Write a story where someone decides to take the long way home.

Posted in Adventure on Nov 4, 2022

Submissions are closed

Sorry, we are not accepting submissions for this prompt as it is not part of an active contest. Make sure you don't miss our next contest by creating your free Reedsy Prompts account.

Or create a new Reedsy account:

Why not check out our active contest?

✍️ 37 stories

“Strange Encounter” by Kimberly McFetridge

Submitted to Contest #171

Luce decided to take the long way home from the party to avoid the inevitable. She knew that when she got to her apartment, if Susan was still awake, she would give Luce the hairy eyeball like she always did when Luce was out late having fun. Luce, at 23, was simply enjoying her young adulthood and didn’t need somebody hovering over her. Susan, who was seven years older than her younger sister Luce, and much more serious, thought that as her new roommate, she should assume the role of Luce’s mother. Luce already had one mother who spent...

0 comments 0

Read story

“Long Way Home” by Falynn Almeda

Submitted to Contest #171

I got into my faded tan malibu and slammed the driver’s side door closed. I gently tossed my tawny canvas bag onto the passenger side seat before Ieaning back against the driver’s seat, closing my eyes. I took in an exhausted and exasperated sigh of a breath from completing another day I couldn’t get back. I opened my eyes and looked at the over-worked, tired, sagging eyes in the rearview mirror. My blue eyes were once bright and ready for adventure. I never used to keep my brown hair short, and my skin was never this pale. The only th...

0 comments 0

Read story

“Dog Biscuit Luck” by Tithi Chakravorty

Submitted to Contest #171

Kittokatto picked up her glass of lemonade. She gulped it down in a manner so slow and exaggerated, it could pass as a demonstrative video to outline the process of ingestion for middle school biology lectures. Her face puckered like a squeezed stress ball, her eyes shut tight. She shook her head violently and tutted thrice. A second later, her expression went blank as if nothing happened. Needs more salt, Kittokatto thinks as she scrolls through her feed and double taps on posts without them even fully loading. She adjusted her neck...

0 comments 0

Read story

“The Walk” by Sydney Andrade

Submitted to Contest #171

I don’t know what compelled me to that night but I decided to take the long way home. I define myself as an efficient person. One who takes the short way home because I know it’s faster and I have more productive things to do than peruse the monotonous commodities my town has to offer. I normally leave work at 6:00 p.m., walk the 13 minute, beeline path home and immediately begin making dinner for my husband and I. He works until 6:30 and it takes him a 30 minute drive to get home, just in time for whatever quick meal I’ve thrown together. I...

0 comments 0

Read story

“Travelling with Strangers” by Lunny Muffin

Submitted to Contest #171

The hills of the Meru mountains were arranged in an evenly manner such that the sky appeared to be a perfect white in the cloudy day. The dusty shoes on our feet had not only walked miles and miles with no rest, but they somehow knew that the journey we were on was still a long way from being complete. Our backs sweaty and our tongues dry we walked in a swarm of tan like color which was in a fashion common to that land, a matching brown to mimic the unforgiving desert like landscape. The leader a man of many ages, wore an extra layer...

2 comments 2

Read story

“Adventurer’s Kiddie Pool” by Elijah Grullon

Submitted to Contest #171

What is normally a short dragon ride is a little longer of a trip when walking. Shifting trees and Swampgrass aren't a problem when you can fly after all. Mya had been dropped off at Kifka’s Mage school some two months ago, but to surprise her family for thanksgiving she thought she would take the trek home. Leaving school, she probably under-packed just a little. Some medicinal herbs (her father would KILL her if he found out she went through the forests without them), and a present from Dean Kifka were all she decided she needed. Gre...

1 comment 1

Read story

“The Walker” by Roxanne Blight

Submitted to Contest #171

Late Summer Walking. She was 69 years old and 50 pounds overweight, which meant that it wouldn’t necessarily be easy but it was doable. So Monday morning, she dressed in her baggiest pants and top and tied up her running shoes and started out. Her goal was to make it 3 kilometres, initially. She had sunscreen on, a water bottle in one hand and a tissue shoved up her other sleeve. Her keys and phone were in her pocket. All set. She walked down the driveway and noticed the weeds growing out of the edges. Gott...

0 comments 0

Read story

🌟 Similar prompts

Start your story with someone looking at a breathtaking view and getting emotional.

Dramatic – 64 stories

Write about two solo travelers who keep bumping into each other in the most unexpected of places.

Romance – 21 stories

Write about a character who is trying to leave something or someone behind — only to realize they carry it with them.

Sad – 72 stories

Your character is about to embark on the journey of a lifetime. The story takes place during a long-haul flight, with an open return-date. What happens?

Adventure – 10 stories

Contest #171

Enter our weekly contest!

This week's theme: Wanderlust, Wanderlost

$250

Prize money

204

Contest entries

79

Stories

Ended on 23:59 - Nov 11, 2022 EST

Won by Thom With An H 🏆

Title: Silence

View details

Win $250 in our short story competition 🏆

We'll send you 5 prompts each week. Respond with your short story and you could win $250!

Menu

CONNECT

BLOG

APPS

TOOLS

ABOUT

Write a story where someone decides to take the long way home.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 37 stories

“Strange Encounter” by Kimberly McFetridge

“Long Way Home” by Falynn Almeda

“Dog Biscuit Luck” by Tithi Chakravorty

“The Walk” by Sydney Andrade

“Travelling with Strangers” by Lunny Muffin

“Adventurer’s Kiddie Pool” by Elijah Grullon

“The Walker” by Roxanne Blight

🌟 Similar prompts

Start your story with someone looking at a breathtaking view and getting emotional.

Write about two solo travelers who keep bumping into each other in the most unexpected of places.

Write about a character who is trying to leave something or someone behind — only to realize they carry it with them.

Your character is about to embark on the journey of a lifetime. The story takes place during a long-haul flight, with an open return-date. What happens?

Contest #171

Enter our weekly contest!

$250

Prize money

204

Contest entries

79

Stories

Win $250 in our short story competition 🏆

Explore more writing prompt ideas: