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Mary-Beth

Submitted to Contest #95

   I have been here for weeks. It's different from the place I grew up in. I have no idea who took me or why. They keep telling me I am special, special how? I miss my friends at the old place, where I got to associate with people my age. Here I have not had any contact since they came for me.   “Why am I here?” I asked.  “You know why,” the lady responds, she is not in the room she is watching through the cameras.   “Why won’t you let me go?”  “In all due time sweetheart”   It must ...

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Beyond Closed Doors

Submitted to Contest #95

You stand before a hallway wedged between two doors. Another open hallway stands behind you. Do you go: left, right, forward, back? Left You decide to turn left. There is an empty hall with no windows and no doors. The floor is grass—real grass, with occasional bald patches of soil. The soil is damp and the air smells fresh. Daisies and petrichor and a gentle breeze on your cheeks. You reach the end of the hall, but there's nothing else. You turn back and return to where you began. The idea of nature inside a place like this, that the room...

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At the end of the path

Submitted to Contest #95

She had sailed mighty rivers; she had been through dark forests, walking through long-time abandoned paths covered with mud, dead leaves, and fallen branches. She had barely survived two major firestorms which had cost her the horse and all the remaining provisions. She had survived eating bitter roots, stealing eggs from nests, and hunting small creatures with her bare hands. She had been chased by bounty hunters, wild beasts, and that mythical creature she had considered an old wives' tale most of her life. She had suffered hunger, pain, l...

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The Choice

Submitted to Contest #95

The embers crackled and popped in the hearth, giving the room a moody feel as the shadows flickered back and forth, like they were living things with their own souls. In the center of the room was a throne made of thorns and tree branches, creating its own menacing shadows on the stone walls. "Good, you've arrived. I hear you are here to barter with me?" He said. His voice was deeper than the depths of the ocean and darker than the furthest corner of the world. I squared my shoulders, trying to appear tougher than I felt. Swallowing hard...

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Susie and the two door

Submitted to Contest #95

As Susie was sitting on a bench waiting for the bus, Out of the corner of her eye she noticed that there was a little child sitting with his knees up, he was about six feet away from her ( social distancing) And he had his head down, almost as if he was trying to hide his face from the sunlight,he looked very old, but yet kinda childish, almost magical, He kinda sparked like tinsel, when the sun shined on him, she got a better look at him, she could see many details in his face, his face was wrinkled and his hair was tucked up in his red hat...

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You Don’t Have to Go Home, But You Can’t Stay Here!

Submitted to Contest #95

You Don’t Have to Go Home, But You Can’t Stay Here!      “Go home!” she said. Two words. It is incredible how much pain two words can hold. Thank God they weren’t long words, or the pain might have killed me.       I want to say, “I don’t have one.” She would roll her eyes and call me a liar. In the sense that she means, I do have one. I have a place to go, but to me, it is not home, and it never will be. So I place my tongue firmly between my teeth and nod, fighting to hold in the t...

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Arctic Forest

Submitted to Contest #95

On a particular dark winter night, in the far-reaching north, a group of Samis witnessed what seemed like thousands of flames falling from the sky. As these flames crashed and split open the earth, a thunderous sound was emanated. Little did they know, these falling flames would one day cause a meteor frenzy among the neighboring Russians and Finns. For decades, groups of meteor enthusiasts would travel this ancient land in search of those special space rocks. But, as the years came and went, fewer and fewer of these groups were ever seen ag...

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The people´s temple

Submitted to Contest #95

—Brenda! Are you awake? Please come with me. I want to show you something. —Show me what? — She answered a bit dazed. She did not like being bothered at those hours. —I want to take you to a beautiful place in the jungle. —Do not be silly! We are forbidden to go to the jungle. It is almost midnight now. You better go back to your bed, Walter. You will wake up the other children! —It is forbidden to go to the jungle? It was my understanding that there were no prohibitions in this community. —Of course not. We are all free. However, we must be...

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Will I Ever?

Submitted to Contest #95

I woke up to what looked like two doors in front of me. “What kind of sick joke is this.” I think to myself. I walk up to them and almost stumble over myself because the room is dimly lit. I hear a vague but kinda familiar voice from one door but a strange noise from the other. What am I supposed to do? I’m unsure of where I am and starting to get startled.”Mom!” I yelled. I hear my voice echo until it fades into the darkness. I start running away from both doors. I felt trapped. Like my legs weren’t taking me anywhere. I started breathing h...

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The Moon Through Dark Depths...

Submitted to Contest #95

Luna Whitemoon stood in front of the two doors. Both stood over ten feet tall and were made out of pure water. Shimmering waves of crystal clear blue shone on one, while dark, abyssal waves, with the rumbling of thunder, were the other. It appeared to be an easy decision. The clear one reminded Luna of her home on the small islands away from Falconus. She and her village always swam in the clear waters of a continent-less earth, as the warm sun sent rays of light into the sandy bottom of the oceans. Fish of illustrious colors dazzled under t...

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Chen Lun Ki

Submitted to Contest #95

Chen Lun Ki worked with his father and his 2 brothers on his family's farm while his mother cooked the Rice for supper. Chen Lun Ki picked Pears and put them in his Bamboo basket until the Basket was full. Chen's older brother Ha Jung Ki harvested Radishes and sowed seeds for new Radishes, and his other older brother Tong Ren Ki was in charge of tending to the Chickens, harvesting eggs and prepping the Chickens that couldn't lay any more. Chen's father tended to the Cabbages. After a humble supper of Rice, Radishes and Chicken, the famil...

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One Choice

Submitted to Contest #95

Warning: Sorta suicidal thoughts, death, murderIt wasn’t my fault. And yet, here I was anyway. How long had it been? Weeks? Months? I honestly didn’t know anymore. I stopped counting after a week. I stared at the wall. White, like everything else in this infernal place. Even the food was white. I guess it was supposed to make the prisoners go so crazy they didn’t try anything bad. But, they already assumed I was crazy, so I guess it didn't really matter to them. Of course I wasn’t. I had just been in the wrong place at the wrong time. Again....

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The Doors Not to Open

Submitted to Contest #95

Hannah stood in front of two wooden doors. One was a deep, dark cobalt blue and another was a vibrant, bright, swirly orange. Both of the doors had little notes taped to them that matched the colors of the door. Both the doors intrigued Hannah to go in, but she only had one choice. Hannah walked up to the blue door, pushing her blonde hair out of her emerald green eyes, and peeled the note off the door. It read: Roses are red, violets are blue, if you like the ocean then this door’s for you. But beware of the secret lair, and the mermaid th...

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The Queens Daughter

Submitted to Contest #95

I am Harper Rose, I am 17 and I am queen Alexandra's daughter. All my life, my mother would always make decisions on my behalf. She nor father would let me make my own choice. They would always choose everything, like what i'm going to eat, or wear or who I will marry in the future. You see, to me marrying someone must be out of love, and I would love to choose who I marry and not. But every time I tell mother she would always scoff, and say that I must be prim and proper. I must act like a lady and dress like one. She keeps telling me, that...

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Bad or worse

Submitted to Contest #95

"So, I think it's pretty obvious. You?" He asked, turning towards me."I don't know.""What?! Why would you choose incarceration over freedom?!""Because it's not freedom and you know that! It's a life of worry and fear. I cannot do that again.""You think jail is better? Believe me, it isn't. Nothing's worse than being locked up day after day, not even knowing what month it is, how long you've been in. You can go crazy just from the monotony of it all. And that's just, if you're lucky, which we probably won't be. You know what they do with peop...

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