Not the prompt

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Ruby glanced around nervously. She did not like this.

She was a Girl Guide. First Lindsay Guides, to be precise. It was late September and Ruby was having a sleepover with her friends (all in Guides) Gemma, Bethany, Hailey, Piper and Jamie when her mom got an email from their guide leader Bluebird about a corn maze challenge. There was a new corn maze in town and Bluebird was ...

More specifically, taco beef. It smells so appetizing, and when I smell it cooking, it takes me back.

I remember my mother cooking meat for our tacos -we eat them like burritos, but she calls them tacos despite my reaserch on Mexican cuisine, which i find annoying and endearing- and grating cheese in the kitchen as the dusk makes the outside just barely dark enough to know night is coming— that ...

I was on the edge of a discovery to change the lives of humans! A way to become the most powerful person in the world! I was Doctor McGarah, a mad scientist devoted to ruling society! Yes, I was a teensy bit evil, but it was all for the better! I would eventually die, and people would get to use my invention for the better news of the human race!

So WHY, in all my brilliance, could I not get the...

(My rules were it had to be ABBA in twelve lines.)

It’s colder now, with shorter days.

We sit by fires that crackle and burn

Wrapped in a blanket as we yearn

For the sun’s comforting warm rays.

We wish spring would come again!

Snow gently blankets the dying earth,

We didn’t know how much summer was worth.

We took it much for granted then.

We must now sit through the storm

Drink some cocoa and...

Element Earth houses four cities: they are Water City, Wind city, Fire City and Soil City. They all have their own cultures and laws, but there is one rule they always agree on:

ELEMENTS DO NOT MIX.

Ashley, a adolescent fire element, just wants to find true love. But what if that love is another element? Even worse, she finds that the other element is a Water element. Can Ashley and her new soul...

I rush in. “Lydia!”

She’s sitting on the bed, crying. I sit beside her and wrap my arms around her.

“Alex…” she chokes through her tears. “You shouldn’t have come…”

“How could I not?” I cradle her gently.

“They could catch you…” she sniffs into the hand-sewn handkerchief I’ve handed to her. “And that could be the end of everything.”

“I know.” I don’t care about the risks. Even though they are...

The assistant jumped suddenly as he had an idea. He carefully poured some more water into the beaker. The golden liquid sizzled and turned into a burrito that rested in the glass.

“Yes! YES!!” Cheering with success, he leaped up and dashed into the room where his boss was pouring over some blueprints. The scientist had crazy grey hair, wild blue eyes and was wearing his lab coat.

“What is it, Ig...

I moan and slump on my desk, tapping my pencil continuously on the piece of paper. My lamp shines brightly, caressing me in a gentle orange glow. I sigh. I’ve been selected for the Survival Games, where a helicopter basically drops you somewhere in the wild with a few other people with ten items of your choice. Then you have to survive for a week. Basically we keep doing this for weeks, or until a...

Jacob and I stepped out of the ferris wheel and looked around.

“So, what should we do now?” I asked, glancing around at the array of midway rides, carnival games and junk food stands that surrounded them.

Jacob eyed the huge circus tent that stood tall a few hundred meters to their left. “Hmm… I saw on the sign that they have a sword-swallower and live animals.”

I roll eyes at my boyfriend’s c...

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.

Well, I’ve never agreed with that, it doesn’t line up with my general attitude or energy.

I say, when life gives you lemons, throw ‘em back and add in some lemons of your own.

Sometimes I also add some limes as well.

And grapefruit.

But not oranges. Too sweet.

The result, unfortunately, is that life throws the citruses back with more of their own c...