Write your story from the perspective of a side character.

Posted in Character on Oct 26, 2022

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“MIRROR OF SOUL” by Sharmishtha Saha

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This part of the country is spectacular and picturesque throughout the year. Summers and springs are my favorite here. Winters are harsh though less harsh than Scotland from where I belong. Rains in this part of North Carolina are both sublime and somber. Somber because it reminds me of my village in Skye, it reminds me of my family and friends. Sitting by the window , watching the water droplets dripping from the trees by the ridge and writing my name on the foggy glass panes during the rain is something which gives me immense pleasure when...

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“A plague in Atlantis ” by Rithwick Krishna

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Chapter 1 A plaster of anxiety covered him but it was not dominated fully by the fear of deep, blue seas waiting to uncover it's secrets but a much meeker fear ,the fear of people. He had to be stuck fully in an enclosed tube with a few people, underwater where anything could strike anyone and safety would be towering above them. Thwarting their efforts to reach it but then, it was covered by another fear when the turbines swished and pushed them to the unknown and he became so frustrated to have many anxieties. The turbines were slow but st...

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“Negotiation” by Donavan Barrier

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He shifted the pistol under his armpit very subtly. He licked his lips nervously. The bigger man to his side, his Boss, shuffled slowly to the table. Though his eyes portrayed a calm and collected nature, inside, he felt his innards bouncing about behind his flesh. Jake hoped that he was only imagining that annoying bead of sweat dripping down his forehead. His Boss sat down just as slowly and pulled out a dark brown and slightly bent cigar. Drawing his breath slowly, he shifted forward towards the man in front of him. &nbs...

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“White Palms, Pure Love” by Melford Maderazo

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Uncle Gerry has white palms like the color of cotton. But his complexion is not pallid. Kids like me have white palms too. I mean, all of us have white palms until adolescence or until we get a crush on some pretty girls. By then our palms would become orange like the tangerine sky of twilight. My parents’ palms have been green like a virgin forest since my birth. They had been white before they got acquainted, turned orange in the first few months of father’s courtship with mother, and then turned red when they got engaged and eventually ti...

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“My Life As A Second Lead” by Manasa J

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My Life As A Second Lead 'Every love story in this world end’s up giving us a second lead syndrome' 'The second lead who is always the kind one ends up with broken heart' They said . I never understood why people were so sensitive to some second lead who doesn’t even exist in real life but I realized I was wrong when I experienced the life of a second lead. He was my friend my best friend . We used to spend all the time with each other, in school and after school . Our parents had a good relation with each other making ...

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“Love and the stars” by Yvette Francaise

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They always fawn over the main character. She is always perfect and beautiful, but what if I told you some had major flaws. Half the time side characters fade away to the side only to never ever be heard of. We don't ever get our happy endings. Well, most of the time. Today was their wedding today. In this case, it was Adam's and Bridgette's day.There Bridgette stood with one of the groomsmen in the white woman's bathroom. My dumb ass was in a stall when her heels clicked into the rooms. Her white silk robe shimmered on her slender body. Her...

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“THIRD WHEEL” by Theresa Anna

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He watches the man and woman reach for each other’s hands as their favorite song lures them to the dance floor. She, whispering in the man’s ear as his hand slides down her back. He, head thrown back, laughing as the woman spins him awkwardly. They’re terrible dancers. Even he, standing in the dark corner of the club with his hand in a deathlike grip around his vodka soda, can hardly bear to watch them, their arms and legs and hips moving to a private beat no one can hear. But he also can’t look away. He gives them a thumbs up and a grin whe...

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“The Coffee Table ” by Sam Khaliq

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One fine morning, two men brought me along many other from what they call a large place--- factory to this showroom. I was neat and clean, ivory-white in color. Besides, that little chap cleansed me and my fellows with his even dirty cloth patch. Sometimes dirt helps us cleanse. I learned this too in those days.He used to clear all dirt and dust from of us with his rough strikes almost every day to attract customers. I felt overwhelm when others were talking to each other, and I remained still and silent. Even ear-piercing honks of cars fail...

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“Forgotten” by Eisley Kang

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Smoke curled from my fingertips, enveloping me in a fog. I held myself against a wall, and felt for my dagger. I was ready to murder. A man passed me slowly, and to him I was all but invisible. Brushing his ginger hair out of his eyes, he laid a briefcase in the middle of the empty courtyard. It felt a waste to kill such a pretty man, but I hadn't really been given another option. The man entered a code, and the briefcase unlatched itself, fire erupting from the inside. Ginger Man was mesmerized by the flames, a rookie mistake, and that's wh...

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“Web of Life” by Karen Lethlean

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Web of Life Grandmother came over to discuss plans for a baby shower. Arrangements being made for a family gathering, celebrating our cousin, Jenny’s baby bump. On this happy event, Gran wanted, as usual, to stamp her signature. So even though left-over wedding champagne barely consumed, and cake slivers topped with thick white almond icing hadn’t even been fully distributed, plans were well underway to celebrate impending arrival of my new second cousin. ‘You can’t be serious; you’re still doing those cards?’ She asked when Grannie saw Je...

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“Ground Heist” by Jay Dani

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A volley of wild shots is quite an effective way to make a crowd of civilians scatter. Of course, nothing about the strategic bullet pattern on the dead clerk indicated that the shots were wild. Well planned murder, Cibrian mused. His amused gaze darted over the stampede of frenzied citizens. The war had taught them to run for shelter at any sign of a threat. It was a real pity they didn’t realise this was a staged homicide. Mass hysteria tended to cloud one’s detection skills. Cibrian stalked towards the corpse in the bloody snow, slumped...

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“Tick Tock Croc” by Queen Rena

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Tick Tock Croc I could not take my eyes off Pixie Hollow, the island where the fairies live, it was beautiful, always glittering with gold pixie dust. It has become a habit of mine to admire their fantastic island from my boring one, Croc Creek, but today is different, today is the day I visit Pixie Hollow. Mama Odie, the Voodoo priestess, promised every creature in Croc Creek one wish, provided they present an outstanding gift to her. It seemed like a fair deal, I had asked creatures who had visited Mama Odie, for gift ideas. They a...

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“Pepper and Her Boy (And Maybe Someone Else Too)” by Shemn C

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Pepper took her responsibility as Cat Of The House very seriously.Her Boy, Conan, as they call him, is her best friend. Inseparable since the day they met actually! Long conversations about anything and everything, jumps of happiness, bitter-filled nights of crying, she’s been through it all with her Boy. Pepper remembers when she first came home with him. He was frantic, panicky, his whole body frozen as they stared at each other from opposite ends of the Couch. She couldn’t understand why at the time, but now she knows that her Boy ju...

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“Dust Covered Girl” by Dani M

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Allow me to tell you a story. A sad story, true, one that you think you know. It is short, and simple, and easy to remember, but you do not know the true tale. Nonetheless, I shall share it with you now: She’d always been a special kind of girl, that one - not that she ever noticed. She used to go through the house, humming to herself as she swept, content in her own world, never realizing that there were those who plotted against her behind closed doors. She had been born there, ...

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“Does not Play the Accordion” by Juliet Martin

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Friendly, tidy, young professional, the application had read. I suppose I never thought to ask what kind of professional, but you usually assume something in IT or finance or maybe marketing. Gabrielle Poole: non-smoker, meat-eater, does not play the accordion. I assumed that was a bit of humour. By that time I had already had a few people round to visit the flat: one sweaty young man with a creased shirt who had asked exactly how often the landlord usually came to visit, an exceedingly tall woman who felt inclined to kick each inch of skirt...

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Write your story from the perspective of a side character.

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✍️ 143 stories

“MIRROR OF SOUL” by Sharmishtha Saha

“A plague in Atlantis ” by Rithwick Krishna

“Negotiation” by Donavan Barrier

“White Palms, Pure Love” by Melford Maderazo

“My Life As A Second Lead” by Manasa J

“Love and the stars” by Yvette Francaise

“THIRD WHEEL” by Theresa Anna

“The Coffee Table ” by Sam Khaliq

“Forgotten” by Eisley Kang

“Web of Life” by Karen Lethlean

“Ground Heist” by Jay Dani

“Tick Tock Croc” by Queen Rena

“Pepper and Her Boy (And Maybe Someone Else Too)” by Shemn C

“Dust Covered Girl” by Dani M

“Does not Play the Accordion” by Juliet Martin

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Write about a person trying to see something from another’s point of view.

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Write about a character who can suddenly see through another person's eyes — literally.

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