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A Leap of Faith

Submitted to Contest #72

I took the mail out of the post box, and started sorting through it as I walked up the stairs to my flat. The flat was in an old building in North London. The best I could afford on the salary I had.“No … no … definitely not … another bill; great … no … don't have money to donate to you … no … wait a second,” I said, and stopped just inside my flat, staring at one envelope.It was an airmail envelope from an address somewhere in New Zealand. I knew that New Zealand had two major islands (North Island and South Island), but that was about the ...

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CHAPTERS NEW

Submitted to Contest #72

What a day! She was home at last. Sonia stopped at the front gate, picked up the mail, and continued up the front path. The scent from the daphne met her nostrils, sweet and soothing. For a few moments, she breathed in and out allowing the scent to envelop her. Opening the front door, she looked with pride at the home she had purchased some years previously, and which would soon be fully paid off. One chapter of her life was closing. Uncertain of how the next chapter would begin, she did what we all do when we arrive home...

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Anna's new job

Submitted to Contest #72

There once was a strong winded woman named Anna Jones.Today we all know that she is the most famous scientist in the entire world,but it was not always like the way it is the way we know her as today.When she was a young child she had always dreamed of being a news reporter when she finally was able to get a job as a news reporter she found that being a news reporter was not all it was cracked up to be.Then on a soft and quite December day she finally had the guts to quit her job.When she finally quit her job she found a slight bit of regret...

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The King and The Queen...Much More than a Dream.

Submitted to Contest #72

Jacob Peters. Jacob Peters is a man. He is tall. He is blonde. He is beautiful. But I never saw it coming. I never saw myself falling for him. This is how it happened. I felt the urge. I felt the divine, otherworldly calling to take on a task much bigger than myself. I had no way of doing it in my own human strength or power, but I believe in a Higher Power, and I believe sometimes this God will send humans, that seem more like angels, along our path to help us do what we cannot on our own. This is that story. The mission was much larger t...

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Memories

Submitted to Contest #72

On my 17th birthday, I was assigned the occupation of a murderer.  Before everyone’s 17th birthday, my year took a tour of the building that held the machines- a tall skyscraper that was made of glass so reflective you couldn't look directly at it on a sunny day. They explained the machines and how they benefited our society. Then the memory transfers, how on our 17th birthday we would receive a memory from your future self to guide you in what your future was going to be like.  We learned that the machines could predict ways of ...

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The New Algorithm

Submitted to Contest #72

Henrietta Van Pelt stretched languidly on the rattan deck chair. The cool breeze coming off of the Persian Gulf Coast to her right hand side tasted of coquitos and salt. Chills rose on her arms as a cloud scudded overhead, the first of many to rush in fill the horizon in the late afternoons at this time of year.   It was monsoon season, which meant that anyone who'd ever been caught out in the thundering rain took notice of that single flicker of shadow. The brief chill it brought was like ice-water in the faces of the lo...

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For a grave's son, Greyson.

Submitted to Contest #72

For Andreas, getting by was proving hard each day. On his kitchen table was a bulk of water bills, telephone bills and a couple of parking tickets he had to pay. He was working two, day jobs but it still was not enough to give him the proper life he wanted. He dragged his tired bones to the kitchen to fix dinner. There weren’t any vegetables in the shelves, neither was there any cereal he had wished to gobble down with the 350ml milk he had picked from the matt on his way back to his apartment. There were three brown radishes in the fridge, ...

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A Vietnamese Inheritance

Submitted to Contest #72

Sydney Jones sat in her small apartment’s living room, scrolling through Facebook for the umpteenth time today. Since the apartment’s only window opened to face a lovely slum alley and a 12-story building with no attractive features on its design, social media was her only true view of the outside world. It also didn’t help too much that she never left her tiny home. You see, many years ago, Sydney was diagnosed with agoraphobia, the fear of leaving home. Or, as Sydney’s therapist whom she met with once a week via Skype explained, it was the...

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On one New Year's Eve

Submitted to Contest #72

The quaint bedroom was beautifully adorned with lavish curtains and sandalwood furniture. The ornaments lined across the shelves looked down upon the Persian carpet that covered the floor. The ceiling too would have been a wonderful sight if it wasn’t for the body hanging from the chandelier. John Regium, the wealthy owner of the Regium mansion, was no more. According to Ms. Norris, the housekeeper, he had decided that he wanted nothing more of his life. The poor chap grabbed a silk scarf and did away with himself. However, the conundrum ar...

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A Grandmother's Gift

Submitted to Contest #72

“…your great uncle would’ve wanted you to have it. Please, when you get this message head to our house out in the country. We were going to give this to you when you graduated from high school, but I reckon now is as good a time as any. Grandma loves you baby. Take care of yourself.” That was the last time Blake heard a friendly voice in six long months. That voicemail played over and over in his head like a sweet song on a continuous loop. The one thing that plagued him was that he wasn't even aware he had a great uncle. He heard stori...

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My Sicilian Roots

Submitted to Contest #72

MY SICILIAN ROOTS By Lavinia M. Hughes     I walked to my mailbox and took out the pile of mail within. As I walked back up the driveway, I flipped through the usual dreck that was delivered daily. No, I didn’t want to sell my house even if “inventory was down and property values were up” in my area. I didn’t want to buy life insurance, deeming that whole industry a scam. I DID want to take a look at the shoe catalog from England, because their shoes are very high quality, even if a bit “henny” as ...

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The Bucket List

Submitted to Contest #72

"1. Go to a club alone and dance as though no one's watching." Reading the first item on the list I look towards the entrance of the club with trepidation while recalling why am I here in the first place. It was just another normal day for me when an elite lawyer arrived at my doorstep bringing along with him the last will of an aunt I've never even heard of before. Other than being related by blood we are basically strangers who's paths have never crossed yet I was named as the sole inheritor of her entire wealth. Something I thought only...

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My name is Monika

Submitted to Contest #72

When the new computer model, Bx12 came out in the year 25000, it was sold out of nearly every store in America, and the world by the next day. It was installed into every person's home, permitted to access every electronic item, permitted to study the humans that owned it. Since Bx12 was installed in every home around the world, it created a Hive, every Bx unit compiled all their data of human behavior and interactions into the correct folders. Soon Bx knew everything about human emotions, actions, reactions, even how they thought. The human...

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WK927

Submitted to Contest #72

Exodus Agent WK927 was insignificant. The thousands of creatures that passed by him every day would forget him almost instantaneously, almost as if he’d never been there in the first place. Nothing else was really to be expected on Æ92, one of the busiest transport planets in the galaxy. Millions of life forms flooded through the massive checkpoint buildings on the way to their next transport - whisked away from the dull bureaucracy of galactical immigration agencies. WK927 was one person well accustomed to the dull bureaucracy of galactical...

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Scottish Manors

Submitted to Contest #72

Heading to Scotland definetly wasn't on her bucket list, not for this introverted bookworm who had spent most of her life reading about travelling and adventures from behind the safety of her books familiar paper pages. She had no desire to go out into the world, she made her money writing articles and short novels all from the confines of her cosy hundred year old townhouse in downtown Sydney. With strong wifi, being within walking distance of multiple shops and with all the coffee she could possibly consume Andrea wasn't too happy to hear ...

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