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Write a story that starts with a character-revealing something unusual about themselves.

Posted in Character on Oct 26, 2022

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“The girl with the bumble bee tattoo” by Verda H

Submitted to Contest #44

Here is a secret: I am allergic to bees.   I found this out while murdering the high-ranking banker in his private greenhouse on his multi-billion dollar estate. Forgot to load the gun, had to improvise with the shears: they were painfully dull. (For someone stealing so much money, he should have invested in hiring better gardeners.)   Apparently he liked bee keeping. And committing fraud.   My swollen face prevented me to be commissioned for much kills after, but business never slows down… I guess the only thing you don’t nee...

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“The Rectifier” by Erick Morin

Submitted to Contest #44

It’s been too long for me to remember all the pain and suffering I may have caused. The path I am on nearing its end, a supernova. I try to feel an ounce of guilt or an ounce of empathy, but I get nothing. Duty above all, as my father used to say. Without responsibility, there is no coherence, no purpose. I am who I am, there is no doubt about that. I have come to terms with the decisions I have made, with the actions I have taken, with the death I have wrought. After all, I am just correcting the wrongs of the universe. I reach for the...

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“Reader, I murdered her!” by Deborah Mercer

Submitted to Contest #44

I’ve committed a murder. And I’m not going to plead my innocence, and I’m not going to say that it was self-defence (because it wasn’t) and I’m not going to say I had a lousy childhood (because I didn’t, even though I could wish to this day that Mum had checked the dress code at Melanie Beamont’s ninth birthday party and not sent me in a frilly pink frock when everyone else was in jeans!).   I wasn’t being threatened by my victim, unless you count feeling someone grate on your nerves every minute you’re with them or ...

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“The Suicide King” by Christopher G

Submitted to Contest #44

The middle-aged man sat in the black 1972 Chevy Nova and tore the plastic from the overpriced deck of cards he purchased from the closest operating store located in butt-fuck nowhere. He assumed the cards ran for at least half the price in the city but was glad the store carried playing cards rather than having to worry about the lower price of them in a town farther away. He pulled the cards from the cheap cardboard package and shuffled twice before meticulously selecting one from the deck. Traditionally, most people pick a c...

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“House of Cards” by Sarah Demary

Submitted to Contest #44

I’m a curse…but I do try and forget that while I am at work.  I bob my head to drake’s new song, as it played throughout the speakers in the bar. I was bent over the counter, wiping away, enjoying life. Well, for now. At work and at school, the only two places where I can seem to be happy. Other than that I am a wreck. Those who know me tend to stay away and those that don’t are recommended to stay away. I’m that black cat that everyone dreads, the ladder that no one wants to walk under, the missing 13th floor in buildings, essentially ...

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“Little Blue Book” by Lauren Ford

Submitted to Contest #44

“I was a Blueprint Baby.” Norah tried hard to summon the anger she desperately wanted to feel as she sat opposite her parents on their luxurious leather couch. “Wasn’t I?” Norah’s father shifted uncomfortably in his chair and pushed his spectacles further up his nose. Norah’s mother fixed her with her usual icy glare. They had known this was coming for a while now but it had still caught them off guard. “Norah, you have to realise it’s because we wanted the best possible life for you,” her father said, his voice betraying his shame. So ...

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“The Fortune Cookie” by Linda Rossi

Submitted to Contest #44

I am a hero. No one, not even me, thought I had an ounce of heroism in me. But I did. Allow me to explain. One day ordinary me is having an ordinary day following my ordinary routine life. Nothing ever happens to me. I go to work in the morning and come home at the end of the day. Nothing in between ever happens. My days are just ordinary.  No surprise that this day was just an ordinary Saturday.I was going through my mail when I saw a color travel brochure that was advertising fun places to go fo...

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“The Pink-Eyed Wonder” by Aneka Williams

Submitted to Contest #44

“One of my eyes is actually a pale pink”My step-sister, Kayden, stared at me with a quizzical expression and I instantly knew she was having a hard time trying to process what I just said."You said you wanted us to be closer as siblings so I decided to tell you my secret" I explained.She sat up from her current position on the living room couch and gave me her full attention. We were still getting used to each other, even one year after my father married her mom, and she wanted us to be closer. I didn't really like the idea of having another...

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“Revelations at the Communion Rail” by Ed Vela

Submitted to Contest #44

As an artist, not a writer, I ask that you please bear with me as I tell you this story from my far flung past. And if you think that's the big reveal in this story... Guess again.I was twelve, almost thirteen, that fateful day in 1982. Yes, the year of E.T., the Eye of the Tiger song, and the War in the Falklands. It was a sunny Sunday in June, when my Dad, Sal, my older brother, Alden, and I, all attended mid-morning mass at St. John Sebastian's Catholic Church in Toms River, New Jersey.Now before you get the idea we aren't typical Catholi...

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“Hunger” by Iku Saari

Submitted to Contest #44

I had been hungry ever since I was born. There was no use feeding me, it would always come back, stronger and more virulent.I didn’t have any brain damage. It wasn’t a side effect of a medication. Nature made me that way. I suffered from an enormous appetite. I thought about different types of food every hour of my life. I got enough nutrients and my body could absorb them just fine. My blood sugar behaved in a normal fashion. I was healthy as a horse, except for this enraging quirk.The funny thing was, I had managed to keep myself quite thi...

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“Father-Son Bonding Thing” by Magnet Marsdaughter

Submitted to Contest #44

“Hello,” said Zeus, smiling. “I’m god.”The 32rd human housewife in a row frowned and slammed the door. Zeus noted the address in his address book and walked on to the next one. Twilight was falling quickly over the little Grecian village. “I think,” said Hermes thoughtfully from behind him, “that we need to try another tactic.”“Like what?” snapped Zeus, spinning around. “I’ve tried “I’m Zeus,” “I’m god,” “I’m the King of the gods,” and “I’m the ruler of the Olympians.” They all just slam the door! Exactly what do you suggest we try?”“Ma...

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“Bee” by ℤ ℍ☮️

Submitted to Contest #44

Bee swirled in the grappling breeze like a fawn hopping through the stars. Her curls danced in the wind, forming a ribbon of fiery red. The trees were sewed into a cross-stitched blanket on top of her, giving a small glimpse of pale dusk light onto her fiery hair making the strands shimmer like rubies. A few pecan trees surrounded her, blue-breasted swallows hopped from branch to branch. Her eyes blended with the hazel brightness of the tree trunks, every aspect of her belonged. A brown shirt sat loosely on her thin arms; her pants were tied...

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“What If I Told You I Was A Cat?” by Jasper Hutchings

Submitted to Contest #44

"Okay, fine I choose truth." I said. Me and my closest friend Lillian were playing Truth Or Dare. She had coaxed me into it. "Tell me something that you've never told anyone." Lillian said."Okay, you can't tell me but I am really a cat. That is so nice to get off my chest." I said with a sigh of relief. Lillian looked at me aghast."Yeah right," she scoffed. "You are just as human as me." Lillian rolled her eyes. "Do you want me to show you?" I asked with a smirk. "Yeah sure." Lillian said, turning her attention back to her boo...

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“Really!” by Blane Britt

Submitted to Contest #44

What I’m about to share with you, you must swear upon all the gothic statues that atop the roof of Notre Dame de Paris. You see those  gargoyle were carved or formed into grotesque looking dragons or demons from the underworld ruled by the grim god Hades and his queen Persephone with a spout designed to convey water from a roof and away from the side of a building, thereby preventing rainwater from running down masonry walls and eroding the mortar between. I often times wonder why didn’t they just design gutters instead.Rumor has it tha...

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“Hallucination Prt3. green eyed pov” by Roxie ...

Submitted to Contest #44

A/n: Ok so this took a while and I don’t know if anyone will take the time to read this but this story is based off of random memories that make no sense in my head, it's about a person who I knew a very long time ago then suddenly they vanished and I never saw them again. That person did have green eyes and messy light brown hair, and to this very day I still question his existence. This next part it part three of hallucination, it's from the green-eyed persons perspective. Please read ...

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