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Laika

Submitted to Contest #99

Moscow The sun was setting. It was cold and Laika was hungry again. “food, more food.” There were others nearby. “water.” She’d been attacked the night before.  “this isn’t food.” The others had been after her for a piece of bread. “do they have bread?” She flips her head around suddenly. Different light now. From down the alley. “food?? there could be others.” Laika wanders towards the new light to a fire on the street. The others huddled around it. “you have food? this is warm.” A new sound. A can or a bottle. The others bark defian...

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East of the Sun

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Golden sunlight dripped from the leaves as we swung through the forest. I was careful not to touch the sticky substance. My tail tightened around a thin branch, which I used for balance as I vaulted myself towards Sphynx. "I can't believe it," he said in his odd language of clicks and whistles. "I can't believe the melting seasons are already here." He shuddered from his position as he hung from the tree. "I've heard about it of course, but I never realised how sad it is to leave home." I pulled myself into a squatting position above h...

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A Rambunctious Ride

Submitted to Contest #99

“Have you got everything?” Nick asks the group of three that are sitting on the couch as he walks in.  He is mostly ignored besides Ian who glances his way, the other two’s eyes trained on the large flat screen in front of them. Ian smiles at his friend, “Yep, I’ve been packed since yesterday, these two just finished throwing things in their bags.” Nick rolls his eyes before narrowing them at the other two that still haven’t acknowledged his presence. “I’m not letting you guys borrow anything on the road.” He tells them, knowing for...

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Grandfather's Cabin

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Hank Stahl woke up unsure of where he was. He had a pounding headache like he drank too much but hadn’t been drinking. He stood up and looked around groggily, knowing that he was last in his bed but wasn’t any longer. His head finally stopped hurting enough for him to orient himself with his surroundings. Somehow, he was near his Great-grandfather Dale, or Pappy, as he was commonly called’s cabin in Southwood, Iowa. It was a place he hadn’t been to in ages. After his father and grandfather had a falling out, they only went there on rare spec...

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Road trips during the summer?

Submitted to Contest #99

I have gotten to go to many places during the summer. From Ekalaka, Montana the end of the world. To Colorado Springs, Colorado springs hidden in the mountains. To Caracato Bolivia to Sunnyvale California to Orlando Florida to Goleta California to Richmond Washington to Tuscon Arizona. I have traveled via truck from Plentywood Montana to Topeka Kansas. From some small place in Oklahoma through Texas egad their bugs are huge and days hot all the way to Billings Montana. Road trips? Which was the most memorable? I think the road trip fr...

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Detective Lolgon

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They were sitting on the cold sand while watching the beautiful sunset. Nothing seemed strange, they looked like a normal couple having their own moment, living in a different world. Once the sky become darker than his heart, the life in her eyes was fading away. She couldn't move anymore. All you could hear was how the waves were bumping in the rocks. The next morning the police was everywhere, her cold body was laying on the ground. Beautiful as the sunrise.The sand was all in her long blond hair.On her face were written the last momen...

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Bambi

Submitted to Contest #99

She remembers the heat of that summer. A sticky, persistent heat that had left her with dried sweat crusted to her skin at the end of each day, and hair that frizzed like a halo on her head. It was the hottest summer of her life at that point, and she remembered complaining about it in tandem with her friends in the last weeks of the school year, although, in secret, she had basked in it. Her junior year of high school feels like a lifetime ago now, but that Summer still remains with her all these years later. Her friend Angela—maybe they...

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Light at the End of the Tunnel

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     Darkness.      That was all Claire had ever known.       She had been born into darkness, raised in darkness, and, like everyone else, she would die in darkness.      But Claire didn’t want that. She didn’t want to live in a world where black was the only thing her eyes could see. Where she didn’t know what she looked like, what her friends and family looked like, or even what the house she had grown up in looked like!  ...

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Clarity

Submitted to Contest #99

“We tested it by…”            “Using the stats…”            “Testing this idea, we found…”            “Experimenting with this…”            I walk around, submerged in thousands of voices. In this grand place, I am only one small person. Who am I?            Everyone here...

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most people do not realize they have not seen real sunshine since 2000.

Submitted to Contest #99

Sunlight- I miss you really I do. Up bright in the sky light I miss that sunlight. Makes me wonder. So do you I suppose. I wonder about you. During the summer sun shine you look at things and wonder about this is this or that is that. Not paying attention. Not caring really about what is about to befall mankind. I like that about summer time light. Makes you forget about everyone trying to kill you. Kill you? What do you live in a game? Laughter of course I do.. I live just as you do. In a game. You do not realize it but yo are playing in it...

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Life Moments to Remember

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The branches moved with the green leaves waving in the wind with the sun peeking through, a cool breeze brushing across my face. Looking over our home nestled on the top of the hill on Violet Road in Odessa, Ontario. The Big White House sits majestically overlooking a stream running at the West side of a scenic view. With the rustling of babbling brook, you feel like this is heaven. As a child has stayed with me of a dream you, I could hope to remember until the end. Mom was calling out the door “Valerie come in and have lunch” calling back ...

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Cry in the Woods

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I slowly unzipped the tent window to peer outside. It was too dark to see anything. “Annie?” “You heard it, too?” she whispered.  My friend Annie and I went camping for the weekend, a summer ritual that we’ve done for several years. After the sudden death of Annie’s father, she refused to talk to anyone but me. After being diagnosed with depression, she adopted a service dog named Charlie, a now eight-year-old Belgian Malinois. “Was it Charlie?” I breathed.  “No, she’s right here, but I think she heard it too.”  We both s...

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How I spent My Summer Vacation

Submitted to Contest #99

           It seems like an eternity ago, but it was more like ten years. I was in sixth grade, and my teacher, Mrs. Feldman strutted around the classroom wearing her two-tone green knit sweater and a brown corduroy skirt that seemed to be stretched to its seams around her enormous bottom.            Mrs. Feldman was trying to get the attention of the class, but we were all too pumped with excitement. It was the last day of school be...

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Tin Can Camping

Submitted to Contest #99

Tin Can Camping In the early 70’s my parents bought a lot in Wisconsin on Lake Kegonza, a very Indian name, but that’s those Wisconsin Indians for you. My parents were so proud of their purchase and invited us all to come stay a night at their summer retreat. The small quarter acre lot had a trailer parked under the one and only pine tree on the property. My work-a-holic husband actually asked for a few days off from his job. We packed our bags and went. After all it was a free vacation and that’s all we could afford. Our children we...

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Karmas back

Submitted to Contest #99

CW: rape, murder At beginning ,in this story a man sees (Frist character) who were go for his summer trip and thinking of good and joyfully trip,but who knows what's gonna be happen ....he's name was Alexender which character is very bad,selfish and he's play boy ,he's just crazy about girls ....he's weekness is girls ,he never control himself when it comes girls....one day he go for his summer trip to his farm house for holiday by the car ,all things good and he's happy but suddenly one girl standing on the road side and the girl saying 'pl...

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