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Write about a character learning to trust their intuition.

Posted in Character on Oct 26, 2022

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“Show Time” by Francis Daisy

Submitted to Contest #127

“C’mon! Let’s get this show on the road, Nat. The movie starts in ten,” Levi tapped his watch from where he stood near the door. Nat shook his head. “This isn’t another one of those animated ones is it?” He grabbed his coat off the back of the sofa and started to shrug his arms into the sleeves. The last action movie involved a stay white puff marshmallow hero who walked around with bacitracin healing powers or some such nonsense. “I don’t know how I let you talk me into movies. Why not just stay in? Order take out? Watch a hockey game ...

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“Instictive knowledge” by F.O. Morier

Submitted to Contest #127

For years, I could barely write a page. I become a virtuoso of mediocrity, spiraling into smallness at a rapid pace. Sadness occupied the greater volume of me, making me travel through empty and long-abandoned rooms. A long time ago I set my dreams aside to become something else. Everybody always stated how I saw things wrong, and if I didn´t agree with their claims fast enough, I would suffer a barrage of degrading insults. The B-word proudly led the parade. I let myself fall victim to the suffocating traps of society and suffocating cultur...

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“Lola and the Angry Little Wasp” by Shikha Dhawan

Submitted to Contest #127

When I was a young child, I spent a lot of my time in this little garden. Well, it was less of a garden and more of an overrun weedy parking lot. No, that would be too generous to call it a parking lot. It was an overgrown wooded area where my father liked to park his precious yellow Lada. Don’t know what a Lada is? It’s a Russian car that went out of fashion as soon as it was in fashion because it was so poorly built in the Soviet communist times. Or that’s what my father tells the family all the time. But it was bright yellow, and it was ...

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“Simmering Below the Surface” by Laura Huffman

Submitted to Contest #127

           The soaring inflation threw my boyfriend into a drinking binge like never before, and when he kicked my low tire with his steel toed boot I knew he was smashed. “Lilly, were you drinking and driving? How did your headlights and windshield get shattered on your new convertible?             Sitting behind the steering wheel I raked my fingers through my new hairstyle emboldened with red highlights. “After...

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“Trust Your Intuition ” by Angie N

Submitted to Contest #127

It was 7 am and Crystal was getting ready to go on her blind date. She sprayed perfume that smelled like roses. She took a long hot shower and put on a scintillating dress covered in sliver. She took her time so that she could look pristine. She did not know much about her blind date other than the fact that his name was Jonathan, he was 28 years old and had a business master’s degree.As Crystal was about to leave, she had felt something in her gut, it was befuddling and tingly. It made her uncomfortable and much more inquisitive about the m...

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“The Wind” by Zea MindWerl

Submitted to Contest #127

Cai opened her dark eyes and stared up at the moonlit ceiling. She had just had a dream. Something about it felt very familiar, like the smell of her grandmother's house, or the feel of summer rain on your face. And yet she couldn’t remember it at all. All that remained was this lingering feeling. She lay there letting the warm feel of familiarity settle around her, trying to gently coax the dream to come back. But dreams are fickle beasts and this one it seemed had tramped away for good.The wind came then and blew her green curtains through...

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“The Transformation of Rupert Sweet” by John Simes

Submitted to Contest #127

The Transformation of Rupert Sweet a short story by John Simes ‘Snow blanketed the landscape, it muffled sound and hid the roads.’  Rupert Sweet stared bleakly at the sentence. Same old crap. Of course, the sodding snow muffled sound and hid the sodding roads. What else would it sodding well do? Always the same. Amanda Tempest (aka Lavinia Stoate) always started her nauseatingly sanctimonious so-called novels with the same kind of opening sentence. If it wasn't snow, it would be a row of benighted willow trees, tossing their branches ...

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“Sweetheart” by Christine Badiian

Submitted to Contest #127

“Oh God! I’m so hungry! I’m so afraid! I have to take care of myself if I want to have my babies live but how can I do that? I’m so hungry! I’m so afraid!” She was frantic. Living on the streets by herself had been difficult. During her first heat at only six months of age, she had gotten pregnant. Now she had four kittens to take care of. Finding enough food for herself had been a challenge, now her needs were so much greater. Every day she went out to scrounge for whatever she could find, usually only garbage and not nearly enough. She...

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“This is the thing” by Ainslie Caswell

Submitted to Contest #127

My grades have always been fine. They're fine. They're good. Good. Just good. What else could they be? It's elementary school. There's nothing else but good. There is either good or failing, and failing means they put you in the downstairs classes. And we all know what that means. What I'm saying is: everyone's grades are good. If they're not good, you go away. I'm not sure where else you go except the downstairs classes. I'm sure there are other places. Otherwise, you stay in the regular classes. That's where the regular kids stay...

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“Subject D” by Daniel Hafertepe

Submitted to Contest #127

The clerk greeted her at the desk beside the conference room door. “Good morning, Lieutenant, please set your personal effects on the desk.”She laid her cover, handbag and laptop bag on the desk and then set her raincoat next to them.The clerk handed her a badge to pin on her uniform lapel.LT Ann Scarletti, USNOffice of Naval ResearchAnn noted the branches of service on the remaining badges: US Army, US Air Force and US Marines. Then she noticed the ranks: Colonel, Colonel, and Colonel.The clerk placed her effects into a locker. Then he&nbsp...

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“The Sleep Serene” by Mark Jackson

Submitted to Contest #127

Dublin, 2018 His lips pull away from a woman’s cheek, cake-soft with makeup. Her citrus perfume reminds him of his dead mother, of being home. Somehow, deep in his core, he knows this is where he should be. The feeling of security quickly evaporates as he watches the woman turn her back to him as he proceeds to walk backwards out the open front door. He pulls it shut in front of him, pockets the key already in the lock and moonwalks up the steep, gravelled driveway. As he comes out on the footpath of a hilly housing estate, a man moving ...

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“The Beginning of the End ” by Alessandra Mejia

Submitted to Contest #127

The air was warm and smelled like cinnamon, soft classical music coming from the kitchen downstairs. Any normal person would find comfort in this, but I currently live alone. I groggily checked my phone which read 7:28am, no missed calls or texts. I lay in my bed, dreading the thought of going downstairs. There was only one of two things that would happen the minute I went down there. My overbearing mother would be gearing up to inform me of all the ways I'm ruining my life, or there is a very pleasant intruder who’s making me a final meal b...

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“Deadly Intuition” by Joseph Morganella

Submitted to Contest #127

"Dispatch, 42, are you clear, yet?" "42, just clearing now, dispatch." "Dispatch 42, all units still tied up, I have no additional unit to assign. Shots fired, 42, Dunkin Donuts, South Main Street front plate window shot out. Three young white males, all dark clothing, medium height, dark hair. Last seen heading south on South Main Street." "42 dispatch, responding code 2" "Are you kidding me", I muttered to myself. My first Christmas back home. I just separated from the Air Force police this past April and here it is 4:00...

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“Gut Instinct” by Katy Rose

Submitted to Contest #127

‘No more!” Kyla screamed. That was the last time she would ever fall for another stupid guy. Kyla threw the bedroom door shut behind her and fell onto the bed. Her muscles screamed with the tension of the evening. Kyla burrowed her face within the folds of her pillow and let the tears she had fought so hard to hold back, stream down her face. It wasn’t long before the pillow was drenched with the liquid of her sorrow. Was it her? Did she just attract them? Kyla thought back to earlier that evening when her date had leant towards her and pl...

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“A Chance at Revival” by Reagan Athan

Submitted to Contest #127

As I awoke on this winter day, I had this feeling. Not just any feeling, but a prickling sense as one could describe it as, that something would change. To know whether or not it would be drastically different or minorly different was something that couldn’t be determined. Some call it a gut feeling, while others fancy the coined term “pure luck”. If you were to ask which I lean towards, I would stare at you with a blank face. I simply don’t know. I may never know. Intuition is a broad and deep subject that some discuss without a proper unde...

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