Center your story around someone trying to resist their darker impulses — and they’ll either succeed or fail.

Posted in Angst on Oct 11, 2024

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“Friction” by Julie Norman

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(TW: Physical violence) I love watching them squirm. The way their bodies convulse, writhing in agony as they try to find a way to escape the torment, only to realize that there is no way out. When they finally give in to the inevitable; their fate sealed. It’s ugly, but it’s fascinating. I watch intently as the mouse thrashes and flails within the terrarium, unable to defend itself against the wasps assailing it. They cover the rodent, stinging and biting and devouring the creature. Tiny beads of crimson ooze from the mouse’s body, puddling...

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“Resisting Revenge & BDSM Porn” by Lashon Swilley

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Sarah caught Jamal cheating, after he passes out in a drunken stupor while masturbating to BDSM (bondage, domination, sadomasochism for the uninitiated-basically sex with pain) porn and it took everything in her not to stab him to death as he lay with the cum drenched playboy magazine in between his legs. Resisting darker impulses requires scruples which she has but not Jamal because he tried everything in his power not to look at porn. He went 2 and a half days without it, but he failed on Saturday night at 3 am in the morning. The worst pa...

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“Wolf's Hunger” by Vanessa Vestena

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I eyed the giant steak, poking from the add on the billboard at the side of the road. A low, painstaking grumble reached the ears of my best friend standing in the passenger seat.“Wow! That is really something.” Eric muses, a smirk tugging at the corners of his lips.“Shut up!” I groan, turning the car in the school parking lot. “I am genuinely starving.”“Haven’t you already had breakfast?”“I did. But its like I haven’t. I will stop to grab a bite at the cafeteria before the beginning of classes.”“Damn, man! How do you do? It must be nice eat...

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Center your story around someone trying to resist their darker impulses — and they’ll either succeed or fail.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 63 stories

“Friction” by Julie Norman

“Resisting Revenge & BDSM Porn” by Lashon Swilley

“Wolf's Hunger” by Vanessa Vestena

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Write a story with the aim of scaring your reader.

Start or end your story with someone running away from something, literally or metaphorically.

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Write a story in which the narrator or a character says "Did you hear that?"

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