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“LOST AND FOUND” by Sharmishtha Saha

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Walking out from the airport was as easy as walking in a park for Shakir. His cab arrived like butter on bread. Shakir got inside the cab quickly letting the driver put the baggage inside the dickey and while doing so the dickey banged over one of the suitcase. “Hey! Watch out man. Be careful.” shouted Shakir from inside the cab. “Sorry sir.” said the driver. **************************************************** Krish came out running from the airport all panicked and petrified. He is late again. His cab arrived like a sleepwalker. Krish was...

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“This Side of the Cosmos” by Katie Morgan

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A red eye. A bus ride. An endless sea of people on their way to their daily routines. I watch a woman out of the corner of my eye, her hand shakes as she holds out a rusted tin can with holes in the bottom. I pretend not to notice her as I keep up my pace.I can’t help but feel that that woman is just like me: holding out a soul riddled with holes, begging for someone to give me something that would slip right through the cracks. I get on the train just as the doors are sliding shut, shoving my way through people, crinkling my nose against th...

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“THIRD DAY's CAKE.” by Tariq Saeed

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Till late night ,, enjoying party with my friends.One of the friend ,mischiviously,mixed marijuana in soft drinks,made us all antoxicated….and don’t know how I came home.Same night dreamt ,my father carrying a suit case and conversed.”Son,done the best part in life,now the rest is up to you." where is he going,?Remembered, it was July 1993.. Call to my father,no response.”Later informed by old buddy, Father handed over the place of Rawal pindi to its legal heirs.,Now understood,he freed himself from this obligation. "you look too worried sin...

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“Winning over!” by Pritam Mugal

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(Content warning: Depressing, suicidal thoughts) I sat by the window in my apartment smoking till daylight. Thinking about the future, life, and my failed relationship. Most importantly thinking about how to change my bad luck. Maybe waiting for my luck to shine magically. Only if there had been a magic formula for such a thing! A 35-years old stubborn man with a job lost recently, a wife left, what would he make of nights. I better think and shine my future bright! I glanced at my cheap mobile phone which had a screen cracked at several p...

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“THE WAY TO LUCK” by Sivaram Govindaraj

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Mr.X was a man who felt he had no luck. Though he was qualified and experienced he couldn’t get a decent job. He had advertised in the matrimonial columns to find a bride. It was a peculiar ad and still he got responses. He had shortlisted those to talk to and excerpts from the matrimonial interviews he faced are reproduced below: Candidate 1 SHE: Though you’re well qualified, how is it you’ve no job? X: They asked me questions which were difficult to answer: For instance after I had passed written tests I was called for interview. The...

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“Purpose” by FJC Montenegro

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Ah, the eternal warfare between the things I want to do and the things I have to do. I'm not sure what being an adult encompasses, but I know this is a big part of it. I have to clean up the apartment, but I want to stay in bed. I have to get out of bed and start my day, but I want to write this first. I have to write this, but I want to play video games.It's a cold and cloudy Sunday morning in the south of Brazil. It does get chilly in the winter here — which is something that baffles most north-hemisphere inhabitants of this planet: "Reall...

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“The Mountain Fall” by Gayathri Pavanasri

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MOUNTAIN FALL Sue is not like all the other girls in the class. She is anxious, affright, confusing and a girl of having no proper id...

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“Noah The Failure” by Emaan Arif Khan

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The story surrounds a boy named Noah who was in middle school and was the youngest son of three siblings.One was a sister and the other was a brother both were the perfectionists as the parents of proud of them.Noah had usually been neglected by his parents as he had low academic progress than that of his siblings.Noah's siblings were pretty much the most perfect children since they had the best academic scores and were great at sports as well.The parents would always love the other kids and not know and he would always feel low about it.Noa...

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“Huángsè Fire Clover” by T. Um.

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Felix was inside the abortion clinic because he worked there. Seven years ago, he was sent to Uganda to teach combat marksmanship tactics to Ugandan soldiers, so they could fight back against the LRA insurgency led by Joseph Kony. On an ill-advised morning run, Felix was captured by guerilla fighters and taken to an LRA compound. They tortured Felix for information, clubbing and burning him, but he never gave in. At one point, they choked him with a horseshoe from behind the chair he was tied to and nearly crushed his esophagus. By some stro...

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“A Bad Penny” by Gia Volterra De Saulnier

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It wasn’t as if I hadn’t heard all the phrases before. My favorite being if you pick a penny up, you’ll have good luck. Or, a penny for your thoughts. Boy, if I had a penny every time I’d heard that one, I’d have been rich. No, I was never that lucky. Never found. Never picked up. Everyone passed me by without a thought in their minds. Maybe I was too little to understand why folks were going by me. I could only look one way. Down. Did you know that ants will come cross over me when they can? I think one of them tried picking...

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“The Luckiest Man Alive” by Luke Morgan

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Tim Hopkins was the luckiest man alive. Without fail, he would find himself receiving great fortune day after day. Tim was the person that everyone disliked whilst growing up, the sort that could fluke an exam and get excellent results. He had the face to match, one that knew it was privileged. His rat-like features complemented his lean physique, yet somehow everyone found him attractive. On the surface, there was little wrong with Tim. He had everything. But not everything could make him happy. One ordinary day, Tim decided...

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“Luck is fickle. Luck is fated. Luck is not real.” by Clinton Siegle

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I am one of the least luckiest people in the world. I am also one of the luckiest people in the world. How can that be? I had my business stolen from me. HUD did not pay for their tenants for seven months and I lost 43 rental units. My health deteriorated from there and my career as a professional auditor/scheduler went down hill. I lost my right ankle to zombie bacteria. Meaning my ankle died for 17 days and no one knew it and I was hurting and they finally cut it out of me. I was fired due to that experience. Went to work as soon as I coul...

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“The Vanilla Candle” by Harlow Jones

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“How difficult would it be to screw all my furniture into the floor?” Samantha contemplated while washing the dishes for the third time. "Maybe glue would be better." Gawking at the clock, she moved on to fluff each pillow twice. She then lit her eucalyptus-spearmint candle. It was made for stress relief but was probably just a placebo. Rushing into meditation was counterintuitive, but her definition of productivity prioritized quantity over quality. Legs crossed and eyes closed, she repeated, “Have fun. Have fun. Have fun.” Last week, she...

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“Where did it all go wrong? ” by Leanne Spencer

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From time to time, everyone needs that bit of luck, whether it be just to have a day out without it raining or the car getting through the MOT, to more serious situations like seeing a loved one get through a difficult situation. But what happens when everyone around you seems to be having all your share of that luck, the good luck and you have a dumpster full of the bad type. Well such a thing seems to be happening to Reese. You would not believe what she went through. It's now Thursday night, so I will take you back to the beginn...

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“When the true fool gathers luck...” by Lis Lovén

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The Way of Lin… Always something new. Always something else. Always the way of her life. Cause Lin searched for this way, this very Dao, of being happy. And she came across a book called I Ching. She fell in love with the book. It was no perveted feeling at all. But the language was English and it dragged out her mind to the way of herself. The Dao that had the good luck written down as a sort of remedy in each chapter. To search for the correct number meant that mathematical spheres crossed bows and then – luck could begin! But hard work ...

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Write about someone who’s desperately trying to change their luck.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 101 stories

“LOST AND FOUND” by Sharmishtha Saha

“This Side of the Cosmos” by Katie Morgan

“THIRD DAY's CAKE.” by Tariq Saeed

“Winning over!” by Pritam Mugal

“THE WAY TO LUCK” by Sivaram Govindaraj

“Purpose” by FJC Montenegro

“The Mountain Fall” by Gayathri Pavanasri

“Noah The Failure” by Emaan Arif Khan

“Huángsè Fire Clover” by T. Um.

“A Bad Penny” by Gia Volterra De Saulnier

“The Luckiest Man Alive” by Luke Morgan

“Luck is fickle. Luck is fated. Luck is not real.” by Clinton Siegle

“The Vanilla Candle” by Harlow Jones

“Where did it all go wrong? ” by Leanne Spencer

“When the true fool gathers luck...” by Lis Lovén

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Write about a family with a long-standing tradition, whose members all have conflicting origin stories for it.

Start your story with a character having a premonition, but no one believes them.

Set your story on (or in) a winding river.

Write a story involving a character who cannot return home.

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