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Vacation wasted

Submitted to Contest #59

This year vacation has begun but everything seems unnatural. This unnatural mood of nature needlessly negated the near final preparations for an excursion down south and forced to stay put indoors. A boy who prefers to remain outdoors all through the year is disheartened and disgusted to hear that the dams have been opened.The damn good days are brushing past at jet speed and dull school days are fast approaching with bated breath stretching their arms and drawing the boy’s attention to do his homework and readying the essay on how he spent ...

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Love can save all

Submitted to Contest #60

Love Can save all Nicole jalonen  Nakira Roman was the surviving member of her family of five . The twenty two year old had just watched her house with her mom and dad and two siblings inside blow up after a number of asteroids hit it , causing it to blow up and burn! Falling to her thin jean covered knees and crying hysterically the blonde haired spot covered woman hardly noticed as someone picked her up off the dead charred grass and held her close to him . Whispering , “ I know it’s hard but you’ve got to get out of here the drui...

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Rubber Ball

Submitted to Contest #59

After the car was packed up, Robert Fowler looked over the map and decided to leave before it got too dark. It was a very warm summer and he did not have to carry too many items this time. He wanted to move in for the week planned and did not want to get lost on any of the side roads indicated on the map. Instead, he planned to get there by late afternoon and hopefully he would be able to convince the local townsfolk that he was not a bad guy at all. It was a plan; not that he was thinking too much about plans and small towns....

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Society of the Lunar Brethren

Submitted to Contest #59

Myra felt the chill of the autumn afternoon pass through her. It was sharp and crisp, sending a sudden spark of life through her aged limbs that snatched her out of the solace of sleep. She had taken a mid-afternoon nap on the veranda of her cabin, and being wrapped up in all her throws and self-embroidered cushions, she couldn’t think of a better place to be. Nothing could beat the tranquillity of being in the middle of nowhere with no one but Mother Nature to keep her company. She wrapped herself up tighter as a gust of wind soared through...

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Davy Jones' Locker

Submitted to Contest #59

Augustus felt frozen, engulfed by darkness and oblivion. He could see nothing, hear nothing, do nothing, feel nothing but terror, as he sensed something approach him. Something familiar, and unholy.From the darkness began to emerge something. A face? No, a skull. Red stars shimmering violently in its eyes. Blue clouds of smoke expanding out of its nostrils. Jaws stretched to an unnatural distance, as if to form a grin.Davy Jones.“You know where ye are, yes?” He spoke in a guttural, penetrating voice, without moving his bony jaw. Suddenly all...

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Life's Necessities

Submitted to Contest #59

I thought I’d been everywhere, seen everything but this was one place I never imagined I’d encounter. For as long as I can remember, I’d been attracted to pretty places, which is the case for most people. However, thanks to my budding sense of adventure and my family’s bustling bank account, I’d been able to travel anywhere my heart desired. I still remember my first trip to the lush, green coastlands of Ireland. Looking out into the ocean atop those monstrous cliffs felt like something out of a movie. It truly felt like a magical place. But...

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BLUE CHRISTMAS

Submitted to Contest #59

BLUE CHRISTMAS Susan W. Hudson Annie was baffled by her mother’s decision to make all the Christmas decorations blue this year. Annie loved her mother very much. Annie knew that she was smart and pretty; she got that from her mother. Annie’s mother, Marie, had year-after-year decorated the house and the tree with beloved ornaments from years past. The theme was always red, white, green, and gold. Many of the items were hand made by her children and had been lovingly preserved over the years. After the mother abandoned all the tradition...

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A CHILDHOOD HOBBY INSPIRES AN ADULTHOOD DREAM!

Submitted to Contest #59

A CHILDHOOD HOBBY INSPIRES AN ADULTHOOD DREAM! I opened my eyes to see the velvet coloured blades of the ceiling fan spinning like a ballet dancer around its golden centrepiece. Tom had woken up early and left for work. He worked in a popular bank’s regional office, a couple of kilometres from our residence. It was our first week in Kochi . I still have not come to terms with the bustling life of the city having spent nearly all life in my ancestral home near the Nilgiri hills. A beautiful place with its lush greenery, perennial dew drops,...

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2099

Submitted to Contest #60

2099          There was an eerie silence enveloping the decrepit building that was one of many in the compound that had been ravaged by Millenial forces.  It was like the still before a storm, or the final moment as one waits to die. I can’t fathom being 150 years old.  I feel better now than when I was 80.  Science and technology have come a long way but it is exactly that technology, manipulated by forces of evil, that made longevity a life sentence rather than a...

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A DREAM HOUSE

Submitted to Contest #59

Khuki was jolted awake and he sprang up on bed with his heart thumping.“Someone’s out there,” Nushi hissed in his ear.“Wher…re? I didn’t hear the door bell.” stuttered Khuki.His eyelids still refused to open and it felt so cold that he started shivering. He fell on the bed and tried pulling the blanket over but Nushi cruelly pulled it away.“I said there’s someone out in the yard,” She came extremely close to his right ear and whispered into it.Khuki closed the assaulted, most ticklish area near his face, his ear, with his hand and laughed al...

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There's no weed in the apocalypse.

Submitted to Contest #60

One would think the biggest problems encountered during the apocalypse would be staying hydrated, foraging for food or maybe even finding a not-so-dirty dick to sit on. But, in 2022, that wasn't the case.There was still a ton of food and water because most poeple had died from the virus, and the giant Costco's and Wal-Mart's and BJ's and Sam's clubs were still filled with miles of unperishables and dams full of unopened water bottles. We considered this the one consulation prize for being a capitalist society. The need to consume may have be...

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the hospital

Submitted to Contest #59

"where am i?" i asked. the doctor locked down at me then smiled. "you're in the hospital." i shook my head. "no no no!" i wasn't supposed to be here... how'd this happen? what happened? 'i remember!' “ hello blue!” my best friend kiya kiroshi said for the sixth time this day. It was now approaching lunch period when kiroshi started greeting me again. “Can you please hush?” I asked as politely as I could. Since he was my friend, I did not want to be rude in any possible way, but that wasn't for too long.    “Are you going to th...

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Dating at the End of the World

Submitted to Contest #60

I’ll be honest—the dating game’s gone downhill since the end of the world.And it’s not like it wasn’t already tough for someone like me. Average-looking guy with an online gaming addiction and mild paranoia issues? It all worked out great when the world went to hell—I was hunkered down in my apartment, surrounded by canned food, long before the disease spread.Finding a girl, though? Give me another apocalypse.I’d tried the whole online dating thing, too, where ‘someone finds love every 14 minutes.’ Yeah, right. If that were the truth, I woul...

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Circling

Submitted to Contest #59

     Cold sweat drips down my face. Hazy sunlight peeks through the trees. The long grass slides between my toes as I stumble over the uneven ground. My knees are weak from the persistent walking that has taken place for what seems like hours. No matter how tired I feel, my legs keep on going. I don’t even know why I was walking, or where. In fact, I don’t know much of anything. All I know is that my name, Walker Jones.       My confusion is quickly leading to dread. Confusion is a sicke...

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Story in a small town where everyone is suspicious of newcomers.

Submitted to Contest #59

This is the story of a big city morphed into a small town or a smaller village metamorphosed into a small town. The nation like India has enshrined in its Constitution equal rights to all its citizens irrespective of the religion, caste, color, language they speak, to live in any part of the country and practice their trade. These rights can be exercised not just by enshrining in the Constitution but by having a firm belief and strength in its implementation. To a great extent the people of India are exercising their constitutional righ...

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