Start your story with an unexpected betrayal.

Posted in Adventure on Mar 8, 2024

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“Don't Call Me Son” by Sanjita Ethiraj

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There comes a time when you need to accept the family you have. It's a hard thing to do. Especially when the family you have isn't the family you want to have. When that family is dysfunctional and broken. When that family hates you. It's hard not to take it personally. To not carry a grudge. I used to think I was the forgive and forget sort. That I could just...figure out how to get past it all. And maybe I could have, if they'd come for me. If they'd bothered to lift a finger and attempted a rescue. Something, anything, to prove they cared...

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“The Hidden Treasure” by Stacey Cooper

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Two friends, Lilly and Brooke, have decided that they would like to go on a hiking trip for their next vacation. They conduct a search on the Internet and come across an advertisement for a modern-day treasure hunt. It says: “You could hike to the top of the mountain or you could hike to the top of the mountain and leave with a rare gemstone. The choice is yours.Come join us for a week-long adventure climbing to the top of Mount Jewel for a chance to win a precious gemstone by solving a series of clues provided at each passage...

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“The Pearl of the Universe” by Marquita Reed

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The Pearl of the Universe I come from a place in the night’s sky on the waist of Orion the hunter. Like an accessory, the planet of Montoya dangles from his belt and no one on Earth knows it but me. I get a deep longing between the months of November and February when the heavens open up and I see my world looking down on me. Clearly, I see them seeing me and I look up into the sky and I remember. It’s always when I remember, that I see the rolling hillsides and fresh waters. Blades of grass in different color...

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“Octopus” by Chantyl Balshaw

Submitted to Contest #241

The sounds of her heels could be heard dragging across the marble floor. Stopping before the bathroom then her body turned with head facing the tub. She starts to wince, tremble, and feet begin the flail. He turns the water on and fills the tub up with ice cold water much like his heart at this point. Once filled, he shuts the faucet off and slowly picks her up by the brown ringlets in on her head. With one hand gripping her scalp tightly and the other over her over her mouth forcibly, he shoves her face deep down inside to the deepest of th...

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“Stepping Out” by Fredrikke Barth

Submitted to Contest #241

There was that time in Beirut when they sat close together on a dilapidated double bed and smoked their way through an entire pack of Lucky Strikes and he cried and she didn’t cry at all and they decided to end it. She loved him like he was sunlight. She wasn’t in love with him anymore. It will be ok, she promised, and loveloveloved him. He had already done that thing that would ruin it. She wouldn’t know about that for a long time, yet. He had been in love with Corinne back then, his entire body buzzing with it. Maybe, he thought late...

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“Down Like a Yesterday Feel” by Curtis Jackson

Submitted to Contest #241

Thematic content includes tragic details, reports of deaths, gun violence, animal attacks, stalking, and social discord. Kiu was engulfed in a basin of sediment and mud that filled his curled hair, nose, ears, mouth, apparel, socks, hiking shoes–everything on him–except his eyes, fastened as fatality. The lake’s murky elements, too, crept into the small, circular punctures in his back, streamed lines of billowing blood. He had splashed in the lucent water, and his body sank onto the floor like a liquid drop in a sponge. Catfish and trou...

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Start your story with an unexpected betrayal.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 81 stories

“Don't Call Me Son” by Sanjita Ethiraj

“The Hidden Treasure” by Stacey Cooper

“The Pearl of the Universe” by Marquita Reed

“Octopus” by Chantyl Balshaw

“Stepping Out” by Fredrikke Barth

“Down Like a Yesterday Feel” by Curtis Jackson

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Write about someone who is convinced they’re going to be betrayed.

Write about someone who is stuck between two opposing sides and can’t decide which one to choose.

Set your story at a tense event where everyone is unsure whose side they’re on.

Write about a backstabbing (literal or metaphorical) gone wrong.

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