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Write a story about an old family secret surfacing generations later.

Posted in Adults on Oct 26, 2022

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Secrets don't remain buried

Submitted to Contest #55

Some family secrets are terrible when set loose, but mine was worse than anything I could have imagined. One fine Sunday morning, I was talking with my friends about family secrets."What's your family secret, Anand?" my friend Anirudh asked. He was a tall and strong man with silky white hair. I began to run away from him as he started to chase me."I'm not going to say," I said, taunting him. I wanted to get away from him and hide somewhere."It would be a food recipe," Anirudh said, laughing."I'm not telling my family secret," I said and ran...

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The Choosings—Part 1

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I sigh as I pluck my red sharpie from the magnetic holder stuck to my fridge. I bite the cap off and cross off today on my calendar.My eyes wander a box over, twenty-four hours from today. It’s the day I turn fourteen. It’s also the day of the Choosings.I have mixed feelings about my birthday. Not my birthday, exactly—I love my birthday. The thing I have mixed feelings about is the day it falls on—Mitzi 1st, the first day of the new year.The day where there’s a new Chosen One.I decide my feelings of the Choosings override my excitement of my...

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She lied to you...

Submitted to Contest #55

Mia:It is a breezy March afternoon. I stare out at the scene before me as I note just how much the Season of Birth has made it's presence known. The lake is lined with a seemingly never-ending line of cherry blossom trees. The salmon pick petals are found in irregular clusters on the wayward branded of the trees. Daffodils are scattered across the landscape, their golden heads hanging low, staring at the ground below. The manicured lawn does it's job excellently in concealing the less eye-pleasing mud. Thin clouds of a creamy beige are refle...

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Witch Hunt

Submitted to Contest #55

Cinder awoke with a start and turned to look at the alarm clock, checking to see the day. Wednesday, April 15. Cinder then sat up in her bed and stretched her arms out wide. “Today’s going to be a good day,” she said to herself, punctuating her sentence with a short but prominent yawn. Cinder then tiredly hopped out of bed, well, fell out of bed is a better word for it, and began to leave for the bathroom to get ready, only to remember at the last second her father’s unreasonable order to make her bed each morning. Cinder’s dad was...

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The City Of Gold

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Jack, Ronnie, Anne and Rose were nothing more than 16 year olds who used to hangout in their home after their college. One day they were showing the precious and ancient things that they had to each-other. Anne showed an ancient painting, Ronnie showed an ancient pen and Jack showed an ancient necklace. Rose did not show anything.“What’s the matter Rose? You aren’t showing anything?”asked Jack. “I don’t have anything to show except this old ruddy parchment.”said Rose. She handed it over to Jack who took a glimpse of it. “Oh my god!” exclaime...

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The Farmhouse

Submitted to Contest #55

When I had received a call from Dora, about the idea of decorating our ancestral home, I was quite excited. But little did I know what we would face there…Our ancestral house… since childhood I had heard of its stories from Mum and Dad. Though Mum says that I had been there when I was little, I don’t have the faintest memory of it. I was quite pleased when I had heard that it was getting renovated, and more, when I came to know about a grand party going to be held after the renovation, with all our relatives—close and distant. But I was quit...

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Like Him

Submitted to Contest #55

It was a car crash that killed them. My aunt and grandfather. She was driving him back to the nursing home where my grandmother was waiting. I wasn't close with them. We don’t speak to my mother’s family unless there’s a funeral or on select holidays. “I need you to go to the farm and clean up the house to get it ready for sale,” mom says through the phone.“Mom––”“Please, Charlotte, I–I can’t go back there.” She never asks me to do anything for her, which makes saying no to this one request impossible.“The estate lawyer can meet with yo...

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Whodunit? The Greywood Manor Murderer... Part 2

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Previously on The Greywood Manor Murderer…Four families receive invitations to attend a dinner party hosted by the Underwoods, the new neighbors. Everything starts out great until two people are murdered, and the killer is unknown. And being that no one else is there beside them, they realize that the killer must be one of them. This sends everyone into a frenzy as they realize time is running out. It is up to Katherine to solve the case, especially after receiving a mysterious note. But the question is will she be able to save everyone in t...

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A Magical Snowglobe

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I decided to take a walk around our ancestral home. It had been passed down through the Hyacinth family for generations, and was now more than a hundred years old. My family was a powerful one, one that was associated with spring and the ending of winter. The house was situated in the bubblegum mountains of Yoshino. That was one of the reasons the Hyacinth bloodline was thought together with spring. Yoshino is one of the best places in Japan to watch the cherry blossoms bloom, hence earning these cliffs the name ‘bubblegum mountains.’ When ...

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In on a Little Secret

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The smell of melting chocolate filled the house. “Oh yum” Sandy whispered, tugging at her dad’s hand. “It does smell nice, doesn’t it?” he asked, glancing down at her, a twinkle in his eye. She skipped happily into the kitchen not noticing the frown between his eyes. “Oh Auntie Mae, you made my favourite. Chocolate brownies!”, she gasped, clapping her hands together. Mae laughed as she watched her jump up and down. “I don’t know about them being your favourites’ she said, brushing a stray lock of hair from her face and leaving a streak of fo...

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A Dreamy Girl

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“Susan you are now a grown up girl, For God sake don’t dream so much especially during the day, Auntie Alan warned Susan.”You must go to work.Im tired.My bones are weak .I don’t understand that why You dream so much.Life is something very practical.These dreams will not full fill your needs.“.Auntie Alan said very concernedly” ,The animal sleeps but man dreams.”replied Susan.”You must go to parliament and becomes a speaker, You would be a great Speaker”. adviced Auntie Alan very sarcastically.Next day on breakfast table Susan asked...

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Hi, darling!

Submitted to Contest #55

"You are the love of my life, and I promise I'll always find you, even centuries later." "How is that even possible, darling? Are you saying that we will live forever?" replied a beautiful woman, whose eyes sparkled with happiness and whose smile was a man's favorite thing in the world. "That's not quite what I meant, but you almost got it, sweetheart," he replied. "What I'm saying," a man continued, "is that you'll always be the one, looking at whom, I'd feel like the wave has covered me. It's like a slight electric shock that goes th...

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Grandma Wallace's Coffee Cake

Submitted to Contest #55

My sister smacks the card down on the table, next to my bowl of cereal. She stands, not speaking, arms crossed, staring at the side of my head. “What’s this?” I ask, even though I know. It would be impossible not to know; she posts a daily countdown to her wedding on Instagram. I haven’t liked any of the posts. She has friends for that. But I ask anyway because it’s fun to get a rise out of her, to see her jaw clench and her eyes narrow. I’m sure there’s some rule, written in an ancient dusty book or on an internet article about how to be ...

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A secret for generations

Submitted to Contest #55

The sky was filled with fierce streaks of red and black – billowing smoke and flames – striking fear into the hearts of those traveling in their cars. Each one wondering what was on fire. It was 1954, a very cold January, in rural central Georgia. The small community of Murphy seemed to be location of the thickening smoke, and a choking haze. Jesse Plover was down the road at a neighbor’s when he walked outside to leave and he noticed the smell and the smoke. He stopped, and looked around, and instantly, Jesse knew – that fire was coming...

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Hellish Graduation

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Jax gazed at the beautiful gold ring that adorned his left index finger; It made a shimmering sparkle under the hot sun every time he shifted it. Small letters engraved the top of the ring. They read, “Stand Above The Enemy.” Jax never knew what that was supposed to mean, but he didn’t care. He appreciated the beauty of the ring for what it was; he received it from his father after turning 18, just like his father did from Jax’s grandfather and so on.  The mystery of the ring didn’t bother him that much, but the fear of adult life ...

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