t...

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“To Those Who Died” by Arvin Bantasan

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Every year, there is one day that has come to be feared by many. The prosperous town of Sollan. There are places called kingdoms, empires, and even city-states all throughout the continent, countries with large populations, massive amounts of land, and bountiful economies. The town of Solan is by no means inferior to these countries; it far exceeds the population count of most kingdoms, it is comparable in size to the largest empire of the continent, and its economy’s so great that the standards of living couldn’t be compared to those of r...

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“Blackdamp” by T.J McLaughlin

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Arizona, June 21st 1982            The burning hot glare of the solstice sun seemed like an eternal Martian star, laying constant in the sky. The desert heat had swept across the barren landscape, and created a glistening mirage effect throughout the surrounding area. It would have been a calming and tranquil place were it not for the insufferable heat, and the myriad of venomous snakes and scorpions that hid amongst the dry foliage and rocks. But calm and serenity were descriptives t...

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“Sunwashed Solstice” by Amalee Bowen

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I paused on the long path up the mountain. It wound around the mountain like a long snake coiled back on itself, like folded sheets stacked in the top of a closet. When I was younger I never understood its purpose. Why go back and forth and back and forth across the mountain side, almost crossing your own path, when you could just pelt up the sharp ridge to the top in half the time? I used to just race up the ridge, my teeth set against the burn in my calves and my lungs as I clambered up the steep, rocky side. You just had to plow ahead on ...

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