Featured Author:@deraaa
BAI LI MEI
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"Mei Mei. Would you go on a date with me?"
"What?" she gasped, her eyes wide.
"I know...Mei," he stepped closer forcing her to step back, "Mei, do you remember that night at the well?"
She nodded. How could she forget? They'd both made a wish and when she asked him what he wished for, he told her he'd tell her someday.
"You asked me what I wished for. I wished...I wished that we would be together forever."
Featured Author: @morey-lezama
CHRONICLE OF HEARTBREAK AND FRIENDSHIP
As time went by, the friendship with Edgard recovered, healing the wounds and leaving resentment behind. But the bond with Marcela remained fractured, unable to heal. That painful experience, that unexpected betrayal, became a turning point in my life. Then I thought about the absurdity of love and concluded that the whole fragile life of the human being was founded on something so absurd and that perhaps the word could save us from that fragility.
It was at that moment of uneasiness and disenchantment that the need to write was born. Writing became a refuge, a way to give voice to the feelings and emotions that had flooded me. Words became allies, a means to process the lived experience and find meaning in the chaos.
Featured Author: @lightpen
Agreement with my pupils
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They swung into action and different answers were presented to me which were incorrect. I waited for everyone to submit after giving them adequate time to provide a solution to the question. David's solution was the last that I marked and to my surprise, he solved it correctly. I was amazed. I immediately called him and gave him a marker to solve what he had in his book on the board. He confidently solved the question on the board with enough explanation to other pupils to understand.
We celebrated such a level of brilliance as a whole class. At that point, it dawned on me that I was parting away with five biscuits to David as earlier agreed with the whole class. I told the pupils that I was going to redeem the prize to David on the following Monday but the whole class chorused "No Uncle" as they stood in solidarity with David to demand for the prize. I had no option than to keep to my own side of the agreement.
Featured Author: @erh.germany
Marriage rules without ever explicitly mentioning them
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One episode, after I got furiously mad at him,
and we didn't see each other for several days, and I thought of breaking up with him, sending him emails to which he didn't react, he suddenly stood in front of my door. What did I do? I simply, wordlessly invited him in. It was strange. First all this anger and then he comes over and I reject any thought of separation. We went on like that for quite a while.
When I expressed that he didn't seem to give a damn about what I said to him and that he retreated to his ivory tower, this prompted him to respond: "No, that's not true. I take what you say to heart and I think about it."
Featured Author: @mmykel
I was a bad influence
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Parents and boys in the neighbourhood stared with different expressions. Some looked with admiration, while others looked with indignation, making one think I was an accursed being. Maybe I was.
My dress sense changed. Misery ceased to be my only company. Boys and girls were added to my list of companions. But there were mothers who warned their kids not to come close to me. I couldn't understand why they did. I wasn't violent or known for any vices, at least not yet. I was only a poor little boy who'd been fortunate to be loved by the big boys in the neighbourhood, so I thought.
Featured Author: @ricardo993
The chocolate beings
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The sun was approaching the planet's orbit. Every five years, the orbit would get closer, causing the chocolate beings to die. Their bodies were made of pure chocolate, but the temperature on the planet was optimal for them to have a physical form without melting. Not only were they made of pure chocolate, but they also could modify the structure of their bodies at will, allowing them to be flexible and versatile. In addition, they contained a mixture of hazelnuts, milk, emulsifiers, and oil that gave them these properties.
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Deraa with her story Bai Li Mei,
Morey Lezama : Chronicle of dismourning and friendship
Lighpen: Agreements with my students
erh Germany : Marriage rules without explicitly mentioning them
Memykel: I was a bad influence
Ricardo 993: The chocolate beings
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