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New Beginnings

Submitted to Contest #100

"Ah. Nothin' like a fine meal after a hard day's work," Rhogar sighs contentedly, sitting back in his corner of the booth as he sips his dark ale. Dishes for two meat pies sit on the table in front of him, licked clean. "Aye, and no finer place for a meal than the Felnuth Tavern in all of Thradnyss," Vladislak agrees. His eyes scan the other patrons of the tavern, doubtless looking for a woman who might be persuaded to go home with him. However, his roving eyes find no one more interesting that his companions at his own table, and so his att...

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Fishy Dinner

Submitted to Contest #100

REEDSY WRITING CONTEST #249: Breaking Bread Start or end your story with two characters sitting down for a meal. The man, seated with his back to a large tree, its roots shielding him on three sides, hastily dropped the raw fish he was eating to grab his rifle. The woman who stood before him wore the uniform of the enemy. Her rifle, capable of shooting much further than the one he carried, was casually slung over her shoulder, across her back, signaling that she didn’t consider him a threat. The string of fish that hung from her belt held ...

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An Expensive Dinner

Submitted to Contest #100

He hated eating, hated food, hated that he was sat at a table with people he didn’t know having to experience both those things. There were butterflies in his stomach and they were wreaking havoc with the rice he was trying to shove down his throat, he wasn’t sure he could manage any of the curry at all unless something changed. His breathing rate had become more unpredictable throughout the evening and he was aware his deep breaths to steady himself were not working, and that they were becoming more noticeable with every bite. Exactly the o...

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To Dine With Thee

Submitted to Contest #100

This is a story of a girl who lives in a castle by herself but was cursed by her own mother as a baby. Her name is Ying Yue. If sunlight hits her skin, she would turn to ashes. All because her woman wanted a male child but didn't get one. That was the rule of the kingdom of Qin dynasty that if a woman gave birth to a second child and it's a male, they must be cursed.This resulted in the death of many females as they were desperate to escape their fate. The setting took place in the Meji period of China. Mo Chou is the name of Ying Yue's moth...

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The Witch of Brimley Falls

Submitted to Contest #100

Goats bleated recklessly their warning. Oh no! She’s back. I scrambled around the one-room cabin, splashed a bit of lukewarm water on my face, and dove under the blankets she secured me with before leaving. The cabin sat far away from the village. No one ever came here, not with all the rumors and whatnot, so I knew the approaching footfalls belonged to her. If she caught me out of bed, there would surely be hell to pay.  I don’t know where she’d been, but she believed me to be sick enough that I could be trusted to be on my own. Ha! A ...

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Detective is life

Submitted to Contest #100

The morning haze was gone, and the usual humid heat was coming. The sultry sky had taken on the colour of the faded blue overalls issued to the working class in factories and plants. The asphalt was melting. Minimarkets, with their colourful windows, beckoned for fruit and vegetables. Young girls wandered back and forth in lightweight shirts and shorts. But I wasn't tempted. I was not in the mood to store, to lust after the beautiful sex, or to kill my health under the southern Israeli sun. At home, we have air conditioning and the kind of p...

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Secrets? Sure I know secrets. I read a book on them once upon a time.

Submitted to Contest #100

People don’t read like they used to. That is for sure. When I was lost one year. I think it was 1984 here which means 1976 to me there I was in Disneyland. First and only time I was there. I was like eight or nine, maybe.I had gotten lost in the Halls of President’s. Now in Disneyland there is a secret passages everywhere. And? Well, I saw a Disney character go into one of the passageways. My parent was elsewhere and? Well, I like exploring it is probably why I am lost most of my life.Anyway, I go into this hallway. Cement floors and a corri...

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Home and Away

Submitted to Contest #100

Preparing a Meal Preparing food for yourself or for a group of people are two completely different situations.. Whether the task involves a ‘one-off’ single meal or is part of a longer, planned series of meals is one point which needs to be considered. Cooking for yourself would most likely be influenced by personal likes and preferences, whereas cooking for someone (singular OR plural) else would have to allow for other factors, which might have to include dietary needs, known allergies etc. This applies to planning one single meal, but a...

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What Things?

Submitted to Contest #100

                We were all astonished. Mary and her sister came to us with a story that the Master was alive! How on earth is this possible? Didn't we see him dead and buried in Joseph's cave? We wondered.                                       Cleopas and I had joined this ...

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Carnival of Carnivores

Submitted to Contest #100

  TW: cannibalism There’s no way to sugarcoat my sisters. During the holidays, the two eldest engage in some curious traditions, to put it lovingly. I am one of the rare clan members adventurous enough to enjoy their all-nighter pow-wows, which are a cross between a séance and a pioneer cookout with musical nuances of Native American spirituality.   A hardy constitution is the best seatbelt for an excursion up to my sister Ellen’s rugged mountaintop, the highest peak between San Jose and Santa Cruz in California. So, buckle up. &nb...

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How I won my husband’s heart - the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach

Submitted to Contest #100

First Christmas with no snow. Gotta blame it to Climate change, or maybe I got used to the cold winters here. The ‘white Christmas’ wasn’t white this time! A horror for many. Not for me. Fortunately for me it was perfect. Cold as usual. No snow. Minus the usual greenery, all looked grey. Pine trees were the only ones endured enough to accept the low temperatures, sleet and freezing rain. Still standing and holding its leaves. The sun up in the sky was super bright, easily playing tricks on us, reminiscent of the wonderful warm summer da...

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It'll be Alright

Submitted to Contest #100

I huffed a quick and raspy breath before I was instantly pinned down to the ground again. “C’mon Princess, just tell us where he is. All your troubles will be over with. Just one sentence could potentially save your life,” came the rough mocking voice of my current captor.“I already told you, I don’t know where he is,” I said between gasping breaths. “Oh, but you do, Rayla, you know you do,” he said as he crushed my ribs with his foot.I heard an unnerving crack, and a burning pain ran down my side.“If our torture isn’t enough to ge...

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Chomp!

Submitted to Contest #100

Chomp! “Sarina Put your mask on!” I screamed. “Why!” she moaned “We’re inside.” “You must wait till the air has been depressurised!” Ruff-Ruff. “Quite Ares or I won't give you your doggy treats” Ares is mischief, loves to bark and destroy the little things we have. It's 2179 and it has been 35 long terrible and boring years since we have been able to go outside without an oxygen mask. It's tuff with them on but we need them due to the governments being unable to stop pollution when they first heard of it ‘those dick heads’. I threw m...

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True happiness

Submitted to Contest #100

"And a little bit of Ash Moonstone... then a pinch of Black veil... and then that just leaves the golden flower... Which we don't have." I sighed. Okay, let's pause right there. So you'd be wondering, what the heck I'm talking about, wouldn't you? Well the explanation is crazy but here we go... First of all, my name is Jasmine, and I'm 18 years old! I have a younger sister, Natalie, who is 17. Alright, so basically, this world is unlike you've have ever heard of. It's filled with something called... magic. Yes you may have read or hear...

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Cyphers

Submitted to Contest #100

As the clock ticking in the class room one student is look at it as his feet start to tabbing in the ground and the same time his is humbing showing how impactience he is of waiting 'just a little bit more' say the student looking at the clock.And then the bell rang'yes is summer vacations!'shouted the student'ok that is for this semester,have a great summervacation'Miss Robinsoneveryone leaves execpt for the student that shouted'Mr C please!Come at my office we need to talk' said Miss RobinsonC is a high school student who worn a blue ...

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