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Weekly Contest #89
Prompt 2: start your story with a character taking a leap of faith. Transforming Faith "Your basic problem is that Goddess Parvathi is angry with your family and causing all these problems in your house." The priest revealed it to Ram Krishna, a staunch Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) member. Ram had been a fanatic Hindu and very much involved in fighting against Christians and doing a lot of harm to them in many places. He had taken leadership in attacking churches and Christian prayer meetings and got many imprisoned in false cases. H...
Weekly Contest #33
This story ‘The Power of Resolution’ is based on the third prompt “ Write a story about a character making a big change.” The Power of Resolutions. By Tom Kottackal. Alex is a fourteen-year-old boy studying in Standard VIII. He was a hyperactive person and his parents got almost fed up with helping him. They could not understand him. They gave him many guidelines to study and behave well. Unfortunately, none of those was in his dictionary and so he could never follow them. Teachers failed to help him and they gave up training him. He was go...
Weekly Contest #28
Word count:1,300 This short story is based on the Prompt No: 2. Write about a date that was so terrible you’ll never forget it. WAY BACK All of a sudden, my companions moved away from me in disgust. They all burst out in laughter. I felt ashamed and lonely. Utter humiliation and fear enveloped me and I remained at the centre of their attraction. I that they skinned me alive. People who passed by grinned their faces in repulsion. My heart was pounding. My head was blazing. It was on 13th March 1955. I was very much attached to my mother an...
Weekly Contest #25
Alex is fourteen years old boy studying in Standard VIII. He was a hyper active person and his parents were almost fed up of helping him. They could not understand him. They gave him many guide -lines to study and behave. Unfortunately none of those was in his dictionary and so he could never keep them. Teachers failed to help him and they gave up training him. He was good at football but he would break the leg or hand of one of his companions on the ground and there would be fight regarding that. The companions used to call him by a nicknam...
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