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Submitted to Contest #326
2. Let a small act of kindness unintentionally trigger chaos or destruction. I was at my job at a mental health clinic for outpatients of the local state psychiatric hospital. The work could be very stressful, especially when the patients were actively psychotic which was most of the time. They tended to be released too soon from the state hospitals, with a prescription and an appointment for outpatient treatment.My job was not to rid them of their delusions but to try and make them focus on other aspects of their lives and to help them find...
Submitted to Contest #321
Until I met Brian I prided myself on being someone who would never cheat on their mate. But Brian and I had such chemistry it was like fireworks, impossible to ignore.But I’m getting ahead of myself. First, some background. I’m a soccer mom. I have two children, a girl thirteen, Shailey, and a boy, Jared, almost fifteen. They are close; they get along really well.When the thing started with Brian it was of the utmost importance to me that the kids not find out. If their father cheated they would be disappointed in him but wouldn’t consider h...
Submitted to Contest #320
Center your story around a character discovering a hidden door or path.Eternityby Denise Beck-ClarkI love my apartment and I love the woods that are just a few feet away, on the other side of a chain link fence and the building’s parking lot. My apartment is on a corner so when I sit on the terrace, it’s fairly private. Sadly, though, my home of many years falls short of perfection because it’s located on a noisy street which ruins the peace. But the woods. The woods are why I’ve stayed here for so long. I’ve written poems and stories about ...
Submitted to Contest #319
Whenever there’s a mass killing, like last week when a young guy entered a Catholic church where classes were going on, and started shooting, I get a strange feeling in the pit of my stomach. It’s almost like envy, like I relate to the guy but so far have not had the guts to do something like that myself.I don’t fit in either. Like most of those mass shooters, I hate the people I have the misfortune to have to be around, at school for sure, definitely at home, when I go to the store for cigs, and just about everywhere. I’m not sure how I wou...
Submitted to Contest #314
It was the hottest day of the year so far, a Friday. All I wanted was to submerge myself in water. Preferably an ocean or lake but anything, even a bathtub, would do.As I walked toward home which sadly was a penthouse apartment on the sixth floor of a tenement walkup, I considered renting a hotel room for the night just so I didn’t have to face those stairs. They were a trip under the best of circumstances, like, cool weather, but on a day like today, when just standing still in one spot caused teeming perspiration, it was almost impossible ...
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