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Write a story about a character who always repeats themselves.

Posted in Character on Oct 25, 2022

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Gin and Tonic

Submitted to Contest #101

He mentioned on the phone that he will tattoo my name on his right thigh and that we should get back together. We never spoke about breaking up, but I guess it was in the air. Last time I saw him I didn’t have a clear look of his face. It was all vague. He pinned me to the ground, and my elbows itched with the hard carpet. I tilted my head left and right along with my body to resist him, but it only increased his strength, as he glued my left cheek to the ground. I could smell the remains of the dripped liqueur on the carpet. His breath reek...

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Today The Phone Won't Ring

Shortlisted for Contest #101 ⭐️

Today the phone won’t ring. She checked as soon as she woke up. Dead breath in her mouth. The guy next to her--an aberration. He should have gone home. She made it explicitly clear to him that under no circumstances could he stay the night. He said he just wanted to rest his eyes while he waited for his Lyft. Now here he is. He’s upset the balance. She should beat him to death with the coffeepot, but that would only derail the morning further. Once he’s up and out (“I’ll call you when I’m back from Fiji. Big things going on there. Really...

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Band-Aids Are For Babies

Submitted to Contest #101

Lyla Magda and I lay sprawled out on Lyla's turquoise sectional in her spacious entertainment room. There were various modes of entertainment to choose from. A 50-inch flatscreen was mounted on the wall; programmed with any channel or movie you wanted to watch. There was fuse ball, a pool table, a VR station, a scrabble table (my personal favorite), and a recording studio where you could make a video to the song you were singing off karaoke.Lyla was checking her food delivery apps to see who was delivering with a discount. Lyla could eat and...

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Funny Little Birds

Shortlisted for Contest #101 ⭐️

As Marjory sat in her armchair, a steaming cup and saucer of tea next to her, she ruminated on how it had been a long time since someone had come to see her. It was a nice feeling, having a visitor. The window in which her armchair was situated had a wonderfully clear view of the sloped lawn outside her home and Marjory got a lot of pleasure from watching the wind sway the trees to and fro and the birds flitting about. She especially liked it when they landed on the feeders, pausing and pecking with sharp staccato movements and an alert wari...

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The Girl In Shadows

Submitted to Contest #101

'There is no choice of running away today, I have to do it. I am so close to it. I can't run away forever in fear.' The girl thought.Her heart was pounding in her head and her eyes carried the drowsiness of three sleepless nights. She walked across the dishevelled trees, making her way with a jab of the knife, though the real jab was in her heart-a deeper cut. Her tangled blond hair touched the tip of her waist, weaved with bits of withered leaves and dust. A rabbit fur was tied around her waist, dripping blood as she moved. It was a rough h...

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Catechist And their Duties

Submitted to Contest #101

We always go there on Wednesday and another group on Saturday’s. We usually share ourselves into three groups and tackle the four rooms and parlors our parish catechist occupies. Whether if it was by his insight that he selected the alter boys and girls guards the least parish assigned duties group to be cleaning his houses twice in a week, we don’t know.  We have done it for nearly two and half year without seeing anything wrong with it until Rumours began spreading like wildfire that the priest don't have any knowledge of that duty....

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I Know, Mom

Submitted to Contest #101

Mom repeats herself a lot nowadays. She repeats herself too much now, in my opinion. It’s sad, really, how she repeats herself now. She didn’t used to do it so much. Or is that use to? Well, anyway, Mom has gotten into a bad habit. Or maybe there's another reason. Maybe she can't help herself. How do I do this? Mom asks. She asks for instructions all the time, it seems. Often she asks for them at very inconvenient or inappropriate moments. It's frustrating, obviously. Some of the requests are for things she already knows how to do,&n...

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change?

Submitted to Contest #101

This prompt was really hard so I don't have that many words. What you are reading right now is something to work towards my 1000 word count. Anyway, please like this story if you like it and please read my other stories. It will also help if you followed me so I can also read your stories! THANKS! Wilson Rolan was a boring boy. Tedious. Dull. Repetitive. So passionless that everyone around him was sucked into the vortex of his lifeless nature and became like him. Everyone except his mother. Mrs Rolan was the complete opposite of her son, a...

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Meep- The Meepening.

Submitted to Contest #101

"Meep" I look at the frazzled red haired puppet to my side. "What?" "Meep." He persists. "But I have to tell him." I shrug off his suggestion. "I know he's going to get mad but he deserves to know." "Meep meep?" "Cause," I pause not really knowing how to answer that question. "Meep." He rolls his eyes. "Excuse me?" I look at him offended. "I am not looking for drama." "Meep." He states blatantly. "Well. FINE then." I fold my arms, looking away. I feel the soft plush of his hand caressing my shoulder, and an apologetic Meep...

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Saying it more than once

Submitted to Contest #101

The sun had just announced the start of the day when a dark cloud popped up out of the blue bringing with it a downpour of cooling rain drops. Ivy Downing sighed from the doorway of her house. It was a Monday … what else should she expect? Everything that could go proverbially wrong had as soon as her alarm buzzed two hours ago. Her hot water decided not to work in the middle of her shower. She was wide awake now for sure after the freezing cold temperatures splattered over her body. Her bagel got stuck in the toaster causing it to be char...

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Caged Bird

Submitted to Contest #101

“Mama, it hurts.” “It’s okay, just hold on to me tight, and we’ll both be fine.” “But Mama, I can’t see.” “It’ll be fine, my darling, just let me hug you tightly, and no matter what happens, we’ll go through it together.” *** Mama didn’t know that her face would be the last thing I saw. She didn’t know that her loving eyes would be the last thing that would reassure me. She didn’t know so many things. But then, every day, I forgive her, even though it’s too late. Even though it’s not okay.  But I wish I had forgiven her sooner. ...

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Play It Again

Submitted to Contest #101

They were twins. They weren’t identical twins, physically lookin, but in all other ways one could be exchanged for the other and no one that can’t see could tell them apart. One of the things, and there were many, that could drive you to distraction, was their ability to echo one another’s thoughts. Robert having been born first I believe inherited the predominant quality that goes with those that are first, and Roger always the echo, the shadow, a faint breath behind his brother where speech was concerned, a close second.  So...

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Repeat After Me

Submitted to Contest #101

She was magnificent to look at, surreal. Her coloring: so vibrant. Shades of life seeped from her like water from a sea. As water is simply a subset of the larger body, so color seemed to originate from her. She even seemed to glow, like a halo around an angel, the earth around the sun. She was lovely, beyond imagination. Until you heard her voice."Why do you keep her?" I used to ask my grandmother. "She says the most horrible things.""She does," my grandma would agree, "but she is simply repeating what she was once taught... let's teach her...

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Time Travel Experiment

Submitted to Contest #101

Even though it was long past midnight, Blake was still in the lab. He was anxiously checking their program for the next day’s experiment. It was once a lifetime experiment. If it was successful, it would change the world as we know it today. It could rewrite history. Blake imagined a world that had never experienced a war, a world without world wars one and two, a world that had never seen black death, Spanish flu, or other pandemics. Blake Appleton was an experimental physicist, and the next day’s experiment was his lifelong dream. Tomorrow...

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A Man, His Memories and the Long Road Ahead

Submitted to Contest #101

He walks the road alone. His cane clicks against the cobblestone, relieving his weary feet of the burden of his weight. Against the brightly burning mid-afternoon sun, his skin glistens, his chapped lips and crimson cheeks peeling off from the heat. They have been doing that for a long time now, the layers shedding off as if he is some sort of lizard, and he wonders if it will reach a point where he will no longer have any skin left. Because he has a long time until he can stop again under the cool shade of a tree, basking in the sweet relie...

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