Write a story about someone who's haunted by their past.

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“WHEN THE TONGUE SLIPS” by Melina Kang'oma

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Setting standards is one thing we all are good at. Thinking we are less likely to fall into a trap if we correctly identify what we need. Not that it is a bad thing No! When you do not set a bar for what you want you will not know if what you have is truly what you need. Vanessa is one great girl with the best reputation and character, I would not say she is so beautiful that every guy would fall for her at first sight but she surely is unique. Blessed with intelligence and she is well disciplined. Having her as a friend was one thing ever...

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“Walk in West Yorkshire” by Katherine Esposito

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“Walk in West Yorkshire” By Katherine Marie Esposito … There she was, in the very place she had written about in her journal two years prior, before ever having left the country. It was July. They’d been living together since January. The two met by sheer coincidence through a mutual friend the previous year in Chicago, where he’d ...

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“Are Ghosts Real?” by GiGi Liz

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Outrunning the past is a lot harder than Fletcher had ever dared to hope. Every time he closes his eyes, her face is there once again, smiling at him, sharper than reality. # He’d only known her for three minutes, but it was enough. He never knew her first name, only knew her as Miss Noor for those three horrible minutes. She’d smiled at him, and the dimple in her pointed chin had stood out more than ever. # Fletcher wipes spill from the counter, brow knitted in concentration. The rag squeaks as it passes over nonexistent dirt. Back an...

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“Ika” by Alex Bishop

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Chef Kai demands we do whatever it takes to keep the customer satisfied. Our clientele have many exorbitant expectations, but one is easily the least bearable. The upper crust of the Pacific Northwest expect to accompany their sushi with a blaring rendition of Seattle’s most obnoxious children’s channel. Every half hour, a cartoon alien sings her favorite song. “Our troubles will all sink away, and our friends will all be here to stay! Today is out-of-this-world day!” If only, I think. If only. A painful memory bubbles up with each pulsati...

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“The Rain” by Lydia Sayers

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It hadn’t rained like this in a while. Mary would know. Water thundered against the roof above Mary’s head like the deafening noise of hooves on hard-packed dirt paths. Her grainy apartment window created a small source of light, struggling to survive in her darkened apartment. After her dusty lamp fizzled out, Mary made no move to light a candle. She thought it unnecessary, preferring the faint yellow glow of the street lamps and the red and white lights travelling down the roads below. The murky sight of the city through the haze of pour...

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“Hide and Seek” by Alysha Irvine

Submitted to Contest #51

“Ready or not… here I come!” Amanda uncovered her eyes and playfully whipped around to face the living room, absent of the child who had finally picked up that it wasn’t best to hide in the same place that the seeker was in. Regardless, Amanda checked just in case, knowing Jack loved to try tricking her. “Hmm… not behind the couch,” Amanda noted aloud, listening for soft giggles that were sure to come. Sure enough! There they were, echoing from down the hall. Amanda sighed and shook her head fondly. Jack was only seven, but it was too ea...

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“Julia Engelhardt” by John K Danenbarger

Submitted to Contest #51

At midterm, when Hugh Clarkson had slipped in as the new Hainstown High art teacher, Jeffry Grant, then in his winter torpor, hadn’t paid much attention. However, when someone whispered to Jeffry that the teachers’ lounge gossip centered around this guy, a little peaking of curiosity woke him. Then in May, after a blustery weekend of contention, Alyson, Jeffry’s love, ultimately convinced Jeffry that for her twenty-eighth birthday, their colleague, Hugh Clarkson could teach the two of them, us lowly cretins, how to paint. So, begrudgingly,...

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“Not So Great Evening ” by Kate Min

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On her bed, all of a sudden, she began to feel like she needed to escape. So she did. It was a cloudy evening and the pavement grew tiny dark flowers by the occasional sprinkle of rain. A petal here, a petal there, and soon, the pavement was but a meadow. The wind was picking up as if it was getting angry that it couldn’t enter the concrete. She felt it on her skin like cold tickling. She looked about. H...

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“Powdered Donuts” by Isidora Labus

Submitted to Contest #51

The alarm buzzes, telling her it’s time to start another day, surviving, after another sleepless night. Vanya gets up unmotivated, slowly getting ready for the day. While brushing her teeth in her monotone luxurious bathroom, staring at herself in the mirror. Her pail skin and dark circles are even worse today, making her big blue eyes pop like a zombie’s. Putting makeup on, she covers a good amount of her dark circles and evens the tone of her skin and neck, some mascara and a bit of lipstick to make her seem like she’s trying to look norma...

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“INCIDENT THAT CHANGED HIS PERSPECTIVE OF LIFE” by Vinita Mangyani

Submitted to Contest #51

This is a story of one of my friend who was doing training of commercial pilot .He faced one of the plane crash incident but luckily he was one of the survivor who is still alive to tell entire incident and now value his life even more. During training of commercial pilot ,pilots have to do cross country flights that means flying from 100 nautical miles out of their base . So the story begins when on 17 th april around 7:30 pm they started their flying from Ahmedabad ,India to go to to their base dhule. It was a six seater multiengine piper ...

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“Time to Reflect” by Alex Jones

Submitted to Contest #51

It always seemed to rain on his days off. Nonetheless, Brian Schmidt walked through the city streets, down to the Greek quarter. He rarely came into the city these days, having fled to the outer suburbs in this most recent decade of his life. With few friends and a job he could work from home, there was little reason to travel into the ever-noisy, ever-busy city, particularly on his day off. Except for today. Today, he was going somewhere special. He made his way through slippery cobblestone lane-ways, trying to avoid the puddles of grey...

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“Our Father” by Dior Evans

Submitted to Contest #51

What wakes him isn't the sound of the crickets outside, or even the sweltering heat of the summer night. What inevitably wakes him, given the amount of sparkling water he had nervously guzzled down after the events of the day prior, is his bladder. (They know–) Reluctant to get out of bed and with the taste of sleep still in his mouth, he first plants his bare feet on the wooden floor beside the bed. Barely opening his eyes, he makes his way to the bathroom. His feet are sweaty and stick to the floorboards. More disturbingly, whatever ...

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Write a story about someone who's haunted by their past.

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✍️ 252 stories

“WHEN THE TONGUE SLIPS” by Melina Kang'oma

“Walk in West Yorkshire” by Katherine Esposito

“Are Ghosts Real?” by GiGi Liz

“Ika” by Alex Bishop

“The Rain” by Lydia Sayers

“Hide and Seek” by Alysha Irvine

“Julia Engelhardt” by John K Danenbarger

“Not So Great Evening ” by Kate Min

“Powdered Donuts” by Isidora Labus

“INCIDENT THAT CHANGED HIS PERSPECTIVE OF LIFE” by Vinita Mangyani

“Time to Reflect” by Alex Jones

“Our Father” by Dior Evans

🌟 Similar prompts

Write a story that begins and ends with someone looking up at the stars.

Write about someone who has a superpower.

Write a story that involves a mystery — it doesn't need to be crime-related, it should just include something that remains unexplained until the end.

Write about someone who returns as an adult to a place they last visited as a child.

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