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#112: Come Rain or Shine

From melancholy to cathartic to Singing-in-the-Rain-style joyful, rain somehow feels different every time. What’s certain is that rain often forms the backdrop to many of our human dramas — so this week’s prompts invite you to step into that downpour and let it soak you to the bones.

This week's prompts

End your story with a character standing in the rain.

Angst – 99 stories

Write a story where it’s raining men, literally or metaphorically.

Valentine's Day – 24 stories

Write a story where something magical happens when it starts to rain.

Middle School – 53 stories

The first rain of the season arrives. Write a story that begins immediately afterward.

Spring – 27 stories

Write about a character driving in the rain.

Fall – 57 stories

Stories

“The Cave” by L.J Sunwing

Submitted to Contest #112

“This is my life now. I have climbed this hill, and now I will die upon it”, Griffith falls onto the slant. He lets out an exaggerated groan as he sprawls out on the ground. Sanya was tired, and Griffith's whining and teasing on this hike had finally gotten to her. Her impatience was often exaggerated by his carefree attitude. “We’ve hiked three miles, it’s only been an hour.” Sanya pulls out the map and scans it. Griffith had wrangled the two together for a project for their anthropology class. She knew this would mean he would foll...

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“In The Rain Stone Became Flight” by Elizabeth Fenley

Submitted to Contest #112

“In the Rain Stone Became Flight” by Elizabeth Fenley In the rain, they awoke. Silent stone sentinels atop the massive building. Azvamenth stretched his wings, wiggled his talons, and yawned, revealing deadly fangs. He looked towards the column on his right. Birsha was waking up too, unfurling her tail and rolling her horned head around in circles. “Ubel, sister.” “Ubel, brother.” Taking flight simultaneously, Azvamenth on two wings, Birsha on six, they sailed to the crenelated tower to meet the others. Tavarius, his wide, thickly mu...

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“A Kind of Magic” by Kiara Hernandez

Submitted to Contest #112

Dark gray clouds hung low in the sky, erasing every pink trace of dawn in sight. Maude trudged across the back quad of her university’s campus, clumps of wet dirt and grass clinging to her boots with every step. She looked forward to the rainy day ahead, it meant the old university library would be empty. No rogue students trying to enchant objects to fly or making out in the library’s love divination aisles. An act that was painfully cliche. As she approached the building she couldn’t help but stop and take it all in. Maude had been at...

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“Landrise” by Lavender Marigold

Submitted to Contest #112

The atmosphere began to fall like rain, freezing the instant it splashed on the thick sheet of ice that was the vast Drekeln Plain. Sharp spines bloomed from the amorphous drops, glistening under the piercing light of the moon Ilbra. Stalking out from a cave in the side of Mount Drekeln, spyglass in hand, a figure, bundled in several layers of patterned clothes stepped out and peered over the edge of the precipice.“Find anything, Arlkna?” The gurgling voice of Brekten preceded the rhythmic shuffle of his steps.Raising her spyglass to her gog...

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“A Rainy Night in Maryland” by Tina G

Submitted to Contest #112

It was a Saturday in early October when I met him. A night I will never forget because little did I know that soon my life was about to change forever. The very first time I saw him was on a video at his cousin's house. He was playing the drums and I instantly felt butterflies in my belly. This man was fine! He was living in New York at the time. Yep, the big city, and there I was, drooling in Maryland. After watching the video of him I knew that I had to forget about him. I knew we would never meet. I did not see his cousin that often anywa...

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“A BEDTIME STORY ” by Kay Reeves

Submitted to Contest #112

"OK kids, snuggle up and Gramps will tell you a story. Don't need no books. This story is sitting right here is this old head of mine. It happened to me right back then when I was knee-high to a grasshopper. Never forgotten it and I never will, not until they put me in a box in the churchyard, next to your Grandma. Well, it started out a normal enough day. I was up and about good and early and there was no hope of breakfast yet, so I opened the back door quietly and went off down the yard to use...

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“The Rain” by Elle Becker

Submitted to Contest #112

We stood at the window, watching the first monsoon of death this season. “Do you remember when the rain wasn’t poisoned, Ellie?” Daisy breaks my thoughts of him…I shake my head to clear his name, then look down to my sweet, six year old sister. I’m like a mother to her at nineteen, since our mother died five springs ago, caught out in a freak monsoon. Nobody saw it coming. Not like we have weathermen anymore. “Kinda,” I said. I was only nine when we came inside. It’s really not that different, except I miss playing in the rain, when I was y...

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“Shared heart” by Trina Episode

Submitted to Contest #112

Tessa’s POV I smooth out my deep red dress and exhale. I look up into the mirror and assure myself everything will be fine. Today’s the day. I’m telling my best friend of 13 years that I have feelings for him. Yep, totally not panicking or anything. I grab my phone and wallet and make my way out the door and to his house. AJ and I met 13 years ago when he and his family moved in next door. From the second we saw each other, there was an instant connection. The kind of connection I find difficult to describe. It’s like he and I share two ...

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“Dammit, Patterson!” by Elizabeth Fenley

Submitted to Contest #112

“Dammit, Patterson!” by Elizabeth Fenley When the screaming started, the smart thing to do would have been to run away. Unfortunately, as I ran toward the noise, I admitted to myself that I am just not that smart. Collins grabbed my arm, “You are not going without me.” I shook his hand off my arm. “Of course not. I might need a human shield.” “Dammit, Patterson!” I heard his boots landing heavily behind me, and then quickly beside me. The next second, he was in front of me. “See? I knew you’d make a great human shield. You already have this ...

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“Accidentally Free” by Alexandra Pearlman

Submitted to Contest #112

After months of draught, it had poured the previous night for hours on end, which may have contributed to why I couldn’t sleep. Hail as big as grapes crashed down on parked cars, bitter rain oppressed evergreens, shrubs drooped from the sheer volume of water, puddle ponds collected in the street, kitchen skylights vibrated from the incessant splat of the downpour. Storms like this were frenetic operas of discordant sounds in my mind, a soundtrack to my delayed longings. After I finally did fall asleep, I overslept deep into morning. Bleary ...

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“Singing in the Rain” by Lisa Neuvelt

Submitted to Contest #112

“Singing in the rain, singing in the rain. I’m just singing in the rain.” Kelly could still hear her little girl singing on the front porch.“Mommy, if I play in the rain, do I still have to take a bath?” she asked, jumping in a big mud puddle. If Kelly closed her eyes she could still see her daughter covered from head to toe in mud.It’s been almost a year since Kelly’s ex-husband took off with their little girl, Maddie-Rose.Maddie-Rose loved the rain. She loved the rain even more than she loved the sunshine.If it was rain...

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“Seeds” by Penni Warford

⭐️ Shortlisted for Contest #112

CW: fire, natural disasterSeeds “What the hell am I supposed to do with these?” I gaze at a packet of zinnia seeds that were tucked in with the supplies I just picked up from the Red Cross. “Masks, gloves, goggles – seeds? Seriously?!” I squeeze my eyes shut as I hold onto the scream that is forming in my throat. I stuff the seed packet into my back pocket.It’s the first time I’ve seen what’s left of our property. James and I wanted to drive up in one car, but one of us had to grab the hazmat stuff while the other dropped the girls...

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“Only A Ride Home From School” by Bruce Friedman

Submitted to Contest #112

Warning: Sexual violence threats, crime, and foul language.The rain was pouring down in sheets and forming puddles across the gravel surface of the high school parking lot. A wet and humid afternoon. Rachel was sitting in the bus shelter in front of the school at the end of the day, waiting for her father to pick her up. This gave her some protection from the rain but the roof was leaking in places so she was confined to a small corner.A black, four-door Toyota pulled up in front. Wedged behind the steering wheel sat a heavy man in his mid-4...

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“The Copse ” by Ed Benjamin

Submitted to Contest #112

Ed Benjamin 6418 Ryan Ray Bulverde, TX 78163 210-860-0648 Flowingwp@gmail.com The Copse By Ed Benjamin A mountain home in Northwest Arkansas The man stood in the copse of pine trees at the edge of the mountain. He looked down into the valley, watching the road sn...

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“The Perfect Moment” by Mackenzie Allen

Submitted to Contest #112

Waking up unready for today- James and I have plans, a full day of fun, but that's not what I'm worried about. Today is the day, I've decided, I'm going to tell James I'm in love with him. Today we're going to watch The Suicide Squad, then probably get ice cream the way we always do after movies, then to the new arcade by his house. I've been waiting for the perfect place or the perfect time to tell him and I just know I'll find it today. I have to. I threw on the outfit I'd planned last night and dropped downstairs for some breakfast, he wa...

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