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Revelations at the Communion Rail

Submitted to Contest #44

As an artist, not a writer, I ask that you please bear with me as I tell you this story from my far flung past. And if you think that's the big reveal in this story... Guess again.I was twelve, almost thirteen, that fateful day in 1982. Yes, the year of E.T., the Eye of the Tiger song, and the War in the Falklands. It was a sunny Sunday in June, when my Dad, Sal, my older brother, Alden, and I, all attended mid-morning mass at St. John Sebastian's Catholic Church in Toms River, New Jersey.Now before you get the idea we aren't typical Catholi...

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The Faint Of Heart

Submitted to Contest #44

Gupta was the ugliest member of the wedding band- not that it mattered; his face was always hidden by the massive flute he carried. Now, as Gupta set out to play the flute for a wedding, he wondered who would play it in his own. His father, who had been playing it in Gupta’s first wedding, had fainted of shock when the bride eloped before the wedding. During his second wedding, the bride saw something she wasn’t supposed to before the wedding (which was Gupta’s face). The bride screamed so shrilly that even the bats of the attic were surpris...

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Speed Dating

Submitted to Contest #44

"I'm non-binary, I own ten cats, and my favourite pastime is making fossils of mythical creatures out of animal bones."Jace stared at the person before him, unsure how to respond. He was beginning to regret letting his sister coerce him into coming. He shifted slightly in his booth, straightening his cuffs and tie. "Uh...."The person across from him (they hadn't given a name) pushed a curl of their luxurious, lime hair out of their eyes. One side of their head, Jace now perceived, was shaved short, so close to the skin that he could see the ...

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Ander in Larttleight (Sequel to Ander's New Cable Knit Sweater!)

Submitted to Contest #44

Ander woke up with a start, his head still spinning from the trip down the portal to the underground planet Larttleleight. He still wasn’t wearing a shirt, and the ground was cold. He looked around the dark planet, but the whole place smelled like dirt; maybe a side effect from being an underground planet. Ander touched his hands to his nose. Warm blood seeped between his fingers and he yelped. Ander hated blood outside the body, especially when it was his own. “What is this place?”  “The underground planet Larttleleight, boy!” A voice ...

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Final Word

Submitted to Contest #44

I. CluelessFor once in eternity, God didn't know what to do, although he was omniscient.And knew it. Or he thought so. Now he wasn't so sure.If he knew all things in heaven and hell, which was a hell of a lot more than heaven alone, he would instantly know in advance how to respond in the future.But he didn't. Nothing made sense anymore!The chances of human beings finding a way to outsmart God were lower than a snowball's chance in hell, or heaven and hell combined, whichever was worse. How could they set him up behind his back, in front of ...

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Where Everything Fell

Submitted to Contest #43

I often recall different moments of our friendship together. It just is something that is my go to topic to think about when I am busy wandering the empty parts of my neighborhood. Todays story I thought about was when we decided it would be quite funny to pull our long black hair in front of our faces and hide behind doors to scare people. That was a funny day. Thinking about more calamities that were caused by us, I realized that it was getting very late. The sky turned into a dark deep shade of purple while the north star was beginning to...

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The Princess Dragon

Submitted to Contest #43

Once upon a time, there lived a young princess named Evelina. She was beloved by those in her kingdom, and was seen as kind and thoughtful by those she encountered. She was around the age of fifteen when, quite unexpectedly, she was transformed into a dragon! It all happened on a normal day for Princess Evelina. That morning she ate scrambled eggs with salt and pepper, buttered toast sprinkled with cinnamon and sugar, and special mango juice freshly squeezed from her mother’s garden. Over breakfast, she was deciding with her nanny, Bridgit, ...

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The Ten Year Window

Submitted to Contest #43

Chuck felt his pockets as he approached their front door with his nine-year old son, Sammy. Chuck swore under his breath.He turned to Sammy, “Sorry, kid.”“What happened, Dad?”“My keys. I don’t know. I had them. I’m sure I had them… I thought I had them.”They looked at the imposing door as if it held the answer. It stood impervious to all questions.“Why don’t we keep a spare under the mat?”“Or I could leave it unlocked and save the cost of cutting the key,” Chuck said. “Everyone looks under the mat.”“But…”Chuck gave Sammy a look that shut him...

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A Change For the Better

Submitted to Contest #43

You’ve all heard the story of St. Nicolas, the jolly old elf who, every Christmas Eve, travels around the globe bring joy to all the good children. But how did Santa Claus really begin?               The story goes way back, but I fear that if I were to start at the beginning it would take too long. Let me set the stage: it was not too long ago, a century, maybe, when Christmas wasn’t as loved a holiday as it is today. Children went to bed, not giddy with anticipation...

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An Unlikely Father

Submitted to Contest #43

Po was a panda who lived with his dad They ran a place where noodles were rad.Po liked to play with his action friendsHis funny adventures never come to an end.One day Po was late to workHis dad said, “Come on, in the store you must lurk.”“Dad,” he said, “I had a dream!It had to do with noodles it seems!”His dad said, “Oh great, that means it’s your turn!Go, go, go, there’s money to earn!Take the cart and go to the mountain,The Dragon Festival’s about to begin!”Po huffed and puffed up those stepsMaster Oogway was about to choose who was...

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Ander's New Cable Knit Sweater

Submitted to Contest #43

“No, I don’t want to go to the Cabinet Seminar with you tomorrow, Sapphy.” Ander crossed his arms across his chest and scowled at his sister, who was trying once again to convince him that he should go with her to some ridiculous event. Whatever. “I’m not going.” He ignored the tickets sitting on the table and rolled his eyes when Sapphy widened hers; some attempt to make herself look more innocent, but instead made her look like she had eaten too many gas station bean burritos and wasn’t sure where the nearest bathroom was. “But, Ander...

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Hey, Stupid!

Submitted to Contest #43

Staring down at the screen of her phone, Megan cringed at the sight of her friend’s Facebook post. It was a picture of a woman standing on a sunset beach, staring happily into the distant waves. Bold pink glittering letters were stamped on the photo, saying: ‘Hey stupid! Stop. Breathe. Smile.’Yeah right, she thought as she tapped her foot nervously. What’s taking so long?She taped on the heart icon next to the like button because that’s what Facebook friends do and scrolled down her news feed, too distracted to read, but too anxious to sit s...

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Kevin Walter Bob John

Submitted to Contest #43

This boy was at the beach, and he was being irritated by several strange children. They were in the water just miles and miles away, and yet they were so extremely loud and obnoxious that he could hear them anyway. They were yelling names at him. They weren’t bad names like Fatacake, Heartfeet, Bonsai, or Justin Beiber, but instead they were names like Kevin, Walter, Bob, and John. Yes. The boy could hear the voices carrying across the water like small vessels of supreme annoyance. He stared at the motley crew of bellowers. He glared at the ...

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The Great Birthday Reunion

Submitted to Contest #43

The birthday boy sat in a chair made of donuts and caramel apples. There was a squirrel head made from cake batter and frosting resting upon his left shoulder, because he hated those buggers and wanted to represent this dislike on his special day. He looked graciously out at his adoring friends. There were only around eight of them, but they were adoring nonetheless.  Snow fell from the sky and landed on the edges of their noses. They lived in a place where the seasons whirled around like sirens. There was also a lot of crime in the are...

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Glass Jar King

Submitted to Contest #43

The umbrella in our yard was bright pink and had a giant slice torn out of it the morning I went to the porch after the rains had hit our town. I recalled my mother had bought the umbrella at an estate sale for around three dollars; how excited she was to bring it home and plant it on our back porch. Well. Now it was in tatters, not unlike the rest of the yard, which had flooded last night in the storms. I didn’t want to tell my mother her prized umbrella was broken now, but she would notice soon enough. She managed to notice everything. I w...

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