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Prejudice – June Free Choice

June 14, 2020June 14, 2020 nehapa10AP 2020

Side note: This is the first short story I’ve ever written, so please don’t judge me too hard.   It was Thursday evening and Mr. Hughes had just left work. He was quite a frail man,[…]

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A Choice – April Free Choice

May 8, 2020 Yifeng10AP 2020

So, the title does seem a little misleading but this is a murder mystery, or at least my attempt at a murder mystery short story based upon a six-word story from creative writing: A body,[…]

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Ophelia

May 4, 2020May 5, 2020 michelle10AP 2020

Tragic was the story of Ophelia, a girl driven mad by a lover and held underwater to drown. She was a thing of beauty, that was for sure. Rich chocolate hair and soft caramel eyes.[…]

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Light Through Her Eyes – December Free Choice

January 25, 2020January 25, 2020 AbigailAbigail

She loved the way the light hit the buildings at this time of day. She would talk for hours about how light could change a city. She’d sneak glances at me over her books just[…]

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A Love in Spring – Polished Personal

January 23, 2020 AbigailAbigail

…the nature of human longing and how an individual’s life is shaped by such dreams… My first dream was to fall in love. At 7 I watched every Disney princess movie and while my brothers[…]

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white roses: a creative response

January 22, 2020January 23, 2020 lexiconaAlexis

…the nature of human longing and how an individual’s life is shaped by such dreams.  Text: Adolescence by P.K. Page He gave me a rose every night. A white rose; each petal ever so delicate[…]

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the stars mingle with dust: a faiz ahmed faiz emulation-ish

January 14, 2020January 26, 2020 mariamcmaria

a short story heavily inspired by zaid and zain’s poetry seminar   Where I come from, it is unlawful, immoral, and strictly forbidden to look up. Men patrol the rooftops with the unlucky outcasts in[…]

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I Worked on the Water – Polished Personal: Constraints

January 9, 2020 ChimericalTony

I Worked on the Water An individual’s response to the constraints of convention or circumstance. Source: Angela’s Ashes   I worked on the water — or rather, I worked on the ships that sailed in[…]

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fly safe, cosmonaut: a polished personal

December 30, 2019January 11, 2020 mariamcmaria

  …the impact of separation on an individual’s life.  text: “Perpetual Motion” by Tony Hoagland   An eternity ago, I kept a little logbook of how many days I had been in orbit. Now, the seconds[…]

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eating pears in cold weather (part one)

October 21, 2018 lizamkvLiza

I have begun writing a short story series that will become a novella. This is part 1.  I have to tell her she can’t smoke on the fifth floor. Although-  I don’t think it would[…]

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