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They had been friends for a while. Ever since Lucy had been assigned Maggie’s new biology lab partner. Maggie had thought her quiet at first, but that was okay because Maggie could talk for both of them. Lucy had ginger hair and wore gold circular glasses. Maggie had mousy brown curly hair and a purple nose stud, that she would immediately put back in after being told it’s against the school rules. Maggie was lying with her head in Lucy’s lap. They were watching The Great British Bake Off...
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Disclaimer - this is not a real Greek myth, I made it up, although the characters are real in Greek mythology. Hope you enjoy.Pontus was pacing, nervously. His crab-claw horns snapping restlessly upon his head. He was walking next to his favourite body of water; the Aegean Sea, but even that didn’t seem to calm him. Not nearly enough people have heard of Pontus. Although most of those people have heard of his ‘all-powerful’, ‘master of the sea’ son, Poseidon. Pontus thought this begrudgingly. Who did those people think gave him those powers?...
Submitted to Contest #82
Jemma DodgeWhy did it have to be me? It definitely didn't seem fair. I grew up in a small town, always got good grades and went to an excellent university. I graduated in the year 2025. The same year that wretched laptop came out. I don’t know why everyone wanted one. It didn’t have many different features to a regular laptop. The only thing it could do that was different was it could send physical objects through some type of force field to another person who has the laptop. It seems like a glorified fax machine to me but as soon as it was ...
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