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An Exchange Of Great Value

Submitted to Contest #75

'Will you continue your work, child?'  Misthael asked me, not for the first time.   'Will you accept the commission,   Will you carry the message of healing and hope?'  'I will go back', I said,   'But first, show me how it all works.'  This wasn't my first near death experience,   And I was done with pondering 'why',   If they wanted to keep doing this to me,   They were going to give me some answers.  At the beginning of every year of my life,  ...

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Saint Bottle

Submitted to Contest #75

     Mazi phenco okiro is my name, for those of you that don’t understand igbo language, Mazi means mister, so, I'm Mr phenco okiro alias saint bottle. Yes, that was the name given to me in 1994 when the demon that took me around 26years to exocise was first taking roots inside me.        For clarity sake, I'm 48, Hair black with hand full of scattered whites here and thereReceding front eye black, nose a little flat, I weigh about 75 nowadays before it used to osciliates betwe...

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Wish

Submitted to Contest #75

As she was cleaning her desk, she found a faded paper that she has written last year. She always had a list of new year resolution- her mother said that to be successful she needs goals in lives to strive for and otherwise she would get lost, she always goals to strive for, as she is a strong, independent career woman. The first on her list was that she should find a rich, handsome boyfriend. She found one. A nice boyfriend with a good career and nice teeth, despite not liking him. Her parents like him, and that was enough for her. Never...

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Fighting to live

Submitted to Contest #75

I will never get admitted in a clinic, anorexic but not dying does not qualify for treatment. I can become as thin as paper, but until I reach a weight they consider dangerous enough, I won’t get in. They want to cure us, but fuel what we want: to be considered so sick people would worry we will drop dead at any moment.  The thinner you are, the less you matter, but the more people worry for you. There is a power in death very few are aware of. Sick people know it more than anyone. I will restrict more, become thinner, and control every...

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Roller coaster life of Krish

Submitted to Contest #75

Roller coaster life of Krish The resolution is either small or big that doesn’t matter, the big deal is whether we are trying to achieve it or not. I’m going to tell about the girl named Krish and the success story of her resolution. Krish has been playing hide and seek over the years to find out the way to accomplish her resolution. What was her resolution then? . She wants to be a pillar of her family financial problems and get an identity by herself doing something special. She has been working so hard over these years to achieve her reso...

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Two Decembers Later

Submitted to Contest #75

Tw: anxietySitting beside her I contemplated , the crisp air was palpable enough to tousle the hair but dwindled promptly and just waved through her hair instead, flaunting her striking highlights style she had tried that was trending during quarantine, I snickered under my mask because of the stark similarities that moment had with the excerpts from novels I always read. She turned to me squinting her eyes and laughed back knowingly at the thoughts simmering in my mind . Turning back at the skulking waves of the sea in front of us she liter...

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Behind the Scenes

Submitted to Contest #75

Promising my sister to be a loyal part of her court definitely wasn't how I expected to be celebrating the new year....especially with my parents seated on either side of her glimmering throne beaming with pride. It wasn't unusual for fed up royals to hand over the keys to the kingdom as soon as their heir became of age. In this case, my normally easy going and caring parents had finally reached the end of their tether when it came to ruling the land of Fae.  After the bickerings of the seasonal courts over the last couple of months...p...

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Reincarnation

Submitted to Contest #75

The geniune unknown and mystery of the events that occur after Death was such a momentous question in a human's soul that often the first thing that they asked me was ' Am I in heaven or hell?'  I never know how to respond to this, I mean should I be insulted that they think my smiling face greeting them belonged in hell?...or should I be grateful that they believed I could be heaven's representative? How did I articulate to them that heaven and hell are simply social and religious constructs that are left behind on the mortal plane? ...

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Mission Accomplished

Submitted to Contest #75

Were always searching for reasons and change in life, so I ask God to intervein in my life, so I can live out the plain God design for me. I chose to do that because with God all things are possible. All we have to do is look around the area we live and start asking yourself what can I do to make a difference in someone's life are life in general, Then ask God. What do you need me to do? lead and guide me father and point me in the right direction. I've always had the heart to help people, I took care of my mom for 12 years with heart proble...

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The Taker

Submitted to Contest #75

“MAGDALEN, Peter.” The name on the card glittered in the fresh sunlight of a new day. Amber opened the file and ran her finger over the mugshot and felt the connection. Another client. Another day. Another twenty-four hours. ** I saw him standing in the middle of a crowded shopping square, neatly dressed but staring around the place like he was confused and afraid. He seemed lost and dazed, but no-one approached him to help. I could see the thoughts running through his head. Why is no-one helping him? Why didn’t anyone see him? What was wr...

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Working Towards a Daunting New Year's Resolution

Submitted to Contest #75

Every year people make resolutions for the New Year that they plan to carry out but never do. Things that may just be out of their reach or things that get sidelined by other obligations. They say to themselves that next year will be the year that they finally follow through and that tends to be pushed back as time goes on. Whether it be something like losing weight or saving money instead of spending it all. New Year’s resolutions are hard to accomplish.  For several years Greta had put off applying for college thinking she was not go...

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Dear Earth

Submitted to Contest #75

New year, a time of resolutions and diaries. We all do write our dreams, enroll in fitness activities, make promises, make plans, and take loans. We dream and shouldn’t we. Dreams do make the passion within us, but Jessica had some other plan going on. She was an activist, an environmentalist, and a liberalist. She may not be good in academics or a good athlete, but her compassion was applauded by the great leaders. The year 2020 had greatly impacted her mindset, and now her resolution was the new beacon of light to her fellow environmentali...

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New Day, New Me.

Submitted to Contest #75

There exists in the hearts of all people a connection to something profound within their inner self, it drives the soul and keeps the mind working. It is a purpose and you should find this purpose, for when you do it will become the most important day of your life. Lying at the bottom of the hill with a stained beard, fag ash rubbed into the equally stained shirt the man opened his eyes and looked to his left and to his right. His eyes were sticky with sleep and clearing his throat from the sting of sick he gagged a little coming to awaren...

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Let go" by modester oywaya

Submitted to Contest #75

I met her in the streets where I went to refuge after experiencing the worst part of my day. Becky was about 17 years of age I could tell from her behavior and most of all I was from the same age group.since in African streets people tend to mind their business when its approaching eight in the evening to avoid curfew,I minded my own business and sat almost two metres way from her.I was in the middle of pain so I kept on sobbing. "We can't be together and definitely I know that pregnancy isn't Mike you are friends with many guys out there ho...

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Froth Atop a Latté

Submitted to Contest #75

High weaving heather, thrown this way and that on each whim of the high weaving winds. Bright sunshine clowns tumble my stomach – tighten; slacken; contort. Piercing chills prickle my skin, skimming jaggedly in my flowing blood tubules. Warm breezes freshen my brow lines, lift the left and the right of my lips up into moon dimples. How I melt into nature’s forces as I sit. Of course I’m early. Usually I’m late. But this day and time, I’m so very early. Yet I’m forty years late. Carmen – she’s always been Carmen in my head. I’m no romanti...

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