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The Ocean Called

Submitted to Contest #59

Today, the Sea was as quiet as a town on a sunny day. Lucas and Amelia had been at the sea for four days. While Amelia was seasick and been throwing up her food, Lucas, was perfectly healthy and over positive to find land in this vast ocean of nothingness. These two young lovers got tedious with their mundane village life and decided to travel the whole world and make history. While they started on a luxurious cruise, great tragedy struck them. And now, they are keen to find land in their tiny boat.  They saved three dogs. Cookie, Cream...

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The curious townspeople

Submitted to Contest #59

I wake up at about three in the morning to hear a loud plane coming to the small airport of Watsaken. That is very unusual because very little people come to visit our little town just on the edge of Florida. I push my thoughts and questions for this new person coming to our town away. I toss and turn in my bed and just try to sleep. Finally, i feel a little tired. My eyelids start getting heavy. And off i go into a great nights sleep. Morning has come and i wake up at about 7:30 to get ready for school. The thought passes my mind about the ...

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Universe

Submitted to Contest #59

Have any of you ever wondered about Other Dimensions or Universes? have you ever wanted to go there? Have you ever been trapped there? Well i have and this is my story.. I sigh as i lay on by bed and talk to my friend, Lillian over the phone. Since i moved here a couple of days ago she was suggesting that Maybe me and her should go and see a movie together. It would have been fine and i would have agreed but then she told me what movie it was. Ugh. Vampires and Romance don't go together, and don't even bother trying to add werewolves int...

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Sternutation

Submitted to Contest #59

Andrea had joked about it for years, every time the pollen or mold or dust appeared and the plants did anything besides just sit there and be green. Popping antihistamines like M&Ms, to the point where she could take a benedryl at 6 am and go all day without nodding off and a myriad of various prescription drugs as soon as they hit the market kept her functional, but only barely. When asked, she said she only had two sinus infections a year; they just lasted five months each. When she would have a sneezing fit walking from her car to the...

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She went somewhere that was not on plant earth

Submitted to Contest #59

He was out of this world handsome I should have known that he was not who he said he was.                “Isaac!” I flush at his name my brother waved his hand over his head at his best friend. Isaac was a mystery and it was what attracted him to all the girls at school. His brown hair was a caramel brown with gold eyes and prefect everything. I try to straighten my hair as best as I could to no avail, so I pull my hoodie up. We head to our classes as they talked, &nb...

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Nothing to see

Submitted to Contest #59

“Did I ever tell you about the time I went to Atlantis?” Grandpa asked.  Benji’s eyes bulged. “You didn’t go to Atlantis! Did you, Grandpa?” "Sure I did! I wasn’t much older than you, Vicky.”“It’s Victoria, Grandfather.”“Right, right.” He grinned.“Grandpa!” Benji shouted. “Tell us! Tell us about Atlantis.”“Benjamin. Grandfather did not go to Atlantis because Atlantis does not exist.” She rolled her brown eyes, enhanced eyelashes tickling her filled eyebrows. "Don't be so immature." She folded her arms formally. Benji's enthusi...

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Introversion is most dangerous to lead a lively life

Submitted to Contest #59

Introversion is most dangerous to lead a lively life Introversion badly affects the lively life. An introvert is someone who is reserved and mostly prefers to stay alone.Every person has a kind of dream, to go to one of the most famous places for adventure or something other, whatever else. It should be succeeded if the extroversion is showed up. But if there is only introversion in characteristics then it will be very difficult to adjust not only to the outside world but also within itself. William, a handsome young man of 25 years old. He ...

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Capacitor Mountains

Submitted to Contest #59

R'Kal Nevrest was a planetary scientist with Gibra's Society for Atmospheric and Planitary Research, or GSAPR. His people had been studying extreme abnormal conditions. Thura had been inhabited by the Gialzik for thousands of years. Durring most of that time, the planet had been a stable place for life. The photons reaching the surface had provided sufficient energy for autotrophic lifeforms to sustain thriving ecosystems. Liquid Dihydrogen Oxide condensed and fell often enough and in the right places that the Gialzik could create agr...

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The Old Man's Words

Submitted to Contest #59

I spoke the words the old man had taught me and at first I was disappointed. Nothing seemed to be happening; the mirror merely showed me my reflection, mocking my inadequacies. I thought back on how I had been taught to pronounce those foreign syllables, that awkward language. I replayed those words, the infliction of each, and the way my mouth had felt when the old one had cackled gleefully assuring me I had the incantation perfect. As I pondered for that moment where and when I had spoken wrongly it occurred to me his final advice, patienc...

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SUGAR TAILS

Submitted to Contest #59

Some may describe my neck of the woods as colorless. They are so wrong about that! What I see is more polychromatic. If the light hits the land just right it will have the effect of a disco ball bursting with a kaleidoscope of colors. When I travel the nearby trails I see the blue background of the sky and beautiful paintings emerge in my mind. During the change of seasons you will see the Treeline Emerald dragonflies around trees and ponds while the Chickadees chase them looking for a meal. Harlequin ducks seem like court jes...

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The Not So Lost City Of Atlantis

Submitted to Contest #59

Imagine this: You’re on a boat sailing away into the middle of the ocean. All of a sudden fog comes out of nowhere! You’re swept off the boat and thrown into the ocean. The water crowds around you filling your lungs with it’s dark and dreary feeling. You sink, down, down, straight to the bottom. A hand grabs you by the stomach and brings you ashore. You awake to find two purple eyes staring down at you. Startled, you get up. The eyes are attached to a weird creature unlike anything you’ve seen before, it looks like a cat and a unicorn merged...

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So I Followed an Owl to a Suspicious Small Town... (Part 2)

Submitted to Contest #59

Author's note: This is a part 2 to "So I Met an Owl in an Elevator". If you want, maybe read that story first to avoid spoilers. If you don't want to, no worries, have a recap and a wonderful day!Recap: the unnamed narrator rushes to an elevator from a hotel bar while realizing a creep from the bar drugged her. She makes it to the elevator, passes out, and wakes up to find a power outage that stopped the elevator and a mysterious talking owl with muddy red feathers and dark green eyes. He introduces himself as Howl, her Guardian Owl that cut...

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Heartsmith

Submitted to Contest #59

He schleps through the swamp, grateful he’s brought only a t-shirt and jeans, no backpack, no food, no nothing. He’s forgotten what it felt like to wear his own people’s clothes, forgotten how to take off the glamour. So he trudges to the alchemist’s smithy in human form. He remembers the day he decided to become the Heartsmith’s apprentice-she’d shown up to the city to ‘see the reckless boy’ who would succeed her when her own heart gave out. A small woman she was-her eyes had barely reached his chest. Wrinkles covered her, as if her skin we...

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The Zoo

Submitted to Contest #59

The monorail zoomed forward through the desert as the giant solar-powered dome rose up in the distance. The girls sat on the edge of their seats, gazing eagerly out the sun drenched window. Their classmates chattered and giggled as the train moved silently through the barren wasteland, and the blue of the ocean peeked at them from the horizon. Even from a distance the dome, filled with trees and flowers, seemed unnatural and hardly real. “I read that they have more species of flora and fauna than any other in the world!” Jessie exclaimed. ...

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Victoria Island a small town where citizens are suspicious of newcomers.

Submitted to Contest #59

My story is entitled Victoria Island a small town where citizens are suspicious of newcomers.Victoria Island happens to be a small town where Mr. Robinson was shipwrecked alone entirely on that Island and had to live there for years all by himself.Also he was grateful for his escape, his situation was a dreadful one then. Since Mr. Robinson was wet he had no other dry clothes to change into and nothing to almost eat or drink.There he saw no future before him but that of dying of hunger or being eaten by some wild animals.It was always noted ...

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