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Radiate: Part 2 (Unlocking My Magic)

Submitted to Contest #59

Here's Part 2! Sorry if it feels rushed, I didn't have that much time to submit this story. If you haven't already, please read Part 1 to have some context to this story! I also changed the perspective to be Brook, since its more natural for me. I hope you enjoy! The three check our pockets. All we found were a couple of pennies, a paperclip or two, some scraps of paper, and a couple of receipts. Since we had practically nothing, we decided to head over to someone's house, but we didn't know exactly whos. "By the way, I'm Kat, and thi...

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Couple who have just moved to a place that one person loves, and the other hates.

Submitted to Contest #59

The first couple out of the three couples had ended up in a place which one loved and the other hated. The question now arises as to how they ended up in such a place and continue to pull on with appearance of peaceful and prosperous living.Uma elder of the two sisters has the rare X factor in her which even though she could not get the best out of i.e. the X factor in the war with financial burden in the family but gave her an upper hand in taking certain decisions in the groom’s family, irrespective of encountering a stiff resistance from ...

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Hatred Town

Submitted to Contest #59

Tyler was wondering how his company could transfer him, the greatest person and salesman that they had employed at the company to this small dinky town. As he carried in his luggage to the hotel, he noticed everyone had stopped what they were doing to look in his direction. He could understand why the ladies were looking in his direction, but it was everyone including the men which had the same look in their eyes. Like they hated his presence in this small one stop town, he knew that he hadn’t done anything wrong yet. So ...

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Alone

Submitted to Contest #59

It had been three days since the storm started and it didn’t look like it was stopping anytime soon. I was sheltered under some cardboard boxes, which had turned too soggy to support themselves, let alone shelter me - it was as if I was standing under the rain. Many times I thought of getting up and finding a better place to spend the night but, I feared not only the frequent boom of the thunder or the occasional lightning that followed, but the thugs who came out at this time of night.. Even after decades, it seems that these people never s...

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Damaska

Submitted to Contest #59

Arlo was used to being in new settings, he was used to feeling like he was out of place but nothing he had ever experienced before came close to what he experienced in Daskarna. He didn't have the vocabulary, he didn't think the words even existed, to begin to describe his emotions after leaving, but he sure as hell knew he would never feel it ever again. You see there was a girl with beautiful green eyes, it’s always the ones with beautiful eyes that get you.  She was nothing like anyone else Arlo had ever met. It wasn’t love at first ...

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Lonely Street

Submitted to Contest #59

A great open city, full of endless possibilities and opportunities. It glistens with the inviting glowing lights of each corner turned to. There's many people around, maybe too much around but that's ok. John was ecstatic to hear the news as he's sitting in the train watching the screens exaggerate slightly according to his thoughts on the city as a whole. I mean honestly who could believe this except for me he thinks.        He's apparently the only person on board the train that believes this, as he loo...

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One fine day

Submitted to Contest #59

The loud noise and indecipherable chatter on the street dissipated when a considerate woman closed the door behind her as she exited the Café. Jeremy was glad that she did not leave the door ajar, like the thoughtless patron before her had. Jeremy pulled his gaze away from the door and back to the screen of his phone and continued swiping through an endless chain of memes. Occasionally, a few of them caught his attention but none, over the past twenty minutes, was able to elicit a smile let alone a giggle. The coffee he had ordered sat ...

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Adventures in Paradise

Submitted to Contest #59

Wow. This place is amazing, Josh thought as he sat on the deck of his cabin looking out over a verdant meadow sprinkled with wildflowers. A small herd of four deer grazed at the edge of the meadow. Josh sipped his coffee. A perfect way to start the day, he thought. His wife Suzy sat beside him. Yes it is, she thought. Neither had spoken, yet each knew what the other thought. How about we go up to the lake for a swim? Josh thought. Sounds good to me, Suzy replied. She liked being able to read Josh’s mind, well sometimes she did. They ...

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Tower of Death

Submitted to Contest #59

It’s the year 2214. Climate change has rapidly progressed over the past century and, despite scientists’ and world leaders’ best efforts, the Earth is nearly dead. The surface is a bleak wasteland ravaged by severe storms that leave death in their wakes. 33 years ago, new incurable diseases began to break out across the globe. Scientists stopped trying to save the planet and started looking for a way to leave it. Although another life-sustaining planet was never found, several space stations were built to orbit the Earth. Only society’s Elit...

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Waroda

Submitted to Contest #59

"Harry, Harry ,where are you, this kid always pulls something when we do this ." exclaimed marry an average height, skinny women with black hair braided with fragments of gray, her eyes seemed to mirror the blue color of the sky, as her chest was pounding she tried to locate her son who was nowhere to be seen, “come on honey he can’t go far ,he must like the open space ,it’s good that he is exploring “said the cheerful sound of her husband a tall and well-built man holding a box full of their kitchen ware and gazing at his wife thr...

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The Red House

Submitted to Contest #59

The Red House The red house had been there for a very long time. No one had lived there in at least fifty years, and no one could even remember who owned the place. It was a three-story Victorian made of brick, blood-red bricks. The yard was overgrown and surrounded by a six-foot iron fence. The shutters were all closed tightly, except for the window on the widow’s walk, some claimed that they had seen weird lights in that window. The townsfolk stayed away from the house except for the man that the city sent over to cut the grass three or...

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The Giant Plum

Submitted to Contest #59

This is my take on fantasy. The Giant PlumBored school girl Susan Potter watched the rain pour down relentlessly from her bedroom window as it battered against the glass; it was the weekend and there was nothing to do. She pivoted around the room in hopes of finding some amusement."If only it would stop", she was about to say when it happened; a giant plum appeared in her hand, sugar crystallized it.Susan Potter looked at the giant plum in her hands and felt delighted because it signified a change.She walked over to the window agai...

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The List

Submitted to Contest #59

The air was different. Dry but warm.  There was dust in the air, and a lot of cigarette smoke. I coughed. Memories surfaced of times that I had forgotten. Times before smoking was banned in most public areas, back home. Of times when everything was happier. I wheezed, willing my heart to stop racing. Would I still be able to breathe here? I felt I could barely move. The flight was bad, cramped in allocated seating in a metal box. I didn’t think outside could be worse.  But people are everywhere, leaning, smoking, kissing each other...

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CITY OF LOVE

Submitted to Contest #59

Everyone calls Paris the city of love, but that is not something that happens for everyone. It is a city of possibilities; where you can find love or where you can lose yourself, and you don't know which of these is going to happen until you're there. Tatiana was a girl who came to Paris for an Exchange program in the summer. She had just broken up with her boyfriend, and she thought this would be the right place and time for a new start, an adventure, a romantic Summer Fling. She felt so many things before coming, but when she reached Pa...

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Amazing adventure

Submitted to Contest #59

Every day is a struggle. A new day brings a new way for death to sneak up on me. He is waiting for the time to take me, a time for my body, mind and spirit to give up on the fight for survival. This place, this horrid place is slowly destroying me. My hope to return home safely dwindles every day. Just as a candle flickers at the end of the wick, I can feel my life giving its last dance before the eternal end. And what saddens me most, is I am probably in the best condition, compared to the other prisoners who have been captured by the Japan...

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