Flash Race
I am the daughter of Flash.
My name is Flora and for every race I do, I try my best not to run like my dad. It’s hard but it’s the only way I get by.
On that day I was pretending to prepare for another race. My school, Havenville Middle, requires a race every two months to see where we are at in PE.
“Hi, Slowpoke,” an annoying voice said behind me. “Ready to lose?” I rolled my eyes and turned around. There she was. Bethany. She is so rude and annoying and torments me on everything wrong that I do. “Why are you here,” I whined, “just leave.” Bethany smiled and seemed to know that she was going to be winning anyway. She flipped her hair and went to the front of everybody, starting to do lunges.
“Okay everyone, time to race,” my coach, Coach Rine, called out. All the people in my class huddled up on the starting line and took their positions. Somehow my fate decided I would be racing right next to Bethany. “Bummer that you’re going to lose huh, slowpoke,” Bethany tormented. I grunted, huffed and rolled my eyes again. With my fists clenched, we started the race. Everyone sprinted but then something made me lose control.
Bethany grinned.
I lost my control and started to sprint, going 100 miles per hour. Everyone stopped and stared, their jaws wide and open. I crossed the finish line and immediately stopped. “Oh no, what have I done?” I whispered to myself. I looked at the long half-mile road back to the start line. The sun blazed on me as if also feeling my guilt.
Coach Rine clicked the stop button on her stopwatch. “Flora, your time is …” She looked at her stopwatch again, eyes widened, almost not believing what she was about to say, “3. 34 seconds”.
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To Leave Comments - Please SignIn with GoogleA humorous story Sara. So difficult to keep emotions and actions in check when teased.
Welcome to Voice club, Sara. Nice story. I love it.
Hi Sara, and welcome to Voice.club. It’s so nice seeing some younger members, and such talent for your age. I really enjoyed your story. It brought to mind an episode of Smallville when Clark met with similar problems on the football pitch. It must be so difficult to be young and trying to keep your superpowers hidden and you portrayed that well in your story. Nicely done ?
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To Leave Comments - Please SignIn with GoogleHi Sara – loved this, interesting idea and well done for pointing out bullying which unfortunately still happens – good entry.
Thank you so much for the comments.
It really made my week and I am so glad you all like the story. Thank you for reading and I hope to produce more stories onto this platform.
Also since I don’t know how to navigate this well, I have a quick question for anyone who can answer. To submit stories onto my account do you have to join a contest? Or can I just write stories without having to join contests? Thank you so much if you can answer. PS: I am very sorry but my name is not Sara it is Sabriah. I wanted to make sure that… Read more »
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To Leave Comments - Please SignIn with GoogleHello Sabriah – Yes, we understand about not wanting to present your real name until you felt secure on this site. Rest assured that this site is safe. Our staff personally reads, edits and monitors every entry and every comment. Nothing gets published on the site without passing our strict requirements. In answer to your question about submitting stories, the only path to have your stories accepted, and possibly published is through… Read more »
Hello, Voice – Team, Thank you so much for understanding and thank you for answering my question. I also think I will enter another entry :).
Thank you for the congrats on making the shortlist although I should thank you for putting me into this list, it brings me (and my mom) incredible joy.
Thank you again and have a nice day.
What a fun story, Sabriah! You’ll have to help me out a little, though, since I don’t know much about running times. What is the normal time for a half mile run? What’s the world record? I’m assuming our Flora smashed any previous records, but by how much? Poor Flora, how is she going to explain this? And where is her Dad? Haha.. Great writing, and welcome to Voice club!
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To Leave Comments - Please SignIn with GoogleHi Fuji, Thank you for your sweet, funny and fast paced ( pun intended ? ) comment. It really made my day. Answering your questions, I looked it up and it takes about 5 minutes. Since these are younger and less experienced kids though, it would be more like 8 minutes. Her dad is probably still saving the world and how she is going to explain it, wellll I dont really… Read more »
This is a great teen drama, Sabriah.