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

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“Sybil Of Swords” by Margot Pierpoint

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Six swords, three Acquirers, and two days to complete the mission. Seems low odds for success, but we’re professionals. There is no way we’ll fail. I met Aleck and Katalina when we were entered at five years old to be trained. The Masters ripped us from our families and destroyed anything unique about us. The girls were separated from the boys and we were given drab clothes and matching haircuts. No one slept that night in the uncomfortable canvas cots. The evening was filled with sobs and cries for mothers. I didn’t cry. I knew why I was he...

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“Jilted” by Sharon Williams

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A year ago, when I made my weekly telephone call home, I could hear the excitement in my younger sister, Isabelle’s voice. ‘I’m engaged! I’ve booked the church and everything.’We are about as different as siblings can be. At twenty-three years old, she was still living at home, working as a housekeeper for a hotel in the same coastal town as we grew up in and singing in the church choir as she had done for years. On the other hand, I couldn’t wait to leave home, trained as a nu...

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“Pleas to the Grove” by Chris Buono

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On a late summer night, When stars give no light, Out from the grove, To take a new member, In the full moon of September, You’ll never come back, Once in their cursed pact. That was the saying that every member of Grovetown knew. The tiny town surrounded by farmers’ groves looked upon this time of the year with horrified dread. Shutters were tightly closed as fearful looks were given along with the whispered gossip of who would be taken this year. &n...

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“Beneath” by J.V. Stump

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Below the town, there lies a horror. This Town is keeping a secret. It is a dark, dark secret, one devouring he town from the inside out. Nobody knows what the secret is, of course. The secret wouldn't be a secret if everybody knew about it. They don’t know what they're doing, because they aren't choosing to do it. Nobody thinks they could be getting controlled. The thought is absurd. No larger force is controlling us all. Right? Inside this town, there lies a mayor. This mayor is a short, squat man who is balding on top but not yet on...

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“The colour of money” by Stacey Potter

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Sparks I’d always enjoyed blowing stuff up. It wasn’t the vocation my parents would have chosen, but hey, it pays the bills, and the way I work pays better than most. Nines’s latest proposal should see us cashing in a few hundred k’s each. Her excruciating eye for detail means she’s usually spot on with her estimates too. It’s also the reason she gets a bigger cut than me and Mickey. He’s just the muscle see, three hundred pounds of testosterone. Not the brightest bulb but he can intimidate pretty much anyone, into doing pretty much anything...

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“THREE WARRIORS” by Steven Tezura

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BENThey got out as early as possible, before the first light and by the first light they had covered almost two kilometers deep into the forest and hunting. Ben had a good shot with an arrow, at twenty three a good farmer and father of two, a bow and arrow weren't tools he should have been using always but he loved them and had loved and dreamt of the opportunity he was enrolled into the Sungu-sungu but missed it. Ben always practiced archery in his farm with a sense urgency in it and was good at it.Deep in the dry forest in the dry season a...

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“A TRIAD TALK” by Owoeye Joshua

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He moved briskly on the path to his home,thrilled with the refreshing air and his performance in school with the test he took, he sang joyfully. On getting to his home's doorstep after opening and closing the compound's gate with his spare key, he happily pushed the door open and greeted mum as he entered, although having not set his eyes on her. He moved further into his house as he closed the door behind him and there was mum coming through the back door and heading for the kitchen( always in the kitchen) with some vegetables in her h...

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“Swat Team” by Dede K.

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The awful beasts were out to get me. I’ve never felt so excited to live in such plush accommodations and so scared of my surroundings at the same time. A plastic cave often surrounded me. I think someone was trying to save me. Her hand was much softer, and her voice was sweeter than her tall, masculine prisoner. “Honey, open the door.” I worked so hard to get the fly out. We had too many in our house. It appeared that they built a nest. I absolutely hate bugs. “Jeremy, open the door, I caught a fly!” Scooting my feet across the floor...

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“Tres Mujeres” by Maria Avisal

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Dr. Chang – 6:18pm, Wednesday evening The click of my office door opening startled me, although not as much as I startled the kind-eyed man who had come to empty my trash and turn my light off. “Hey doc I’m sorry, didn’t think anyone was in here,” he purred while backing out of the doorway. “Oh no, it’s ok, I didn’t mean to scare you,” I answered, smiling. After a moment of basking in the warm glow of automatically being called “doc” after years of being called “the nurse” or, worse, “the Asian girl”, or worse still by one m...

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“Mary Lou” by Daniel Norton

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Mary Lou Weston is an easy going, perky, lively, well liked, smart, athletic and funny middle schooler. She is of average size for her age, dirty blonde hair she likes to wear in a ponytail. She reads and is never seen without a book close by. Lovs telling jokes, hates wearing a dress for any reason, adores both her parents but has mixed feelings for her older brother. This could be because she is a better athelete than him and he always seems threatened. She swims like a dolphin, plays volleyball and soccar. But she really lov...

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“Sun & Moon, Sun, Moon” by Wilke Kewitsch

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~ We ~ You were my sun, and I was your moon. Together We hung the sky full of stars that led the way to salvation. While gazing into each other’s eyes, secrets poured of our lips one by one. I knew all your darkest desires and your brightest heights, and I kept them locked away in my heart, safe from harm. With closed eyes, I could draw You, every freckle and every wrinkle that grew over time, the shape of your lips forming a smile, forming a frown. We used to be everything. Now, there is barely any light left, and the sparkle from your eyes...

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“Unfulfilled ambitions” by NK Hatendi

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The minute I heard about their plans to live with their daughters abroad, I knew I would soon be unemployed. I dreaded returning home and finding means to support my family in the rural areas, my sibling with school fees and my welfare. Since I was fifteen, I had been a housemaid for my father's younger brother and his wife, Baba and Mai, virtually a surrogate daughter. Martha had migrated to South Africa, with the elder one Ivy, now in the UK. None of them would ever come back, although they came separately on their annual visits before Cov...

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“Mmmmm” by The ABC Author

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You really shouldn’t have; I can’t believe this! You have to at least let me share some of the bill, Eric,” John said as he tried to contain his excitement. After all, it wasn’t every day that he got to eat at the finest restaurant in the city, maybe even the world. “How did you even get a reservation? This place is booked until next month!”“Nonsense John. I swear, if you even think about reaching for the check I’m going to have Sarah divorce you. It’s not every day my son in law becomes the VP of his firm. You’ve earned this, son.”“Come on ...

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“Hercules ” by Shantanu Singh

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Darkness surrounds me like a balmy overcoat in the snow. The drapes on the window of my room are never drawn and only the most persistent sunrays enter during the day. As at night, light from the bulbs and tubes of my neighbours and beyond coalesce terrifyingly and slither in from under the doorway. I haven’t always been perverse to light. I used to play football at the Methodist High School in the city of my birth. Our coach was a nun of the name Ms Hargreaves. Her skin was devoid of any lustre, gnarled, it looked as if it would relinquish ...

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“One Man's Trash” by Lisa Lacey

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Snaggletooth clambered up the side of the stone well. It’s lip stood a full foot above his head. The rocks were slippery with moss and the occasional gooey red mushroom. He stood barefoot on the edge and brushed the pine needles and dirt off his shirt and trousers. They might appear well worn and mismatched, stitched together from discarded clothing, but he kept them clean. The brownie grinned, his lips the color of tree bark. They stretched tight over a mouth full of bright white shards set in uneven rows and at odd angles. A mop of curly...

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

Submissions are closed

✍️ 191 stories

“Sybil Of Swords” by Margot Pierpoint

“Jilted” by Sharon Williams

“Pleas to the Grove” by Chris Buono

“Beneath” by J.V. Stump

“The colour of money” by Stacey Potter

“THREE WARRIORS” by Steven Tezura

“A TRIAD TALK” by Owoeye Joshua

“Swat Team” by Dede K.

“Tres Mujeres” by Maria Avisal

“Mary Lou” by Daniel Norton

“Sun & Moon, Sun, Moon” by Wilke Kewitsch

“Unfulfilled ambitions” by NK Hatendi

“Mmmmm” by The ABC Author

“Hercules ” by Shantanu Singh

“One Man's Trash” by Lisa Lacey

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

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Write a story that switches between first person and third person point of view.

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

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