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Weekly Contest #359
“Have we met before?” That was what Derrick decided he would ask when approaching Samantha. They were at a job fair being hosted by the English Department of their school. He was listening to the pitches from the various presenters representing the companies at the job fair, but he could barely pay attention as he was constantly looking at Samantha. She was remarkably beautiful and Derrick was smitten. For 30 minutes Derrick fought with himself as he worked up the courage to approach her. “Certainly someone as gorgeous as she is already...
Weekly Contest #358
October 16, 1987 was a day that my life changed significantly. My best friend Edward (“E” to family and friends) passed away after succumbing to injuries he suffered in a car accident four days earlier. I was only 16 years old and had no prior experience with death so this devastated me. Having known one another since the tender ages of three and four respectively we were more like brothers. Not only was I devastated I was heartbroken.Fast forward to June 1988. It had been about nine months since E’s death. Although I didn’t descend into dep...
Weekly Contest #357
Sixteen year olds Ricky Douglas and Thomas Brooks lived in the same apartment complex in addition to attending the same school. Despite being neighbors and seeing one another pretty much every day they had never gotten to know one another. Ricky had a stable/loving environment as he lived with his parents. Thomas on the other hand had a much different home life. He lived with his maternal grandparents who took him in after his parents were killed in an automobile accident when he was just six years old. They had also opened their home t...
David had been an avid writer ever since grade school. In line with his love for writing he chose to pursue a career as a magazine journalist. This afforded him the ability to follow his passion for writing… while getting paid for it at the same time. Although he had been offered several opportunities to write professionally in other capacities, David hadn’t pursued them as he preferred to stay out of the limelight. One day while at lunch, David’s coworker James told him about a unique opportunity that he himself had been presented with....
Tim and Bill had been nearly inseparable since meeting one another in kindergarten. Now at the ripe young ages of 19, the now college sophomores were about to embark upon yet another new challenge in life. After nearly fifteen years of friendship, Tim and Bill would experience a rift that neither could have imagined nor saw coming. Despite years of going through the various challenges that life had presented, from navigating kindergarten and the subsequent years of grade school, to dealing with adolescence and conquering puberty, learning...
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