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Write about someone who always comes to the aid of others.

Posted in Teens on Oct 26, 2022

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“Anonymous” by Katarína Krigovská

Submitted to Contest #48

Anonymity guarantees your privacy, an option to live your life without desperate cries for a moment without saving "the world's ass". Nonetheless, anonymity grants you peace; at some point, because you can't ignore their pleas for too long; and a little bit of recognition in the form of the public adoration, after saving someone prominent. Without sharing your private details... But what if someone helps every time, not knowing that people already found out his true identity? Yet they respect his need for anonymity and let him in the impress...

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“Coming To The Aid Of Others” by Monica Chaddick

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There is a woman that I know that always comes to the aid of others. She asks nothing in return, except for the respect that she deserves. She assists anyone and everyone. She is eighty – six years old and still helping everyone with everything.          First of all, she houses her nearly thirty year old grandson, who suffers from a form of autism called Asperger’s Syndrome. This causes him to sometimes have extremely ugly outbursts. Instead of holding this against him, h...

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“REDEALLA : The Redheaded Detective” by Damian Lagennusa Jr.

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                      REDEALLA                The Redheaded Detective                 The big light over the garage was casting a shadow on the side of the house. This image can be, to some with a sharp imagination, a shadow of a person wit...

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“The Step-In” by Michelle Reynolds

Submitted to Contest #48

Who watches the watchman? Who helps those who help others? Actually, there is a name for those people. Niko has a mouth full of slightly stale ramen noodles when the symbol lights up the city sky, brighter than any streetlight. It’s Captain Greatness’ symbol. Someone’s in trouble. Niko slurps at his bowl in a not so graceful fashion before getting up from the table and grabbing the remote, switching to the local news channel. “The First Bank, ironically on Second Street, has just been robbed by no other than Sticky Fingers, the ruthl...

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“A Night at the Diner” by Casey Smith

Submitted to Contest #48

"Refill?" the bartender asked the man sitting by himself. The bartender was old and bald, but the white employee's cap gave the illusion of graying hair from a distance. He was wearing a white coat similar to what you'd see in a laboratory. "Oh, yes, please," the man said timidly. He already felt he was tipsy, but he needed a distraction from prior events. The man was wearing a simple blue-green coat and a beige fedora hat. He seemed to anyone looking through the window of the bar area to be either deep in thought or depressed. He very rarel...

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“Loretta” by Victoria Nuzzi

Submitted to Contest #48

Hello, listeners. Come sit with me by the fire I’m sorry it smells so bad we are burning garbage after all. Let me tell you a story about one of the kindest people I have ever seen. My intent is to tell you her story so at least her name lives on. The story of Lorretta Joplin.Now Loretta was not like you and me. She had a soft life with a soft bed and never had to even think about sleeping on the curb. Her father and mother had a handsome amount of dollars and they spoiled their two daughters Loretta and Jean heavily. Though as Jean began to...

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“Reflections of a Heroine” by Cara H

Submitted to Contest #48

Reflections of a Heroine I As the gamma radiation caused by the death throes of its twin suns flooded the sixth planet in the Zetar system, the last survivor of the calamity released her hold on life. The broken spirit of Ondina Rvaga, reluctant princess of the planet Zecor’s totalitarian western faction, rose from her ravaged body. Ondina paused to kiss the cold forehead of the tall, slender, flaxen-haired elfin man who lay to her right side. She caressed the cheek of the small, wizened, dark-haired elfin man who lay in an eternal embrace ...

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“Nursing Passion” by Anna Irwin

Submitted to Contest #48

Emma’s eyes sparkled as she intently listened to her teachers smooth words, telling the story of her new hero. Her classmates around her laid on their notebooks or doodled absentmindedly onto the desks. Her history class usually resembled a sleepy meadow with her colorful personality popping up in curiosity. Later that day she climbed up into her mom’s car and she spoke unnecessarily loudly saying, “I’m gonna be a people helper someday!” She sat down in the chair of a sterile hallway, her thoughts far from that moment of passion 15 years ...

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“ødelagt” by Riley Jones

Submitted to Contest #48

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars. – Khalil Gibran Imagine this with me: you're sitting on a sloppy bed. There's an AC on your right, poorly hanging in the wall, sealed with tape so wasps don't fly in and sting everything they land on. Part of the pastel colored sheets are pulled back, maybe just the corner. There's a stuffed black bear sitting sadly by your legs like he needs a hug. Desperately. The window is open. Just the curtains since the room doesn't see much light du...

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“i'll trade ya” by Reana W.

Submitted to Contest #48

My heart wasn't in my words but his was. " And do you think-,..." Was all I needed to hear to stop listening. Because I do think, and am constantly reminded of thinking too much despite what I slaved to do. But not by him though, but by me. December 7th 2016 Chest aching I pulled the box off the shelf, nearly missing my face as my fingers slipped, as it fell towards my head.  " Are you insane?!" He yelled from the room over, as I struggled for a breath. No, I wanted to say, I was being helpful. But all that came out was a smal...

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“The Darkness Behind The Warm Touch” by Aj Slaughter

Submitted to Contest #48

 Ellie Sammuels wanted to help people as much as she could. She didn’t want people to hurt...not like she did. She helped out with every charity in the Cleveland area, she even was able to help in other cities too.  In school she was there to protect the people she was around. Ellie was very awkward. She never had a real friend...or a family for that matter. When she was younger she had lost her older sister to fire caused by her own father. Her father was put in jail and her mother couldn’t face the reality...so she hung herself.&...

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“Some Give All” by Allen Banks

Submitted to Contest #48

Katherine, or Kat as her residents call her was a good nurse aide. In fact she was a great nurse aide. She never considered herself great she simply did her job and tried to be compassionate in a career that often made a person heartless. She went in every night and did all she could for her residents to retain what humanity she could give them. tonight was no different. She and her partner made as many rounds as they physically could keeping the elderly dry on the bottom and hydrated on top. She took time out during what should have be...

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“Sunset” by Fay Winter

Submitted to Contest #48

My mother always taught me to help others. Even if you hate their guts, they still deserve a second chance. I still can't see why on earth you would try and help someone who would rather beat the crap out of you then say hello as you walk past. But of course, I have to. It's what my mother wanted me to do, so I always have to. Sigh. The things we promise as our mothers lay on their death beds. After my mother died, and my father started drinking to drive away the grief, I graduated from the University of Medical Science with a Bachelor of...

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“Gifting the Giver ” by Brittany Smith

Submitted to Contest #48

Kentucky, Tuck to his friends, sat back on his haunches, admiring the freshly painted handrail running the length of Mrs. Robin’s front steps. Lovingly carved from an oak tree Tuck’s parents had planted 50 years ago, the handrail would allow Mrs. Robins to manage the 4-step elevation without risk of falling again. The feeling of exhilaration at having solved someone else’s problem never faded away. It stoked a fire deep inside Tuck’s chest where he had thought only embers lay. Tuck gathered up the last of his tools and stowed them ...

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“Companion Chronicles” by Joseph Morganella

Submitted to Contest #48

I had just completed my devotional exercises to Nerull and was entering a meditative state when I felt his presence intrude upon my senses. I rose easily to my full fifteen-foot height, muscles toned and relaxed. “Master,” I bowed, “I am honored by your presence, how may I serve you?”“Mortals have invaded our crypts, even now they break through the secret entrance to my throne. I will alert the others. The steelwing, the cauchemar and my children will engage them, we must reinforce them.”I bowed again, “As you say, my lor...

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