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Mind your thoughts when you are alone

Submitted to Contest #58

Mind your thoughts when you are alone Don’t need to fear It will be over soon Be calm and be patience Linda is a smart girl live in this city.She has finished her graduation. Very soon the result will be published. She is very much confident about the result. So no more worries, just chill and enjoy every seconds in the ongoing time. She is an intelligent one. Making friends is her best choice. She likes to help others. She always tries to inspire others. When there’s any needy one,she cannot hold herself,not to go t...

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Mr.Smith decides to camp out in the backyard around a Cave during a power outage.

Submitted to Contest #58

The story is entitled Mr. Smith decides to camp out in the backyard during a power outage.One Friday , during a power outage,the family of Mr. Smith decided to camp out in the backyard .Also around the backyard was a cave,the family of Mr. Smith all together encountered an adventure.Again the family of Mr. Smith came down into a valley ,where the dark clouds caught up with them once.At the backyard ,there were tall trees around. It became dark even faster than it had done earlier on the main road.Again it also became very windy.There were dr...

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Embers

Submitted to Contest #58

Simone Lewis was brought up by Kurt and Corey, a couple in their mid-thirties. The boys had been together for ten years, before they seriously thought about a child. A mutual friend named Gracie, offered to be a surrogate. The little girl was born on the 7th of July 1990. She had Kurt’s bright blue eyes.It never bothered Simone that she was being raised by men. She lived with two loving and supportive parents. That was more than she could say for some of the kids she knew. Her best friend for example, only had her mother Harley. Neither of t...

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The Campers

Submitted to Contest #58

A long time ago, there was a family of 4 people. Noah was Liam and Penelope's father, and Noah was married to Carol. Noah and Carol didn't have the best marital relationship, but they decided to stay together for they're children. Liam was 6 years old, only 1 year younger than Penelope. one day, on a hot, August day, the lights went out. Carol and Noah stumbled around to find the home phone, and when they finally found it, they dialed the electric company. Noah said,"Carol, that's a waste of time, the electricity just went out and the home p...

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Memory Chip

Submitted to Contest #58

Susan’s mind obsessively repeated the opening phrases of her presentation.  She walked at a brisk clip through the corridor, her sensible pumps making light taps on the tiled floor.  She knew her work, she was prepared with a stellar presentation.  She knew she was going to impress the board with her findings.  Research was her thing.  She was good with numbers and graphs and correlating meaning into the results.  Her most recent work with the Biotech group had been intriguing and highly successful.  She wa...

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Then He Appeared

Submitted to Contest #58

As I approached the tall office building I suddenly felt unnervingly overwhelmed. The only job I had ever worked was at a small local diner, which got me through my awkward high school years and my slightly less awkward college years. The diner was friendly and familiar, which was drastically disparate to intimidating building I was approaching. The interview I endured to acquire this secretary position took place in a coffee shop, ironically right next door the diner that I had just quit 3 days before the interview. That being said, I was ...

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Gabe

Submitted to Contest #58

"Not again!" Bobby thought when the familiar sound of shouting woke him up. His parents were yelling at each other again. He tried to crawl deeper into his sleeping bag so he couldn't hear their angry voices.            "Are you telling me that I can't buy myself a new pair of shoes? I need them!"             Bobby could easily hear his father's angry words. He put his hands over his ears.   &...

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The Park Bench!

Submitted to Contest #58

(Write about a family who decides to camp out in the back yard during a power outage.)Bob and Margie looked at one another with a look of knowing panic! More than panic, horror actually! What could they possibly do? How could they corral these four kids in a dark house with no electronic tentacles to the outside world?The family had gathered around the kitchen table where one candle provided all of the ambient light. The family was Bob, the head of the clan and father to two sets of twins, and Margie, head cook ...

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The Missed Fifth Floor

Submitted to Contest #58

My shrink is on the fifth floor of this modern, medical high-rise, so I tell that number to the back of the guy’s head who is standing near the elevator buttons so he can push the number for me. The elevator is so crowded that I feel like a single fry in a super-sized carton of French-fried potatoes and I can’t move or see anything except backs of heads, and I can’t tell whether or not my floor has been rung. The elevator stops and I can hear the doors open and a scurry of people move out. I can now see that we’re on the third floor and I ...

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The Dark Elevator

Submitted to Contest #58

The Dark Elevator  It was 10:30 am on Tuesday September 4, 2000. I was the only person on the elevator when the  power went out. I’m standing there in total darkness and silence.  The only sound I could hear was my own breathing. I started to panic and hyperventilate. I yell, hey I’m in here, can anyone hear me? I’m pounding on the inside of the elevator, my heart is racing. I’m starting to breathe heavier and it’s getting warmer from my breathing. My claustrophobia is starting to get the best of me.  I started to wal...

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The Legend of the Triangle

Submitted to Contest #58

"Ok, Claire are you sure you have everything you need"? The captain asked nervously. "Yes Bill, don't worry it's just two weeks then I'll be back up with so much new information you won't even know what to do with it," I said reassuringly. Bill gave me a sympathetic laugh and extended the prettiest looking journal I've ever seen. He said, "Here, so you can record all this new information you're talking about." It was really immaculate looking. It had hand-pressed paper and was bound by a nice leathery brown cover. On the cover was a latch an...

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She was Me and I was You

Submitted to Contest #58

“You was waiting for a friend, ‘till you turned and saw the end, watched her lips turn bright and blue, and in that moment knew, that she was me and I was you.” The words feel raw in my throat, scraping callously against my tongue and teeth. My hands shake as I flip through the notebook for the umpteenth time. No more entries. No more scrawled words. Why had I written this? When had I written this? Why couldn’t I remember? To the surface of my foggy mind bobs the soothing voice of Thomas, our resident doctor. “Hypoxia can cause memory loss,...

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The Lonely Lighthouse!

Submitted to Contest #58

(Write about a character who’s stuck in an elevator when the power goes out.) Almost running from the parking garage to the lobby of her office building,  Laura is mentally scolding herself for staying out so late with friends on a Sunday night.  She knows from past experiences that she has little self control when fun is involved.  She will choose fun every time. Hurrying across the lobby, her backpack slung over her shoulder, she feels the weight of her laptop and other junk she thinks she can’t live without.  Too b...

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Lessons learned on an Elevator

Submitted to Contest #58

I wouldn't normally be working on a Sunday afternoon, but that  Sunday wasn't a normal day.  It was the hottest day on record, with the temperature measuring over 105° at 6:00 a.m.  I am a writer for a popular magazine enterprise and meeting last minute deadlines were pretty common, so I was not surprised to receive an urgent call from my editor to meet him at our office on Broadway in Manhattan. I quickly threw on a pair of denim mini shorts, yellow tank top and my most comfortable pair of slip on sneakers.  I walked...

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Confessions of:

Submitted to Contest #58

The pursuit of happiness, and the thing one wants the mostMy mom often would talk about those, while I often get lostIn her words that's filled with magic and griefOh, why is happiness so hard to achieveI'm walking alone in this forestFinding the happiness that I once dreamt ofTrying to Remember a story my mom told me, and where she last left off"A hero that seek true happiness" she said,"A hero once mighty, wept, slept and wished he was dead.So he'd forever dream about his lost smilesAnd the feeling of laughing whilst, conversing with the w...

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