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Somewhere in Dreams

Submitted to Contest #70

      Rebecca smiled at me. It was a sunny day at the café I used to visit in my childhood. They had just served my favorite dish: half a cheese pizza, a whole Maine lobster and a side of chocolate glazed donuts.         "You know what's weird?" Rebecca asked me.        "What?" I replied.         "Every time I turn on the microwave, my phone bill goes up twenty dollars," she said.    ...

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Mexico 1 United States 0

Submitted to Contest #70

I removed myself from that land because my ancestors had stolen it. I was tired of benefitting from a crime, tired of the guns, the helicopters, the trash strewn around the streets—yes I lived in a big city.  Most people call it “Los Angeles,” but the natives preferred Otsungna, “the place of the roses...”  I go with the name of the land coined by peaceful people.  People without loud, dishonorable, nature-hating guns! Boom!  A zigzag of echoes through time, and where were we?  When did the white European lose hi...

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Black. White. Red: First Blood, the Squeakquel

Submitted to Contest #70

The very thing that I desired. The thing that woke me up in the morning. The thing that gave color to my world. That would be my undoing. I couldn’t believe it. One moment you’re striving towards this mountaintop and then, once you reach it. Once you reach the summit, you look around and just like that… no one. You’re completely alone. And you want to know the real bitch of it all? It’s all YOUR fault. Here you are thinking you’re on top of the world all the while EVERYONE who helped you get there falls by the wayside. Just… Just where ...

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Forgiveness

Submitted to Contest #69

I never really got along with my family as a child. I guess that's true of most kids, but my situation was different. My family didn't understand. They said I had delusions of grandeur from an incredibly early age. I was one of the youngest of an exceptionally large family. I had 11 brothers and at least one sister. She later got into some trouble, but that's a story for another time. No doubt, one of the reasons I had trouble at home was because my father had two wives and a couple of concubines. Yes, it was a different time...I have many...

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The Final Curtain Call...

Submitted to Contest #69

Violet had been staring at her dressing room wall for a little over an hour contemplating her uncertain future. All of the theatrics had become so ordinary to her to now. She finally became numb to all of the excitement. Her heart had grown cold, the light within her had gone out. Everything seemed just a little darker now... "Are you almost ready Violet?" Violet's mother asked "I'm coming... I just needed a minute" said Violet.  With only a few minutes left till the show started, Violet rushed through the empty halls and down the windi...

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The Anomaly

Submitted to Contest #69

Before I begin, there is something I must tell you. This is not a regular heartwarming tale nor is it the grimiest one you have ever heard. No, this is my story and mine alone. So, my dear reader, whomever you may be, know the pain I have been faced with in writing this letter. I write this not to send but instead to be discovered by a sole who wishes to change the world forever. Only after reading this letter will the world and the very air we breathe have changed in the blink of an eye. I am sure you must be quite curious as to my identity...

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Twisted Sisters

Submitted to Contest #69

“Hey! Please, don’t slam that door!” the hostess gestured at me, angrily.“I'm Mr. Morales’s daughter. I’ll slam whatever I want!” I shouted at her. How dare she?“I apologize, senorita.” she looked scared half to death. Well she should be! I was the one inheriting this business! Not my sister, Sofia, and she should know that.“It better not happen again, or I’m telling Papa!” I scolded“Yes, Ms. Morales.” I walked out into the main room, where everyone was seated and eating their food. My great-grandfather started this restaurant in his quiet a...

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😈The Medellin Cartel kids😈

Submitted to Contest #70

My name is Dennis Homer Love Jr. As a child in the 1980s I became the first underaged person recognized by the United States government for helping efforts involving the CIA during the Ronald Reagan presidency. Many other kids were recognized after me, but it seems there efforts were not life threatening as mine were. I was privileged to work with or along side of some of Stephen Shaffer's clandestine work involving such people as Barry Seal, Pablo Escobar, Manuel Noriega, Oliver North and South American people that were to be used in an arm...

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Our Secret Christmas Show

Submitted to Contest #69

I never knew a holiday until I saw this one. My cousin visited me from England at my mansion in Las Vegas. My cousin Percy pronounced herself a model as soon as she entered in my home. Along with my cousin Trent, my cousin Alex, my sister Verna, my brother Howard and my aunt Celeste. Percy pretended to be an authority figure when it was the other way around. She explained on the scene she had been daydreaming of being a model and wanted to live it out loud. When we asked her to explain herself she stood on the table and turned into a princes...

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Tomato Love

Submitted to Contest #69

 "I can't believe this is happening to me!" Bella panicked as she stared at the tomato garden beside the mini park of her 5 bedroom apartment. She got married to Ged 9 years ago, just after Jane was born. Getting married to Ged was one of the great decisions she has made in her 30 years on planet earth. They were two love birds, always having each other's back. Bella met Ged at a 'tomato farm planning' training organised by Toma Fruit Company.     They both had a vision of starting a Tomato production company, this w...

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Never too late

Submitted to Contest #69

Her feet felt at home in the soft mud as she walked along, making little pitter-patter noises in the puddles. The sweet fragrance of rain hit her nostrils as memories of a forgotten childhood slowly engulfed her. The ancestral house was its usual glorious, towering self more welcoming in her eyes than any of her family members! She closed her eyes as the nervousness and alarming frustration that normally accompany second-guessing threatened to cause a headache once more. She knew that the decision to come back and face everyone had not been...

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I Don't Want to be an Assassin

Submitted to Contest #69

Grandpa sat at the end of the table, a white teacup with blue swirls and gold trim in his hand. Frozen, halfway to his lips. He hadn’t moved in the five seconds since Edward had told him the news. He hadn’t even blinked. Edward sat at the opposite end of the table, wide eyes looking tentatively at his grandfather and then at anything else.  Grandpa drew a shuddering breath, swallowed, and then smiled. “You are joking!” he said with a chuckle, and shook his head. “Oh!” he looked as if he’d just remembered his tea and finally brought the ...

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Xhu and Xha

Submitted to Contest #69

Write about a family adapting a holiday tradition to take place over a Video chat Xhu and Xha By dumisani khumalo "Their civilisation digs like a bush pig. The beginning is primitive, and the end is martial as a puff adders bite" Xhu said ,"and the end is a noisy civilisation but for Who?" Xha said," and in it, the egos habit tells the lies, like the weevil that we would kill an elephants for such a small stomach that can be filled by termites or crickets in no time" went their conversation as wa...

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Stinky bill

Submitted to Contest #69

Write about some one who did not get along with their family as a child but has since found an appreciation for them. Stinky bill By dumisani khumalo A long tale of stories had all animal lovers listening to grandmothers tales for the wise words, wisdom and even grandfathers tales came next to hers whose warrior tales fell short of hers, the grand gatherer of tales,as she was at pains when Stinky bill was around, a bird with teeth they called him, for not seeing any love or endearment in sitting down at night to tune in on lif...

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Two-Faced

Submitted to Contest #69

Josh was usually a good guy. He had a great sense of humor, was always kind, and everyone liked him. However, he had some harsh pastimes that he didn't like to share. He'd rather forget them, so he does. He goes right back to being a jolly man. There are, however, weaknesses. For example, the holidays, or whenever he's around his family. Josh... loses control. He has flashbacks that ravage his brain, and he acts... childish. His family has never gotten to the bottom of his condition, but they soon will. "Hey, mom!" Josh sai...

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