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beside me all along

Submitted to Contest #72

Beside me all along by Emonie Smith Trigger, gayMonday morning was a blurry memory, all I know was that I somehow made it to school. I hardly slept last night. I came to school for one person in mind. My eyes are searching the crowd to find him. Him as in my best friend, Damon. Damon has been in my life for as long as I can remember. When I picture Damon, I think about my favorite song on repeat at our favorite spot, the beach. I knew my feelings for him runs deeper than friendship for a while now. When I finally see him by hi...

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Out of body

Submitted to Contest #72

Out of body by Emonie SmithTrigger, transgender and death1k words It's 3AM and all I can hear is loud vibrations coming from my phone. Lazily, I swipe my arm to my nightstand to retrieve the still buzzing phone. Without looking at the caller ID, I answered. Still reliving my dreams before I heard a man's soft cry. He's crying and trying to get his voice to reach across the phone.   "Hello, is this Olivia Jones?" I cringed that the Male voice is using my dead name. With a sigh, I replied yes.  "This is on the beh...

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The Difference Between Us

Submitted to Contest #72

I woke up to the sound of my ear-splitting alarm clock. beep, beep, beep. "Is it Monday already?" I said sleepily. I got dressed and headed downstairs. "Good morning Honey!" My Mom said Flipping a pancake. "I made pancakes want any?" I sat down at the island. "Sure" She turned around and I saw the time "It's 8 O'clock!?!?" I said surprised. "Yes..." My mom said, confused. I shoved a piece of bacon in my mouth and ran out of the door. I was late for my first day of school. ~O~O~O~O I stood nervously in front of the school. "Hi! I'm Ella y...

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A change of season

Submitted to Contest #72

She was caught off guard. The waves of emotion rushed through her like an electric current. "This cannot be." she thought to herself. Perhaps she was feverish. Winter was, after all, clutching its ugly claws; ready to kick the autumn blues away. The change was imminent. Nature had always been changing. It perplexed her why human nature seemed to be afraid of change even though it was needed for survival. "If we don't change we die", she recalls reading in one of her psychology books. Perhaps it was the reason why she felt dead inside; he...

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Love Like Pottery

Submitted to Contest #72

Water dripped onto my working-bench, loosening up the grey chalky clay into a paste. I used my hands to shape it into a ball and place it in a dry bowl. Grabbing a seemingly millennia old bucket; my hands found themselves in the presence of cold water again. The tap water flushed inside, filling the rounded edges of it. I sighed. My mood wasn’t in sync with the routine I set myself to follow. In times like these, my mind can’t help but slip into yarns of memories. Especially the ones I weaved during my silly teen years. My thoughts dispe...

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Let's Be Young and in Love?

Submitted to Contest #72

When we got assigned as project partners in English class, I never expected to care about who she was outside of class. I never expected to care about who she was in class if I’m being honest. If someone had told me two months ago, all I’d want to do is be wrapped up in the smell of Remington Wade’s freshly washed hair, I would have laughed for a good six weeks.            But now? Now I was in her bed, kissing her with my hand inching its way up under her shirt. Her hands gripped my hi...

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the other girl

Submitted to Contest #72

Oh. Sam had been cheating on her. Bea tried not to cry. She wouldn’t let him have that. She didn’t- she didn’t even care about him, anyways. He was- he was- Who was she kidding? She had loved him. She still did. Did she? Her feelings felt all messy and weird. She hated him. But she also felt like she might still love him. She bit her tongue and tried to choke back any emotion that would crack her voice as she spoke, but, luckily, she didn’t have to say anything. “You should leave, Samuel,” the other girl said. The other girl. The girl...

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Martinis on Water Street

Submitted to Contest #72

The chilled rain fell upon my shivering pale, almost translucent skin. My clothes felt stretched paper thin and unbearably tight; soaking up the very essence of me it seemed. My hair was pulled back into a tight bun that now weighed heavy on my neck. It was as if the universe was telling me to look down, but I didn’t want to. I already knew what would be there, but it never got any easier. I felt that if I didn’t look down, then it wouldn’t be real. The reality was, I was just wasting time and making this much harder on myself. After all, it...

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Tribute

Submitted to Contest #71

The shop bell rang and there she was, Gretta Emilia Kroll, the most beautiful human I had ever met. Watching her lick crumbs from her lips after the first bite of a double chocolate chip cookie had been the highlight of my day back when we were in high school together.In the 10th grade I started working the front counter of my family’s bakery-slash-coffee-slash-holistic remedies shop. My mom was a hippie that never quite turned yuppie in the 80’s like the rest of her generation did, so homema...

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Business women

Submitted to Contest #71

Esme was caked in flour, powdered sugar, icing, and food colouring. Nonetheless, she smiled at the counter completely covered in a variety of Holiday cookies. Esme slogged all day in the kitchen for no less than 12 hours that day to make over a thousand cookies to sell at the holiday festival. This was an important event their town held every year and for the first time since they opened their bakery, Esme managed to acquire a spot for a few hours to sell their cookies. Esme was exhausted but the adrenaline rush from completing her goal kept...

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Exchange from the Heart

Submitted to Contest #71

Being on the third floor of a city apartment, his kitchen only caught short glimpses of natural light. The winter made that time even shorter, but he had every light on in the place anyway. To be festive for the party. Mason’s sister, Harper, insisted it wasn’t a real cookie exchange without Christmas decorations from top to bottom, and for whatever reason, he let her run away with it. Where she got enough of those trinkets to deck her halls and his, he’d never know. But if he even hinted at being curious, she wouldn’t hesitate to regale him...

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A Gift of Love in a Christmas Cookie

Submitted to Contest #71

Holidays are always happy times for all to enjoy family and friends for many years to come but this year proved to be one of extreme difficulties for all. The COVID virus has plagued the entire world and the way we interact with others has changed and we all had to make adjustments. Tom has expressed how depressed he has been since this whole thing started. In an effort to make things as normal as possible, Claire and I decided we would still have our annual Christmas Cookie Exchange party as usual.       &...

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Baked with love.

Submitted to Contest #71

Cole had just moved from Ukraine to California. He was an experienced baker, there was nothing he could not bake. From cakes, to pastries and pies. He came in on the 12th of September, 2018 He had plans on starting very little, he started making cakes and bread in his apartment, on his first day he had over thirty persons come to his apartment telling him the Aroma drew them to his place. On the first day, he gave majortiy of them the things he prepared to taste, but they kept on coming. so he decided to rent a whole new place just for his b...

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Tom the Temp

Submitted to Contest #71

Piece of Heaven Publishing Company, read in big blue block letters at the entrance of the four story building. I read this phrase every time I entered this godforsaken place. Piece of Heaven for who?? Not for “Tom the Temp”, (that’s me). A couple of my now co-workers nicknamed me that. I’ve been here for 2 months, on the dot, and there is no foreseeable end to this sentence. The person I’m filling for went on maternity leave but is now facing some unexpected health issues. I’ve never met them but everyone I talk to raves about how welco...

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A little bit of sugar but lots of poison too

Submitted to Contest #71

This is it! I look up the tall structure, even the right of the building scaring me to death. Am I really about to do this? I mean, you can get sued for this kind of thing right? Hell, if the man I'm after is indeed the owner of this building then if he sued me, my customers would be the least of my worries, shit, the damned bakkery would be the least of my worries. Maybe I should let it go either way, I mean, it can't be the end of the world if I sell my bakery right? I'll just sell it and move to another town, Crescent moon is not the ...

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