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Write about someone who gets an inheritance from a relative they’ve never heard of, but they’ll need to do something completely outside their comfort zone in order to collect it.

Posted in Teens on Oct 26, 2022

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“Hiding in the Family Tree” by Tim Benson

Submitted to Contest #72

  “Hiding in the Family Tree”   It had been about three years since I’d tried what thousands of other curious people had; I’d bought a home DNA kit and traced my family’s history. It was just an effort to satisfy my curiosity and find out more about my roots than I’d been told growing up. A couple of my friends tried it and said it was an amazing experience to learn details of ancestors they never knew existed. My own experience was less satisfying. My report went back four generations, to Ireland and America, and the maps and fami...

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“THE FACE IN THE MIRROR” by Mara Masolini

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THE FACE IN THE MIRROR Undoubtedly it had been a big,  a good stroke of luck, indeed a colossal stroke of luck, a godsend, as everyone had said him, both friends, relatives and acquaintances, and even those who did not know him, but who had known what (it) had rained on him. Since he, George P., thirty years old, freelance journalist, with modest income, who led a barely dignified life, had suddenly, and at all unexpectedly found himself heir of a truly colossal  fortune, such colossal it was that he was rather ...

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“The List” by 𝗘𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗲 𝗙𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗼𝗻

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I have just received a letter saying that my great-uncle has just died. I have never met him and honestly, I didn’t even know he existed! It said that he left his will to… me? I don’t know why. Did he know me? He is leaving me 1,000,000, His mansion, and his horses. My great-uncle was rich!  It says I have to do everything on the list. What list? Just as I say that, a piece of paper falls out of the envelope. I pick it up and read it. At the top it says, “The List (If you want the inheritance.)” I read the list, Wanting to get the money...

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“Last Wishes ” by WRL Battle

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I never met my Uncle Elbrazzor. His passing was the first time I ever heard of him. I guess he was the black sheep of the family. From what I gathered from my relatives, he had a bank account that went into the millions, but yet he always wore raggedy clothes, lived in a shack, and always smelled like a pile of walking garbage. My family held a cheap and quick funeral for him. I got the feeling they did it out of obligation rather than out of love. During the service, I heard whispers of the millions of dollars my uncle saved up. Some o...

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“Tiny Voices” by N M

Submitted to Contest #72

Three. Four. Five steps to the bedroom window. I rose every day at exactly sixty minutes to sunrise, not a minute earlier or later; otherwise I had stomach pains well into the evening. During that time I tended to several tasks, opening the windows in the right order. First the second floor, starting from the bedroom, seventeen steps to the bathroom, and twenty more step to the immaculately neat guest room (despite the fact it had not accommodated any guest for years). Afterwards down the twelve staircase steps. First left foot then joined b...

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“Blood Money ” by Amber Brownlee

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Every day my life was the same, get up check the mail and go to work. Day in and out was the same boring routine until one day it wasn’t. I had just finished my cup of coffee and was getting ready to check the mail when the phone rang it was my mother, she sounded different not upset more like shocked. Her bother had just passed, I didn’t know she had a brother. There was something else apparently my mother and where the only family that he had left, that being the case he left me large inheritance but left my mother nothing. I told my moth...

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“The Ghost's of Three” by L U C A .

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The ghost’s of three Three is a small number. Unless of course you want to summon three dead people from the deep pits of Hades. It's just unthinkable. But that is what I was trying to do: summon the dead back into the world. It can’t be that hard right? Yes. Yes it can. Several times I had almost died trying to collect the ingredients. There was centaur blood which was toxin if touched by skin and I needed three liters of the stuff. I finally found an already dying centaur to give me some blood. Then there were the tears of a hippocampus w...

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“Across the border” by Seeker C

Submitted to Contest #72

Everyone turned to look at me as the last line of the Will was read out. Gasps and hushed whispers. “Do what?” “Can she really?” “What was he thinking?” Mum reached out and held my fingers tightly, “You don't have to do this.” She didn't know that I indeed had to. My future depended on what this unknown grinch had left for me. I was running out of time and money and I needed to do this. He’d spent his entire life staying away from us and now he seemed determined to collect. They say that she was the love of his life; the daughter who looked ...

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“The Donor's Legacy” by Catherine Rose

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Sheila waited patiently at the gate, as the guards checked the enigmatic invitation she received in the post a week prior.  Dear Sheila Byrne, As a beneficiary, you are cordially invited to attend Reading of the Will and  the Division of Assets of the late Fadil York’s estate, next Thursday, the 13th  of March, at 9.00 am. Details pertaining to the bequest and execution of Mr York’s Last Will and  Testament will be provided on site.  Yours sincerely,  Stephen Nagler (Legal Executor)  Sh...

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“5000 Feet” by Bailey Floyd

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Marie didn’t know this house. The door behind her had cracks down the front, and the floorboards beneath her squeaked once she flattened her sandals against the grain. There were small dust particles floating in the sunbeams by the living room, but there wasn’t a layer of grime on any surface. It was as if someone had just come through the house with a duster, leaving little time for the remnants to settle to the floor. Marie shut the door with her right hand and looked around for anyone to greet her. A few days ago she had received a lett...

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“Scottish Manors” by Sara Blanch

Submitted to Contest #72

Heading to Scotland definetly wasn't on her bucket list, not for this introverted bookworm who had spent most of her life reading about travelling and adventures from behind the safety of her books familiar paper pages. She had no desire to go out into the world, she made her money writing articles and short novels all from the confines of her cosy hundred year old townhouse in downtown Sydney. With strong wifi, being within walking distance of multiple shops and with all the coffee she could possibly consume Andrea wasn't too happy to hear ...

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“The Bucket List” by Renisha Antao

Submitted to Contest #72

"1. Go to a club alone and dance as though no one's watching." Reading the first item on the list I look towards the entrance of the club with trepidation while recalling why am I here in the first place. It was just another normal day for me when an elite lawyer arrived at my doorstep bringing along with him the last will of an aunt I've never even heard of before. Other than being related by blood we are basically strangers who's paths have never crossed yet I was named as the sole inheritor of her entire wealth. Something I thought only...

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“Living As Kings” by Jovan Ivančević

Submitted to Contest #72

Looking down from the great fortress under the famous Tower Clock on his home town my “walking manager” was very satisfied as I was chasing various odors around and Paco was following me. I thought this fabulous day and stroll all over this side of the river, my side, would never come. Strangely he didn`t come to walk us for a fortnight. Usually, he came every two or three days, across the river, but no news for so long. I was ecstatic, when the front gate opened and his tall figure petted me, but strangely, his face was covered with some ma...

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“Jesse’s Girl” by Byron Rylee

Submitted to Contest #72

“You’ve been sentenced to life without parole. May the family of Jane Salazar find peace in knowing justice has been served.”  GUILTY.  I didn’t do it. Everyone believes I'm a cold blooded killer, and the evidence says they’re right, but I didn’t do it. I know they all say that, but I loved this girl with every ounce of my soul. It was just one night. One night that I wasn’t with her and now she’s gone, and I’m the prime suspect.     Jane Salazar is...was my beautiful girlfriend. From the first time our eyes locked, ...

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“Alaska Air” by Geoff Peterson

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Claressa was not an adventurous person. She hadn’t been on a plane in years and she had forgotten the feeling of her stomach sinking when the front of the plane suddenly pitched upwards and she was pressed back into her seat. She had a feeling of release when she thought, “If the plane crashes, I’ll certainly die.” She got this way on takeoff and landing. For reasons unknown to her, the flying part seemed the most safe. She wasn’t scared of flying, she just didn’t enjoy it.  The flight was short, under four hours. Just enough time to w...

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