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Shilo Hood

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To Grandmother’s House We Go

Weekly Contest #366

I lost my husband Paul only a few months ago in a car crash. My three children, son Riley eleven and two daughters Bobbi nine and Heidi five, and I need a change after the shock of Paul’s loss. We decided to move back to where I grew up. I lived with my grandmother Greta when I was a child having lost my own parents rather young. When Paul died my aging grandmother offered us a place to recover and I took her up on her offer.   We all agree to sell the house and while we all know it makes sense to move in w...

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The Bunker of Hollow Hills

Weekly Contest #349

Today is April 31st. At least we think it is. While the trees are budding and the flowers have broken the soil signaling spring; the frost that is ever present in the mornings and sometimes for days is telling us a different story. The frost is still saying it’s winter and not yet April but with the trees and flowers telling us it's spring and therefore April we are completely confused. It has been about two hundred years since anyone has known what the date actually is. In the mid 2020’s the world woke up to find that everything had cha...

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Promises of Oblivion

Weekly Contest #348

Thump. Thump. Thump. That’s all that Jane can hear. The world around her is dark and silent. She can only hear her heartbeat. Thump. Thump. She tries her best to hear the world around her but there is only silence. Jane isn’t sure where she is or how she came to be where she is. The more she tries to remember what could have happened the more freaked out she gets. Before she can calm down she begins to hyperventilate then eventually passes out. When she wakes some time later she is distressed to find that she is still alone in the...

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The Final Revision

Weekly Contest #347

Phillippa woke this morning feeling somewhat confused but she just chalks it up to her very vivid and disturbing dream from the night before. She wishes she could stay here in bed all day and just veg out. There is a part of her that would just love that, a day in bed with her hubby and a book. Nothing could be better. She stays in bed for a little longer just looking out the window on her side of the bed and begins to day dream a little. Finally though she feels her day calling for her to get started and with a big stretch she decides ...

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Happiness in Paradise

Weekly Contest #343

“Today is the day. Today is the day I marry my love, my heart.” Hope thinks as she opens her eyes, takes a big stretch and finds the morning bright and beautiful. With one last stretch she gets out of bed to take a look outside and makes her way to the window. She is so unbelievably happy today. She loves the thought that this time tomorrow she will be Mrs. Lincoln “Linc” Crosse. She and her soon to be husband, Linc have been an official couple for a couple of years now but have known each other since childhood. They weren’t close frie...

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Crickett's Journey

Weekly Contest #342

One night as Crickett, the tri-colored Corgi, is sleeping the Snow Queen came to her in her dreams. They talked for a bit then out of the blue the Queen asked Crickett to come meet her family in the Winter Realm. Crickett didn’t really understand why she had requested it after all she had just met the Snow Queen a few days ago so a trip to her realm seemed a little quick. Crickett doesn’t want to appear rude or ungrateful though so she agrees to go with the queen to meet her family. Crickett discovers that the Winter Realm is very beauti...

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Love Letters

Weekly Contest #341

My Dearest Hannah,I am writing this letter to tell you how I feel about you. In this day and age of the internet and instant gratification I am choosing to go old school with this letter. Mainly because it will give me a few days to prepare myself for your response and because in a small way I find it kind of romantic sending this love letter through the mail sealed with a kiss. It seems much more personal in a way too. So here goes. Hanna I have loved you since the very first time we met. We were only five years old and at the time I d...

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Crickett Helps the Tree Giants

Weekly Contest #339

After Crickett learned about Grover, the Tree Giant and his mate Ahvi from her friend Chipper, the squirrel, she has wanted nothing more than to meet the Tree Giants so she can help them. Granted she heard their story less than twenty-fours hours ago but it seems like it has been a lifetime. When she woke the following morning all she wanted to do was run outside so she could meet the Tree Giants as soon as possible but a thunderstorm had rolled in. It ended up keeping everyone inside most of the day. When they did venture out in the rai...

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The Literate Loaf Barkshop

Weekly Contest #338

Our story starts where most stories do these days, with a book, a dog and bedtime. Crickett, the tri-colored Corgi, and her parents own a wonderful little bookshop on a quiet street in a small town. They bought the bookshop and the rest of the building, which includes living quarters upstairs about two years ago. Crickett is always excited to start the day in the bookshop. She loves walking around greeting the people who come inside. There are many shelves of books as well as many comfy chairs for the patrons to lounge in while they read...

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Crickett and the Story About the Tree Giants

Weekly Contest #337

Crickett, the tri-colored Corgi, has lived in her neighborhood for a little while now but she doesn’t know about all of the magic it holds. Up until recently she thought the magic had been in the animals and the beauty of the plants and flowers. She found out recently that there are other creatures that call her neighborhood home. Some of these creatures do not roam where they can be seen by the humans that populate the neighborhood or the world that surrounds it. They spend most of their time in their own realm that is adjacent to the h...

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Nerida & Her River Otter Friend Narelle

Weekly Contest #335

Nerida is a rather precocious child of five with long auburn hair cascading down her back in natural ringlets, emerald green eyes and an adorable dusting of freckles across her button nose and cheeks. She enjoys spending her days playing outside, running through the forest that surrounds her house and talking to the plants and small animals she comes across. More times than not she finds herself down by the creek that runs through the forest. She enjoys the way it seems to play with the rocks and branches as it bubbles along its path. Sh...

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Crickett and the Storm at Weldon Springs State Park

Weekly Contest #332

Crickett, the tri-colored Corgi, is out walking in sunshine with her daddy and mommy at their favorite spot, Weldon Springs State Park. When the weather finally got warm enough they all ran to the car so they could go for their first walk of the year. Being cooped up most of the winter is hard on all of them but Crickett mostly. She absolutely loves the snow and spends more time playing in it, eating it or grabbing chunks to bring home so she can chew on them on the rug by the door (the only place she’s allowed to) then she does actually ...

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One Good Deed Changed Everything

Weekly Contest #331

As Evaine stands before her floor to ceiling bay window looking out at the happy fat snowflakes falling before her she contemplates everything that has transpired over the last couple of hours. Her life had been so happy. Everything had changed in an instant. One decision had cost her way too much. One decision had left her alone with her fear. It started innocently enough with a kind gesture to someone who seemed down on their luck. At the time she did not know that her gesture would lead to a lifetime of fear and pain. She didn’t rea...

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Crickett, the Squirrel and the Tree

Weekly Contest #327

“I am never listening to Oscar again!” Crickett, the tri-colored Corgi says as she sits up in a tree. She’s not mad but she is scared. Thankfully it is a small tree that has low branches but she is nonetheless still stuck in said tree. How did she get there you ask? Well it began innocently enough and ended with a Corgi in a tree. Something you’d never think you’d see but see it you will. So here’s the story from beginning to end. See what you think of the Corgi stuck in the tree. The day began with breakfast followed by playing outsid...

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Crickett Finds a Secret Gate to Fairyland

Weekly Contest #320

Crickett is a tri-colored Corgi and her full name, which she loves telling everyone she meets, is Crickett Elizabeth Turtle Hobson. She lives with her parents in a nice quiet neighborhood in a nice quiet town. On occasion though she travels with her parents to new places and a few weeks ago they told her that they were going to go on vacation again. She hopes time goes by fast so that she can see this new place soon. In an attempt to distract herself until it’s time to leave she goes outside as much as possible and plays with her fairy f...

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