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Write about a character who is incapable of telling even the smallest lie or half-truth.

Posted in Character on Oct 26, 2022

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All I've Ever Wanted

Submitted to Contest #76

Lying is a black hole. You lie to one person about something, then you immediately feel the urge to lie about something else. The lies just keep piling up, and in a moment, the line between the truth and the lie becomes so blurred, that you start to believe the lie yourself. You start to live the lie. You become a lie. I, however, don’t have that option to live a lie. When I was a mere child of eight, I saw my father abusing my mother. It was because she had lied to him about where the money had gone. She had used up some of the ...

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Of Ivory and Moonbeams

Submitted to Contest #76

“Changelings are the fish you’re supposed to throw back. A cuckoo raised by sparrows. They don’t quite fit anywhere.” “Korina!” A bright, singsongy voice calls my name through the woods. My mother’s voice, as strange as it seems. Her voice always catches me off guard, like a baby bird chirping in the spring. It blends right into our surroundings as I run towards her, through the overgrown trails full of vines and wildflowers. I stumble on the path, tripping over a large root with saffron colored leaves popping out from under a tree. I lo...

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Among Us

Submitted to Contest #76

Oh, no. The screen turned black and on the very top “impostor” was written in dark red. Oh, no. I’m literally the worst impostor ever. The screen should know that. Then the screen turned into the map where us Among Us players travel through the map and accomplish our tasks to finish without getting killed by The Impostor. Namely, me. Of course, I was The Impostor, so I cold only fake the tasks. I pretended to get to work and used my joystick to proceed to different rooms. When I was finally alone with another player in a room doing tasks, ...

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Butterflies

Submitted to Contest #76

*** “No fair, Alina got the last cookie!” “Ben, sometimes in life you can't have everything,” Alina said and chowed down on a chocolate chip cookie. Gooey, decadent chocolate streamed out of the cookie, like silk ribbons. The cookie looked soft and buttery, crumbs spilling out underneath. Alina gobbled it right up. Alina patted me on the back, and said, “You can always make more cookies, y’know. It’s not like that was the last cookie in the world.” “What if it was?” I asked.  “I would’ve still eaten it,” she said and raced...

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An Overdue Reunion (Part 2 to Next gen)

Submitted to Contest #76

Harmony and Arren were sitting on the couch and had been deep in a conversation. "Come on, what took you so long this time? Hades and Persephone usually let you leave for a while much earlier..." He faintly fidgeted with his fingers as if he was thinking about something, he sighed and finally said, "Oh you know...Persephone just really wanted to be with us a bit longer. And maybe something else..." Don't ask any other questions, please don't ask any other questions. He'd probably be upset if anyone else knew, Arren thought as he fidgeted...

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Spoiling the Prank

Submitted to Contest #76

𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐤"I...I don't feel good about this at all guys. We shouldn't do this! In fact, school is over! We shouldn't even be here." he warns everyone in a shaky and trembling voice.He tries to persuade everyone to go back, to go home. In fact, Matthew was right. They weren't supposed to be in the school at 1:00 am. But there was nothing he could do which would change their minds about it. His "friends" never cared about his words, they even ignored him, as they continued to construct their plan."Do you guys not hear me?!" he wails at...

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The Soaring Dragons 1: Common Smuggling

Submitted to Contest #76

Megan jumped as a muffled crash came from the door to her right, immediately followed by several rather savage oaths. She shook her head slightly and entered a large, open room with tall arching windows and a balcony with a view of the setting sun. The windows were open, letting in the warm winds of summer.A young woman of about eighteen stood with her back to Megan as several items floated around her. The young woman had cascading locks of rich, chestnut brown hair that fell in waves to just below her shoulders and well-tanned skin as if sh...

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A NERVE JARRING-ORDEAL

Submitted to Contest #76

Without a doubt it would have been a cheerful mixed drink party as the sage goes,'' A decent starting makes a decent closure. "We gradually moved toward the room gazing at one another worriedly. "Where are generally the individuals?", I inquisitively asked myself. My mom and I were welcomed into a much-obliged giving gathering at our neighbor's home yet to our absolute skepticism, none was in sight.         Abruptly, we heard another sound inside the room. We looked to see if there was anyone but our e...

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House of Memories ☠️

Submitted to Contest #76

Part five of Dead End! Hope you enjoy!She hops down. “I’m Erica. I’ll be taking you to the Glean.”She has wavy black hair that goes to her shoulders, and light skin.Chase speaks first. “We can teleport there?”“No.” She snorts. “We’ll have to take the forbidden path.”I can’t tell if she’s joking. She looks serious. Neither of us say anything. “Well, come on.” She says. She pulls what looks like a crystal out of her cloak, and puts it on the ground in front of us. After a second, it glows, then there’s a huge CRACK, and black smoke rises ...

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Vera

Submitted to Contest #76

( Part one )I was born different from the others.I was born with an inability to lie.I was born in the main village of my tribe. Everyone is born in the main village. But my thirteenth birthday is approaching, which means I may not be able to live in this village any longer. Let me explain. My world, K’setra is ruled by one High King. He governs six smaller tribes, including mine, the mountain tribe, Sikhra. Every year there comes a day which we have come to call, Cira, where all the children who turn thirteen that year are brought...

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Quiet

Submitted to Contest #76

“What did you do?” Kadin was asking me questions but I couldn’t understand. Everything was spinning and I didn’t know how we would get home.“Casie tell me what you did.” He knew I couldn’t lie, something in my body just wouldn’t allow me to.“Well, where should I start”.She always did something to annoy me, big or small she was always there to tick me off. I was a bomb waiting to go off until I finally did. It started in 7th grade and now we’re in high school. It would be little things like leaving her arm on my desk and bumping into me occas...

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Pure Blood

Submitted to Contest #76

"My blood is pure, and so are my words." The girl twisted her lips. "So you can't lie?" The faerie shook his blonde head, the strands as golden as sunlight. "Not even a half-truth could slip my silver tongue," he replied, almost smug. "How old are you?" the girl merely asked, sitting before him as if it were story time. She pulled her small backpack onto her lap and hugged it. "The trees are younger than I, small Elain. My age is uncounted as the blades of grass beneath our feet." A wind stirred their hair, the loose robes of the fae...

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Truth be Told

Submitted to Contest #76

Ever since my little sister, Adila, could speak she never told a lie. Now I know what you’re thinking, that’s not possible, no one can be that honest, I know it may be hard to believe but my sister always spoke the truth, good or bad. No one knows why I’ve tried getting her to lie, but it’s no use she just won’t lie. All I’ve ever gotten her to do was say a half-truth. It used to be small things, like who ate the last cookie, and who broke the chair. But now she’s really done it, let me explain. A couple of weeks ago Adila wanted to go ...

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Jack Steiner

Submitted to Contest #76

“I don’t know, I find it hard to believe.” He scratched his head, his expression growing uncertain. “Look, I want to help you, but I’m going to need your collaboration.”“The best I can do is tell the truth. I’m not guilty.”“But you were at the wrong place at the wrong time,” Matthew commented. “Several people saw you fleeing the scene minutes before the body was found.” Jack sighed, running a hand through his hair. ‘I know’ He mumbled.“You claim you didn’t see her body when you headed to the garage…”“I swear I didn’t. She must have fall...

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The Truth and Nothing But the Truth

Submitted to Contest #76

Matilda Moresby was strongly against any medical experiments being performed on animals, and that most definitely included an animal of the species Homo Sapiens called Matilda Moresby. If anything she regarded psychological experiments with even more horror though she determinedly mixed in a dollop of disdain for both the experimenters and the participants. She would never fail to notice a gorilla (or at any rate, a man in a gorilla suit) and could never, in any circumstances, be induced to inflict torture on anyone (though of course it turn...

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