Write a story about a character experiencing anxiety.

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“Here we go Again” by KC Gilman

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The loneliness tends to hit at night, when time seems to slow down and the darkness of the world settles around me like an old, familiar blanket. I have family, I have acquaintances, I even have some friends, but not true friends. Not deep friends, I should say. Not friends that I can call up in the middle of the night when my negative thoughts buzz so loudly in my head that I want to scream. Not friends that I can share my deepest shames and secrets with. No, I have friends, but not deep friendships. By all accounts, I had an average c...

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“SAME” by Kemmy Blue

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The darkness flooded the streets as Maybelle ran through the streets. Rain was pouring onto the cobblestone streets as Maybelle ran. She ran through the dark alleys and small shops into the empty streets behind them. She wanted to outrun her mind. She wanted all of the horrible, nauseating thoughts she’d ever had to be left far behind. She ran until the rain pounded so hard that she could hear it all around her. Anyone else would have thought of it as just rain, but not Maybelle. She felt the power o...

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“Test Anxiety ” by Keanna Ponask

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“Breathe.” She whispers to herself as she scurries down the sidewalk in hope that she can beat the time. She lifts her wrist to glance at the time on her watch, and huffs in annoyance seeing that she is now five minutes late. Buildings and people pass in a blur as she takes off running, her shoes slapping the concert as she races down the street. “This is the last time, I am waiting for a ride from anyone.” The girl mutters to herself as she slows down back to walking pace. Her mother was supposed to pick her up fifteen minutes ago, an...

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“21 Club” by Jay Nicole

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“Drew, hey, can you hear me” no words left Drew Taylor’s mouth. This occurred often for him. Anxiety was a staple in his life. “Drew, you go on in six minutes” he couldn’t breathe. What if the audience hated him? What if he had an anxiety attack on stage? “”Drew, it’s Zach, calm down, you’ve got to breathe, they’re going to love you” Zach is Drew’s best friend, and they’ve been friends for awhile. Drew regained his breaths slowly. “You good” Zach asked. “Yeah, I’m sorry about that,” he said. Drew took the mic from his manager, who was clearl...

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“Beige Boxes” by Stephanie Honey

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Twirl twirl twirl. Snap.Twirl twirl twirl. She tucked her hair behind her ear and heaved a deep sigh. Nine more hours and the night would be over. All these cold long stretches of darkness, the same thing on repeat but with different size boxes and...

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“A lesson for Dominance ” by Calvin Friedlander

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Their noises could be heard from across the entire hallway. How could anyone accomplish anything with the racket going on in room 237? I guess it means the rumors were true; room 237 was the worst behaved classroom in the entire sixth grade at Jamestown middle School. Teachers told of kids throwing airplanes made of paper at other kids, spitballs being spat with the largest amount of saliva constrained inside one tiny paper ball. And the language. Oh, the language! What kind of parents would allow such improper English di...

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“I hate socializing” by Nurul Aqilah A.Rahman

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I can feel me being suffocated, choked, squashed, and any other overreacting words I can never think of. Being unable to breathe properly, with my heart beating really fast, it is as if I just come back from an extremely long marathon without getting any rest. My hands are shaking, I am trembling. My shoulders are shuddering as well. Even my legs are shaking and quivering, they feel too feeble to even stand up. I cannot seem to be able to take control of my own self, like my brain tells them to stop functioning ...

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“Night in Hell” by Shelley Lerea

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I look up at the sky. A full moon, great. And Mercury in Retrograde, double great. Can this night get any worse? I am in Hell. As I grab my homemade pie, exit my car and slam the door, I look down at my high heels. I can’t walk in these damn heels! And this skirt is too short! I shouldn’t have listened to Lynn. “This is how you should dress”, she said. I feel like an impostor dressed like this going to this pit of noise and fakeness. I should forget about this evening and go home. But no, I need to...

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“The Tower, a true story. ” by Nick Dalrymple

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It starts somewhere deep. I can feel it grow, a soft oooh, oOoH, followed by a full scream by a stranger inside me. My wife startles and is terribly frightened. She shakes me and I laugh. I am no longer afraid of it, once I am awake. There are circular mounds in the rice paddies of Vietnam. This one was just big enough for an antenna field circled by bunkers, circled by wire, circled by claymores, circled by a clear field of crossfire from the mounted M60’s.In the center of all this was a tower. Not a living soul ever bothered us.Most nights...

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“The Inside Of My Head” by Ash Pandea

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I’d always paid much attention to where I was. The tiniest, most discrete sound always got my attention,even when I was asleep. This habit seems to have become more than just that; it had come to be deeply rooted in a corner of my brain, sometimes screaming at me to be alert at times of exhaustion.My life has started out as being monotonous, on the verge of unbearable boredom. At the age of 9, I had already learnt six different languages. When I was 12, I had submitted a thesis to my father, a professor, on existentialism and transcendentali...

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“Masquerade Murder” by Alan Herren

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I sprinted into the hall, throwing open the first door I laid eyes on. The door closed with a gentle creak as I set my back against it, sinking into the floor. The room was pitch black, silent, and the only sanctuary I could grasp. You have to run. You aren’t safe here. It felt as if my head were laying on the train tracks, my pessimism being a train barreling towards me. Every logical word became cloudy, drowned out by run. Run. RUN. I pushed myself to my feet, fumbling about the darkness on feeble knees. My vision began to return as my eye...

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“A Little Game Called 'What if?' created by Anxiety” by Max Seol

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“I hate you.”Again. I know it’s a joke. I know it’s just between friends. I know that he doesn’t hate me. Right? I think it’s a joke. I think it’s just between friends. I think that he doesn’t hate me. But I also think that maybe it’s not. Maybe he only says it because it’s true. Maybe he actually does hate me. So which is it? I want to ask him. Do you really hate me? I want to ask him. Should I leave you alone? I want to ask him. But I can’t. Because I should know the answer already. And he might really hate me if he realizes I don’t. ...

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“Feasts and Flowers” by Kate Seger

Submitted to Contest #20

The room was too warm and far too loud. Arianette felt as if the press of bodies were closing in on her, threatening to crush and trample her. She was a creature of the forest. She hadn't been raised in halls like this and the cramped pressure of all these people with their prying eyes and booming voices filled her with anxiety. Her heart felt as if it were fluttering too fast in her chest and she felt like it was a struggle just to breathe. Heat rose in her cheeks as stars began to sparkle in her field of vision. She glanced around desperat...

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“Little Black Storm Cloud” by Mattilyn O'Farrelly

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Anxiety. It was something Virgil felt every day. The constant worry, the little voice in the back of his mind that never seemed to go away. Anxiety was like a little black storm cloud that seemed to follow Virgil’s every step. “Did I lock my car door?” something that should be a simple yes or no “Yes I remember doing it” turned into a ten-minute thing. Check, the voice would say, it would nag and nag until Virgil did as it said and then he would check another 3 times just to be sure. The constant fear weighed on him like a fallen tree and de...

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“A moment's peace” by Venessa Nicole

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Clay rests his head on his desk, wide eyed and fixated on the wood panel wall before him. He seesaws between internal perception and appreciating stretched tree ring designs. He possesses an interoceptive awareness that is only sharpening by the day. Within him, there is a buzz of blood rushing and nerves receiving messages, the inner workings and systems that your body is supposed to carry on quietly, a full body buzz. Teetering back to focus externally, the buzzing has transferred, lingering on the skin, a full body stinging. A franti...

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Write a story about a character experiencing anxiety.

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✍️ 83 stories

“Here we go Again” by KC Gilman

“SAME” by Kemmy Blue

“Test Anxiety ” by Keanna Ponask

“21 Club” by Jay Nicole

“Beige Boxes” by Stephanie Honey

“A lesson for Dominance ” by Calvin Friedlander

“I hate socializing” by Nurul Aqilah A.Rahman

“Night in Hell” by Shelley Lerea

“The Tower, a true story. ” by Nick Dalrymple

“The Inside Of My Head” by Ash Pandea

“Masquerade Murder” by Alan Herren

“A Little Game Called 'What if?' created by Anxiety” by Max Seol

“Feasts and Flowers” by Kate Seger

“Little Black Storm Cloud” by Mattilyn O'Farrelly

“A moment's peace” by Venessa Nicole

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Write a story about a character who starts out as a pessimist and ends as an optimist. (Or vice versa.)

Write a story about a character who would be described above all else as "logical."

Write a story about a day in the life of a mother.

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