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The Snipe

Submitted to Contest #204

Trigger warnings: weapons, animal harm and death The school parking lot, after school let out at 3 and before boy scouts began at 4, was a lawless place. But Jerry was ten now, and with double digits came double pressure to toughen up, put on a brave face, and keep his head held high while he ate baby carrots from a ziplock bag by the bike rack in the parking lot, keeping an eye on the other boy scouts romping his way. Today was his first day in scouts. Sure, he knew these boys from school. He saw them sitting in the back of the cl...

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From the Ground to the Sky

Anan Hari

Submitted to Contest #203

I dropped my head to my knees and closed my eyes. Tears rolled down my red cheeks. My ears rang with the voice in my head again: “You’re not good enough”, “You have to make your parents happy”, “You’re a failure”. In reality, I just wanted to be heard and loved. My parents never really understood me and thought I had attitude issues. No one understood me. I never had friends who cared about me. They mostly used me and told others terrible things about me. I slowly lifted my head and wiped my tears. My parents never believed sharing emotions ...

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Friends of the Time/Light Continuum

Johanna Parry

Submitted to Contest #202

Kaden calmly plucked his ukelele. Each reverberating note started sounding all around them - suddenly - ZAP! An electric snap hit the air and another fly dropped out of the room. The sound of giant bowling balls rolling across the sky shook the windows. “Jack loves thunder.” He thought to himself. What he wasn’t thinking is how stunned Jack would be to witness him killing bugs with just the sound of his ukelele.Lightning flashed outside the window like burning plasma in space. Too bright to comprehend. A loud pounding on the ...

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Friends II

Cosmic Neon

Submitted to Contest #202

“Let’s get married”, Tyson and Diane lay on the lawn in front of Tyson's house, Diane kept breaking the petals off dead sunflowers. “Why?”, Tyson asked her.Diane sat up, “Because if we get married we can live in the same house and have so much fun together”“Like what?”, Tyson also sat up“Well we can stay up and watch movies together, we can eat candy and ice cream together, draw pictures together, and so much more”, Diane blabbed.“But what if we fight or argue”, Tyson stated, “My mom and dad always fight and argue, I don’t wanna fight you”Di...

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TINKERBELL

Ali Anthony Bell

Submitted to Contest #202

“How about a little fun?” Jack snickers to his gang, tossing his chin up like a pointer, his eyes zeroing in on a solitary bookworm sitting on the blacktop of the school courtyard with his back against a brick wall. It’s the morning recess. They all nod approvingly as sinister smiles unite and eyes gleam with the anticipation of the attack. The loner is small and slim, with long straight sandy hair and gold wire-framed aviator glasses. Jack is the outsider’s antithesis in every way, from his sporty build to his outgoing manner. All the girls...

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Molestation Magnet

Viga Boland

Submitted to Contest #200

**please note story begins in 1953. Molestation and rape mentioned.** When the first of the molestations begins, I am 7 years old. I attend St. Vincent’s Catholic School. The school is located a few miles from the now infamous Kings Cross, a part of downtown Sydney, Australia. My molester is a 13-year-old student in Grade 6…a girl. Because I’m new at the school and think my classmates might not like me, I hide in the shadows of the building. She spots me there. She smiles at me and comes over. “Why aren’t you playing with anyone?” She ...

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Middle School Superhero

Cora Anne

Submitted to Contest #200

Dakota was pretty happy being 11 years old. Her life wasn’t too exciting like some of the kids she saw walking around school with lots of friends, big laughs and important things to whisper about, but she had what she needed. Her mom and dad ran an organic vegetable farm and the whole family spent a lot of time outdoors. Her favorite after-school activity was painting little rocks with her brothers and hiding them around the farm for people to find. At school she was a gray man. She heard that term once when she was awake in bed listening to...

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Amazing Mentor

Matea Schulz

Submitted to Contest #198

Ring! Ring! Our teacher walks over and picks up the phone. "Hello, Mrs. Well's class how may I assist you?" A short pause takes place. Mrs. Well speaks into the phone, "Yes he's here." My friend Ryan nudges me and whispers, "Dude, they're talking about you." I reply, "Just because my grades are slipping doesn't mean they're talking about me." "Liam the principal requested to meet with you." Mrs. Well tells me. I stand up and trudge to the door. "Good luck Liam!" a kid yells. The entire class bursts out in laughter. A tear falls from my eye a...

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Right, Wrong, and Innocent.

Skylar De La Cruz

Submitted to Contest #198

Mara: Mara was in the middle of a math test when she got the call from the principal's office. As expected, she knew exactly what she was being summoned for. Her fight with the trendy twins, Autumn and Summer, had echoed down the hallway and stirred quite a commotion. She had been utterly rude to the twins, and it was all because of that one person: Jonah. Jonah is the cute blonde eighth grader who basically can do anything, from computer science to music to even co-directing a musical. Mara wanted him to be HER boyfriend, not Summer's....

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Carnival

Derrick M Domican

Submitted to Contest #198

Principal Wallace was standing with his back to the door, leafing through folders in the top drawer of one of his filing cabinets, when she entered the office, quiet as a mouse, stealthy as a ninja, gentle as the wind, despite her size. She smirked as she crossed from the door to the busy-but-organised desk, softly and swiftly like she was floating, and drew to a halt there, wondering how long it would take for him to notice she’d arrived. The window next to him was open and bright summer sunlight was streaming into the room along with ...

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Are You There God? It’s Me, Pearl

Lynne Boyd

Submitted to Contest #198

I hurried behind Ms. Woodall, unrolling my skirt as I rushed to keep up with her, not wanting to get in trouble for my skirt, or legs, being too short. Could they reprimand me for being too short? At this point I felt as if anything and everything would be on trial, and I didn’t have a chance in hell of getting out of here alive. Ms. Woodall slapped my book on her hip as she stomped towards the principal’s office, over and over like she was whipping herself, as if she could knock loose all the words and sentences they deemed irrehens...

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The Sunlight Made Rainbows in the Water

Sierra Fraser

Submitted to Contest #198

Everyone showed up for my funeral. Everyone wanted to see the Dead Kid. Mom and Dad were there, although it seemed like they were ghosts of themselves, like they were the ones who drowned. They always looked that way. Holly, Pat, and Christian were there, too—I didn’t expect to see them. They were swinging their feet in their plastic chairs and sipping from the black solo cups they had at the funeral home. I liked th...

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A Meeting at the Principal's Office

John Steckley

Submitted to Contest #198

A Meeting at the Principal’s Office The Tale of a Teenager of the 1960s I’ve walked this ill-destined path before. “John, go to the principal’s office right now!” The teacher said that just as soon as I walked into his classroom. I knew what it was about. I have long hair and I had neglected to grease it down, so it didn’t look as long as it actually was. I also had the shaggy beginnings of my second beard. Both are more or less forbidden in my hi...

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Corner Art

Suma Jayachandar

Submitted to Contest #198

For as long as she could remember, tendrils, peacocks, and rangolis ran amok in Suchi’s head. And leaped out at her notebooks. The public school she went to, close to her village, had half its teaching staff getting replaced every year. And given its proximity to the military cantonment, half its students got refreshed every year. Not that any of it mattered to Suchi. She had learned the art of becoming invisible by sandwiching herself between eager-beaver-answer-giver-oh-I’m-so-clever and I-care-two-hoots-for-your-chalk-and-talk-lady! briga...

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A Tale of the Unexpected

Debra Williams

Submitted to Contest #198

Harriet Cooper stared at the scuffed toes on her shoes. Her stomach coiled in knots as she stood outside the principal's office and stared at the name on the brass plaque attached to the door: Mrs Notgoodenough. The principal’s pinched lips, permanently lined with red lipstick, fronted a stern face. Mrs Notgoodenough. Nothing was ever good enough for her. An appropriate name for a tough principal who didn’t seem to like kids. She certainly had never liked Harriet. Why Harriet wondered, was she even in the job? Harriet’s class had been on a ...

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The Snipe

From the Ground to the Sky

Friends of the Time/Light Continuum

Friends II

TINKERBELL

Molestation Magnet

Middle School Superhero

Amazing Mentor

Right, Wrong, and Innocent.

Carnival

Are You There God? It’s Me, Pearl

The Sunlight Made Rainbows in the Water

A Meeting at the Principal's Office

Corner Art

A Tale of the Unexpected