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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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Prophecy

Submitted to Contest #44

She moved like poetry in motion, all the grace of years of dance training making every gesture seem practiced and polished and perfect. The kitchen was bright and sunny. Light gleamed from the clean surfaces, and sparkled in Alice's cerulean eyes. She put two spoonfuls of sugar in each teacup, stirring three times clockwise and three times counterclockwise. She brought the cups to the patio table, handing one to me. "It's my homemade blend." "Mmm, my favorite." I smiled and took the cup, breathing the mixed scent of black...

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Celestial Life

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If I asked you to describe an Angel, how would it look? Would it have wings, a halo, or maybe a flaming sword? Perhaps you think of a naked baby with a bow and arrow? I’m guessing you wouldn’t describe an orphan, with no job, no friends, living for free in a studio above a bakery. You wouldn’t describe me, basically. But I am an angel. I have a unique ability. I can understand people. Not just in an empathetic way, like understanding that someone is upset, or reading their body language, but really understand them. I see or hear what th...

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The Pariah Of Battlefield Elementary

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Submitted to Contest #44

I was once the bell-bottom-wearing pariah of Battlefield Elementary School. I hadn’t thought about that for years. Then, last week, I was in a hurry, parking the BMW, bypassing the school pickup line, and wading through a sea of swarming kids to the place where my daughter’s fifth grade class usually stands after school. I was by my Brianna and another girl, both unaware they were being observed by an adult, when the memory of my sojourn through Battlefield rushed back to me like a tsunami. Battlefield Elementary was situated out in a V...

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No Coffee, Please.

Submitted to Contest #44

“Hey, do you mind if I join you? The place is packed and I am having trouble finding a table.” “No, that’s fine, go ahead.”  “Thanks. I don’t usually ask to sit with strangers.” “That’s fine.” I ensured her, sliding down my side of the booth to make space for her to sit opposite. “You’re a writer?” she asked, starting up a conversation. “No, I’m a teacher. I teach online classes.” I explained. “Oh, sorry, am I interrupting?” her voice softened with embarrassment. “I’m at lunch. I work out of an office down forty-seventh and third. I tea...

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Everyday Gallivant

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There was one thing that Tristan thought as he was running away from possible detainment at his local juvenile center, it was the action movies that made running seem so easy. Sweating a bit here and there with their cool and pretty faces, while he was here sweating buckets with his hair all greasy from the sweltering June weather. His shirt sticking to his skin uncomfortably as sweat dripped to his eyes, squinting and blinking as his vision had gotten a bit blurry from the salty liquid.Feeling his grasp slip a bit, he gripped the plastic ba...

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Waxes and Foxes

Submitted to Contest #44

I love melted wax.On days where customers order for birthday cakes, chocolate takes the highest order. I wouldn't blame them. It tastes better in chocolate, the gleam and yummy black goodness mixed with properly melted wax. My first chocolate was given to me by my first love, who clad himself with a frown, in crooked looking glasses and permanent wrinkles etched over his forehead. First love didn't taste like hot chicken pepper soup with herbs and spices that left my nose runny. No, it was no hot romance. Almost forbidden,but with no he...

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Sky Worthy

Submitted to Contest #44

“I’ve always wanted to be a pilot.” “Really?”  Judah and Katie lay in the grass in front of Judah’s house. Both had been best friends for as long as either could remember, and grew closer each year they spent together. “Yeah, it’s just always interested me. The mechanics, the different types of planes, helping people, everything. My grandfather was a pilot at some point too, y’know. I think that’s also where I get that from.” “And so the models in your room, they’re not just from some bygone phase like horse girls?” Katie teased, rollin...

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The Second Concrete Square of Twenty-Fourth Street

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It was a clear blue, sunny day but none like any other, for there was an odd occurrence on the second concrete square of twenty-fourth street and a secret that was waiting to be shared.Skye Randolph snuck around the corner of the block with her head turned to look behind her. She was on her way to meet Noah Carson, her best friend, during an ultimate game of tag all of the neighborhood kids were competing in, but she didn't want to get caught on her way. Her hand pressed against the brick building and preoccupied with her thoughts she pushed...

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A TRICKY WELCOME

Submitted to Contest #44

                                                 'Everybody wake up after a good peaceful sleep, however, I am not a part of the lot. I do of course sleep peacefully, in fact, very peacefully, such that, I guess part of my brain started to love the dream world more, than the real world. Most peop...

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Tag, You're It

Submitted to Contest #44

As was already noted elsewhere in this story and in the annals of ecclesiastical history, Nuestra Señora del Pilar or Our Lady of the Pillar, had a pretty important role in helping the Iberian Peninsula - which isn’t the same as Spain even if Spain likes to think so - become Christianized. Lady Pilar told Saint James to stick with his commitment as an Apostle and he listened. She left him the pillar she’d appeared on as testimony or proof or bribe and thus earned her name.What that part of the Church’s teaching concerning Spain doesn’t say i...

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My Green Eyes See More Than First Impressions

Submitted to Contest #44

When I look at the man sitting across from me on the phone in the coffee shop, my green eyes detect more than first impressions. I cannot smell the fancy and expensive espresso lingering above his top lip, clean shaven of course, but I can smell his thoroughly applied high quality cologne, thick and robust, a truly sexy scent. Through smiling white teeth, he speaks in a hushed tone, flicking a solid silver pen back and forth over a blank notepad with a consistent ba-dap ba-dap ba-dap as little ink dots appear on the page. He is respectably m...

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Just a runaway witch. Chapter 1: the history of the Goodwills

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It was a Monday morning and that meant school.Sam’s alarm went off.It was five in the morning.She got out of bed and went to the bathroom,-Samantha Goodwill was a young 16 year old.Born on January 5,1998.Sam is an intelligent teenager, although her life is hard she still keeps going.She lives with her father,Tom Goodwill, her mother died from cancer when Sam was just a child.After her death Sam’s father was never the same, he drinks, smokes, and causes problems with the police.Sam on the other hand is very soft but she’s an emo, she wears ev...

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Grassland Alley

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For me, nothing restores peace like creating and fostering beautiful things, then destroying them with fire.  Moonbeams break through the wispy branches as I snap photos in a bewildering frenzy. I know I look like a mad woman, but nobody would be able to see me tucked deeply into the neglected forest. My knuckles are white from gripping my polaroid tightly, and I feel dizzy after whipping my head around several times to capture every beautiful image possible.  I love to photograph green. Moss on a lonely rock, leaves on a towering ...

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the maze of secrets

Submitted to Contest #44

Prologue "look, guys, I'm the reason we're still stuck here. I... I lied." Claire said miserably. tom jerked away from her as he said"you mean, WE NEARLY DIED TWICE BECAUSE OF SOME STUPID SECRET???" "tom..." Claire said. her voice was quivering, and she sounded as if she was about to burst into tears. she turned to look at jake, sam, and Zoe, as she said"c'mon guys..." "sam, what happened to besties for life...?" sam hunched her shoulders as she said"I'm sorry Claire. but I can't back you up this time" "Zoe, please..." Zoe looked at her sadl...

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Rosa's Cantina

Submitted to Contest #44

I dial my phone."Hello?... Hello?... Is that… For fuck’s sake, I can’t hear a thing… Hello?... Can you - can you hear me? Yes, I can! I can hear... That’s great. Hi! Hi, it’s… Hi. Is that you?..."I laugh."I thought so… Do ya… Do ya know who I am?... No? Well, that’s okay. I didn’t expect ya to. Here… Let me tell ya somethin’."I start to sing."Out in the West Texas town of El PasoI fell in love with a Mexican boy,Nighttime would find me in Rosa’s Cantina,Music would play and my sweet boy would whirl.Bluer than sky were the eyes of my sweet bo...

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