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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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Act Confident

Submitted to Contest #59

The sound of squealing brakes and tyres hardly caused a head to turn in the hum-drum of city noises. A small, discoloured white Volkswagen golf manoeuvered inch by inch between two beasts of SUVs; its wheels protesting the whole way as they slid right, left, forward, back- finally parked. “Can’t be...Can’t be..late,” Zara muttered as she shoved keys into her handbag; grabbed her bursting briefcase; raised her eyes expressively in the rear-view mirror; flattened a non-existent out of place hair strand and bolted out of the car. “Idi...

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Remember: one foot in front of the other

Submitted to Contest #59

I hate it here! I've always hated it here, but my entire family lived here for generations. Well, they lived here together until my parents divorced a few years ago. It wasn’t a normal divorce, as it wasn’t a normal marriage, as they are not normal people. If during their marriage, the sun rose in the morning and set in the afternoon, just so that moon could take its place, now a few things changed and I have to adjust with it as we go. The robotic voice announced the next stop. This is where I drop off.  Well, I should get prepared t...

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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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A Visit to Tatum

Submitted to Contest #59

“A Visit to Tatum” As many times as I’d driven the stretch of I-44 between St. Louis and Springfield you’d think I would have figured out all of the best places to stop for a bite and exactly how much gas I needed to have in my tank. Over almost three years and a dozen trips I’d never had any problems until that day last month. Ordinarily if I’d left my house without a full tank I knew a stop in Cuba or Rolla would take care of things, but there was so much going on at the office I hadn’t paid attention to details. Now, just past the Cuba ex...

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Our Home

Submitted to Contest #59

Stepping out of the train station, gazing towards the sky dreadfully, he sighed. Heaven was about to cry while he took the luggage. I was staring at him with narrowed eyes observing all of his dramas, drinking hot coffee from across the station. I have no idea why the hell he dislikes such a romantic climate? The petrichor soothes the brain cells and George has his drama going on. Why do men have to be such a baby about this beautiful weather?  I smiled looking at the sky, dreaming to take a bath. It reminded me of how tired I am of tra...

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The Sheep, the Gator, and a Rotting Plover

Submitted to Contest #59

(Set your story in a small town where everyone is suspicious of newcomers.)The morning dew tastes of death. It might be imagination, or the thinly veiled disgust felt upon arrival. But it’s there--in the mist, in the water. I promise.No one speaks of Gregham’s Gulch. Why would they? It’s dreadful. One rotting gate opens to the town, because the other has taken root in the marshy ground. Even if it hadn’t, it’s secured by sickly rose bushes, which are long since dead, withered. But still the last semblance of life. The gate’s j...

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The Been Heres

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The Been Heres            “Have you met them yet?” Sarah peeks through the lace curtains of my parlor window at the moving van parked in front of the house across the street. At another window I discretely watch men remove furniture from the truck and take it into the house that has stood vacant for as long as I can remember. “Oooh. Look at that sideboard. Surely it’s Elizabethan?” Sarah turns to me for confirmation.            “I...

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The Dull Sun

Submitted to Contest #59

“Congratulations Mr.Nema. Here are your promotion orders. Now you will head the sales department of the branch office at Ghansore”, saying in his usual loud voice, the boss Mr. Iyer handed the letter to Suresh Nema. Suddenly all the curious office staff came forward to congratulate him on the much awaited promotion.  Mr. Nema didn’t get a chance to read the orders , he had to hurry to the parking lot for carpool with other three people who stayed in the same apartment block but didn’t work with him. He didn’t want...

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I actually wrote something new

Submitted to Contest #59

the sky darkens. An inky-black colour stretches across the sky, like the tentacles of an octopus. Pedestrian's faces are half covered by the edges of umbrellas. The splashes of boots hitting puddles rings in the air. I hover at a crosswalk. My hands are numb from the relentless tears falling from the sky. Sometimes I wonder if the earth itself gets sad sometimes. Discrimination. Global warming. The last airbender movie. These are things worth bawling over. The light changes from a red hand to a white person walking. Along with a dozen o...

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Everything Is Awesome ( Except My Life )

Submitted to Contest #59

  ' Honey! The last of the boxes are packed, we're ready to go!! What the hell are you doing in front of the old dresser which we are about to sell off?', I asked my wife. My parents were still in the stage of a minor shock of my marrying a woman from the South of India but I put their minor arguments off by convincing them that I loved her truly and I do!!  I loved her for many of the aspects which are lacking nowadays in the American ladies of today. Her sense of living in a joint family, cleanliness, helping me out when we ...

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ANOPAQUUM

Submitted to Contest #59

ANOPAQUUMBy Andrew Paul Grell“We’re here because we’re here because we’re here, kumquat.” Roman Nixon always had a piece of himself in summer camp, no matter how far he advanced in his successful life. “Gaze down upon our new domain, my blushing bride. See if you can pick out our new house. Tell me if you detect the enchantedness of our little hollow’s forest. Over there on the left.”“I see a town’s main drag, two churches, five bars; ticky-tacky houses fronted with sensible cars. A school and a pool, a theatre ...

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The Beholder Chronicles

Submitted to Contest #59

Nancy Grace put on her microphone and started the interview. She told her audience that she had as guests today Sherry and Charlie Whitaker. Nancy told her viewers that they wouldn’t believe the couples struggles after they recently returned from their life long dream of moving to the country. It all started, she said with an excursion to a small town in Southern Alabama by the name of Pansy. As you will see Sherry and Charlie both had very different and extraordinary experiences which we will thoroughly discuss in grave ...

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Princess polly goes to town BIG aventure!!!!!

Submitted to Contest #59

once apon a time there was a princess,whoes name was polly. she was Very bueatiful and she likes to go to town to pretend she is not princess but she accheally is. ShE Likes town and halp people to be good aand. ool and kind. won day she sudenly said oh my there is a poor kid in town so she go to help chil dren. so she says oh ok i will go to visit the poor chil dren kid so i go and go but they say oh she is bad but she go there so they try to drown her and she say HALLPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! she want to go back to casel but oh no there. is un...

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Nowhere to Hide

Submitted to Contest #59

I can still taste that wonderful steaming hot bowl of nourishment, soba as it is also called. Such intense flavors - texture of the noodles, the vegetables, the smoothness of the stock. All of it was delicious. But I am ahead of my story. I left a land where snakes and spiders were poisonous, where it was so hot in the shade sometimes you could fry an egg, but a land that had wonderful trees that a young person could climb. At 13 I left this land; the ultimate destination was the country of my birth, but with a stopover ...

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