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The Anima App (Prolouge)

Submitted to Contest #76

“Could you tell me that story again, daddy?” “I’m tired, Caddy. Go ask your brother” “But I can’t sleep!” “I’m serious, young lady. I don’t want to hear it” “Quinn won’t tell it correctly!” “Young lady, I don’t want to hear that excuse again!” “But it’s true! He’s just going to be all moody. I don’t like it when he tells me stories!” “Have you ever heard his version of my tale?” “...” “Exactly. Now sweetie, remember what I told you?” “Always wash my hands after each meal? Go talk to those terrible girls across the street?” “No, but you ought...

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Tongue Tied

Submitted to Contest #76

My heart raced as I stood, my back resting against the chipped wall, watching my mother stand over the poor rigid creature who had been paralysed for the last few horrific days. The room was ice cold as my mother began pacing around the room, her eyes still glued to the thing that lay underneath her defeatedly. I began shivering uncontrollably as my lungs began to burn from the cold.Mother had warned me not to utter a word in front of the creature disguised as a girl. She referred to her as a beast, but I knew better. As a young girl, I’d al...

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Your Desires Pave Your Way

Submitted to Contest #76

Your Desires Pave Your Way “Dad, I’m grown up and I want you to divide the property and give my share of the wealth. I need it as early as possible.” Cyprian, the pet son, demanded from his dad. “My beloved son, do you lack anything here? Whatever I have, it’s all yours. Don’t go away from your dad’s protection and security. Life alone is difficult, my son. Don’t go away from your home.” Dad expresses his concern for his son. “ I don’t want to hear anything. I’m fed up of remaining under your control. Give my share of the property and let ...

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blurry lines

Submitted to Contest #76

whats the line between friendship or something more?She felt so radiant, so happy and head over heels but the fear, fear of losing this, losing him, made her choke. Choke on her words, on moving further forward, on defining what this was.This. This weird friendship, that seemed to blur into something more. Drunken kisses, showing up to her lectures, wrapping her tight in his hoodies, commenting on what music she was listening to, inviting her over in the middle of the night to play wii and curl up together on the couch. To bring her cups of ...

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A shoe beer is when you chug beer out of a shoe

Submitted to Contest #76

'No like you don't get it she was like cute cute, like bring home to mom cute.''Bro do you understand that you say this exact sentence to me, like this exact sentence to me, every other week''Ok but this time it's different''It was different with Ally''Ok Ally was- ok yeah Ally didn't go according to plan but-''And what's this girl's name''Callie''You're fucking with me''No what Callie's a fine name, I think it's actually kind of cute''I swear to god next week you're gonna be telling me about this cute girl named Sally''Come on bro don't be ...

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The Words Left Unsaid

Submitted to Contest #76

Content warning: suicide, rape "I was staring into the mirror. Looking at my long blonde hair. Looking at my hazel eyes. I looked like an innocent doe. My eyes looked so round and wondering. Then I looked down. I saw the cuts on my forearm. I looked back up into the mirror, and I saw my seemingly innocent eyes, and I began to yell, 'It wasn't your fault! You didn't deserve it!' Then I heard my mom banging on the locked door. She was yelling too, but I can't remember what she said. The next thing I do remember was my hand gushing blood, and g...

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Background Character

Submitted to Contest #76

It was another cliche morning out of a book, the despondent gray clouds hung over the city like a cloak, like straight out of a true-crime novel, which was odd since it wasn’t my genre. I rushed down the street, my heavy woolen coat feeling five times heavier than usual as it absorbed the moisture that invaded the air, hand clasped around my plain brown briefcase, standard issue. My first stop was the coffee shop, and I gave my order to the man who was there, every day, every time. As I stood in the line I was knocked off balance when som...

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The smoking area

Submitted to Contest #76

‘Why did you come out here?’ ‘Too hot. Not a night for all black attire.’ ‘Yeah you didn’t think that one through, did you?’ she opened her palm, gesturing for the lighter. She lit her cigarette, took a drag and pondered. ‘You know- I fucking hate this place.’ ‘How come?’ I perched myself on the wall. The moisture seeped between my jeans. I was too tipsy to care. ‘I just think it’s pretty shit. I mean, there’s nothing special about this place is there?’ ‘No I suppose there isn’t, I get what you mean. Every time I come here I feel like a gran...

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Skye's the limit

Submitted to Contest #76

She sits beside me in class. We talk a lot, often about things that don’t matter. Marshall doesn’t like that. He tells me since we have forever been in the same class, I should spend more time with him. I understand where he is coming from. No one likes Marshall. Everybody loves him, but no one likes to be seen with him. Marshall thinks it is because he is homosexual. I usually assure him it’s not, but today I let him think what he pleases. Today Skye looks different.Her bob is colored light pink. People stare at her as she walks down the ha...

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Life Coach

Submitted to Contest #76

"Close your eyes, you need to learn to trust." I chuckled as I led my twin by the hand to the balcony. "What are you, my life coach?" She chuckled back. "Something like that. I need all your senses to be at alert. Especially the sixth one." I continued guiding her slowly as she walked delicately forward. "Feel the surrounding and tell the story , see it behind your eyes....oh um....i need to blindfold you. Sorry. It's just that your eyelid is shaking a lot, so if this is going to work, then I need to blind fold you." I slipped off dad's ti...

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THE ART OF LYING

Submitted to Contest #76

"It is in fact the easiest thing to do," Freddy stated, as he tried to explain his difficulty in understanding how a person could not lie.Frederick Douglass or as commonly termed among his friends— Freddy, the Flawless,— has been rather a pioneer himself at lying; telling every bit of absurd thing without even raising a single brow. People seem to have believed everything he said to be the truth, whereas poor Joe here, being an utter failure in the "art of lying", as they put it, made a complete fool of himself everytime he tried to do it or...

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Puberty Explained

Submitted to Contest #76

“Grandma, can you explain something to me, please?”          “Certainly, Kelly, what is it you are needing explained?”          “I want to know what it means when a girl reaches puberty. I have heard girls at school talking about periods and ‘Aunt Flo’, but I don’t understand what they are talking about.   I know I am close to that age, and I want to be prepared.”          “Well, Kelly, h...

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The Desi Blog- #Night Life

A T

Submitted to Contest #76

Yeah, hi. I am Tara Trivedi, hailing from the steel city of Bhilai, Chhattisgarh- a small town nestled in kind of middle of the country India.You guys probably know India as that country which has a lot of population and pollution and poverty- the three Ps that stress out everybody.Well, guess what? There’s more than that to India.It has a rich history what with Indus civilization, and it is proud to say that its inhabitants, unlike Egypt, Mesopotamia and Greece’s inhabitants- have been able to conserve their traditions while also remaining ...

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The Boolean Code (TW: minor blood and death)

Submitted to Contest #76

Special thank-you to my own computers teacher who is the kindest teacher I have ever known. *** For everything that I know, there is so much that I don’t. While I know how to keep a child engaged while learning even the most boring of coding languages, I don’t know how to explain the bruises. While I know how to make an amazing task bar with flashing rainbows and unicorns using CSS, I can’t explain the sudden weakness or how it suddenly hurts to breathe. I wish I could tell them. About this. *** “We’re sorry. We could have saved you if y...

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Coffee?

Submitted to Contest #76

1. The car was parked, convenience store neon stretching across the lot and sputtering out 2 parking spots away. We were staring at each other instead of ahead, and for the first time I realized that our collages of one another were imperfect. He did not know me.  “No,” I said. My breath was coming fast, I could feel it oxidizing through my arms or my legs, not quite reaching my wrists. “Don’t tell me what you think. We were- are- so much better implicitly.” “What are you?” He laughed a bit, more of a sigh. The light was low, a lone ...

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