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Skyler Woods

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Grandpa Joe & His Tobacco

Weekly Contest #57

Grandpa Joe Willoughby was the best tobacco spitter in Oklahoma City. This is what my papa told me. He told me he was a hard man who loved his moonshine and his horses. But what my Grandpa loved the most was his participation in The Annual Tobacco Spitting Competition. They say he could shoot that stuff out his mouth fast and far. My papa told me he watched my grandpa kill a man in a local bar using his tobacco spitting technique. No, wait a minute, I’m sorry. Papa told me he killed three men in a bar using his tobacco spitting techniques. H...

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Jill & Bruce

Weekly Contest #56

Jill’s heart shivered when she saw Bruce for the first time. The young woman didn’t expect her blind date to be so handsome. After Jill saw Bruce, she wanted to thank her best friend, Rachel, for setting her up on a blind date. Jill hoped that her date felt the same way about her. Since Jill was a psychologist, she tried to read Bruce’s body language toward her. She studied Bruce’s gestures while sitting across from him at a table. Jill liked everything about Bruce, and she couldn’t understand why. She liked the way his lips moved as he spok...

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Daddy Killed a Lady

Weekly Contest #55

 “Can you keep a secret?” My little girl whispered in my ear. Annabel had her tiny hand over her mouth. “Daddy killed a lady.”Daddy killed a lady? Why would my baby say that? Her father’s not a killer, is he? I wanted to believe my daughter. There was a killer on the loose. They called this killer, The Violator. According to the news reports, The Violator already killed seven people. The first victim was a mother of two. The police discovered the woman’s body in a pond. Some of her body parts were missing. The police also found hum...

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The Tony Kendall Show

Weekly Contest #54

“Hello guys, welcome to The Tony Kendall Show!” A handsome, clean-shaven man with a bald head spoke to the camera and his audience. Tony Kendall was a former psychiatrist who loved his new talk show hosting job. The man had an ego that shimmered brighter than the diamond stud earring clipped in his ear. He also could fight like a heavyweight boxer. One night, Tony confronted a robber at a gas station. The gunman tried to rob a group of teenage girls. He attempted to steal their car, and he didn't see Tony coming up behind him. Tony wres...

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Little Cowboy

Weekly Contest #53

Chapter 1Little Jake's tropical fruit-flavored popsicle collapsed into a sticky wet mess between the child’s fingers. The little boy couldn't maintain his frozen treat, which looked like a rainbow-colored miniature skyscraper on a stick. But now that icy rainbow-colored skyscraper was dripping down to the ground like Little Jake’s heart. The summer heat melted Little Jake's popsicle the same way fear melted the child’s heart. Little Jake was staying in a rented cottage with his mother, father, and his older sister, Emily. Little Jake’s ...

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Husband

Weekly Contest #52

Every night, Kristina would dream that her husband was still alive. The dream would be so real for Kristina. In Kristina's dream she would think her husband was dead, but then she would see him standing right in front of her on a busy street, smiling at her. Kristina would run across the street toward her husband, but before she could embrace him and kiss him, her dream would end. The man who shot Kristina's husband was executed and Kristina witnessed the execution. The only one who stood by Kristina's side was her older sister, Pamela....

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The Nitro Queen

Weekly Contest #50

Chad could feel butterflies in his stomach. He was sitting across from his girlfriend at a dinner table. The young man waited for the right time to propose to his girlfriend, whose name was Veronica. "You okay, baby?" Veronica asked her boyfriend while stretching her petite hand across the table toward him."Yeah, I'm cool." Chad smiled at his girlfriend while taking hold of her hand. He cleared his throat while sitting up straight. "I was just thinking about something." Chad played with his girlfriend's hand with his gentle eyes studyin...

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SCORPION'S MAMACITA

Weekly Contest #48

Erika Lions had blood on her hands, literally. She just executed three men and she had one more man to kill. Erika still had to kill the man who ordered his thugs to kill Erika's family. The young woman came back from the dead a few hours ago and she had to dig herself out of her own grave. Erika could hear the summer night wind breathing through the trees in the forest. This is where the men buried her before, amongst the tall trees in the dark woodlands. When Erika returned from the dead the second time, the men tried to kill her agai...

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Time Commander

Weekly Contest #47

You know that it's a simulation, but it still bothers you to see the bodies of people and babies lying beneath the rubble. It's all a virtual 3D simulation, but the tragedy still looks real to you. The collapsed building simulation is a possibility of what will happen if you fail your mission. You know that failure is not an option for us. My name is Franklin Delroy. I am your chief commander and you're a new member of my team. You've joined my team of elite soldiers and your job is to stop assassinations and terrorist acts before they happe...

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Baby Boy Till

On August 28th 1955, a frightened colored boy was dragged out of his uncle's house by a group of men. The boy's name was Till. He was only 14 years old. No child deserved to be kidnapped and thrown into the back of a pickup truck in the dead of night. The Mississippi night air was smoldering and the frightened African American boy could feel every bit of the heat as he sat in the pickup truck's bed, praying for God to help him.Till was still in his pajamas and his hands and feet were tied up by a rawhide rope. All the child could do was pray...

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In The City

Weekly Contest #44

"No! Mom and Dad are in the city!" Jessica said to herself. She couldn't stop thinking about the horrifying phone call she received from her mom before her phone went dead. How could they be in the city? Jessica thought she had rescued her mom and dad. The young woman was riding in the car with her mom and dad before her car ran out of fuel. She thought she had gotten her parents out of the city. If her parents were still in the city, then who were the two people riding in the car with her and her little boy.Jessica stopped breathing when sh...

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KING COBRA AND HIS PRINCESS

Weekly Contest #43

 Mark Gonzalez disliked people, but he loved his wife and daughter. Mark's wife, Victoria, died tragically several months ago, so he only had his teenage daughter, Sarah, in his life. Mark was a space pilot. As a boy, he dreamed about building a home in space away from people and Earth.  Mark's dream came true, sort of. He dreamed of space travel, but he dreamed of traveling through space alone. Transporting thousands of vacationers into space on a luxury starship was not Mark's desire.Mark worked as a space pilot for twe...

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