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Write a short story about someone trying to discover another person’s name.
Is the name deliberately kept secret, or is it just unknown to the person asking?
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my heart beat against my ribs as back away from the crowd. “I told you, I’m not who you think i am!” My breath puffed away as my back hit a wall.
“You’re lying.” A woman took a step towards me, her fists balled and eyes raging a hole through mine. My lungs now rendered useless screamed for air but all i drag in was the smoke of fires around me. “You did this… you destroyed everything!”
“kill her...
A new kid is here
Upon my classroom he is
I wonder his name
At recess I ask friends
For the name of this new kid
No one knows his name
Maybe I should ask?
That would be embarrassing
Maybe I should wait
Should I look online?
I could introduce myself
But I don’t like that
My thoughts were stopped with
“Hello my name is Jacob”
His hand was stretched out
I looked at his hand
And froze as I star...
This all happened a long time ago. Almost to long to even feel real. But the event that occurred at HillsMary preschool will haunt me to my grave.
It started when I first got a job as an assistant preschool teacher. I was starting up my company from my parents garage, and needed some money to get by. Luckily, my old preschool was willing to hire me.
I was assigned a class with mostly two to thre...
"So what's the problem?!" Vin shouted.
God, I hated this place. I had to strain my hearing over the loud hip-hop music that blared over the speakers. I had to shout at the top of my lungs for Vin to hear what I was saying. Irish Bar my ass, this place was a total dump.
"There's this guy outside who went to my High School, him and his twin brother. The thing is I can't remember which twin it...
"That's just the life of a space cowboy." By the time Franco was done speaking, he had turned away and began walking. Now behind him, Vaka stood with her mouth agape, though not for long. With determination in her eyes, she quickly caught up to the outlaw in front of her and shook him by the shoulders from behind.
"No, that's not fair! You don't get to just run off and chase some alien god. You d...
Please, tell me your name. I desire it like honey to a bees’ hive. The days are long and the nights are sleepless as my mind races and wonders about your very existence. “Who are you?” I ask myself each day when I see your face while all I can manage is to admire your ethereal beauty. Eyes glimmer as blue as the oceans and hair as black as the darkness of a shadow. Where do you come from? What abo...
I buried it years ago. Hid it in documents, burned them to make sure. That name was dead to me. I haven’t used it in so long I almost forgot it. Almost… until I heard it again.
He said it online, I didn’t see it coming. But one comment to my tweet and it was too late, my deadname went viral. Suddenly every hater was using it. It dragged the corpse back to the surface. It’s rotten hands trying to ...
A name has power.
Greeks don’t speak of their gods,
Even brave Romans quiver at the mention,
Egyptians gods have secret names that can even bring them to their knees,
But there’s a name that I wont speak of,
To my friends and I, we call him “Apple,”
After the company that created my phone,
My code name’s “Google,” but I wanted to be Apple!
They speak of something called “Gapple,”
But that will nev...
it was a gloomy day at the office. murder files poured into detectives inboxes almost as fast as the rain did.
it was almost 11 o’clock. two were left in the building; working diligently to crack their current case.
“detective morales. it’s getting pretty late, we should head home. call it a night.”
morales was smith’s partner on this file. he was her higher up as she was an intern. normally...
My name has always been something I try to hide. People think because my name is Pandora, I’ll release great evil. Granted, I can understand their worry’s since I have trouble controlling my magic, but my name doesn’t define me. I always wondered why my parents would call me this. Were they purposefully trying to make life difficult for me? I’ll never know, because I was told they both died when I...
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