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“What's In A Name” by Marty B

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My Hero is dead, killed by the Beast thundering outside the door. I am just a Sidekick, Besnik the Loyal. I can only wait until a new Hero arrives to take up his sword and save me. Until then, I must hide from the terror that has taken control of the castle. The battle was fierce, the scaled and fire-breathing Beast, Sepheron, was victorious and defeated the courageous Hero Kane. The castle grounds are littered with the detritus of the epic clash. The once beautiful gardens are scorched, burnt to blackened crisps by Sephe...

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“GENEVIEVE” by Chidimma Ezeogbuka

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WRITE ABOUT A CHARACTER WHOSE NAME YOU GOT FROM OUR CHARACTER NAME GENERATOR TITLE: GENEVIEVE Genevieve turns repeatedly on her bed forcing herself to sleep but it seems sleep has left her eyes. She hisses and sits up on her bed wearing a long frown, she looks on top of the vanity set and sees a note. She stretches her hand and gets it, the note reads ‘’Hey my love, you were still in bed when I finished dressing for work, and I didn’t want to disturb you especially knowing that you haven’t slept up to three hours because of our babies. ...

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“The Lost Knight” by Dimarnae Deveau

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Jal springs awake, jumps to his feet and yells, “Back you fowl beast!” Striking a stone Lyon across its neck, knocking its head clean off. “Hey!” Yells the shop keeper, running at Jal broom in hand. Jal readies himself sword poised for strike, stunned that this man is brave enough to come at him with a piece of wood. He slashes the broomstick in half with one swoop, sending the shop keeper fleeing in the opposite direction. Sheathing his sword, he takes a look around and furrows his brow, confused. Not...

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“Things My Mother Never Told Me” by Mike Henry

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It was a lovely funeral, as funerals go. Everything looked to be just right – enough floral tributes to fill a cathedral, glistening black limos (grandson Ted had his own dealership) and a decent throng of neighbours. There were parishioners and sundry nosey-parkers - all displaying doleful expressions and clutching soggy hankies but really just there not wanting to miss this send-off for someone who had been a stalwart churchgoer and parishioner for over sixty years. That would be my mother. Even the English weather had obliged – perfe...

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“Scott Moss ” by Lorna Bean

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The air was cool and calm at the first light of dawn, but the blameless empty skies spoke of the oppressive heat that was to come.Scott Moss was standing in the doorway of his shearing shed. Dust was dancing in the weak light, and he surveyed the scene with watery, red eyes. There had been no shearing for two years now. Dank, rotting wool gathered in the corners and around the chutes of the once pristine shed. Floorboards, polished to a burned amber by a thousand footfalls, both man and animal, now wore a thick coat of grease. Mouse dro...

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“The Lake” by Don Money

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The small cove with its gently curving shoreline on one side and jagged rock outcroppings on the other sat in a tranquil state off the main avenue of the lake. It was visited occasionally by teens that came to dive off the cliffs, fishermen zigzagging across it in search of a change of luck, and the waves that rolled in from passing boats. The divers never stayed for more than one jump, even the bravest among them felt something ominous about the quiet cove. The fishermen who visited never even got a nibble on their lines, almost as i...

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“The Song of the Beech Tree” by Brad Weatherley

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The wind whistled through the great maple tree that stood in the center of the front yard of the Davison Family Farmhouse. A little girl swung lazily and carefree in a tire swing tied to the tree. The house was pearl white with oxford blue shutters, there were hydrangeas planted in the front of the house and decorative flowerpots with pansies on both sides of the door. A long slate rock sidewalk led down to a rocky driveway with lanterns intermittently placed on the sides. The driveway curved in a long roundabout way that created a circle th...

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“Trying Again” by Maheer Arshad

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“I think we should separate.”The words rang through the house. They bounced off every piece of furniture, finding their way into Nina’s ears, echoing there.Separate. Separate. She had finally said it. After months of feeling unhappy, unprioritized, lonely. Feeling like she was invisible to Evan. Feeling like he wasn’t the Evan she knew anymore. A shell of the person she had loved since college; drowned in work, coming home late, always being stressed about money, finances.Why couldn’t he let it go and trust her? Trust her when she said they ...

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“Daniel Anguilar” by Hunter Bright

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The crickets sang in harmony on a humid Thursday night outside of Glendale Apartment Complex’s apartment C9. The television flickered out of the open blinds as Daniel studied from across the street. His target was a man named Edmond, a car salesman who pissed off the wrong wife’s husband. Daniel took no pleasure it what was to come but he was paid for a job, a job he intended on completing. He climbed up the stairs to the third floor of the C building until he reached apartment 9, this was not a problem for Daniel. H...

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“Change of Heart” by Cydney Rose

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CW: Domestic Abuse Running water echoes through the washroom as Astrid waits for her hot bath to fill up. Each item of clothing she peels off reveals a bruise, some freshly black and blue, others yellow from weeks of healing. The girl in the mirror stares back at her in a body she hardly recognizes. Scars mingle with her generous curves; splotches pepper the pale skin of her abdomen. The most unrecognizable feature is the light that remains in her eyes, anything but a reflection of how she feels on the inside. Verin was arrested four days ag...

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“The Bonsai and the Dock at the End of the Universe” by CJ Rodgers

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Eleri Lloyd was not someone you'd expect to be a colonist. She was on the shorter side, with dirt brown hair, casually blue eyes, and a frame that had once been described as "kindly", in an unkind way. On Earth, she had been a housekeeper. Not even to a rich family. She had worked around her village in Wales, going from house to house to do whatever it was people needed. Cooking, cleaning, babysitting, etc. But here she sat, billions of light years from home, and a few hundred years older for it, without a single wrinkle to show for it. Cr...

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“Ancestry.com” by Ray Maher

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Ancestry.com The last school research project Earc Hendric wanted was an ancestry assignment. “It sucks!” Earc complained, but no one listened to him. His dad had said to him without a grain of compassion, "Everything sucks for you, Earc; just do it and quit your whining and grow up.” His mother had said to him, “You may enjoy it, Earc; we have told you that your name is an authentic Celtic spelling of Earc, not Eric. Your roots on your father’s and my side are Celtic. You may find some interesting family history in your research that ...

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“A Strange Thing” by Caleb Goehring

Submitted to Contest #130

It’s a strange thing to be asked to investigate a killing when you’ve never investigated anything before. Where to start? Search the scene? Talk to family? Neither of these were viable options. Darren Cohen washed up onto the river bank, carried by winding, rushing water, potentially coming to rest miles from the scene. As for family, he had none. I was his only employee. He said he came to Cliffton five years ago to build a new life after the war. A skilled mechanic in the military was an asset to a small town that had just begun to expand,...

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“Lament” by Catherine Douglas

Submitted to Contest #130

The two German soldiers in the back of the truck had struggled to keep their prisoner under control for the last half-hour they had been riding through the snow-covered forests of southern Germany. The tall, imposing, but lean man wearing a British uniform was covered in bruises and blood, but much of the blood wasn’t his own, as seen with the bandaged bitemarks on the neck of one of the Germans. At least, to their relief, the man wasn’t a vampire or werewolf. They still put a makeshift muzzle on him when it became clear he was going to figh...

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“Oath of God” by Candace Shattuck

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Today was the day. The day that the world would come to an end. Lisa Spencer woke up that morning ready to make it happen. Her mother had made the order. Humanity had grown arrogant and self-serving. They no longer remembered the old ways so it was time to eliminate them. She stared in the mirror. Her clothes looked plain enough but they were crafted in the heavens and would work better than any armor the humans would have. She took her sword and left. It was time to begin. The trip to Earth was shorter than she had expected. When she ...

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Write about a character whose name you got from our Character Name Generator.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 46 stories

“What's In A Name” by Marty B

“GENEVIEVE” by Chidimma Ezeogbuka

“The Lost Knight” by Dimarnae Deveau

“Things My Mother Never Told Me” by Mike Henry

“Scott Moss ” by Lorna Bean

“The Lake” by Don Money

“The Song of the Beech Tree” by Brad Weatherley

“Trying Again” by Maheer Arshad

“Daniel Anguilar” by Hunter Bright

“Change of Heart” by Cydney Rose

“The Bonsai and the Dock at the End of the Universe” by CJ Rodgers

“Ancestry.com” by Ray Maher

“A Strange Thing” by Caleb Goehring

“Lament” by Catherine Douglas

“Oath of God” by Candace Shattuck

🌟 Similar prompts

Create a title with our Title Generator, then write a story inspired by it.

Start your story with someone finding an object labeled with their name.

Set your story in a nameless world.

Write a story titled ‘The Locked Door.’

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