Enter The Contest Read & Rate Entries View Past Winners Free Typing Test Writing Resources Home | Contest | Write A Book | Write Ebooks For Cash | Be A Travel Writer | Write Children's Books Write For Newspapers | Write An Ezine | Write A Blog | Writing Skills & Tips | Novel Writing Software Please take a moment to bookmark this site and join our free hot tips list. Read & Rate Our Writing Contest Entries! See what other people have written, and rate them on a scale of 1 to 5. This is an opportunity to view a wide variety of short stories and see what kind of original material is being submitted to us on a daily basis. After you rate an entry, you will be randomly redirected to another entry to rate. You may read and rate as many entries as you wish! The user-rating system is simply a fun way for writers to receive a public opinion of their work, and does not affect the judging for the cash prizes. If you wish to enter the contest, you may enter for free here. Rate This Contest Entry: Contest: June 30th, 2005 Author: Dasha Tukanova There once was a wise old man. The wisest in all the land. Villagers from near and far came to him to seek advice, and each time, he gave and gave and all the people prospered. The wise man grew bored with giving advice to these mindless fools. The man realized whilst he had been helping all these people, he hadn't gained a thing. His life had been consumed with everyone else's problems. He had no family, no wife, no kids, no friends. He was intelligent, but unhappy, and what's the point of knowledge when you are unhappy? It was time for a change. The old man put up a sign on his door: NO MORE ADVICE, and he left his home. He went to a nearby town and bought a brand new outfit with the gold coins he had been saving all these years. He cleaned himself up, cut his hair, put on his new clothes, and set out to find happiness. He entered a few social habitats, attempting to mix in with the young crowds by playing dumb, but with no luck. He strolled the streets widely grinning at every passerby, only to recieve nothing but a harsh glance in return. As the day grew shorter, and the sky began to darken, his stroll became a slow, gloomy, meander. It seemed all hope was lost. There was no life for him as an average man, and no joy in being a wise man. Just as the old man was about to head back home and return to his life as a wise but bitter hermit, he stumbled into a lost looking lady. He was quick with apologies, thinking the lady to give him a dirty look, shrug him off, and scurry along her way. But she smiled. She let her lips curve into a cresent shape and bring out her dimples. It was a genuine smile. And the man smiled back. There they stood, smiling, long into the evening. They walked for a while, made some conversation. It was in fact even, intelligent conversation. They smiled and they talked until they were practically alone on the streets, besides the few night crawlers of the town. The lady realized it was time for her to go. "No" said the man, "Don't go, come home with me and stay with me, and together we can live and smile and talk of wise things." But the lady just shook her head. A sudden flash of dissapointment swept her face. "No" she said, "I must go, my family is waiting." And with that, she was gone. Gone into the night and out of his life. He walked his way home, not a trudge, but a simple walk. His usual walk, for he was back, back to his usual self. The next day the sign on his door was gone, and a new heap of people piled in asking for advice. At this, the wise old man smiled. Rate This Entry! Warning: fopen(/home/writingc/public_html/entries/b3_rating/b3r_data/.txt) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/writingc/public_html/entries/b3_rating/b3_rating.php on line 69 Error opening file. Use browser's back button and try again people have rated it so far. Warning: fopen(/home/writingc/public_html/entries/b3_rating/b3r_data/.txt) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/writingc/public_html/entries/b3_rating/b3_rating.php on line 69 Error opening file. Use browser's back button and try again is the current average. Warning: fopen(/home/writingc/public_html/entries/b3_rating/b3r_data/.txt) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/writingc/public_html/entries/b3_rating/b3_rating.php on line 69 Error opening file. Use browser's back button and try again Warning: fopen(/home/writingc/public_html/entries/b3_rating/b3r_data/.txt) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/writingc/public_html/entries/b3_rating/b3_rating.php on line 69 Error opening file. Use browser's back button and try again Skip to another entry

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