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Weekly Contest #343
TW: This story contains themes of mental health, suicide, and physical violence Oct 29, 2027 Dear diary, Today I was taking my daily walk through the woods and something strange happened. I was enjoying the fall leaves crunching under my feet when I saw something hanging in the distance off an old aspen branch. It looked like one of those Halloween skeleton ghosts. I figured someone must have left a decoration up from one of the notorious woods parties. I went closer to investigate and it wasn’t a Halloween decoration at all, it was a cloak...
Weekly Contest #336
“This is a story about a girl—““Booo, no that sucks. You can’t start a story like that.”“Why not?”“Nobody wants to read something so obvious. You’ve gotta draw the audience in.” “Fine. It was a dark and stormy night—““No.”“What’s wrong with that one?” “It’s been done a million times. Try again.” “You’re intolerable you know that?”“Yes it’s part of my charm. Now write.” “You’re also bossy.”“I’m your big sister. It’s in the job.”“How about this: The day she boarded the overcrowded train, she had no idea that by the end of the line, nothing wou...
Weekly Contest #326
Alright Rupert, you can do this. Remember what your therapist said? You just gotta get out there and make some friends. Rupert took one last look in the mirror, he was going for laid back; he thought that the Studio Ghibli socks and basketball shorts accomplished that. His plan was to go to the park. He figured a lot of people would be at the park. On his way out, he ran into his neighbor Sarah. He liked Sarah. She was kind, had hair the color of cinnamon and smelled like lavender flowers. She was really clumsy though. She was always break...
Weekly Contest #322
Maya and I had been competing since the day we met. I was seven, Maya eight, when we first met on the playground and she challenged me to a race. I was the fastest girl in my class so I knew it would be an easy win. To my very frustrating surprise, she beat me. My seven-year-old self simply couldn’t handle the idea of losing and so I challenged her to a competition to see who could jump the furthest off the swings. I won that one, but we both walked away with skinned knees and smiles on our faces. And so our relationship went. We became inse...
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