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"You'd have to be an absolute fool to believe that!"
Write a story of less than 500 words containing this line.
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“You’d have to be an absolute fool to believe that!”
“It would help if you stopped saying that, mother. I know he loves me, he said so.”
Her mother snorted, attempting to find some humor from her daughter’s idiotic words in such a horrible time as this. “People say things they don’t mean, dear.”
“I know he meant it.”
“I thought that too about your father, and where is he now? That’s right. Off...
“What’s so wrong about it?” I ask, my older sister Sammy rolls her eyes. Pacing the porch of our house.
“I don’t know,” she pauses, her hands on her hips. “Maybe, Davian, it’s the fact that you’re the reason her Mom died.”
I feel like she slapped me across my cheek. Even though we’re a good yard apart. I know I was the reason the car crashed, but I keep thinking that maybe I can make her life ...
“you’d have to be an absolute fool to believe that!” my best friend ali says to me, looking at a text i got from my boyfriend.
the text reads, “i promise ill never leave.”
from both of our experience, that promise is never kept. by any man.
“i dont know, i have a good feeling about him” i said to her.
she laughed and we went on with our night.
as the relationship progressed, my good feeling st...
I crouch behind a rowan bush with Finn, my hand on his back pushing him to the ground, as close to the dirt as he is willing to get. His body is still and steady, but his heart is beating faster with each passing second—or perhaps it’s mine.
“Your aunt didn’t tell us what to do when we reached the trolls” I whisper in his ear, careful to avoid drawing attention. “And I don’t think they like human...
I used to have nightmares about monsters
Lying in bed, twisting and turning
The whole night sleepless and awake
I would wake up abruptly and scream
Terrified and shaking
While my parents lie naive in their beds
These constant nightmares
Turned into panic attacks
Leaving me breathless and agitated
Trapped and frighted
Scared out of my wits
Wondering if it would ever end
Flashbacks come and g...
I used to think it
Was
Too late for me
I used to think I
Would
Rot away without having lived a life
I used to think I’d
Die
Just as he had
I used to think I’d
Fall
And never get back up
But now…
If…
If I really think about this
It still hurts
I’m still in pain
But everything beautiful is in pain
Or at least,
Everything beautiful has been in pain at some point,
So I don’t need to be ok.
No o...
I spent years of my life living in the shadows of my big brother he was always the coolest guy I knew.
And everyone else loved him just as much as I did.
And when I say “did” I meant that
When I was about 15 my big brother went off to college we’d talk on the phone everyday.
One day I noticed I hadn’t talked to my brother
So I called and didn’t get an answer
Instead, I got the voicemail.
...
{1 year after the last part}
Shei crushed her paper. Again. It was a canon event. Every hour she’d draw an animatronic she hated, absolutely despised and would through it away. She’s been to college, she’s tried to murder her brother. It was all way—way to complicated.
“Oh my gosh!” Shei shreaked, “I absolutely hate this!” She screamed, pulling her hair and slightly crying.
Dylan entered the ...
Seven years from last part
——————
Ken sat on his bed, staring up at the ceiling.
A scene appeared. ‘Princess Aji, will you marry me?’
Ken shook his head. He had been so stupid and childish then. He was older now, sixteen, yet he somehow missed that time.
The creak of his door made Ken turn his head toward it quickly.
“Oh, hi mom.” Ken turned back around.
“Ken, I’ve got your lunch ready downst...
Two years from last part
“Knight Ken, you better not hurt yourself again!” Princess Aji scolded.
“Do not fear, Princess Aji, for I am the bravest knight in the land!” Knight Ken went out the door.
Princess Aji almost went after him, but stopped herself and returned to scrubbing dishes.
No sounds came from outside. Princess Aji started getting worried, so she rushed to the door and looked outsi...
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