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Submitted by Mel Davies
Write a story about a character who makes an incorrect assumption about someone or something.
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The best piece of advice that was ever given to me was "Don't make an ass at yourself making assumptions". In life our mind tends to run a million miles a minute, between true crime television, real life scenarios you have heard through the grapevine, or through personal experiences you may have experienced, our brain tends to have this thirst of putting the puzzle pieces together. I mean how mad ...
you raised my brother with baseball, soccer, fencing
now he works in business and tech
you raised me with tutus and tiaras and little pink dresses
and somehow
some way
i fell in love with the meanest sport on the planet
and i like getting beat to shit for fun
what does that tell you,
dad?
yeah,
i was never my father's daughter....
A girl enters the library, slumped shoulders, eyes looking at the ground. Her hair, clothes, and makeup are raven black.
She waves to the librarian before making her way to the table across from me.
Her headphones are blasting metal music, the horrifying cacophony turning heads.
I make my way to tell her to turn the thing down, maybe remind her there are better fashion choices she could be maki...
When I first felt it,
My rainbow felt like rain.
A torrential downpour.
A Kinsey 5 hurricane.
It was beauty and it was pain.
A loss and a gain.
When this technicolor
lightning
strike
Short-circuited my brain.
So I buzzed and buzzed,
Tried to think my way out
Of the truth of me,
I was lying about.
_Out of everyone, why me? _
_After all this time, why now?_
_Is this a truth...
She was beautiful. The most gorgeous woman I had ever seen. She could have been a goddess, honestly. Her clear ivory skin and green eyes were all too striking for me to look away.
She was talking to a group of guys, her head thrown back in laughter about something they were discussing. Oh, how I wish I could have been closer to hear what it was that made her laugh like that.
However, I could n...
Shunk Ka, the sound of a pump action shot gun is distinct and memorable. Slowly raising his hands over his head, Rhys Witherspoon swallowed hard. The insurance agent quaked in his space boots. Usually people were happy to meet their claims adjustor. Or anxious about how much they would receive? Rhys stared into the double barrels and smiled.
āI think there has been some sort of misunderstanding, ...
She looked so good walking down the street, jewelry reflecting in the sun, bag swaying at her side. I couldnāt afford a bag like that; never would, never could. She made her makeup and hair look so effortless, as if she were so utterly herself that it was difficult for someone like me, someone who didnāt know who they were, to comprehend. Her shoes cost a month of rent for me. I knew that because ...
You assume things about me, when you donāt even know who I am. You use your bias against the people you see, not understanding thatās criminally unfair. Theyāre only clothes, the things I wear, I havent even been on earth for 18 years, yet you think you know my value? Because Iām not modest or holy, I show the body I was born in, Iām disgusting. Iām not slutty because my skin is showing. It doesnā...
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