Write a story about someone who is constantly being put into a box by others.

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“Apathy” by Meagan Smith

Submitted to Contest #208

Trigger warning: This story contains a character dealing with troubled mental health, mention of self-harm, and thoughts/ plans of suicide. If any of these are triggering or you don't want to read about them, I'd advise against reading this. For those who are okay with this, you can continue. Apathy: ap·a·thy noun lack of interest, enthusiasm, or concern. “You don’t have to stay behind every time. You could always just leave. What would he do to you anyways? It’s not like he’s in control of you, you are your own person. Right...

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“My Sister's Closet ” by Lorna Gibson

Submitted to Contest #208

My Sister's Closet Click-whirr. I took secret pictures with the Polaroid camera I had received for making the honor rolI. I didn't take the kind of pictures one typically thinks of when they hear the term secret pictures. I took pictures of myself dressed up in the color pink I had purloined from my sister's closet. I pretended outwardly to hate the color pink though I really liked it. I was the type of kid that went to the complete opposite end of the spectrum when told I had to conform to expected societal norms and live inside of a demo...

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“Welcome to the Party” by Kimberly McAllister

Submitted to Contest #208

Trigger warning: Themes of disturbing sexual content, violence, and mental illness portrayed in the following story.Barbie cocked the trigger of the gun aimed at her husband, Richard, with one long elegant thumb. Her bubblegum pink nails shined in the ambient light of the parlor. She dearly wanted him gone. It was 3 a.m. and he was sitting at the computer in the parlor, looking at pornography. And it wasn't the usual stuff, it was pictures of little boys.Richard was visibly shaking. Good, she thought, he needs to suffer.He raised h...

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“Leave Me Alone ” by Simone Maglassis

Submitted to Contest #208

Leave Me Alone Once there was a woman who was half a ghost, caught between two worlds. Captivatingly beautiful but near translucent. Barely tethered to Earth, her skin pale and parched but her eyes alive and knowing. Her home was a mansion with twinkling chandeliers, floor to ceiling windows and glossy marble floors. It was shiny and new but she never left the square box of her bedroom, which also happened to be an exhibit. The tour guides acted like ...

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“The Kennel” by Austin Baker

Submitted to Contest #208

Lion’s first memories were of four constricting walls, and the weak mewling of his six siblings. Their prison seemed at once fragile and yet, to a litter of newborns, impossible to scale. If not for the cardboard, then the pair of giants that stood watch, their large, mishappen heads blotting out the very idea of climbing out from the prisoners’ minds. Ostensibly, these giants were Lion’s parents, and he one of their many fur children. But the world the giants lived in must be a cruel one, where a parent cannot slow to suffer for all their c...

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“A little comeback” by Andrey Trofimov

Submitted to Contest #208

Right. He goes unconscious and then I say, rest your eyes and rest your tongue, for I don’t need them. I came to parley with your soul. Do they want a ghost? Do they want scary? This will haunt them for days… If only Lipman can hurry up with his monologue. At this rate, I’ll have to wait another hour for my cue line. He's really struggling today… Can this darn floor be any colder? Don't they know how dangerous it is for my age? All I have on are these cursed robes. Oh, there she comes with my socks. “Lovely. Thank you, dear. Can you feel how...

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“Freak” by Kaz Ingelman

Submitted to Contest #208

They call me Freak because I wear the same outfit every day. Black sweatpants and a black hoodie with the words Dead Inside printed on the front in huge block letters. They call me Freak because I listen to My Chemical Romance and Paramore and YUNGBLUD. Because my nails are always painted black, and my hair is dyed red at the tips.They call me Freak because someone found out I have a criminal record and decided to broadcast that news to the whole school. Everyone thinks I’m a psycho thug. They even painted black stripes on my locker to show ...

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“Little Guy” by Ralph Emery Barhydt

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Little Guy Ralph Barhydt “C’mon Aaron, give the kid a chance. He’s little but I seen him run and there is no one faster on this team.” “Look Matt, I just don’t like shrimps. The kid is a shrimp. He’ll get hurt, his parents will be a problem and he will always be whining about something. Plus, frankly, I just don’t like little people. They are worse than blacks and blacks are bad enough, although that one boy can sure throw the ball.” “Aaron, man, you are way out of line. This is little league baseball. These kids are in the seventh gr...

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“Silver Spoon” by Evan Charles

Submitted to Contest #208

All my life, I hated the silver spoon in my mouth; it felt more like a collar polished dry, rubbing at scabs on my neck. Its hold made it hard to breathe, worse to speak my mind. Took me a while to recognize the loathing, but therapy brought clarity. Yes, I resented my privileged life since I rarely got to enjoy my life. Just thinking that feels liberating because everyone knows how challenging that golden-ticketed life weighs on the wealthy. I won't begrudge those who look at my pompous prick peers in frustrated envy - most of tho...

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“I have no face, but I must love” by Ken Ng

Submitted to Contest #208

“Wake up, 621. You have work to do.” Katya-621 whirred steel optics and twitched synthetic-flesh fingers. The inside of her combat cradle was a mirror sheen that reflected a pale, naked female body of indeterminate age that was clearly designed to mimic the peak of human athleticism; whipcord thin, sporting toned, evenly molded musculature. Katya might have been considered beautiful, desirable even, save for the hundreds of diagnostic wires and electrical cables that remained plugged into the entire length of her back from cro...

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Write a story about someone who is constantly being put into a box by others.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 40 stories

“Apathy” by Meagan Smith

“My Sister's Closet ” by Lorna Gibson

“Welcome to the Party” by Kimberly McAllister

“Leave Me Alone ” by Simone Maglassis

“The Kennel” by Austin Baker

“A little comeback” by Andrey Trofimov

“Freak” by Kaz Ingelman

“Little Guy” by Ralph Emery Barhydt

“Silver Spoon” by Evan Charles

“I have no face, but I must love” by Ken Ng

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Write a story about someone living vicariously through someone else.

Write a story where the characters start to realize that they are, in fact, just characters.

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Set your story in a rosy-pink world where everything is rainbows and unicorns… until it isn’t.

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