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#83: Tropical Getaway

Sometimes we all need a break from our current circumstances. When the world feels gray and lifeless, thoughts of warm beaches and sunny skies can sound more appealing than ever.

Travel has been hard to come by for a while now, but that doesn’t mean we can’t make an escape through our imaginations. So this week, let’s slather on the sunscreen, steal what daylight we can, and take our characters to the crystal beaches most of us can only imagine.

This week's prompts

Write about someone who goes to extreme lengths to get themselves to a tropical island.

Adventure – 91 stories

Start your story with someone emerging from the sea, and end it with them looking up at the stars.

Fantasy – 277 stories

Write about someone who’s lived on a tropical island their whole life and is leaving it for the very first time.

Dystopian – 83 stories

Write about someone who books a bargain vacation, only to be told when they arrive that they need to share a hotel suite with a stranger.

Dramatic – 148 stories

Write a fantasy story about water gods or spirits.

Fantasy – 227 stories

Stories

“Jabberwock Island” by Anna May

Submitted to Contest #83

*This story is based off of the anime, Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope’s Peak High School, and Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair*Salt. The taste was everywhere in my mouth. And yet I couldn’t get it out. I dragged my body out of the ocean and onto shore. 15 other students were also there, sopping wet and looking at me with curiosity. “Guess that’s the last of us, huh?” Said a boy with white hair sticking out in all directions. I figured he was Komaeda, and he looked much better since the last time we had met. I looked behind me, there ...

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“A gift for Aqua” by Tim Law

Submitted to Contest #83

Jess carefully made her way down to the place where the ocean lapped upon the shore. The great basket of her mother’s flowers was a beautiful gift and she hoped it and the rainbow of color within would please the Goddess Aqua. Bare feet wet with the crystal clear sea, then shins, then finally thighs, Jess ventured forth to rest the basket upon the crest of the tiny waves and gave her offering a gentle shove. The basket’s bouquet was picked up by the ocean breeze and blown back toward Jess once more before the loaded wicker coasted away. For ...

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“Sunset Isle” by Pippin Took

Submitted to Contest #83

Lynn splashed in the tropical cove that was her home. Her shimmery blue green hair shone in the sun. It almost looked like water, her beautiful hair. It was down to her waist, and she usually had it down, with a waterfall braid curving around her head. Her ears were big and pointed. She was like an elf of the sea, except she was a water spirit, or a tele h’ai, which means “children of the sea”. She was beautiful. She was giggling to herself in the paradise of the tropical island in which she lived, called Sunset Isle. Only a fe...

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“The spirits lullaby” by Lily Rama

Submitted to Contest #83

I am about to tell you a story. It is an extraordinary story, quite one of a kind. It is from long ago, about a time before humans roamed. A time where the most peculiar beings walked the Earth. This story has been passed down generation from generation, and now belongs to me. And I will share it with you. Once upon a time, a long time ago, there was a small village. It was an odd village, unlike any others. Instead of boring, wooden planks for the houses, they were made out of pure crystal that sparkled in the sunlight. Instead of the villa...

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“Mongrone” by Pamela Berglund

Submitted to Contest #83

Mongrone Islandia is well known for it’s sparkling beaches. The water is the perfect temperature -not too hot and not too cold. The white sands sparkle with colors of orange and pearl. Small shacks, made of balsa wood have withstood many hurricanes, and even a few tsunamis. The water gods believe that it is protected by Nimf, the god of strength. Not many people know about this resort island, but I do. I found it by necessity, you may find it when you least expect it. I was born on Camaras, a small gala...

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“The Night of the Half Moon” by Deborah Mercer

Submitted to Contest #83

“I blame his grandfather” said Sally Henson, and it sounded more peevish than she had meant it to, but she would have been lying if she’d said she was sorry it did. “And I take it I don’t need to ask which grandfather you mean?” her husband Alec asked, rhetorically. It seemed as if they were going to quarrel, and neither of them wanted it, but neither of them intended going out of their way to avoid it. Sally, who always believed in being fair, said, “Your father is a good man, Alec, and he’s always been kind to me. I like his stories, too. ...

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“To Go Beyond” by Kathleen M.

Submitted to Contest #83

When they bought the office, Dana rigged the door with as many windchimes as she could buy. While Robin toiled away in the back rooms, setting up bookshelves and display cases for their trophies and spoils, not of war but from their many jobs and travels, Dana hung windchimes so that the door would always open with a cacophony that could be heard through the entire building. Robin pretended to be annoyed, but when she heard the door open with a crashing noise with Dana’s cackling as accompaniment, she couldn’t help but feel something warm bl...

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“Celestia” by Kathleen March

Submitted to Contest #83

The little moura popped her small head out of the water and shook the drops off the top of it with an energetic toss of her hair, or fur, or scales. (Mouras aren’t easy to describe.) It was slightly chilly because, after all, it was late November. Good thing it wasn't frigid, although, if truth be told, she didn't mind the cool flow of the underground streams to the places where they emerged. Those waters were her home, and every gurgle, every ripple, was hers to play with. She was happy. The waters were where she felt the happiest.This litt...

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“Lynn of the Shallows” by Anna May

Submitted to Contest #83

The promise of a story. That’s what led me here. Where no water spirit would go. Willingly, anyway. I didn't know how many days had passed, it was impossible to tell in this inky darkness. The only light I had was the anglerfish light that I had received as a parting gift.But then I saw. A faint blue light, peeking through the darkness. I’ve done it. I’ve found her. Lynn. Boosted with a rush of adrenaline, I swam towards that blue light. And then I saw a cave where the dream said she lived. I swam into it.“Hello?”And then I saw her. Sit...

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“Even the Moon have the Stars” by Moon Butterfly

Submitted to Contest #83

A hot looking guy just finished bathing from the sea. Seawater was trickling down from his manly chest to his eight-packed abs. He shook his head so that he can dry himself. After drying himself, He sat on the seashore and sadly looked at the sea whilst the setting sun‘s ray hit his face. The Golden rays of the dusk reminds him on how golden her hair was on the day she met the girl who taught her that life was worth the living. ”Stella,” He unconsciously said. Then he looked at his hand where he holds the seashell necklace. Then the sad memo...

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“the Promise” by Catherine Stevens

Submitted to Contest #83

A bright light appeared in front of the moon, at first the Chief thought it was a shooting star. It zigzagged across the sky erratically then shot high into the atmosphere, almost disappearing from sight. The villagers noticed their Chief staring upward and looked to see what had caught his eye. As they all watched the star, it danced across the Heavens. It darted back and forth and up and down in a frenzy of motion. The villagers watched in amusement with the Chief as the star performed it's strange antics. The Shaman was the...

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“The Sea Daughter” by Izabel C

Submitted to Contest #83

They say she was born from the sea, with not a father’s, nor a mother’s blood flowing through her veins. There was never a clue to her existence, just a story, a legacy. Mia, like every other young daughter who eventuated Suli, was aware of the story, more so the burden it came with. The sea was sacred, treated by its subjects as a god. The Suli people built temples and monuments, branding their foreheads with her symbol. Mia had never quite understood it, unlike the other daughters, she had never felt the imperceptible pull, but the girl wh...

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“The star was there” by Hannah Rose

Submitted to Contest #83

There is a feeling that overwhelms a person when they think they are drowning, it is close to fear and even closer to pain but it is not quite defined as either of the two. It is more of a realization that in those few seconds they have a choice to make, to either hold their breath and try to swim to the surface, or to let it out and sink to the bottom of the sea however far away that may be. It is a hard decision to make when you are grown and have a life of ups and downs to help you weigh your options, it is even harder a choice to make ...

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“Trapped heart” by Yaj Imagination

Submitted to Contest #83

To experience love is to experience to getting hurt.It's already a given.But it, happening to me countless times, wasn't really what I had dreamt of. Especially when getting hurt is more often than experiencing that butterflies in your chest.The memories of the heartbreaks will haunt you to the point all you can do is cry on a moment of bliss.It occurs to me a lot that even as I wake up in the hammock of vines, I still find myself in tears for it was still loitering as a dream.Watering the garden, and wandering down the beach, no matter what...

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“The Naiad Wish” by Kay (:

Submitted to Contest #83

“Hali! Stop that you know you’re not supposed to! Get back here!” cried Oceane, swimming after her sister. “Don’t be so worried, there's no-one here,” Hali called over her shoulder. A head, draped in seaweed emerged from the murky depths of the lake. The rest of the head appeared, revealing beautiful sea green, almond shaped eyes. A joyful smile on her pink lips. Her black hair plastered to her chestnut skin. Close beside her popped up another head that greatly resembled the first, except her eyes were a deep amber. “Hal...

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