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I submitted this short story to the 2020 Scholastic Arts and Writing Awards. It won a Gold Key award at the regional level. This story was considered for national judging. However, it was not awarded a national medal this year. I am confident that I will win a national award next year. I am ardent and ambitious. Speaking of ambition and struggle, this short story is all about perseverance and living in the moment. I enjoyed every second of writing this story. Ambition and Rejection is published under the editors' choice section of Teen Ink. https://www.teenink.com/fiction/historical_fiction/article/1082303/Ambition-And-Rejection Ambition and Rejection by Shreya Ganguly The lovely, crimson leaves flew to the window. Positioned at her desk, Charlotte Whister gazed in astonishment, knowing that autumn had begun. The typewriter and journal waited patiently for stories to be inscribed. The wind blew across the town of Surein, Prince Edward Island. The cease of the nineteenth ...

I am Shreya Ganguly, a thirteen-year-old fiction writer. After having won my first writing award, I am even more determined to write. Today, I would like to share with you a short story I wrote recently. Being the prolific writer I am, I am invariably dying to express ideas through words. The Christmas Party is now published on Short Fiction Break.  https://shortfictionbreak.com/the-christmas-party-2/ The Christmas Party   Elizabeth’s eyes absorbed the rain as it permeated the windows. Her dark, glossy hair immersed with raindrops. Umbrella in hand, she began collecting flowers for the guests that would arrive that evening.  Clorinda Forbes left for a Woman’s Society meeting, leaving her bedroom door ajar. Mrs. Forbes adorned the table in the drawing-room with Elizabeth’s flowers.  “Have you been dismissed from school early today?” Mrs. Forbes inquired. Elizabeth began to color slightly. “Yes, mother. Today was a rather short day. Our aptitude for learning w...