Write a cautionary fable about someone who always lies.

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“Fortune Cookie” by Chris D

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It starts with a fortune cookie. Her struggle, not her habit. From the age of four, Sutton has been a chronic liar. It all started with a cookie jar. Her mother had told her no dessert until after dinner. They'd be having porkchops and broccoli. She hated porkchops and broccoli, and knew she would never make it through dinner to the chocolate chunk cookies in the cookie jar. "Is that chocolate on your face?" "No mama. Dirt from playing outdoors." Such an easy lie. One that her mother had believed. She'd ended up skipping dinner, telling her ...

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“Little Dark Wings” by Nuala Roberts

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I have never trusted unicorns. All they really are is horses with horns, that doesn't make them special. And horses are terrifying enough with the horn, have you see their teeth? You might find this odd. Unicorns are perfect. But that's the thing: nothing is perfect. So where's the catch? Dragons, serpents, brownies, you know their flaws. When you know flaws, you know what to expect. Unicorns, therefore, are dangerous, weaponized and unpredictable. Then one showed up at my door. I'm different. I always have been. If this were a fairy tale,...

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“Bruce never tells the truth” by Richard Hawkins

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I live in Texas and there is a saying in Texas. I rather climb a tree and tell you a lie than stand on the ground and tell you the truth. Most of my friend and family were good about making more of a story than was really there. With Bruce not even the story he was telling would be his own. Every one in town knew Bruce He was the guy who reused everybody stories and by the time you heard it again it was Bruce in the center of all the action. The one thing that Bruce could not make up was his height standing only 5 foot 4 inches and hundred t...

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“The boy who almost stopped breathing” by Melo Hale

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Once there was a boy named Aaron. Aaron lived in a mansion with his parents. Mr and Mrs Saunders. They were of high rank in the social society because of their well-paying jobs. Their son, however, turned out to be a rotten and spoilt child. Aaron loved to lie and throw tantrums when things didn't go his way. Everybody knew that Aaron was not to be trusted. At 15, he already had a bad reputation. A troubled young man, people would say. When he was 5-years old, he stole chocolate and a drink from the shop. After being confronted about ...

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“The most awaited Sunday” by Uma S Nair

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Maya, the fifteen year old little girl, is enthusiastic today and is eagerly waiting for her father. As her tenth board exams are over, she will be taken to her dream home; as promised by her dad.Maya has lost her mother at the age of one. Her father Shyam has toiled hard for whole day and night to earn bread for their livelihood. Shyam and his wife Janet had a love marriage. Janet belonged to an affluent and orthodox Christian family. The very moment her fascination and inclination towards a destitute Hindu boy was realized at her home, her...

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“MUKONYO” by Elizabeth Mulisya

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Run! Run! Run! A pride of lions is coming to devour our cows, sheep and goats! run for your dear lives! shouted Mukonyo! the village fibster. Everyone in the village got into a frenzy, trying to save their domestic animals and their lives from the lions. Women running as fast as their thin legs would carry them and of course carrying their children on their backs and screaming on top of their voice! men trying to force the animals into their stables! it was a total commotion! everyone was on panic mode. Then suddenly Mukonyo falls down laug...

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“The Deceiver” by Clara Martin

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A long time ago, on the Old Locust Plantation located in southern Mississippi lived a man named Johnny Walker. Johnny was known on the plantation as the deceiver. Telling lies for him was like breathing in air for regular people. Wherever Johnny went turmoil followed. He loved eavesdropping and telling people's deepest, dark secrets. Back then in the 1940s, many black people worked for white people cleaning their houses, babysitting their children, cooking their meals, and planting crops in their fields. Mr. Adams had one of the largest wate...

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“Bad Leads” by Kelita Sim

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Hue Nielson kept a tally chart on his desk wall.Every Monday, he arrived at his station somewhere between ten thirty and eleven, in his creased untucked suit and blonde bed hair with enough noise to overshadow his fellow salesmen in mid pitch. His priorities were off. The huddle on Monday was never his first priority, as it should have been for every sales representative at Gregory & Gordon. No, Hue Nielson’s first priority was to take a black marker, straighten the chart on the wall, and add a line to his tally. To the average eye, this...

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“Grim Truth” by Mia Mathew

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It was a world different from the one we live in now, or we might someday come to, where consequences of one’s lies and deceit were measured on the tiny book called Pselmatin that would follow you to till the end of time. The unspoken rule was that when a hundred lies were marked on your Pselmatin, it would complete the creation of a monster from the grim world of Gomorriah who would ultimately find you and eat you whole. Roman was no exception to the rule, but he considered himself too smart to exceed his lies over one hundred. In his youth...

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“A Piece of a Liar” by Alice Claude

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Nighttime hadn’t yet draped the landscape with its onyx cloths. It was in fact only evening, and yet fireflies, their bodies surrounded by cool yellow spheres, weaved in and out of foliage. As they flew along their looping paths, they shed light on the dark teals and emerald greens in their vicinity, spun around strangely shaped flowers, and spiraled alongside lush vines that held tree trunks in an iron grasp. In their light, one could see small creatures navigating their way to home, or to food, before they were wrapped up again in v...

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“Someone Who Always Lies” by Janine Hallett

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SOMEONE WHO ALWAYS LIES “What are you doing?’ came the voice of Johnno’s mother “I’m doing my homework”, shouted back Johnno as he quickly picked up the porn magazine he was pouring over and threw it under his bed, just in the nick of time as his mother slammed open the door and stormed into his room. “You are not doing your homework, I can’t see any school books or papers – what are you really doing my boy!” “I’ve just finished.” Answered Johnno in a very convincing and soft voice. The next day, wet and cold, all the children in the...

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“Lying Anna ” by Sona Sethi

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“Anna, one of these days all these lies will get you in a lot of trouble,” warned Mom for the hundredth time.But did Anna listen? No. Eight-year old Anna just shook her head full of dark curls defiantly and went on telling lies. She told lies when she did not have to. She told lies even when telling the truth would be a lot easier.“Anna is that my magic eraser you are using?” asked Samantha, her best friend. “Did you take it from my pencil case without asking?”“No, it’s not yours.” replied Anna, as she continued erasing. “It’s mine.” “N...

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“The Fall of Ronald Drumph” by Pako Dunwhile

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The story of Ronald Drumph is one for the ages. A man whose exploits should have ended long ago by all accounts. He was raised by a famous mogul who encouraged him to be a heartless liar. Ronald was encouraged to always win, no matter what. Failure was not acceptable under any circumstances. His family valued winning, money and the representation of power more than anything. Love, affection and empathy were considered weaknesses. When Ronald was a young man, his father Frank Drumph, was able to secure Ronald to miss mandatory military servic...

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“Up to mischief! ” by Iona Coppin

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Tony was a rat. Both in the literal and metaphorical sense. He was a good for nothing, double crossing, snitch of a rodent, who would lie to the queen if it would earn him some scraps to eat. Tony found that this life of deception didn’t earn him many friends, but he didn’t need friends, all he needed was a full belly and a place to sleep. Which he had, until very recently. You see Tony had committed an unforgivable crime, a crime that will find you running for your life, both from the humans, and your fellow vermin. Tony had committed the c...

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“Free to Lie in Chains” by Kateri Buerkle

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“Where should I start?” he asked, laughing bitterly. “Benedict, why not start with the truth for once?” pleaded Rose. There was a long, agonized silence as Benedict stared sullenly outside at the pouring rain and flashes of lightning followed by fierce rumbles of thunder. Rose shuddered and huddled against him as the cold, biting wind drove icy sheets of rain into the rocky shelter they had fled to when the sudden squall had sprung upon them. “If only…” Benedict murmured. Then looking down at her shivering, vulnerable f...

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Write a cautionary fable about someone who always lies.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 116 stories

“Fortune Cookie” by Chris D

“Little Dark Wings” by Nuala Roberts

“Bruce never tells the truth” by Richard Hawkins

“The boy who almost stopped breathing” by Melo Hale

“The most awaited Sunday” by Uma S Nair

“MUKONYO” by Elizabeth Mulisya

“The Deceiver” by Clara Martin

“Bad Leads” by Kelita Sim

“Grim Truth” by Mia Mathew

“A Piece of a Liar” by Alice Claude

“Someone Who Always Lies” by Janine Hallett

“Lying Anna ” by Sona Sethi

“The Fall of Ronald Drumph” by Pako Dunwhile

“Up to mischief! ” by Iona Coppin

“Free to Lie in Chains” by Kateri Buerkle

🌟 Similar prompts

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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