Suprise Me

I lost to a girl! by
10
(12 Stories)

Prompted By Spelling

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How multi-generational Worths lost their Spelling Bees!
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Story Wranglers by
10
(11 Stories)

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We’ve all known since we were little kids that there is magic in storytelling—in finding out what happens next.
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Trouble in Mind by
100
(170 Stories)

Prompted By In Trouble

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After decades, I’m in trouble again.
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The Mowing of Summer Lawns by
50
(90 Stories)

Prompted By My Hometown

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At dinner time, dads cup their hands around their mouths and call their kids home.
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Books That Inspired Me (To be a writer) by
50
(92 Stories)

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You ever meet someone who brags about not reading? Like, it’s some kind of badge of honor? “Yeah I haven’t touched a book since I finished coloring in those dinosaur pictures at school. Turns out, crayons are all the education you really need!” Reading is not some punishment for getting bad grades, it’s a portal…
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Follow the Fold and Stray No More by
200
(359 Stories)

Prompted By The Road Not Taken

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Shy people often come alive through acting. I was no exception. Though a skirt-hugger as a little girl, I started singing publicly as a 7 year old, and acting at about the same time. Everyone thought I had some talent and I was encouraged to pursue it. I was passionate about it. With the stage…
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Alice’s Restaurant by
50
(90 Stories)

Prompted By Restaurants

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In 1971, I was living in Berkeley, California. I attended classes on campus and also worked there as I put myself through school at UC Berkeley. I lived in a house with three roommates, a large tank of tropical fish, my two cats, and an Old English sheepdog. My boyfriend spent his freshman year away,…
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Body Snatchers by
25
(26 Stories)

Prompted By Lost in Space

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Could someone do that, steal who you were, and why would they do that?
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Revolution 1 (Flu Bee Doo Wah) by
50
(58 Stories)

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Vaccines arrive. Like Brylcreem: a little jab'll do ya.
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My First Computer by
10
(15 Stories)

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My first computer was a Morrow Micro Decision, the best desktop on the market in the early 1980s.
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