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Write about a character who’s always thinking of things they’ll say to people, but who ends up saying very little when they finally get the chance.

Posted in Character on Oct 26, 2022

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“Thundering Silence” by Jessica Crosby

Submitted to Contest #76

As it happens, she stands there having nothing to say and doesn't react at all for a minute. She then pulls out the cigarette from his mouth, wraps her arms around his neck and says, "Well, I hope it was good." The arm was wrapped a little too tight and her face probably showed a bit of anger, which alerted the bar security. She puts the cigarette back in his mouth, thinking afterward that she should have put it into the pitcher of beer. She looks at the skinny blonde, with her abdominal skin showing under her short half shirt, and imagines ...

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“MALCOLM IN THE MIX” by Tonhi Brizha

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Malcolm stood barefooted on the dewy grass gazing towards the sky, his eye balls rotated uniformly with precision it almost appeared as if he was a Painter and the sky was the world’s largest canvas, thoughts lingered across his mind but deep down he knew the only way to conquer the demons was to introduce them to heaven, Malcolm quickly ran down the hilly –mountains found his way through the dreaded corn farms oblivious of the peril he faced from the wild jackals who dwelled in the old coal mines of Kentucky, he arrived at his father’s cott...

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“I can only take so much” by Lubelihle Mlalazi

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Stephenie sat in the head master's office, biting his fingernails hoping it will ease the anxiousness he felt. His mother has been called for the meeting too."Oh you stupid boy! What were you thinking? Are you out of your mind?" His mother yelled as soon as she entered the room. She put her bag on the chair and remained standing."I'm sorry mom" was all he could get out of his mouth. In his head he was prepared to tell her the 'facts' but as soon as his mother walked in spitting venom, his essay flew out the window."You're sorry? You know... ...

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“Secrets That Want to Come Out” by Serena S

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I licked my paw methodically. It seemed no matter how hard I tried it never got clean. I glanced around. Good, Midnight was nowhere to be seen. Midnight was my mother, and always tried to steal all the attention for herself when she got the chance. Her birth name wasn’t Midnight, as my birth name wasn’t Tabby, but that’s what one of our caretakers had named her, and she, like me, honored her new name. Midnight didn’t look much like me. She was a black cat and I was a brown tabby, but we still got along nicely and loved each other.  “Ta...

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“Marina Kersey's Journal” by Sadie Black

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Saturday 27th September. There is only one stop sign in Paris. Everything is chaotic. People are always in a rush. The middle-aged man that sprints through the streets, meandering in and out of the way of people, cars, market stalls. Skinny latte in one hand- gripped sternly in a desperate attempt not to spill- newspaper in the other. He wears a long, beige trench coat, stiff black trousers ,and shiny black shoes. Typical, I mutter. The time reads 8.39 and, ordinarily, he is late. The older woman in the blue Renault Clio. It is not the ordin...

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“Artificial Intelligence” by Clara Woodwake

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My name is Second Chance. I have artificial intelligence. One of the first humans to possess it. I was given a gift. A new life. My name is Second Chance because Master gave me another chance. One off the streets. Now I must take that chance. I have my speech in my head. I always think about what I am going to say to people. Master. The principal, the teachers, the students. The maids and servants. The chauffeur. Even strangers. Everyone. As the newest student at...

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“INAUDIBLE” by The Girl

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One Mississippi. Two Mississippi. My heart sank.  The school sign was becoming more visible as we pulled up to the street I’d overthought about this.  Imagined how it would go. I’d thought of every word I would say and in what order. I was ready for this. Or at least I’d been last night. Last night I was more than ready. I’d stood in conversation with the mirror, waved my hands around as I was making points, stomped my foot, done that curved smile that I’d seen Jean do a lot. That smile that I knew got all the guys. I’...

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“ Mirror Image” by Malena Lopez

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Emelia studied herself in the large bathroom mirror that took up most of the white textured wall behind it. She looked over her thirty-two years’ worth of aged skin. Her once-tight supple smooth flesh did not hold as it once had. Her deep dark brown eyes did not glimmer or sparkle holding the hope of magic and optimism anymore. No, that had faded with her dreams as life barreled on without her permission. “You had dulled a long time ago, didn’t you?” She spoke to the image staring back at her. Emelia narrowed her eyes to see her father’s la...

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“Realization” by Phoebe Silva

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Trigger warning: mentions of rape I got into the car and was planning to sit in silence. I felt my mother’s pressuring aura as she entered the car. I felt quite nervous as this was the time, I would begin to hear my mother yell at me, or nag me to death, or just destroy me because of what I had just done. We took the time to go out to get my wisdom teeth taken out, and I had denied the operation because I felt anxious. It was not completely because I had felt anxious, it was also because the surgeon was telling me that he felt slightly uncom...

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“Recycled Promises” by Abigail R

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Their eyes locked, it was a face-off, no one knew who would fold first, they were disgusted with each other, embarrassed to even be facing the other. It seemed as though they were trying to convince each other of something without even speaking, speaking was what started this whole mess. The heavy breathing cut the silence of the tension-filled room. They shifted in time with one another, an intimidation tactic perhaps, daring the other to speak, to break the silence. He broke first. “Come on, man.” He turned away from the mirror. “It’s so e...

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“Catatonic ” by Shawn Gerrick

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Aaron uttered you look beautiful as he pulled out her chair to what he hoped would become their special table. He had everything planned down to the tiniest detail of their magical evening even what Denise's responses would be. This first dates interactions and conversations was being thoroughly rehearsed into the mirror during his morning bathroom ritual as he prepped for work. Aaron was going to ask Denise out on an actual date this time not just in his head or into the mirror as he had done for the previous three months. He told this to h...

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“Rene” by Yoana Krasteva-Pyuzantyan

Submitted to Contest #76

Trigger warning: abuse Hello, Rene.   I want to tell you so many things. Thousands and thousands and thousands of words, just hitting against the walls of my brain, I feel them, on the top of my tongue, they are sour, they poison me, day by day.   But I never could. And I never will be able to.   I never learned to call you ''mom'', did I? Maybe because I never saw you as one. You are merely the person who had the misfortune of giving birth to the disgusting creature I turned out to be. And after that, you became just someone ...

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“My safe space” by Oluwajomiloju Adeyemi

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Alone in a room... It’s just me and you. I paused for a minute to see what I had written. I had nothing in particular to write but I knew I wanted to write something, that was my escape from most things. Everything. I wasn’t sure how to start, so I started with my favorite song. My favorite comfort song. In my darkest times, the lyrics always came to mind because they reminded me of my own words. They were things I would say I feel so lost, And I don’t know what to do. I wondered for a little while what went through her mind when she wrote ...

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“Not A Morning Person” by Donna B T

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Fred could tell it was going to be just one of those days. He’d been having the most pleasant of dreams before being awakened by the annoying neighbour two doors down. Sure, he could understand that some people had to get up early in the morning to work, but that didn’t make hearing him at 4:35 a.m. every single morning feel any better. Why did the man have to have such a noisy car? Today marked just over three months of listening to his car make a noisy racket day after day. Fred had kept his mouth shut every day, but today was the day he...

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“Behind the Glass” by Benedict Jospeh

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“Haha! You’re so funny! x” I know she didn’t mean it. “I know right, I should be a comedian or something!” Keep the conversation alive. “Haha” Fuck. One thing you learn after texting a lot of girls, is how to tell when a conversation is dead. To put it lightly, this one is pretty much decomposed at this point. I like her, and she knows, and she knows I know. This should be easy, but sadly, it just makes things more difficult. Time for an attempted revival. “Anyways, maybe we could video chat later? I got the house to myself...

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