Write a cautionary fable about someone who always lies.

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“In No One! ” by Dwavico .

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If you look at pretty much anything that happens to people in life, they always seem to have something that they consider a problem. It's that, "Life's hard" bull crap. Until something really bad happens. I have always been a trustful person. If you pick the right people for the right things, life is good. You can always count on a good friend. The secret is to keep standards low and never over-burden anyone. Wow! That's kinda the whole, "straw that broke..." and "you can't get blood..." things rolled into one. If I kept asking the same per...

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“THE LIE.” by Patricia Green

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Lily and Liam were twins. They would both be 21 years old, in two weeks time. According to the ancestry of their family, when they reached 21 years they would both receive 10,000 million pounds to purchase land for their future kingdom. There was only one, very strange, clause in the agreement. They must not be under five feet tall. Lily and Liam both passed this test with flying colours. Lily was a very shapely five foot seven, while Liam was a tall, very manly, six foot two. “ They rac...

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“lately in the village...” by Moon Bookstore

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lately in the village..."surprises always happen", genoa finished her topic talking to 'lady' the unwanted horse whom has appeared in the barn waiting to be attended. "i am no liar to beggars or the hungry..." 'we haven't enough valuable time to sacrifice our own we make a living with', raising to her manners and a glare to provide no attention. "we ain't either mad; we are smart but a bit crazy." Mira scooted along her washing dishes; tuned to knowledgeable to her choices in the village garden. a letter smelt of burnt ash was picked up ...

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“The Differden” by Danielle Burke

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My mother feared my brother, Dragan, was dying, but she didn’t say that. Instead, she saddled the horse, prepared a pallet behind, and appointed me his nurse, only pausing long enough to say we were seeing a friend who could help. She hoped. “Mother,” I whispered into the night air. “Yes, Tristle?” “Be careful what path you take. Dragan has formed many enemies of late. He falsifies. Tells the palace guards our neighbors are spies for the River Kingdom.” I saw her lay the reins on the side of the horse's neck, gu...

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“THE PARROT WHO SPILT THE BEANS” by Mousumi Biswas

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John lived with his wife Ema and pet dog Bruno. They were both very helpful and good at heart. All the neighbours loved and respected them. Bruno was the only companion they had , their children having moved to seek their own destinies. Bruno was a cute little dog with silken brown coat . One day the couple was playing in their garden with Bruno. Suddenly , Bruno sniffed hard and began to bark loudly. He ran to a spot under the oak tree and began circling it , jumping and wagging his tail ...

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“If Only He Listened” by Zoha Yasir

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You are perfect for being you. Believe in your uniqueness and talents. Is a hummingbird more perfect than an elephant? Perfect for what? Perfection is subjective, not objective. It is the same as a lock and key, the adventurer and the quest. So the only question you need to answer is that you are brave enough to walk your heaven-sent path? People can grow strong enough to whisper at the iron bars that hold them and see them bend out of their way like the craziest magic. That's what love can do: fix souls, fix brains, cure us all. Yet, some o...

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“THE KING'S HEIR” by K.K Ameyo

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Before he was revered, Mutongo was a farmhand, looking after his family’s sheep. Day in and day out, he would do his duty, not because he liked it, but because his father promised that he would take him hunting one day, and his mother would make him an extra portion of food every now and again. “Have you locked the sheep in?” his mother always asked. “Yes!” he would always answer when asked, after which he would be given his food to eat. One day, he was so hungry that he hurriedly took them back into their pen a bit earlier than usual. He no...

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“The Truth in DownTown” by Ana Perez

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My name is Delilah Bloom, and this is a story that should serve as a lesson to you all about lying. It’s something that you should under no circumstances do.I had a very ordinary life in DownTown. I helped my dad, Oliver Bloom, making bread and baking for his bakery, and I was in charge of delivering every day the king’s special bread order. I knew King Jeffrey and his son, Dylan very well, but I never liked him. He was always lying and stealing and was an unpleasant person. I used to have very bad luck, I would always trip, drop the bread o...

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“In Truth” by E. B. Bullet

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From a young age, Tobias knew very well the power of language. His mother had shown him carefully with every storybook she pulled from their well-worn shelves, every sentence she weaved—her word placement endlessly methodical. They would sit by the lake, enwrapped by woody pine near the village, and she would say to him that one’s voice was a magic.“To speak is to bend the world to your will,” she would say. To Tobias, powerless and meek at the peak of age five, this was everything. Often was he witness to the way his mother’s words carried ...

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“Liar's Blooms” by Robin McGrew

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Once there was a wicked girl, with a most wicked mouth. “Goodbye. I’ll miss you, mother,” the girl said, a statement that echoed resoundingly empty in her ears as she walked the lonely road, basket tucked under her arm. Her cloak billowed out around her in the wind. Another fiction, another untruth. She didn’t get far along her travels before someone stepped into her path, blocking the way. “Well now, where could someone like you possibly be headed at this unfine hour?” He grinned, his wide smile a glinting knife in the rising...

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“Lin blew her lies...” by Lis Lovén

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Lin blew her lies… You talkin´ ´to me, hu? At that point Lin came up with an assumption, that British people were mighty high up. She, Lin that is, had no single clue at first of how to get rid of it. Rid off it, the problem itself? That Aristocratic lady, Mrs Willfear, was a nobility of seldom seen stardom. In Lin´s Sweden the hight and mighty came closer to being more pragmatic than lofty. So she had to face the issue in another turn of the screw. Heck it! Of course Picasso had it written down: ”Art is a lie that force you to see reality...

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“Petal” by Elaine Entenza

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Right in the center of our little town square is a statue of a beautiful butterfly. She stands in the center of a small, moss-filled circle, which is enclosed with a petite, pebble fence. She is made of polished river stone, and a simple inscription lies on her heart, within the center of her sprawling wing span: Petal-Love Too Good To Be True Petal, like me, was a butterfly. But funny enough, she was a butterfly that never flew. Bird attacks, extreme weather, and wildfires and such are natural threats to our kind, but it wasn’t any of these...

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“Wolf! Wolf! Shouted the Shepherd” by Sreedevi Mahapatra

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Long long ago there was a big dark forest. The forest was so dark with its dense colony of huge trees and their wide canopy of leaves , almost touching each other so closely that even the poor sun rays had no access to enter the land. They danced only on the top leaves and left by evening. Even the proud moon passed over the forest with no clue of what was beneath the thick tree tops. The creatures that lived in this forest were almost semi blind like workers who worked in dingy glass bangle factory under ...

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“The Truth About Lies” by Anthony David M

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She smiled. She did a lot of it as she talked. She was always talking thirteen to the dozen and most of what she said was not true. Not that she cared anyway. She excelled in creating lies so realistically that no one suspected her of lying. Amara was her name, so she claimed. (Now I wonder whether...

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“The mite and the chameleon” by Ana Lyn Soriano

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There was once a chameleon who befriended a neighboorhood of insects. Everyday, it came to the Insect village to entertain the young insects whose parents were away for food hunting."Would you like to see the color of the blue velvety sky today?", the chameleon asked."Show us, show us please?", the young insects cried in unison."Oh surely you have seen its colors when you go out each day", it replied to them."Yes we do, but since we are so tiny, we barely see it close enough.", one insect said."Yes that's true", the others agreed.And so the ...

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Write a cautionary fable about someone who always lies.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 116 stories

“In No One! ” by Dwavico .

“THE LIE.” by Patricia Green

“lately in the village...” by Moon Bookstore

“The Differden” by Danielle Burke

“THE PARROT WHO SPILT THE BEANS” by Mousumi Biswas

“If Only He Listened” by Zoha Yasir

“THE KING'S HEIR” by K.K Ameyo

“The Truth in DownTown” by Ana Perez

“In Truth” by E. B. Bullet

“Liar's Blooms” by Robin McGrew

“Lin blew her lies...” by Lis Lovén

“Petal” by Elaine Entenza

“Wolf! Wolf! Shouted the Shepherd” by Sreedevi Mahapatra

“The Truth About Lies” by Anthony David M

“The mite and the chameleon” by Ana Lyn Soriano

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Write a story about an ordinary person speaking truth to power.

Write about a prince or princess who is asked to give up something valuable as part of a deal to escape the world they come from.

Write a fairy tale about an outsider trying to fit in.

Write about an author famous for their fairy tale retellings.

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