Start your story with “Today’s the day I change.”

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“Tim's change” by Tab Glomah

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“Today’s the day I change. I am going to make things happen and not just react to things.” Tim repeated the words to himself as he entered the clearing and took a moment to catch his breath.“This is a crazy situation” The thought began to splinter through Tim’s mind as he prepared to sprint through the forest. He was doing his best to keep pace with the Captain.They were deep in the forests of the country of Emfuenko on the run from a secluded group of tribal villagers who Captain Sassou managed to offend, as he has become accustomed to doin...

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“Sticks and Stones” by Omar Alvarez

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“Today’s the day I change. Today’s the day I present to the world a new me. I am amazing. I am unique. I am a beautiful, bright-winged butterfly, spawning from the cocoon of change.” Eli stopped the podcast and looked in the mirror as he repeated the words. The podcast was the final episode in a series titled: You 2.0 - A Motivational Guide. It took him three days to finis...

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“Change of the Soul” by Daniel Record

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Change of the Soul By: Record Today’s the day I change. Everyday I work towards something better, yet something always gets in my way. Today though, I am going to find something that will be better because I will make it better. I have too. OK! Here we go. I open my eyes, and there it is, the same four dark gray walls with that stupid crack in it. Wait…..is that crack bigger today? Nah, it must be my imagination. Oh well. At least my door has style, a nice silver outline with a white face and a gold knob. To bad I can’t have a really nice ...

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“It still depends…” by -Z J-

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Today’s the day I change huh. After months… years… to be precise, a decade of contemplation. I laid there, as motionless as I could be, trying not to be spotted by the crowd that bustled past. Albeit, chances are, that someone had already suspected that something was amiss beneath the oddly stacked pile of fallen leaves in the white box that hosted one of the many trees acting as an intersection between toilets and coffee shops. But, they ran on time. Time that they weren’t willing to waste on minor details that didn’t concern them. ...

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“Becoming Echoan” by Alex Lewig

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Today’s the day I change. This is it, no turning back now. It’s a miracle of science, really, to alter one’s biology. After today the makeup of my blood will be changed at a cellular level to allow me to live on this new planet, my new home. My body will process the air I breathe differently so that I can subsist in the atmosphere of EchoB32. There are other changes too, smaller ones, the list was long and filled with biology jargon. I know my skin will also adapt to absorb the rays from this foreign sun, and my kidneys to process the change...

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“To Be Loved By Storms” by Alex Fish

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[CW: implicit child abuse, brief body horror (monster description), implicit autism spectrum discussion, blizzards] Today's the day I change; today I will become what I have always been expected to be. I nurse the bruise under my eye, wandering aimlessly into the field outside of town. The grass crunches beneath my feet, dead and frosted. Cows bellow in the distance. The birds overhead make a terrible, shrill racket as their wings beat against the sky; they swoop down into the trees, joining others in a familiar, desperate song. Com...

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“Breaking All the Rules” by Brenda Butler

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“Today’s the day I change,” Leaf thought as he laid on the gurney. His entire life for that matter would be changing. He also knew in that moment it would be changing for the bad and not the good. He had to come up with a plan to get out of that attic and away from the Slices. He wanted to survive whatever they had planned for him. He had no one to blame but himself. He read the one house rule and he broke it. He chose this path, but who knew. He wanted to know from Sawn, why him and where are the Slices two daughters. &nbsp...

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“Yesterday's Special” by McKeon Gardella

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Today’s the day I change. Yet do we never not change? The law of conservation says that Mass, matter, is neither created nor destroyed. Though matter can’t be destroyed, it may be changed in form. And for eternity we are the Mass that is always changing. We are changelings turning into other shapes through the millions of years. It is said about shapeshifters, in jest, is that they could look just like you and me. Since we are changelings taking on new shape and form, then we are shapeshifters. This is my life as a shapeshifter. Throughou...

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“Liberation of Self” by Bahadrhan Cicek

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Today is the day I change. I was waiting for it for a long time. Days, months, years have passed. Many times I was ready for it, many times I prepared myself but never happened until today. Something was wrong today. My body got heated. My arms and legs were tingling and numb. My soul was leaving me slowly and I was watching myself from the top. It was strange feeling. I have never felt it before. This was liberation. Finally, my soul was getting free and breaking the boundaries of our limited biological cover. Can you imagine a world indepe...

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“ The Metamorphosis” by Lin Darroe

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Today’s the day I change. I utter these words out loud to my eleven-year-old self in the bathroom mirror. My name is Max Chase and the reason for this about-face is obvious if you know me. Okay, wait. You don’t know me. So I guess I will begin my story here. I live with my Mom and Dad and my kid brother Frankie. Who let’s just say right here and now, does not have to change. Ever. He is the perfect kid. The perfect brother, friend, son, and grandson. Not me. I am too quiet, too sullen, and always seem to...

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“The Day I Get Help” by Mako Swanson

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Today's the day I change. Into someone better, more capable, more reliable. I'm going to therapy. I've decided that there are a lot of things I need to do differently in my life but I just don't know how. I need help, just like everyone kept telling me. I was too ashamed to do it before, and too afraid to even book an appointment... My mom did it for me. I just have to show up and open up, which is the terrifying part. Today is the day I'll actually be going in. Unless I change my mind and scurry back to my isolation and ...

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“Bad Habits ” by Gigi L' Amoroso

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TW: eating disorders, sexual content, coarse language “Today’s the day I change...”Priya wiped her tears with my least favourite long sleeve blue high school rugby sweatshirt. “ You have to, or else you won’t be around to even enjoy all the things you’ve worked hard for”, I advised. It comforted me to know this was the last piece of advice I would give as her boyfriend. We just broke up. We ended a four year relationship right in the exact place it started-my favourite breakfast place- The Station. I had already finished cryin...

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“Shedding My Skin” by Rose W

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TW: Murder, Vengence Today’s the day I change. Daphne Burrows looked at herself in the mirror for what she knew would be the last time. She studied her mauve wavy hair, not it’s natural colour, her indigo eyes, her tiny nose, all the features that had been with her throughout her thirty years of existence. Daphne wanted to commit all of this to memory. She had good reason to. After today, she would no longer be herself but someone whom nobody, not even her would recognize. As challenging as it would be, the ch...

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“Punished” by Sarah Dumont

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TW: abuse, violence Today’s the day I change. I wake up and I just know, I know I have to. I’ll change and I swear, I’ll be better. The new me is born now, to the sound of my annoying aggressive ringtone that I really don’t like. You might be asking yourself why I keep a ringtone that is annoying and aggressive. I mean, that would be a fair question. To be honest, I kinda think it’s to punish myself. I can’t, like, properly punish myself like dad used to. I mean, I know I could. I could lock myself in a closet for 3 hours, I could, but I...

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“An Hour and A Half” by Alexia Gagliano

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Trigger warning: Death & murder Today’s the day I change. Those are the first words that eighteen-year-old Olive Aiden whispered to herself on the morning of the day she died. Olive’s morning began like any other – she opened her phone, ignored the most recent messages from her boyfriend of three years and went straight to the Tinder app. She had a lot of time to kill. Every day, her alarm rang exactly an hour and a half before she actually needed to get up for school. It was simple, really. An hour and a half was all the time she n...

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Start your story with “Today’s the day I change.”

Submissions are closed

✍️ 54 stories

“Tim's change” by Tab Glomah

“Sticks and Stones” by Omar Alvarez

“Change of the Soul” by Daniel Record

“It still depends…” by -Z J-

“Becoming Echoan” by Alex Lewig

“To Be Loved By Storms” by Alex Fish

“Breaking All the Rules” by Brenda Butler

“Yesterday's Special” by McKeon Gardella

“Liberation of Self” by Bahadrhan Cicek

“ The Metamorphosis” by Lin Darroe

“The Day I Get Help” by Mako Swanson

“Bad Habits ” by Gigi L' Amoroso

“Shedding My Skin” by Rose W

“Punished” by Sarah Dumont

“An Hour and A Half” by Alexia Gagliano

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