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Start your story with someone discovering a photograph that has something written on the back.

Posted in Valentine's Day on Oct 25, 2022

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The Allure of the Forbidden

Submitted to Contest #103

Valora was tired and more than ready for bed this evening. It had been a long day, and she was looking forward to the comfort of her soft mattress with its fresh, sun-drenched linens and plumped up puffy pillows. As she perched herself on the edge of her bed, she picked up the old, discolored photograph that she’d found in the antique shop earlier that day. She didn’t know why, but it had held a fascination for her, and she’d impulsively purchased it. She slowly turned the photograph over and read the inscription on the back of it again: “Ar...

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A Long Way From Home

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Ann is a girl who has something bad always happening . Like today , her friend snuck through her window with her favorite painting it was a picture of her as the Mona Lisa but then her friend said it had something on the back but it was cursive so she couldn't read it so Ann flipped it over and read aloud : In your basement there is a secret door the wod you may guess . Ann, where is it? weird. I think I know but if we go down there, I’ll get weird .We're in the basement and we're on top of a trapdoor. “So what do we do now?” her friend...

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The moral heir

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The moral heir 1995: The Sun was absent throughout the day and the wind was gathering speed by the minute. Weather stations had forecasted cyclone in a day or two.  Shops were fast downing their shutters and vehicles were hurrying towards their homes. Rain drops, big and haphazard, had started falling down already. People were scurrying for cover when that man in a shiny raincoat was walking deliberately slowly, his eyes surveying the scene around him. Unmindful of the situation that was developing, he walked with determined steps tow...

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Worth a Reason

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It was a tradition. We spent every Sunday thrift store shopping. It was our way to distress from the everyday woes of being a college student. We knew that everything in that store told a story and we found pleasure in piecing that story together. Usually, we went there with no mission In particular other than the joy that it brought us. However, this weekend trip was different. Ari was pledging Kappa and needed something white. I had my own reservations about her joining a society where the customs and protocols were so out of date but I ke...

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My story is entitled In the Photo studio after long hours the young man Mr. Jeff Bezos discovered a photograph that has something written on the back.

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My story is entitled In the Photo studio after long hours the young man Mr. Jeff Bezos discovered a photograph that has something written on the back.Once upon a time, it was noted that photo studios were places where individuals gather to explore, interact and take all kinds of photos either passport, landscape or portrait. Others allow pictures to be framed for some prominent individuals of our society.The Photo studio as noted is a collection of materials that relates to photographs and passport pictures taken by individuals within the so...

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Dancing in the Wind

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My fingers are silky, my hand cradles a lustrous photo. Emerging from a yellowed sheathe, it rocks in my palm, refracting the glints of the bedside lamp this way and that. Amidst the disarray of my thoughts and feelings, a draught flips the picture over to its velvety white side where the penmanship is a marvel.“Will you ever forgive without anger?Will you ever forget without hatred?Will you ever call me Noodle Girl?”How did she know? Did I sigh it, my eyes shut tight? Did I blurt it out, cast from the depths of my heart? She must’ve known, ...

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The Untold Story

Submitted to Contest #103

It was early January, the day after my seventieth birthday in fact, when the call came. Robby announced himself on the other end of the phone and I struggled to remember who he was. He must have heard the uncertainty in my voice and said,“You know, it’s me, Robby - Gordon’s friend, from Brisbane.”“Yes, of course. How are you?” I replied, trying to sound convincing.“I’m afraid I have some bad news; Gordon passed away this morning.” Silence.Gordon, a mutual friend, had recently suffered a stroke and had been hospitalised for several weeks. He’...

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Grandfather Paradox

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A week after Abigail Whitaker’s funeral, her two children reluctantly began going through their mother’s belongings. To sell the valuables, donate usable items, and discard the rest. But it wasn’t an easy task. Abigail was a hoarder her entire life, and she couldn’t easily throw things away. She kept postcards, some of which belonged to sixty to seventy years ago. And like a zealot, Abigail kept all belongings of her late husband, who was listed as MIA in the Vietnam war decades ago. She loved her husband dearly and waited all her life, expe...

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Picture the Past

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I can’t remember what I was looking for in the basement, but I’ll never forget what I found. It was in the jumble box; you know the one. There are boxes with books marked BOOKS, boxes of DVDs marked DVD’S and that one box full of emotional valuable rubbish, toys and silly souvenirs marked JUMBLE BOX. Under a plastic Big Ben and a participation trophy was the shimmering back side of a polaroid photo. On it, mum had scribbled Jasper and Victoria 1999. You know I’m Jasper, but what you should also know is, butterflies burst into flight as I rea...

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Junk Drawer Baby

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The mysterious picture with the scribbled date on the back was found during one of my many junk drawer treasure hunts. I think every house has a drawer like that. The one place where people toss odds and ends inside, soon to be forgotten. In our house that bottom drawer was always hard to open. A sticky kind of drawer that took lots of jiggling, wiggling, with two hands and a foot on the cupboard for leverage type of pulling to get it to budge an inch. When it finally gave way, the force would send me flying on my re...

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7-17-21

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Sweet Blindness A thirty something guy walked into the bookstore and picked up a book that looked interesting. A photo of himself he didn’t recognize fell out. On the back was this: "I am stranded. I am being hounded by searchers. I know things that will soon affect this city, this entire planet! I am standing right behind you. Do not turn around!" He froze, looked around at the few customers and had an urge to get out of there fast. He read the next sentence. "On page twenty-five there is a note in the margin with directions to a park ne...

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The proxies

Submitted to Contest #103

‘Whatever happens, I will always love you😊’ I discover this written in your sloppy scrawl on the back of our treasured photograph that adorns the wall, a feather duster on my right hand. I was doing the day’s dusting chore. As I re-read your message, the wooden hanger slips through my fingers and hits the mosaic tile. I grab hold of the mahogany table by the wall, my hands trembling as a tear escapes from the corner of my eye. I slouch down on the camp chair by the window.Tick-tock tick-tock the clock ticks away. How far are you?I try and re...

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A photograph is a Secret

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She came back from work after a very tiring day, a package in front of her door attracted her eyes, it was a small package with no color or address, the only thing that made her realize it was hers was her name written in dark red ink with a familiar handwritten as if it's hers, a sweet smell coming from that creepy package, she turned her head left and right, pick it up and head inside. She took the package inside, put the camera on the counter, she's a successful photographer with artistic skills who get daily gifts from her fans sinc...

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The Secrets of Nome

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  Steve flipped through the photo album while sitting on an old trunk in an attic. He had come to his recently deceased great uncle Ted’s house to sift through the remaining belongings to see what might be of interest that he would like to keep from the estate. The rest of his great uncle’s family had already been through the house. But his great uncle Ted didn’t have any close family, and the attic had scarcely been picked through by anyone else. Getting up the retractable attic stairs was difficult. Whatever the case, Steve sat at the...

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A Man from 50 Years Ago

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There you are, this gorgeous Man smiling at the camera in front of him, when he was taking this picture at his age of 18 when he joined the Army. He looked confident and courageous, and you are still who you are fifty years later. There is just a date at the back of the photo, “1956/04/12”. This day is the day you proudly graduated from high school and joined the rebuilding of the country. This day is the glorious day for a rising star to shine. This day is the day marked the growing up of a giant. This day is the capture of a magnificent Ma...

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