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Stairway to the Stars

Submitted to Contest #51

Tonight, I silently gazed from my perch on the roof, at the stars...white pinpricks of light bursting through the pitch-black sky. I crouched low into a squat, lifted my head to the universe, and howled to the heavens, howled like the wolf always in my dreams, ready to take me above. Ready to take me to the stairway; my stairway to the stars. Stairstep one I don’t remember who I am but I want to be free. Free from the common people because I am not like them, free from the attachments I don’t understand. Now all I can do is climb; keep on ...

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General: Write a story about someone who returns as an adult to a place they visited as a child.

Submitted to Contest #51

Weekly Writing Prompts Prince De-Grant Brempong Tel. 0575086991 Email:princedegrant32@gmail.com Email:princedegrant37@gmail.com Write about someone who returns as an adult to a place they visited as a child. When I was a little child I travelled to the United States of America with my family. Since I was a stranger in that country we had accommodation in a Hotel. Later when I returned to my home country with my family after my travel to the United States of America , possibilities of going to the country United States of America hav...

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Border Conspiracies

Submitted to Contest #51

Eli perched at the edge of an old rusty metal railing, both legs stepping above its lowest beam. Her thick brown curls struggled to break free from the black hair-lace that was knotting them together behind her neck in a ponytail. The railing was the only thing that separated her from the edge of a cliff.The Muarawetan fishing bay stretched a few meters ahead of her. She picked a viewpoint and grabbed the vintage wooden binocular that had been dangling on her neck. She scanned through it; her new extended view now went past a sea wall that s...

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Through the eyes of a child...

Submitted to Contest #51

Here in the desert, far from the city lights, the Heavens show off their brilliance. The stars above look like silver glitter strewn across a dark canvas, no space is left untouched.This is the canopy that covers the stranded family.Earlier that day: They had come to visit the waterfall and creek that ran by the ancient homestead. The father had stumbled across it during one of his hunting trips. It was beautiful, quiet and secluded. The remains of a stone house, sat between two fingers of the mountain. It had r...

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The Greenest Eyes

Submitted to Contest #51

It was a warm spring day when I sat on the park bench near the playground, breathing in the fresh air. After days of rain and work, I finally had the chance to just smell the roses. The weather was lovely. The flowers were blooming. There wasn’t a cloud in the sky. The perfect day.  As I sat there, a couple of kids at the playground caught my eye. They stood out from the crowd because there were climbing on the railings of the structure. They seemed to be brother and sister since they shared the same brown hair. Then, the boy turned a...

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The Mission

Submitted to Contest #51

As Blackbang trudged through the snow, he thought of his mission: kill the nefarious ringleader of C.R.O.W., a syndicate that targeted the top leaders of the world. That would be relatively easier than his other missions: kill an assassin from a rooftop 3 acres away, kidnap a gang leader, and many others that had earned him the title of “Shadow.” He had accomplished all of this through one thing: his superpowers. The only organization that knew about it was the one he swore his allegiance to P.A.N.T.H.E.R.  P.A.N.T.H.E.R.was the mos...

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Untethered

Submitted to Contest #51

Standing in an open field with knee high grass that rustled dryly in the wind stood Tempest Weathers, a woman of just 18. She was staring upon the inky black sky, the stars twinkling startlingly bright against its dark background. Myriads of stars and their patterns were in the sky, illuminating the field around her. The moon, of course, washed her milky white light over the grass and the numerous pine trees that guarded its edges. Tempest was thinking of her mother, or rather getting away from her. The two had shared a strained relationship...

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The Mysterious Letters

Submitted to Contest #51

“Oh! We have reached,” I said as the car swerved left, entering a once properly trimmed garden, but now had rather unruly bushes.“I am so angry with Tina; she had promised that she would come.” Pam was really upset.“Yes, Veronica’s gone for a vacation and Stella’s gone to her gran’s and now Tina...” said Susan.“Hey, I forgot to mention, she called me yesterday. She told me that her elder brother had come home for the Christmas and thus she was unable to come. Gals why don’t you enjoy the beauty of this place!”“True, it’s an enormous garden,”...

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The Cost of Honour

Submitted to Contest #51

The impact drove the breath from her and for some moments the only thing she was capable of doing was gaping. Her body clawed for breath and her fingernails tore in the dirt below her until she was able to take her first, ragged breath. She lay there, taking rasping, greedy gulps of air for a minute or so more. Behind her, the light in the middle of the Gate dwindled to a spark and then, without any fanfare, winked out of existence. Alisha’s lungs gradually realised that there was nothing hindering them anymore and her body calmed....

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Red Hawk and White Bear

Submitted to Contest #51

“Mom! Keo is poking me!” called one boy’s voice, high pitched at the end into a whine.  “No! Koa is poking me!” another boy’s shrill call came.  A series of skin against skin slaps came from the back of the car. The twin seven-year-old boys yelled at each other from their booster seats.  Mona, AKA Mom, thumped her head repeatedly against the steering wheel of her parked car. “You can’t run away! You can’t run away!” she mumbled under her breath. Sighing, she grabbed her backpack and got out of the car. “Okay, boys, time to ...

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Paradox of Control

Submitted to Contest #51

"Hailie!" "Yes mother?" "Were you counting the spoons, plates and glasses again?" mother asked angrily. "Did I say numbers out loud?" I asked innocently. "yes." She said confused "Did I use the words spoons, plates and glasses?" "Yes?" she said not sure where this was going "Then I may have been counting spoons, plates and glasses 'again'" I said stressing on again knowing the effect it would have on her. "What? How dare you?" She asked appalled. "Oh mother, if I would have been in the mood of daring then I would have been sleeping in my roo...

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Nostalgia

Submitted to Contest #51

1990, I was 6 years old when my father told us that we need to leave the country for his new job at London , I was a sad child about to leave his neighborhood and his freinds ,And at the same time the oldest child in the family whose duty is to understand the situation and that this step is for a better life , And after a week it was not enough for me to bid farewell to a life full of happy moments and adventures with my freinds Younes and Sami , The situation was not easy at the beginning , A new life in a completely different society where...

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A Day in the Life of a Lego Man

Submitted to Contest #51

“Incoming!” Jake clashed the two lego constructions together; a spaceship and a dinosaur. “Sir, our shields can’t hold much longer! We’ll have to-” “No retreat,” Jake said with a deeper tone, though still sounding like a six-year-old. “I am captain Stargazer and I shall see this beast dead!” He imitated both a roaring sound of engines as well as a battlecry of a dinosaur and smashed the two together in a clinking explosion of legos. The spaceship fell apart as the dinosaur's more robust body construction tore through the spacecraft’s complex...

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Written in the Stars

Submitted to Contest #51

Above my head, thousands of stars wink and twink, clustering together in the familiar constellations I’ve known since I was small. Beside me, my mother points them out, telling me the same stories she always has done, her voice calming and hypnotic against the sound of the ocean in the background. “See that large star over there? And the three smaller ones that form a diagonal line running down to another larger one? That’s The Hare – see? His head... and his back... and his haunches. He was a trickster, but he was also the cleverest anima...

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For it Begins

Submitted to Contest #51

On the morning of May 13th 2016, Ava Atkins was running late. It was unusual but she had a nightmare and couldn’t find the courage to face the world in a bad state. She waited until she calmed down before she took a shower and prepared for another day at the office. The traffic in London at that hour was infernal and Ava was aware she had to call Charlie and tell her to keep her patient entertained until she gets there. Ava reached for her purse and rapidly texted her secretary, completely absorbed in her business. Once she finished, s...

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