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

Posted in Teens on Oct 26, 2022

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“Life Poker” by Natania Yap

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TW: child abuse There was a stain of mold leeching across the wall from the right hand corner. Everyday it inched further and I had given up using the chemical bleach. No matter how far I pushed it back, the mold returned stronger and stronger. I’ve used insecticides, pesticides, hospital grade bleach and I’m running out of options. In my science class, I’d learned about viral genetics and evolution. The reason we need a new influenza vaccine every year is because the influenza virus genetically adapts to the vaccine, and it evolves u...

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“God and the Atheist ” by Maria Bray

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Everything had gone wrong for Alex since his dad got sick.Only 22, he felt like Atlas, carrying the weight of the world on his back.He dropped out of college in order to come home and be of help to his dad and his mom, but not before accruing a nice little sum of $32,000 and some change in student debt, having had only one more year before graduating with honors, which Alex had considered that was some shit indeed looking back at his poor performance in middle and high school, Mom even commenting proudly that she always knew that he had it i...

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“Bad Luck can be Better” by Saya Campbell

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Luck really isn't my thing. All my life has been a disaster, a tornado incoming every minute. Sometimes a flood of embarrassment also comes with the package, adding onto the already-bad-enough tornado. I feel like I was born with this bad luck. Everyday at lunch I spill some water or mashed potatoes on me, and tests in school always lower my grade form a B to a C. I hate it. To be honest that's all I have to say about my life. I really hate it. I always wish that I could swap bodies with a famous influencer or even my brother who gets everyo...

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“A man and Evil and his luck” by Zile Hina

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There was once a very talented craftsman who was hired to build a small church in a small village. The man was given a month to complete his task and he assured the people of the village that he would do as he had promised and build them a beautiful church that would make them all very proud. The craftsman asked the people of the village to give him his wages before he began his work so that he might buy food and materials. The kind people of the village trusted the craftsman and so they paid him his money and believed that he would do as he...

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“LAST MINUTE” by Githinji Muthee

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HEADS-UP : TENSION The morning gleam flared through the window blinds' cracks. The flare shadow painted the office desk with lines. A faint breeze made the glint reflect to the monumental white ceiling. I sat on the opposite side facing him, calm and composed. I was terribly nervous in my cheap suit. Nobody would have guessed anyway. Most of my colleagues at my former workplace had kept telling me through our time working together; that I have gifted hands, that picks up the best things everywhere. I picked the best deals, I made the best ...

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“Grateful” by Tharissa A.

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The name's Jason Pieters. They call me Lucky. By "they" I mean mom and dad. I was born in a prestigious family, one of the wealthy-line in this district. But they don't know much about this beautiful family. I'm my parents' first child, and they almost lost me caused by severe bleeding. Luckily, mom and I survived. Sometimes, I hate having the nickname Lucky. People tend to compare me to that lucky puppy in the 101 Dalmatians called Lucky.Well, my birth is one of the two best things that ever happened in my parents' life. Weird to be called ...

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“Raykin's Mirrors” by Katharine Widdows

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Raykin tripped over his candle lamp, stumbled, and caught his knee on the corner of his bed as the light went out. He gasped, rubbed his leg and hopped across the floor, grabbing at the curtains. The curtain pole detached from the wall, unsteadying him further as he fell into the nightstand. The nightstand tipped and a small collection of precious objects slid off the top.‘No, please no!’ Raykin said as he watched his only banishment disc roll across the floor, glinting in the moon light, and slip between the floorboards.He scrabbled around ...

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“The Deal” by Lauren Eason

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Samuel pushed against his hotel door, trying to keep the mob that had formed out in the hallway from breaking it down. The only thing keeping them out was the thin metal chain that was tearing away from the door frame. Samuel turned and leaned his back into it as he heard the tiny click. Whipping around, he locked the deadbolt and backed away as the banging grew louder. This wasn’t what he had in mind when he made that deal long ago with the strange man in the alley. He just wanted a little luck on his side—to sell his manuscript that he w...

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“Bad luck, Good luck” by Samantha Tong

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Natalie well, didn't exactly have the best life you could possibly imagine. " Haha! Natalie the Nerd!" taunted Ada, one of the bullies. Her popular friends were right behind her laughing at Natalie. All of Natalie's books and papers scattered over the floor as Ada pushed her down." My books!" Natalie exclaimed, pushing up her glasses and quickly picking them up. Ada and her wannabe friends laughed again." Aw. Afraid you're gonna get 99% on your next quiz?" said Lilia, Ada's best friend. They all laughed loudly again.Natalie picked up her boo...

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“Seamus” by Marie McLaughlin

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Seamus O'Brien ran through the rocky fields surrounding his village with his friends, Eoin and Finn. Life was peaceful in the village of Oakdale, a tiny hamlet in a field surrounded by forests and mountains of the Emerald Isle.Seamus and the boys sat on top of fence posts on the Chicken fence at a nearby farm."Life is good, ain't it, fellas?" Finn said."Cheers to that!" Seamus O'Brien replied."Brigid has smiled upon us! Eoin declared.Oakdale was a prosperous village of farmers and hunter-gatherers."Seamus! Time for supper!" Seamus's mom call...

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“Stroke of Luck” by Ian Mitchell

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“Circle of salt? Check. Full height mirror? Check. Protective candles? Check. Sacrificial offering? Check. Time? One minute until midnight. Okay, Jacob. You’ve got this.” Yeah, that’s me, sitting there, preparing to perform a ritual to summon Satan that I learned about on the internet. You might ask why I was feeling so desperate. Well, you see, there was this stock. And then a crypto. Then another stock. But that’s not where the story begins. I married my college s...

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“Weed of Luck” by Anneliya Lydia

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Scrape, scrape. The ear-torturing sound of a metal spoon hitting a glass bowl fills the kitchen as I aimlessly mix my low-fat, Greek yogurt. I stare into the white substance as if it holds the answers to my problems. I try not to think about my problems, though. I try not to think about anything. That's why I'm trying to drown out the productive noise of my older brother and my father discussing ways to make their private business even more efficient. They are sitting at the kitchen table, mugs of black coffee cradled in their manicured hand...

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“Charms” by Kayley Dickins

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Things had not been going swimmingly. Speaking on a larger scale or a smaller scale, things were simply not peachy and they hadn’t been for a while now. Not only had someone rear-ended him at a junction devastatingly close to his home last weekend, but he had also dribbled toothpaste down his only fresh shirt this morning. It was his only fresh shirt because his iron had given up the ghost on Tuesday, although not before leaving with a perfectly half-ironed shirt, arguably even less professional than a completely non-ironed one. Anyway, life...

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“"And They Call Her Eva"” by Evelyn Williams

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It's somewhere around the year of 1957. Eva lived in the beautiful city of Slone Valley, North Carolina . She always wanted to travel and do what she wanted to do. But because she lived with her grandmother, and other siblings, that was out of the question. Eva was smart, beautiful, and always thinking "there's got to be another way!" She always did what she was told, but there was something very special about Eva. She had a way of seeing things, hearing things, and not revealing them to anyone. Her grandmother sent her to the grocery...

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“hope ur ok” by McThunder Gacha

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Sidra is a 16 years old Muslim girl who studies at Neva Bassett's International School, New York. Her birthday is on 24 September and she is a Libra. She got a scholarship to study there. She belongs to a big poor family back in London.She is a normal teenage girl, living normally in her international boarding school. She have 3 roommates, Lia, Olivia and Sam. They thought they were living a normal life, but it all changes until one day, Sidra bumped into a teacher.Sidra: I'm so sorry Mrs Walker! *bows to take Mrs Walker's files that fell*Si...

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

Submissions are closed

✍️ 101 stories

“Life Poker” by Natania Yap

“God and the Atheist ” by Maria Bray

“Bad Luck can be Better” by Saya Campbell

“A man and Evil and his luck” by Zile Hina

“LAST MINUTE” by Githinji Muthee

“Grateful” by Tharissa A.

“Raykin's Mirrors” by Katharine Widdows

“The Deal” by Lauren Eason

“Bad luck, Good luck” by Samantha Tong

“Seamus” by Marie McLaughlin

“Stroke of Luck” by Ian Mitchell

“Weed of Luck” by Anneliya Lydia

“Charms” by Kayley Dickins

“"And They Call Her Eva"” by Evelyn Williams

“hope ur ok” by McThunder Gacha

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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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