Write a story about someone losing faith in an institution.

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“The Forgotten Tale” by Purely Red

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Author’s Note: This is a story, inspired by the Pied Piper of Hamlin.A stone clatters as one of the children shifts, unsettled as the enchanting music ends, tiny hands reaching—for a semblance of security, garbled noises falling from its throat as it hacked water from its lungs, limbs flailing for balance like a newborn just out of its mother’s tummy.Here. Hands, scarred and burned, reached the pair of tiny hands, fingers curling over the smoothened back of the wooden pipe upon the man’s lap.The child starts, unsettled.“Would you..give a poo...

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“Asylum” by Taylah G

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TW: Suicidal tendencies, violence, medications, affairs For years they kept me alive. Not happy, but stable. I made few friends and kept to myself. I hadn’t spoken since the incident. I refused to speak or show what had happened, for nobody would believe me. I had nothing to say, so I stayed quiet. A select few were allowed around me, but I was so drugged I could barely focus on them. I was losing hope. This institution had held me for six years now. It was coming back. My medications were slowly decreased, thanks to my psychiatrist. He th...

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“SELF-AWARENESS CHECK” by Vickie Culbertson

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SELF- AWARENESS CHECK Losing faith in an institution happened for me when the pandemic struck our country. Growing up as an only child, the local church gave me a centered source of stability. Over the years, developing a sense of moral compass, other institutions crumbled long before the institution of religion. The first institution to f...

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“The Final Fragment” by Neri Sompanos

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"...It will be held in three days, so you all may be excused from your jobs and responsibilities until afterward," the royal herald finished from his long speech about Maxith, who was the rightful heir to the throne after his mother and father succumbed to the darkness. Maxith was known for his charity work and kindness to everyone in the kingdom that he ruled over and beyond. Or at least... he had been kind. I didn't know what to believe after a set of horrible tricks were played on me and my family. I didn't know if I trust...

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“Valigetta” by Zackie Cool

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“You can run but you can’t hide, come and show yourself like a man Valigetta!” shouted the bounty hunter. Valigetta jumps from the building and shows up in front of the bounty hunter without any worries. He put down his briefcase and raised both his hands as a sign of surrender. “Hahaha, are you an idiot? Without your briefcase you are nothing?” the bounty hunter said it sarcastically. Valigetta look straight at the bounty hunter with bloodlust. The bounty hunter can feel the killin...

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“Nowhere really changes.” by Annabel Anniebelleapara@gmail.com

Submitted to Contest #102

“Not everything remains the same” I say staring outside the rain-stained glass window, as the rain fell drumming in perfect rhythm, and I talked to no one in particular. “What?” I heard behind me as I stared into the cold blue eyes of the nun. “I was just talking to myself” I say quietly but loud enough so I know she could hear me. “You know what I always say child?” She asked with that mischievous smirk she always wore on her thin lips. “What?” I asked politely as I tried not to look at her dry, stony face while I also avoided any punishme...

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“The Angel with the broken power” by Escaily Hale

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The deafening boom of a grenade. The screams of civilians. The frightened face of the comrade next to him. This had been his first mission and what a disaster it turned out to be. “Lowell! this was an ambush” Someone screamed in the distance “you know where to take Gabe” “Roger that Sir!” came a nearby reply. The last thing Gabe remembered was the monogram of Angel Academy’s junior Cherubim force in the sky before a needle pricked his neck and everything went black. In a world where everyone was born with a degree of powe...

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“THE FRATERNITY” by Elizabeth Adedokun

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Maureen is a witch.It was no news, everyone knew. Adults avoided her while children were terrified of her. Maureen lived just at the end of the street on Milk's corner. The reason for naming the street Milk's corner had been forgotten by all, but nobody would forget that Maureen was a witch. Mothers recited stories to their children. Tales of Maureen's life. How Maureen wasn't aging, how her blue tinged hair glowed in the dark and how she flew at night. Children would listen in awe, with mouths open and heart pounding. They would avoid Maure...

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“Free to choose” by Maria Johnson

Submitted to Contest #102

Author note, Trigger warning, explores emotions following a miscarriage. They say third time lucky, but as the survivor of three miscarriages I could definitely bust that particular saying. Is survivor too dramatic a word? No, I don’t feel it is. I mean, no my life hadn’t been at stake, or had it? Maybe not in a physical way, but emotionally it definitely was, as each loss had taken me closer to the brink, I often worried that each loss was erasing a little piece of me, and what would finally be left? And what of the future ...

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“The Reckoning” by Kyle Barratt

Submitted to Contest #102

France 1918 Staring at the now limp form, lying on the trench floor in front of him, Bert began to shake uncontrollably. Looking down at the rifle in his hands, he recoiled in horror at the shock of what he had become, and as he tossed the weapon to the ground, it now became clear to him as to what he had to do. Australia 1913 Looking down at the young child lying on the roadway, a feeling of anger and disbelief began to surge through the mans body like a tidal wave. All that he had been taught to believe in, was now crushed and broken like...

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“Justice in Vallywall” by Sam Kelly

Submitted to Contest #102

A shadow moved and the chase began. Alec darted from his hiding place behind a battered chimney and dived forth into the night, landing like a cat and immediately springing up after his prey. His quarry – this time a rather plump halfling by the name ‘perrin’ – glanced over his shoulders, eyes wide with fear. Alec was used to this, and held no reservation in using all force necessary to uphold the councils justice. An enchanted obsidian dagger flew from his cloak, burying itself deep in the back of the halflings left Leg, its devilish enchan...

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“Guardians Across the Sea” by Opal Knight

Submitted to Contest #102

***Warning, people do die. *** We were told to stay calm. To ignore the waves as the beasts rose from the depths and pummelled into each other. As they hammered against the waters for days. Fluctuations of their fight caused the waves to upsurge and crush our homes. Finally, one fell, the blue waves embracing it and tugging it down further than we had ever gone, down from whence it came. We thought that was the end. We were told it was over. Told we could rebuild the houses battered by the waves and so we did. We tore down trees to fix w...

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“Theaterland” by E Moss

Submitted to Contest #102

CW: self-harm, strong language “If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit.”–attributed to W.C. Fields Belief, however nebulous, is a truth only cogent enough to serve those who would make the absence of that what is unthinkable to all but themselves. ** Let the viewer understand that this fictitious staging, this gamiture, is only one’s plight who is to be sentenced in that denatured assiduousness for relinquishing themselves to be insubordinate celebrants who think themselves burlesque tragedians, but grew t...

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“When they came. ” by Sarah Swan

Submitted to Contest #102

They told us that they would protect us all. That we would be safe from the upcoming war. They gave us hope and we gave them our trust, our lives, our hearts. But they lied and soon we will all die.We knew the war was coming if you could call it a war. It was broadcasted everywhere around the world on the 14th of April 2022. Every screen, every country, in every language. The New Ones were coming, and they would slay us all. There would be no hope for humanity, no one would survive. We would all perish on the 26th of September 2022.But then ...

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“Routine” by Naajia Aasiya

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The movement was swift, barely making a sound save for the choked noise that escaped her lips. My eyes were hooded as I watched blood spill out of her mouth and drip down her chin. Gently, I pulled my spear from her stomach and wiped the blade against my thigh as my victim’s body fell in defeat, her eyes still wide and frozen in fear. Her body would be ravaged by wild animals soon enough, and then any remnants of her would be decomposed into the earth. I scowled. “Mother’s dead,” I confirmed, hearing my earpiece buzz before C...

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Write a story about someone losing faith in an institution.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 120 stories

“The Forgotten Tale” by Purely Red

“Asylum” by Taylah G

“SELF-AWARENESS CHECK” by Vickie Culbertson

“The Final Fragment” by Neri Sompanos

“Valigetta” by Zackie Cool

“Nowhere really changes.” by Annabel Anniebelleapara@gmail.com

“The Angel with the broken power” by Escaily Hale

“THE FRATERNITY” by Elizabeth Adedokun

“Free to choose” by Maria Johnson

“The Reckoning” by Kyle Barratt

“Justice in Vallywall” by Sam Kelly

“Guardians Across the Sea” by Opal Knight

“Theaterland” by E Moss

“When they came. ” by Sarah Swan

“Routine” by Naajia Aasiya

🌟 Similar prompts

Start your story with a metaphor about human nature.

Frame your story as an adult recalling the events of their childhood.

Write about a character with an unassailable moral compass.

Write about a mysterious figure in one’s neighborhood.

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