Write a story from the point of view of three different characters.

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“Sleepy Hallow, New York” by Kira Krieger

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All you could hear was the faint sound of someone breathing. I kept trying to have the courage to go through, or at least to stop shaking, but that moment never came. Maybe I should start from the beginning. It was October when we got to New York, it has been a long time since we left California to get away from mom’s obsessed ex-boyfriend. But I have to say, it’s been fun meeting the new people and the new cultures in the thirty-plus states we’ve been in since this whole ordeal started. I have no complaints. But getting back to my story, it...

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“The Pearl Necklace” by Blue Green

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JacobI lift the heavy brass knocker and announce my presence three times, rat tat tat, then step back to wait, my mind alternating between the theme for my sermon tomorrow evening and the glass of sherry which sits undrunk on the little table next to my armchair. A man of God stands in the service of his parishioners and it is his duty and pleasure to serve, I remind myself, so I push back against my feelings of irritation about being called out at such a late hour, and focus instead on what on earth could have caused Sir Charles to call me ...

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“Three in a Row” by Moon Fox

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Today would be the day. I, Leland Caraway, being sound of mind and body, will ask Tiffany Halls to the school dance. She’s in the drama club, but never notices me. Today will change that. Hopefully. Maybe I hate Mondays. Every week I wake up hoping to smell pancakes cooking, to hear my dad laughing with my brothers. But I don’t. I wake up remembering that dad’s away, off in some foreign country. I miss him a lot. So Mondays suck. At least I have drama. She stood me up! That was the thought that struck my mind. My bestest friend in all of...

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“Three Faces Have I” by Kathleen March

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I pretend that I'm carefreeBut what am II pretend that I'm carefreeBut I'm living a lieTwo faces have IOne to laugh and one to cryTwo faces have IOne to laugh and one to cry ~ Lou Christie1.We haven't spoken for over five decades. You hurt me terribly because you did what you did and just walked away. Just walked away.I don't want to tell anybody what you did, so we'll just keep that between us. (Don't worry. I can keep a secret, even if it kills me.) I don't want you to apologize, either, so please don't bother. Please don't. Moo...

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“Siblings” by Melody Frost

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Help. My mom never asked me to help her out. "You don't have to, Michael. The best help you can do as a son for me is to study and make me proud," she said with her deep brown eyes that showed the warmth of an everlasting hearth as if they were the wood that could burn with golden flame yet be forever perfectly entire. Maybe if I had given her a hand and ignored her only request, she wouldn't have passed away like that. She wouldn't have suicided. She wouldn't have left my sisters and me alone. I did try to open her heart so that...

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“En Mission” by The Manticore

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Darin was not the sort to cry.When he’d stubbed his toe as a child, he’d never bawled nor even whimpered. As a teenager, heartbreaks hadn’t drawn a single tear from his eyes. He'd always closed his heart to things he knew would potentially break it in the future. His mother was positive that Darin had been born without tear ducts, and had even taken him to the doctor to examine him.She was wrong.Today, a beautiful sky-blue summer day, his nineteenth birthday, Darin cried.He staggered through the narrow streets, cluttered with old rags and de...

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“The Returned (Highmast series)” by Lizzy Duffield-Fuller

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Calli Calli had never believed in ghosts until now. She stared wordless at the arrogant reprobate silhouetted against the open door of the underground Rat’s Nest lair they lurked within. Micah Dawlish. Of all the men to come crawling back here now, of all times…but then that was Micah all over, wasn’t it? Always where he was least wanted at the most inconvenient times. She’d flown halfway across the fire-lit room before she knew what was happening. Micah slipped into a defensive stance, his weight sliding to his back foot, as she threw her...

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“Unequilateral Triangle” by Jane Andrews

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You gaze at the man lying next to you – the perfect husband; the father of your children – and suddenly you realise that you don’t know him at all. She wasn’t prying when she discovered the email. He’d left his laptop lying open again and she went to shut it, before the kids could touch something and delete an important work file – and that’s when she saw it. It’s so hard not having you here all the time. When you come round, I think this is what life is supposed to be like, and then you hurry away at the end of the evening and I’m all alo...

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“The Accident” by David Dicaire

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The accident was sure to make the news considering all of the after events. There were squealing tires and a very loud crash that made everyone jump. There were three vehicles involved and it tied up traffic on the busiest corner in town. It created a lot of chaos and people ran around like chickens with their heads cut off. The police were dispatched right away and showed up trying to untangle the mess. One of the drivers was Jane Tyne, the manager of the town’s water system. The other driver was Michelle Henderson...

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“Be Kind” by Iam Danger

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On the seventh day, Trudy considered her work and rested. She sat down gently on her flower-patterned antique couch, beautifully enshrined in plastic to preserve its perfection. One sat gently because to plop would be un-ladylike and incorrect, but also because it would make a noise that imitated flatulence. She had spent the prior six days painting the canvas sign, with the large calligraphy of the simple two-word command, “Be kind.” Trudy considered Mel, dead two years and one week. Mel plopped. One never knew if it was an imita...

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“Extinction, No More” by Marcus N

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FACT: We are in a sixth mass extinction, an entirely human-caused one, where 75% of species are projected by scientists to go extinct in the next five centuries. While this story may be fictional, this crisis and the call to action it brings is very real.****************** I have to know. For humanity’s sake.Vincenzo Alba sat at his desk in the largest private climate research facility in Europe, his heart racing, his mouse hovering over a file in his computer.It has all come to this...

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“I Dream of Jeannie” by Natalia Ballestero

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Trigger: Adult language featured in this story.“I get it, you’re excited, but know this,” Tatiana paused as she considered how to relay her thoughts sans scorn, “no woman owes you a fantasy.”Dan hadn’t fucked anyone for at least two years and in his mind separating from his wife was the equivalent of graduating from high school and holding out the summer before starting college. The agony of waiting for his divorce to come through felt endless, but the promise of moving away from home to embark on a sybaritic quest of poon and partying kept...

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“Letters to Heaven” by Lily Rama

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Peter-They say if you write a letter and tie it to the end of a balloon, it'll drift its way to heaven. I never really believed in things like that, and really only thought of it as a bunch of crap.But I was desperate.Lila had been dead for over a month. Everytime I picked up the phone, I knew it wouldn't be her sweet voice that I'd hear.It would never be hers, not ever again.Everytime the doorbell rang, everytime its sound echoed through my house, I knew it wouldn't be her beautiful face that I'd answer to.How can someone you love so much l...

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“A Pure Technicality” by Amy Jayne Conley

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Jessica sat opposite the journalist, two half-full coffee cups on the small table in front of them. Kerry was polite enough, but Jess had a sense of impending doom given the direction the questions seemed to be heading in, and given that it was live TV, she couldn’t afford to put her foot in it at all. She picked up her coffee and sipped it, if anything to give herself chance to formulate an answer. “Let’s talk about you and Alex, then,” Kerry smiled. “What’s going on there?” “Well… we’re together. That’s about it.” Jess sipped her coffee ag...

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“Three matchsticks. ” by Minnie Malfoy

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It had happened all too quickly. One moment the streets were filled with its usual silence and the next it was filled with that horrific sound. The woman had been on her normal afternoon walk. The sky was a summery blue, painted with soft, cotton-looking clouds and the occasional pigeons would swiftly fly by, their wings a whisper in the winds. Wraiths of the sky, a stranger once called them. The streets were empty with not a single being in sight, not even a single car. As if the whole world had been put on pause for her, so that she could ...

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Write a story from the point of view of three different characters.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 191 stories

“Sleepy Hallow, New York” by Kira Krieger

“The Pearl Necklace” by Blue Green

“Three in a Row” by Moon Fox

“Three Faces Have I” by Kathleen March

“Siblings” by Melody Frost

“En Mission” by The Manticore

“The Returned (Highmast series)” by Lizzy Duffield-Fuller

“Unequilateral Triangle” by Jane Andrews

“The Accident” by David Dicaire

“Be Kind” by Iam Danger

“Extinction, No More” by Marcus N

“I Dream of Jeannie” by Natalia Ballestero

“Letters to Heaven” by Lily Rama

“A Pure Technicality” by Amy Jayne Conley

“Three matchsticks. ” by Minnie Malfoy

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Write about a person trying to see something from another’s point of view.

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Write about a character who can suddenly see through another person's eyes — literally.

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