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Write a story about someone who has just finished writing their first story/book.

Posted in Adults on Oct 26, 2022

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“The First Book ” by Rebecca Lee

Submitted to Contest #46

  “So, you’re done. It is coming out in the stores today?” Kevin McGuire looked at his girlfriend, Jenna Smith as they walked from the take-out window at Neely’s – a local barbecue joint in Marshall, Texas, carrying their bags to his truck.   Jenna was looking in a bag, “Yup. Lord, these fries smell great.” She smiled at him. Kevin felt the butterflies in his stomach. When Jenna smiled, she didn’t have dimples or anything, but her green eyes sparkled every time. And every time, she did that, Kevin just went to mush.   He had b...

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“Ophelia Unknown” by Christine Calhoun

Submitted to Contest #46

The house has an articulated skeleton; shifting forward one story at a time, the attic forever interrogating the front steps. It leers with its cyclops eye, a round window reflecting the rippling grass, the cottonwoods, and a woman in a battered raincoat book ended by two stolen duffel bags.     Purple? Probably the reflected character in the window is a little too close to looking in a mirror, front and center on everyone’s most hated trope list.  The support beams are long pale rib bones, forming a cavernous porc...

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“IT'S A WONDERFUL BOOK” by Andrew Grell

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IT’S A WONDERFUL BOOK          By Andrew Paul Grell“Little close to the water there, aren’t you, pal? And careful, you don’t want to drop your package in the drink, do you?”“And if I am, and if I do? What’s it to ya, anyway?”“It’s a Barney’s suit. I’d rather not ruin it saving you when you decide you need it back. I’m Clarence, by the way.”“Ernie,” the tall, mustachioed package-clutcher offered. The were southbound, starboard side, on the top deck of Comte Charles Henri D’estaign, a...

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“The Music Never Stopped” by Gabi Cranga

Submitted to Contest #46

The snow drifted almost as if in slow motion around his face."A book?"He repeated the word."You're writing a book?"He kept saying it as if it was something momentous. Maybe it was."Yeah... I've rewritten the first chapter about a half a dozen times."He laughed softly. A gentle, endearing laugh."It's been my baby all through high school. Now, I'm just trying to find an ending."The night seemed to be closing in around them as they sat on a stone ledge overlooking a frozen fountain. She squinted. And shivered. Campus was cold and blurry, the sh...

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“Agent” by Sofie Barnet E.K

Submitted to Contest #46

Writing for the past 10 hours with no sleep, her eyes had gone into her skull and there were dark patches under them. She had not touched anything save the desk and the laptop for the past 2 days. In just 6 hours she had an appointment with her agent though she had only written 18 chapters of the book. She had almost 6 more chapters to finish till 10:00 am in the morning. There were several agents whom she had contacted to get some help with her book however she had received nothing positive. Most of them had rejected her almost immediately...

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“Gold Socks ” by Ella Kinnett

Submitted to Contest #46

I can’t believe I really just published a real poetry book. I have to admit that this is the best feeling in the world. All of my heart and soul were put into that book and now, people get to see what happens deep inside my mind through funny phrases and words that mostly rhyme. Some people might think that my book, Golden Socks is not related to real life at all, and I wrote it in a way that it doesn't have to relate to anything to a person, but to me they all mean something important. Every author that publishes a book should have meaning ...

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“Of creatures which we do not speak” by Emma Chatterton

Submitted to Contest #46

With a sigh he snapped shut the unavailing book he was reading with more force than he had intended, causing dust to fly from its pages and cascade around him. Balanced precariously on a haphazard stack of old, battered books; the candle by which he was reading spluttered and almost died causing deep shadows to dance across the dark, empty reading room. A shiver ran across his skin and a sense of unease trickled down his spine as he realised it was long gone dusk and he had not seen or heard another person move around in the large, maze-like...

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“WRITE TO CRY” by Stella Murovic

Submitted to Contest #46

Perhaps now she can quit thrashing about and get some sleep. She wrote a story about me, you see, about a me I wish I weren't. It's her first story so I don't blame her. But I can't help wishing it were about the me of before, about the me she first met, the me who made her laugh — not the me who makes her cry, the one she lies awake thinking about. But I wasn't that special then, not like now and not to her. She's not one of my four daughters. She's not my ex-wife. She's not one of my five or perhaps eight lovers. She's just a friend and ...

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“Final Words” by Jordan Erwin

Submitted to Contest #46

The last period fell into its final resting place. All that remained was THE END. Gregor took a calligraphy class years ago for this exact moment. He scrawled out each letter with elegance and purpose. His pen moved over the paper as if guided by Calliope herself. Each stroke was a lessening of the weight off Gregor’s back. With each whip of the ink, he saw more of the picture he’d longed to see for six years. With every curve of the letters, peace abounded. It was his masterpiece. His life. It was finished.      &nb...

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“God Laughs In Flowers” by Kristine Murdock

Submitted to Contest #46

There was the post office, with its stiff picket fence and starched, whitewashed walls. Alice pursed her lips and hesitated before walking in. Had the story she sent gotten through? Did it get lost among the heaps of mail from the war? Would she be greeted with another rejection letter, written in a prim, spidery hand, accompanied by a tight satisfactory smile from Mrs. Harris?  She glanced up nervously at the sky, then at the window. Even the spiteful Mrs. Harris could ruin a blue, sunshiny day like this, and even she could suck the j...

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“PIGMY” by UJJWAL DUTTA

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                            PIGMY                                 The night passed on to dawn and dawn into the morning. Rohit’s eyes were still glued to the bunch of papers in front of him. Sometimes he was making some corre...

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“Wasn't Worth the Wait” by B. Ray

Submitted to Contest #46

Hmmm.... Oh! Wait... hm. Daisy continued to ponder at the blank, white sheet in front of her. What if… what if the female protagonist was an outcast in a world where everyone wanted to be as 2 dimensional as possible, but she liked to be 3D! What if she kept a dark secret that was leaked onto the outerweb like, well, perhaps, she had a ball pit in her closet because she liked the scandalous rounded curves! Sure, it wasn’t a very ominously hidden truth, but it would do the job of creating a fun loving character who wished to express herself i...

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“The Gay Gatsby” by Smudge Himmel

Submitted to Contest #46

"So in your story I die?"The voice blew softly over my neck and I turned in my chair. James straightened up from where he had been leaning over my chair to read over my shoulder as I wrote. I pulled the final page carefully from the typewriter so as not to smudge the fresh ink with my fingers. The morning sun streaming in through the bay windows of the small study curled in his hair, his pink suit blended in with the morning sky, molding him into the apparition of a young god, a young Zephiros. He smiled at me, that more than understanding s...

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“Point of View” by Claire Feme

Submitted to Contest #46

As I typed the last words of the manuscript, the boarding ticket arrived at my cellphone. My hands were sweaty. There was no turning back. My agent had landed the publishing deal and now I would have to live with the consequences. I should have known better than to splash my confession in a book. There was a stupid part of me that believed that I could be a writer. Time has proved me wrong. Being an assassin is a full-time job. You can’t be a cook and an assassin; an actor and an assassin; a writer and an assassin.  “Robert this thrille...

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“A Writer's World” by Joanne X

Submitted to Contest #46

The world was dark, illuminated only by the few dim stars in the sky and a tiny sliver of the soft light that was being reflected from the moon. A comforting silence enveloped the earth, and people slept peacefully in their own pleasant little homes. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary on this particular summer night, but somewhere in the small town of Caershire, was a woman named Morgan Carrie, enveloped in a whole of her own, who was just about to finish her very first novel.. . .Morgan had just moved here a few days ago and was still getti...

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