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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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“Consequences” by Adrianna Smith

Submitted to Contest #44

They say, in life you make choices. Choices have consequences they say. But what ever happened to mine? Why did I never  face the consequences of my actions. Maybe this is my punishment. Maybe the paranoia and bitterness is my judgement. I write, but what for? It brings no clarity, it brings no end to my suffering, to my madness. I remember it perfectly well. I will write each detail as maybe it will be drawn from my brain so I may never remember this again.  It was a cold winter morning. The air was brittle and sharp, like shatter...

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“Girl Down” by Cheryl Ferguson

Submitted to Contest #44

“In this room all of my dreams become realities, and some of my realities become dreams.” Willy Wonka was the first to put my life into words. Unfortunately for me, the result was usually anything but a room that was fully edible.I had just jogged through a long, sloping S-shaped curve when I felt the ground shaking underneath me. I stopped and clutched the trunk of a nearby elm, waiting for the rumbling to end. That was the biggest tremor I had ever felt. I kneeled down in the path, trying to calm my nerves.“Help!&n...

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“Today, I Want to See the Ocean” by Haruko Otonashi

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Your name is Fujisaka Wasure. Age 27. Gender female. Do not panic if you realise you don’t remember your name.   It was unpleasant, to say the least, to wake up to this message scrawled upon my forearm, in terrible handwriting, in what looked like black permanent marker. My head was spinning, I searched my mind in a frenzy, only to come up blank.   That was right. I didn’t remember my name.   I pulled up the nightgown I was wearing. There was another message—an accompaniment to the first one.   ‘You forget everything wit...

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“The Spy Game” by Lucy Matthes

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With ten minutes to go, I sprint down the office building corridors, endless row after endless row. The absence of people in the night compared to what it would be like during the day was eery and unsettling but I was glad no one was in there. I glance at my watch again, eight and a half minutes. I stop and sigh, definitely not enough time to get out of the winding corridors of the office building that was about to explode. Wonderful! I love being a secret agent, the upside of this is for once I actually know my fate. The starry sky in ...

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“Killing Kelsey Cooper” by Ericka Barker

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First things first: I don't really exist.Or rather, I didn't until about...three months ago? Yeah, yeah...it was three months more or less, because it was in August that I decided I was sick to death of Kelsey Cooper (even the name is annoying, as I think you'll agree; so bland, so white bread, topped off with alliteration, which I’ve always found cloying) and suddenly realized that I would have to get rid of her.So I did.Oh, not right away. Don't be silly. Something like this can’t be rushed into. It requires planning and preparation. That'...

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“A Magnificent Transformation” by Britt Michielsen

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“I’m a mermaid”, I say, looking him in the eyes. “A mermaid? As in a mythological creature? As in a girl with a fishtail? As in something that’s not real and doesn’t exist?”, he fires at me. “Yes”, I say back to him. Silence takes over. I look at his face, trying to figure out what he’s thinking right now. “You? A mermaid?”, he says before he bursts out laughing. “That’s a good one. I almost believed you there.” “But Chad, it’s true. I really am a mermaid”, I say, kind of frustrated as I take off my bracelet and wait for a few seconds. Sudde...

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“Jeff, The Menace” by Eesha Irfan

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JEFFBullet to my head: do I like to play God with the people around me? My answer is: yes, shoot me. I had always been the unusual kind for most people. They said I was too blunt, too straightforward, too rash, and that I didn’t think things through. I’d say all that is a whole lot of hogwash. I do what’s needed to be done. I have no patience for people’s antics and lame excuses. I’ve learned a long time ago that people will always come up with excuses, no matter what the circumstances. So it’s always been up to me to throw them he...

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“Why the plants died” by Kierah Van Uden

Submitted to Contest #44

  Halfway across the world from Asheville, in the city of Liverpool England, another life was being lived at the Notre Dame Catholic College for girls in the town of great Hamilton. The school was large and expensive, but Taylor’s parents were very rich. Taylor was tall and skinny and had creamy blonde hair halfway down her back, she had limbs like a ballerina’s and a smile like a models in a toothpaste ad. Taylor was what most people would call ‘good looking’ she had all of the boys drooling at her feet. Her life seemed perfect.&n...

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“Jaded” by Earvin Eugene

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JadedBy Earvin Phillip EugeneCommencement           Jordan Williams attended Dartmouth college. He worked at Zimmerman Fitness Center. Jordan needed the money and it was his opportunity to meet colleagues. He was about 5’11, brown-skinned with short black curly hair. Jordan sported glasses as he was near-sighted and groomed himself with a goatee. He wore outlandish fashion with striking designs such as a red and black flannel sweatshirt alongside checkered pants. On some days he would dr...

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“The Man Who Sold Immortality” by OB Jato

Submitted to Contest #44

“I sell elixirs of immortality.”The officer surveyed the man who made this statement. His expression had remained the same throughout his two-hour detention - he wore a faint smile, exemplified by the long beard he possessed. The length of his detention was merely a logistical inconvenience.The officer had been scheduled to interrogate another arrested individual – a gang member - in the morning. The local goon would need to be released in a couple of hours because of the lack of evidence. After pursuing a final but fruitless line of questio...

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“My creation story” by Alissa Rodriguez

Submitted to Contest #44

In the beginning earth was nothing but land. On the land grew trees that could grow to be thousands of feet high and hundreds of feet in diameter. The trees had really pretty flowers that grew out of them. As the flowers grew older and began to wither away they transformed into all the animals that would soon roam around earth to this very day. Above this land was a place made of clouds, it later would be called heaven. All the Gods and Goddesses lived within this cloud land that they soon would call heaven. They looked down upon earth throu...

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“No Vacancy ” by Clive Kerrell

Submitted to Contest #44

Juan couldn’t have told you the date to save his life, so luckily he's already dead. Now that’s odd, dead people don't think, do they? That’s what Juan had thought before he'd gone and died. He’d been a spirit for about a week now and he figured that this was it; he's doomed to walk the earth for eternity. Forever watching his mother cry, family visiting his grave with flowers, and random animals pee on his neighbour’s tombstones. If he's supposed to walk the earth forever it would be nice to walk somewhere other than in a circle around...

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“A blunt with a side of donuts to be taken once nightly by mouth ” by Anna Vahn

Submitted to Contest #44

Peter inhaled deeply and slowly let his breath out. He watched the smoke curl and drift slowly up towards the night sky briefly blocking his view of the starlit night sky. It was beautiful out here. He could see for miles from the roof over the Brooklyn landscape. The lights coming from different peoples apartment homes glowed warm and bright. They seemed to twinkle just like the stars in the sky. He found some comfort in knowing that most of the people of the city were tucked away safely in their homes. Some of them may be sitting in bars a...

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“Easy on The Eyes” by Rudy Uribe

Submitted to Contest #44

She was easy on the eyes but hard on the heart. The Santa Ana winds had blown into town, and my throat was as dry as desert sand. She stood behind the bar, wiping it down in a robotic fashion. She had dark, shoulder-length hair and piercing blue eyes. Her ample bosom left an ache in my loins. Angie knew I was waiting for her to attend me, but she pretended I wasn’t there. I couldn’t blame her—Angie and I had a history.  A month earlier, I mustered the courage to ask her out. Her gentle lips widened at the proposition, and her porce...

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“Eucomopia” by Hana J

Submitted to Contest #44

Thomas often quoted himself as a deliberation of the loner society, just by the way he walked around, the intimidating look on his face would somehow be a vouch for why he didn’t have many friends. However, watching by the way he dragged himself about in his garnished sneakers was probably worse than his menacing approach. Walking the streets of Eucomopia Thomas hung his head low, even under his hat the blistering heat managed to swelter him from the inside out. At first he didn’t notice anything, his eyes were so dry that it hurt to keep th...

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