Write a story about a person longing for family.

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“Father of None” by Emma-Li Ames

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Does happiness lie in a silver DAYUN? Or does it lie in the sun as it sets over the horizon and you watch it from your motorcycle stalled on the side of the highway? Does happiness lie in the wind as it rustles through your hair as you ride 60 mph on an empty desert road? Does it lie in the canyon as you look down into from countless miles above? I ask this question for the thousandth time as I drive along the deserted highway in Moscow, Idaho. I know I should stop for the night soon, but I am so close to where I started this ten-year journe...

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“Red Skirt Prostitute” by Tandin Wangchuk

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Nangsa never thought her life would end that way. Even she held the heart like ours. She wished a normal life like everyone else. She wasn’t into prostitution just like that. It wasn’t her passion. But unfavourable situation forced her into this business. She didn’t have any options. It was her choice. She couldn’t see the pain overcoming her family. Her father died few years ago. Mom was seriously ill. She was the eldest and responsibilities were on her shoulder to look after the siblings. She wanted her younger brother and sister to prospe...

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“Longing for the Day He Met Her” by Ash Hanneson

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It was already dark out as Warren watched the sun sink slowly, oh so slowly, behind the great old pines barely visible through the mist floating above the water. It was that time, when it was no longer day but could hardly be called night for though the sun was almost gone, it lit up the whole sky in ribbons of color. It was that time, when all other sounds were silent or at least drowned in the tangle of thoughts inside his mind. It was that time, when he watched an ant float slowly, oh so slowly, on a leaf out in the water. He watched it f...

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“Mutterseelinallein” by Kristin Leydig Bryant

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After her sister’s funeral, she sat on her sofa and binge-watched six episodes of the next item in her Netflix list before she realized she didn’t remember any of it. Something about doctors, doctors from the past, living in some strange version of London. Maybe there had been an island?“Well, that’s it. I’m well and truly alone.” Their parents had died some years before. She and her sister had never been particularly close, although they kept up the habit of spending major holidays together. They knew their mother...

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“Thirty-three Years Until I Met You” by Kayli Dunlap

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Thirty-three years is a long time. Thirty-three years is too long to not have someone who will love me and care for me, when I need it. Thirty-three years have gone by and it’s been lonely, catastrophic and having a feeling of being abandoned. This is when I realized that I needed to get up and go out and actually find myself in this gigantic world. I am always isolating myself from anything and everyone around me and it’s putting me in a tragic stage in my life that needs to change before it’s too late, and this is how I will always live an...

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“The Orphans Dream” by Sarah Hawkins

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Harley sat up straight on her bed as the perspective parents came walking through the room. Her best friend Thomas was sitting across the way slumped over on his bed. Thomas never wanted to be adopted, which was something Harley would never understand. She gave him a glare and moved her head in an upward motion, gesturing for him to sit up. With a deep sigh, he shifted straightening his back for the most part but leaving himself with a slight slump in the shoulders.As the couple came walking past Harley she put the cutest smile she could man...

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“A Place that was Home” by Catherine Arrow

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It couldn’t be more peaceful. Spring. Kingfishers darting about. That fresh scent of promise dancing on the air. She was so lucky. So privileged. Everyone said so. That view, that family. She really had it all. Miriam sat, tea in hand, settled in her favourite outside chair looking out to the pink sunset sea and wept, silently, at the emptiness of it all. It wasn’t the deserted house, or the empty paddocks or the silent roads that filled her with grief. It was the noise inside her head. The echoes of laughter, the remembered rustles and...

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“The Sad Life of Caleb” by Yash Patel

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Caleb hopelessly stared out of the galleon. He remembered the days he had when he went out fishing with his dad. He remembered all the new things he had learnt about fishing such as when to pull the rod. That was all over now, Caleb was being called for his turn to swab the deck. The pirate masters were very cruel; they would start whipping slaves for no reason, as if they were amused by doing such an evil deed. The poor slaves only got food and water every third day; they were treated like hell but instead they were alive for this. Slaves w...

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“Eden” by Alannah Norton

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My Pa always told me that cars were always more loyal to him than his own wife. It didn’t help them both that she went off with his ‘loyal’ car and never came back. She wanted to hurt my Pa with the only way that she knew how, through his car. It also didn’t help that the chief found it at the bottom of Lake Carmine. I think my pa was more concerned about the useless junk and tried every day to fix the damn wreck. He wasn’t interested in fixing the wreck of a daughter that they left behind. He died the way he li...

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“Old Man Joe” by Kathryn Morgan

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He watched from a park bench. Old men were allowed to sit on park benches, but only if they had a dog with them or grandchildren to call their name (lest he is marked a sexual predator by mothers everywhere). He had neither. It made him uncomfortable, but he couldn’t help himself. He had never married. His brothers and sister were dead. He was too old to have a mother and father still around. Being the odd-ball uncle to nieces and nephews who’d forgotten him was no longer appealing. He might even be a great-uncle, but he’d never know the nam...

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“BEHIND THE CURTAINS” by Izuchukwu Saviour Otubelu

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Dear Esiri,Growing up had been the hardest part of my life. When I hear people talk about their childhood, I wince because mine is anything but memorable. No mother to tell me bedtime stories or sing me lullabies or tuck a blanket around me while I slept. No father to sternly warn me: “Read your books and pass your exams, so you will become a Wole Soyinka in future” and “No girlfriend till you turn eighteen!” No brothers to have silly arguments or engage in arm-wrestling with. No sisters with whom to play hide-and-seek or ludo. No uncles to ...

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“Why Father?” by Emily Dickson

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Why must I do this? This endless pain of searching and killing those in our way? All because of what my father lost? This is what my life is and this is what my life is going to be like. So much bloodshed and nothing to atone for it because there is nothing. So much pain and sadness that we have caused.I've seen children dead in the streets their young lives taken too soon and all because of greed! My father's greed! This is his fault! Everything is his fault! All the pain and suffering that people have gone through all because of his greed....

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“Ruby and Periwinkle” by Gretl Shelton

Submitted to Contest #7

Today we were assigned a project in class. It’s stupid really. The teacher wants us to write our idea of a perfect world. What’s the point of writing our idea of a perfect world if it will never happen? My life kind of sucks right now, it’s like the teacher knows that I’m moving in with my new foster family today and assigned this on purpose to rub a nonexistent world in my face. Either way, I’m afraid because the last one didn’t work out so well. Fingers crossed. I sat in the office, twiddling my thumbs, tapping my foot. They burs...

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“Autumn's Monologue ” by Lisa Briley

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The leaves were already starting to fall from the trees. It seemed like fall came earlier and earlier every year and with it, winter right on its heels. The hustle and bustle of the cafe, normally a warm and welcoming sound, seemed to close in around her. As Kira did her best to block out the scraping of chairs and the hiss of the espresso machine. She didn’t understand where the year had gone. It felt like the holiday season had just ended and yet here it was creeping through the walls, so thick that she hugged her jacket closer to her in a...

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Write a story about a person longing for family.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 44 stories

“Father of None” by Emma-Li Ames

“Red Skirt Prostitute” by Tandin Wangchuk

“Longing for the Day He Met Her” by Ash Hanneson

“Mutterseelinallein” by Kristin Leydig Bryant

“Thirty-three Years Until I Met You” by Kayli Dunlap

“The Orphans Dream” by Sarah Hawkins

“A Place that was Home” by Catherine Arrow

“The Sad Life of Caleb” by Yash Patel

“Eden” by Alannah Norton

“Old Man Joe” by Kathryn Morgan

“BEHIND THE CURTAINS” by Izuchukwu Saviour Otubelu

“Why Father?” by Emily Dickson

“Ruby and Periwinkle” by Gretl Shelton

“Autumn's Monologue ” by Lisa Briley

🌟 Similar prompts

Write a story with a child narrator.

Write a story that mixes everyday situations with surreal surroundings.

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