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Write a story about an adventure in a small town.

Posted in Adventure on Mar 30, 2021

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Never Turn Your Back

Submitted to Contest #8

Whispers are the only thing you can hear in the dark streets of Amoa. They say never turn your back on the main street church. Especially if you’re alone. Their cold, breathy warnings are the only company you’ll find as you wander the asphalt coated with a thin layer of late fall snow.  Wind ruffles my hair. I stagger as the strong gusts push me into the street, as if telling me to stay away. Pulling my beanie lower over my reddening ears, I right myself. Nothing is going to stop me. Not the whispers, not the wind. Certainly not rationa...

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An Adventure at Cherryville

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Charlie and his friends were very excited about their adventure trip. They couldn't wait until Friday. Charlie, Jenny, Alex, and Alice were best friends and they decided to go on a trip to have some adventures.Everyone suggested so many destinations. Sarah wanted to go to the beach. Jenny was a fan of jungle safaris. Alex wanted to try sky diving. Charlie was not suggesting anything because he was a little afraid of such trips. He was quiet. Nobody was able to decide where to go. And they didn't want to waste their vacations. At a point, the...

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Forest of Fear

Submitted to Contest #8

       My childhood could be measured in Murder, She Wrote reruns. The whole family—minus my eldest sister who was replaced with our cousin—was gathered, as we often were, around the television in that twilight hour between supper and bedtime to be swept up in one mystery writer’s chase for truth. Was fresh from a bath and clean as a whistle, dressed in my favorite pajamas—an old ALF t-shirt and gold checkered shorts—and tucked in the comer of the couch underneath a ratty brown blanket M-Maggie had qui...

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Sucked into the Abyss

Submitted to Contest #8

Taking a deep breath in, he opened his eyes and looked at the board in front him. Millions of posters in yellow tinted papers littered and tacked, calling for attention as they screamed their rewards in hand written and drawn clutter. But there was only one that stood out. Oldest in time. Biggest in size. Highest in rewards. It was obvious that everyone’s eyes were to be drawn over there. Just like his were. Current Location – Florentina Guildhall of Aglasia    It is the main location where e...

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NAIROBI

Submitted to Contest #8

The spiky morning chill cut through my jawline making my teeth grind like a woodpecker on a bark of a mahogany as I stretched out my joints after eight hours drive. The bus had reached Nairobi. Stepping off the bus, I dived into a nonchalant atmosphere laced with soot from hooting vehicles with revving engines threatening to speed off. Fresh warm sweat repelled my nose as I walked passed luggage carriers who scrambled over passengers. The bus stopped at railways bus station, from there I would turn left and head straight until I saw a buildi...

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Adbentures With Friends

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ADBENTURES WITH FRIENDS          Nearly every outing with my friend Vicky usually turned into an adventure. We were teenagers in the seventies, growing up in a small town where we usually found plenty to do  and had a lot of fun together.         Vicky was more athletic and physically stronger than I was. She was the only girl I knew who raced mini bikes and was usually the only girl who competed. Her dad raced motorcycles and h...

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The Locksmith's Daughter

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It has been a long time since I have written in my diary. I have not written in it since I was a little girl but, today was an intriguing day.It was my first day working as a teacher. I had just finished my master's degree at the University of Michigan, and I thought I was going to be working in Michigan, when a friend of mine found me a job in Bullhead City, Arizona. I knew that I was going to miss the sweet spring and the cool winter, but I found an equilibrium in Bullhead that I did not have in Michigan. While the summers and winters in M...

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TRACY’S CAR BREAKS DOWN IN MERIDIAN, IDAHO

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Tracy pulled into a farmer’s driveway, coasting and freaking out. Her car had stopped running and her dad, just laid off, couldn’t afford this garbage. She was rolling and crying. Good thing the farmer’s driveway was so long.           Tracy thought of being broken down in Meridian, Idaho, population 2,000, and cried harder. She felt a slight bump and, belatedly, hit the brakes. She rubbed her eyes some and saw that she stopped with the front of her car on a locu...

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Continuity

Submitted to Contest #8

Continuity   “ Chal beti lachhmi”, Chamcham invoked the gods and threw the flat pebble towards the fifth square. It landed pat in the middle…Gods were always kind to Chamcham during a hopscotch game! The rest of us stood surrounding the design drawn in mud, impatiently awaiting our turns.    We were a ragtag bunch of 8 – 10 year olds, barely dressed in bloomers and chemise. Most of us had escaped parental diktat on having a bath and sneaked out for a quick game. I had still not got a chance to play but there was no way I was g...

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Home.

Submitted to Contest #8

I sit in my seat, waiting for the bell to ring. I watch the clock on the wall directly across from me. The colon in the middle blinks on and off every half second. The time changes so slowly, but it’s mesmerizing to watch. 3 minutes. 2 minutes. 30 seconds. The long bell rings. As my classmates stand tall at the podium saying things I should pay attention to, I daydream. I block out everyone and stare into the wall and think. What could I be with Him? Who am I in the place of slumber? Why do I feel like a mistake? I can’t help but feel I’m mi...

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There Are Nights Like These

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“Hi.” Edward looked down at the intruder. Light hair, bright eyes, dappled sunlight, hazy behind the smoke of his cigarette. “What are you doing here, Milo.” Milo shrugged, squinting past Edward to the slowly darkening sky. “The power went out, so I thought I’d come see if you were here. I know this is your place, but… want to go do something?” Edward had thought he was the only one to consider the lonely brick wall at the back of the alley ‘his space’. Maybe that was why Milo didn’t come to find him often.  “What if I say no?” “Then I…...

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Super Chicken and the Wild Bunch

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Super Chicken and the Wild BunchBy Mandy L Cantrell  About three lots between me and J.W.’s house was a growing side show made up of two trailers and about ten people, best we could tell. In a town with nothing much to do, this had been our favorite attraction during those long summer days. We were still pretty young back then; somewhere between childhood and real responsibility. And we spent most of our time loafing around what was left of a town that may or may not have been something once upon a time. The group had rolled into town a...

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The Girl Who Grabbed a Bullsnake

Submitted to Contest #8

By Christa McCormick       There’s no moon out and the midsummer sky is so clear that I can see the Milky Way. I love that name. The Milky Way.        I can just imagine an astronaut floating around in space with a glass of milk in his hand. All of a sudden he trips over a shooting star and his glass spills, breaking the liquid apart in a million white beads, speckled against the stellar sky.          “Would you look a...

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Stokes Family and Troubles

Submitted to Contest #8

"Are you sure about this place?" confirming Matt."I too have this same question", said the girl standing beside Matt, Anna." Both of you, it's true that we have ten days of vacation. And if we would have traveled to some exotic place then we would have enjoyed less as compared to this place and it's in our way to the target place where we have to submit the file", replied the questioned person, Logan."And here we relax for 12 days then 10 days at an overpopulated place ", Coraline added one more advantage.The nine friends had arrived at a sm...

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ADVENTURE'S WITH A VAGABOND

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ADVENTURE’S WITH A VAGABOND As a baby I never had what people call a family of sorts. I always moved around from one foster home to another. That’s how you adapt to not feeling attached to certain places or people. My foster parents always took me in soley for the money and never cared about me. But here’s the thing I was always a tough hearted little kid so that had no affect on me whatsoever. I took whatever punishments for things their pesky children did and not me just because they hated me. I never did anything to them but they said I h...

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