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Niko

Submitted to Contest #92

Niko helped his mother hang the freshly washed laundry on the clothesline. When they were done with hanging the laundry out to dry, Niko dug up some potatoes from the garden for their supper. Ever since his father was killed by a group of Bandits, Niko has has to step up and take care of the house, his mother and his little sister. The family's supper of boiled potatoes was plain and bland, but at the very least, it was filling. That night, on the eve of his sixteenth birthday, Niko took it upon himself to find and kill the Bandit that k...

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When there light bulbs went out

Submitted to Contest #92

It all started on a Tuesday morning, I remember that day so well. I remember how the sun was shining in the sky. It was so bright that you never would want to look up in the sky and how I felt like I was at peace all throughout the day. Now that I think about it I had never been in such peace before. I went to work just like I would every other day.  I always hated all of the work and I had always hated it when I would find myself pulling all sorts of different projects together. That day was somehow different though I seemed to em...

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Stella's Life Adventure

Submitted to Contest #92

Stella sits in the corner of her room. As usual, the music she has chosen to listen to is blaring from her Bluetooth speaker. She knows no other level other than eardrum busting when it comes to her favorite music. She is dressed in her usual casual outfit. The dress she wears is plain black and hangs loosely from her thin frame. Stella is usually a happy person who enjoys her life to the fullest. Lately, however, something in her world has been off. She feels as though she is residing in a scary place where the darkness never stops spi...

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help!

Submitted to Contest #92

I was in the middle of the country running through a dark dense forest. It was so dark and full of shadows I barely could see as i ran away from him. I could hear my heartbeat in my own ears as i ran. it was like a dumb viberating louder and louder. I could feel the pulse in my throat, and my thoart was raw from screaming. Screams that were never heard by anyone, because i was deep in the woods. The tress that surrounded my muffled my cries, and hid my screams for help. Help that would most likely. I tried to be quiet when I ran now, because...

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Call to Fight

Submitted to Contest #92

Now I couldn't just hear the calls of battle. But I could feel them, smell them, see them. The feel of the ground vibrating as people ran, jumped, and fell. It had been like the ground was coming to life. It felt like it was moving. It felt like it was being torn apart, and about to split in half. It had felt like if it did break open it would have swallowed me whole. I could recall the smell of sweat, dirt, and blood. I could recall the smell the grass that was being torn under thousands of feet and hooves. And in some areas, I swore i coul...

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Never rely on technology

Submitted to Contest #92

On a planet in a distant galaxy lived a race of alien. That was so technologically advanced that they could not want for anything. More they could not keep up with what they had now. Their whole entire race was so lazy by the technology that. They did nothing for themselves they relied on the technology. House work, cooking, cleaning, shopping all done by the technology all the alien’s. Did was sit on their butt trying to think up of other ways. To bring the newest hottest technology to their people so their lives would be easier . Their l...

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Being a Detective's Mentor...

Submitted to Contest #92

  I was looking on a moonless sky but the stars were as if you sprinkled paint on a midnight blue sheet. The sky looked incomplete without the moon. Suddenly my sharp ears pricked on hearing a shrub move. I should say I have got really good hearing sense. I could literally hear people talk even when I’m a mile away. I looked down bending on the bottom edge of my window. Then I saw the shadow of a person move through the front wall of my house from my backyard. It was dark and merely a blur. Then through whatever my eyes could catch...

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Beautiful, Wild and Brave

Submitted to Contest #92

Deep in the forest of your wildest imagination, there is a place before time, try to remember… When your natural childlike wonder was free to wander the endless golden fields and gargantuan trees adorned in every shade of green, ripened with the sweetest fruits. Can you taste it? The dark ripened plum pulled fresh from the tree, the juice running down your chin and arms, a bite into heaven. Do you remember running wild with your tribe, screaming in an ancient tongue, feeling the spirit of the universe pulling you forward into the unknown? Or...

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Escape to Life

Submitted to Contest #92

Escape to Life                                                                 (1,185 words)                     &nbs...

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The girl who had a dream

Submitted to Contest #92

THE GIRL WHO HAD A DREAM Santhosh Gangadharan Zainab opened her eyes. It was dark all around. How could she expect to see light inside the pond! But she was not wet. She hadn’t drowned.         She got up from her bed. It was all a weird dream. Now she knew why she had been disturbed for the past many days. The same dream had been following her. She could never recall what she had seen. But now everything became clear to her.         It was still dark. Sh...

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“Allergic to the sun"

Submitted to Contest #92

“Allergic to the sun" By Jason Catizone An allergy of a most dreadful kind Tony Sanrido was a rather peculiar fellow. Despite being a towering figure at 6’5”, and even though he was well past the age of 30, he still had not successfully conquered his childhood fear. Yes, Tony Sanrido remained terrorized by that blazing ball of light in the sky, more commonly known as - the sun. His phobia commenced at the tender age of six, when he was viciously sunburned from head to toe after having spent an entire day at the beach. Although h...

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Risking Everything for Nothing but Love

Submitted to Contest #92

“Get the candles!” “Where are the flashlights?” “Mommy I can’t see!” The city was chaos. Just a few weeks ago we were living in peace. We went to school. With the light! “Hey, Jamie.” “Hi Kiya.” I looked at her and the door on her locker. It was filled with pictures of people, I wasn’t one of them. “Don’t worry you’ll be up there one day.” She said with a slight smirk on her face. She closed her locker aa we walked down the hall and into our first class, P.E. “Dodgeball! Get your teams. 10 on the left 10 on the right!!” The coach yelled tire...

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Beauty was ugly

Submitted to Contest #92

Imagine yourself to reside in a city, where flowers smell could be acknowledged, where the Sun rays coming far from the heaven makes you feel relaxed, where every next morning when you wake gets more energized than the previous day, where everyone's happy and contented and lie in the lap of mother nature; encircled with the beauty of the Himalayas, dressed with the stillness and ever flowing nature of the Ganges and the Brahmaputra and covered with the blessings of great monks of Buddha and Shiva... wouldn't such place be no less than a heav...

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Three AM

Submitted to Contest #92

Time is a funny thing. It never seems to be on your side.  Especially at stupid o’clock in the morning when you’re in the middle of a dark forest running from psychopaths with silent helicopters. And it’s just that much worse when, added to a midnight helicopter chase, you have to be at a secret meeting by three am.  My life was that much more interesting, thanks to it all. There was no time to think, just run and run and run. But I needed to make sure that if I wasn’t going to get there early or on time I didn’t go at all, beca...

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When you came back

Submitted to Contest #92

The sky was dark. The only sound was the rain hitting the cold wet metal roof top. It made rough rhythmical sounds. Some sounded like soft dings, while others were loud short bangs. And occasionally a loose branch would grow weak and fall, hitting the metal with a loud crack and thud before it slid off. It might have scared someone, but I was the only one around to hear it for miles. There were no other log cabins around, just mine. It was hidden in the thick forest, surrounded by mighty firs, and strong pines that stood tall. All the trees ...

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