tooth soup

Stress is a

funny thing. It’s a fact of modern times that our lives have become more stressful. I’ve had due course to experience my fair share of stresses during my educational career: assignment deadlines, public speaking, and, of course, …

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Tunguska/detrimental/vacillate

from Todd’s prompt

When a novice astronomer comes to our organisation and claims to have spotted an Earth-destroying meteor with his backyard telescope, it’s usually a quick and easy procedure to prove them wrong. But …

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potential/consider/light

from Jaime’s prompt

The day was so sunny and warm that Carl had decided to sit outside to eat his ham and salad sandwich. As he relaxed his buttocks into the grooves in the park bench …

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platypus/starving/vintage

from Irene’s prompt

It’s about ten minutes until my year eleven ball and my mother is coming as close to swearing as I have ever heard her.

`Geoffrey, honest-to-goodness why didn’t you wear the towel while …

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water/comets/Cambridge

from Dino’s prompt

It was Summer, and my cousins and I were swimming in Lake Karapiro on the North island, a perennial family gathering favourite. There was Marcel, the oldest cousin, Thomas a year or two …