Start or finish your story with a speaker unable to finish their sentence, perhaps overcome by emotion.

Posted in Angst on Feb 16, 2024

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“Silences by the Red Oak” by Matthias Poynder-Meares

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Dusk settled over the valley, after a long and sticky afternoon. It was the firefly season and that time when the humidity of the afternoon can feel unbearable. Dinner was being prepared, after a bounty of heirloom tomatoes had been harvested in the nearby vegetable sanctuary. Watermelons had been served for tea break in-between the hottest working hours of the afternoon, and the lake had been a welcome respite for sweaty, muddy bodies when the working day had ended. Josh made his way from the lake to the terracotta house on the ed...

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“Aposiopesis” by Brita Sherren

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––!!--- There were no words. Of all the — He’s got balls, I’ll give him that. To even suggest that I finish the case after everything that’s happened is the most ridiculous, unbelievable, incredible…offensive. That’s the word. Offensive. So really, I shouldn’t be surprised at all. That tracks perfectly with Nihls Porter. Nihls and I have run in the same circles since grade school. Not by choice. Small town in the north, you know? Even back then he was a prick. You’d think I would’ve been clear of him when I went off to school. I ...

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“love is a four letter word and I'm already cursed” by Fletcher Fox

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“I -” I didn’t know how to respond. “I’m sorry; please… don’t - ” I didn’t know how that sentence would end as I said it, my mouth dry and still tasting wrong from the unwelcome intrusion. don’t do that again - don’t get any closer - don’t love me all those were possible endings to that sentence. Language formulation was why I didn’t finish my sentences, my mom told me. Certain natural disasters knock formations to the ground, and what they had just done was one of those.“I thought you liked me?” They questioned, and I couldn’t suppress the ...

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Start or finish your story with a speaker unable to finish their sentence, perhaps overcome by emotion.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 93 stories

“Silences by the Red Oak” by Matthias Poynder-Meares

“Aposiopesis” by Brita Sherren

“love is a four letter word and I'm already cursed” by Fletcher Fox

🌟 Similar prompts

Write a story in which a conversation takes place where the true subject is only implied.

Write a story including the line “I can’t say it.”

Write a story in which an important message is cut off, leaving characters to wonder or puzzle out what was left unsaid.

Set your story at a silent retreat.

Contest #238

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