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“Viral Clone ” by Ivy Moonlit

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“What harm could come out of it? Just do it.” My roommate said. We were recording ourselves doing funny dances and funny snippets of movies and TV shows to pass the time in quarantine. We had been goofing around being bored for a few days now, and today she bursted into my room and started to convince me to post them online, and not going to lie, it was working. “Comeone, it’s not like we’re ugly enough to get made fun of, and you, you look like Emma Watson’s clone! Gorgeous darling!” I let out a laugh, “Okay okay, fine, which one firs...

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“Made in Quarantine” by Zsofia Toth

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The girl just practiced gymnastics. She did somersault, backwards and forward, ending in a handstand or just in a simple pose, she did cartwheel, she did flare moves. She combined moves with the skipping-rope. She loved to skip the rope since she was 3. This was the first thing she learned from her big sister, and she never stopped loving it. This was the first step in her dream to become an acrobat. For her dream, she really went that extra mile. After her long list of obligations, of course: school, homework, extra classes in Math and Engl...

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“Finders Keepers” by Karin Morley

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Everyone I see on social media seems to have a better life than I do. When I was in my 20’s, there was no known way of seeing how someone lived their life unless you were physically there to see it. Therefore, all the people in one’s world were in a state of suspended animation in the mind of others. If you were happy and doing well in December of one year, everyone thought of you as happy and doing well whenever they thought about you. There was no proof of the opposite like there is now, or, in my case, lack of proof.I don’t want people se...

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“Through The Window” by Matt Render

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From my bedroom window, I see it all. The life outside is like a stage, and here I sit at my own private theatre balcony. I see the happy families with their retrievers, strolling past on blooming spring afternoons. I see the newspaper boy trudging by on black snowy mornings. I see young hoodlums scurrying through the streets like rodents, breaking into any unlocked cars and taking change from the cup holders while the neighbourhood is fast asleep in their hypnotic dream comas. I’ve come to know quite a bit about my neighbours. Th...

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“I Wish I Never Went Viral” by Brenda Black

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Just a click and everyone could know your name, just a second and every stranger that walks past you will immediately recognize your face. You no longer become a faceless entity in their world but someone they know, while to you, they remain as strangers that want to touch you, take pictures of you or use you.An upload of you doing something for fun, suddenly becoming seen by eyes that you will never know the names of, by strangers that will say things that will make you uncomfortable, cry or feel loved.They will desire more content from you...

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“Fame” by Dana Shelton

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Bryce was a good kid. For an 11 year old, anyway. His mom, Meg, had persuaded his dad to buy him his own phone a few weeks ago. Most kids his age had an iPhone or equivalent for a year or more already. His mom was resistant at first (she never had a phone growing up, basically because they didn’t exist then). But he had done so well in school, in sports, with friends, that when the time came to renew their phones she persuaded his father it was time to invest in a phone for him. He reluctantly agreed. Bryce...

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“And Suddenly I Was World Famous!” by Swagata B

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I was born in a story telling family!When I was two I would go to my brother who was four years older than me and ask him to tell me a story. He would ask me to name some objects. My eyes would scan the room ..CHAIR …SWITCH…BOOK...TOY-TRAIN and off he would go spinning a tale for me with those objects! Once I started school my favourite time of the day was when on my return my mother would sit with a cup of tea and some biscuits and I would sit with her nibbling really tiny bites of the biscuits to prolong our mother-daughter chats dur...

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“Sometimes risks are worth taking” by Hannah Reitz

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“Mom! Mom!” Josh called as he ran down the stairs, jumping down the last few steps. He ran into the living room, his socks slipping on the hardwood floor as he did. He shoved his phone in his mom’s face. “I did it.” “Calm down. You did what?” His mom said, grabbing his phone and looking at what was on the screen. “What-” She started. “It has a million views.” Josh said “I did it.” He repeated. Him and his mom had made a deal that if he posted a video on YouTube, a random one, and it got one million views, she would buy him a pet....

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“World-building: A Tutorial” by LeighAnne Ferreol

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"Hello, everyone! Welcome to my channel. It’s your number one girl ‘OG’ here! So today I have a super exciting topic for us to talk about, and I know a lot of you have been requesting this for, like, centuries. Today we are discussing ‘world-building.’ For those of you who aren’t familiar ‘world-building’ is, well, exactly what it sounds like: creating your own world. Now, there are three very important parts of world-building. I will tell you all of them first, and then we’re going to break them down one by one. So, our three important part...

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“Eli's newborn will for exercise” by Jesse Cook

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“11:34 AM” said the digital clock in big red numbers as Eli lazily stretched on his bed. It was the fifteenth day of quarantine and as the schools were closed there were not many reasons for a 16-year-old teenager to leave his bed in the morning besides the urge of emptying his bladder.Getting up and quickly making his way to the bathroom, Eli closed the door and pull down his pants in front of the toilet, managing a clear shot and the relief of letting his bladder rest. After covering his privacy, he went and stood in front of the sink. The...

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“Never Far” by Emma Lin

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Hit alarm clock, brush teeth, shower, put on clothes, eat a bowl of Lucky Charms, watch television and internet-surfing, instant ramen noddles.That is my quarantine schedule for four months but it feels like a year worth of time. Do not ask about my appearance or hair: I have been wearing sweatpants and over-sized shirts with crazy-cat lady hair style. I switch on the television as I situate into the lazy boy chair. “Good morning America,” the woman grinned. “The pandemic has brought many of us together from all sides of the pole.”“That’s ri...

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“Lois and Clark” by Gideon Gichohi

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Hi my name is Zoe and I love ice-cream…Frankfurt is not very far from Kandy’s place and she loves strolling to that beautiful art arena till all movement was restricted to one block. Tall feet, skinny but lovely…lovely and tiny. Yeah, the last description is fine. She is quite the friend at school and at home and that is always confusing since she loves parroting. Anyway, the neighborhood is fond of her, especially if her pearl white teeth show them any sign of approval.So a celebrity is always a celebrity? Bongo is a ten-foot prick near the...

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“Ticking Time ” by Natalya B

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Is my skirt too long? Too short? What if they don't like my hair? Wait, the lighting's bad. Eh, who cares. It's not like anyone's going to see it. But what if someone does? Ok so it's left arm out, left arm back in. Right arm down left arm up. My phone lays up against the pale brick wall, my case scratched by the rough red cement. The little clock icon sitting in the right hand side of the screen awaits my finger to command it to count down. I hesitate over the screen, contemplating whether or not I should change my shirt. Will they think it...

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“Our future” by Dileth Duarte

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From a young age, I’ve always wanted to help people, particularly children. I finally made my dream come true. I have been a pediatrician for a little over a year now. I have simple and fun tactics to keep my children calm and happy. I sing the doc mcstuffins theme songs when i’m about to start a check up. One day I was singing the song to a two year old girl because she was freaking out that I was going to check her. I just started singing, “Time for a checkup, time for a checkup! I'm gonna check your ears, check your eyes, find out h...

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“Avoid Touching MEN” by Oluseyi Ogunnaike

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Despite more speed, more kilometres remain and swiftly a sixtysomething Nelly disappears in twinkles. His mind stitches to a something. A haven with ventilation and solution. An isolation camp. A sport centre requisitioned for test and treatment. He’s directed to go there. This instruction is known to the companions trapped in the madrush with him. Oversped and burst down in a deep pothole. The grandson, inexperienced for a tyre-fix in pen, eye glasses, and a phone in his hand, hurriedly slids out of the roll-coaster.’’Take eighteen-wheeler ...

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Write a story about someone posting a video on social media that goes viral.

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✍️ 54 stories

“Viral Clone ” by Ivy Moonlit

“Made in Quarantine” by Zsofia Toth

“Finders Keepers” by Karin Morley

“Through The Window” by Matt Render

“I Wish I Never Went Viral” by Brenda Black

“Fame” by Dana Shelton

“And Suddenly I Was World Famous!” by Swagata B

“Sometimes risks are worth taking” by Hannah Reitz

“World-building: A Tutorial” by LeighAnne Ferreol

“Eli's newborn will for exercise” by Jesse Cook

“Never Far” by Emma Lin

“Lois and Clark” by Gideon Gichohi

“Ticking Time ” by Natalya B

“Our future” by Dileth Duarte

“Avoid Touching MEN” by Oluseyi Ogunnaike

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