Start your story with a character having a premonition, but no one believes them.

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“The 'End' ” by Rekha Yadav

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Life of a 17 year old teenager is lot messier. No one can understand how we feel . We become alone even when we are surrounded by a lot of people around. We cannot share anything with our parents because they cannot understand . They can only point out the mistakes . And then the frustration changes into hatred. Just like in my case . I am Anna , the 17 year old teenager , who is always in frustration and always pissed on my mom. She is like a annoying radio which is specialised in showing my mistakes , my flaws . I cannot share anything wi...

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“Terrance Winlow Bridden's Premonition ” by George Georgerfrost@gmail.com

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No matter how he turned in his bed Terrance Winlow Bridden could not sleep. His dreams were disturbed and interrupted by horrible visions of a disaster. “Terry, it’s breakfast.” His mother called him as the servants had set the table for the morning meal. He still had the horrible images from his nightmare swimming in his head. His tennis lesson would begin promptly at nine with Mr. Cheevers on the tennis courts on the estate grounds. His private tutor would follow at around ten, Mr. Jenkins was his name...

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“Mrs. O'Reilly” by Annie Goldberg

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Alessia and her best friend Maria were playing in Alessia’s driveway, like they did every Saturday. They were jumping rope, smiling and laughing. Suddenly, Maria tripped and fell on the ground. The girls giggled and Alessia helped Maria up, making sure that she was alright. “This is no time to be giggling girls,” a voice said. Alessia turned with a start, and saw Mrs. O’Reilly leaning over them. She was an older woman who lived across the street from Alessia. Her husband had died about five years ago, and ever since then, Mrs. O’Reill...

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“Don't Believe Me? Watch” by Abbey Long

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Each Monday always starts and ends the same way: painfully boring. It drags on for years and years, and Darcy always resists the urge to fall asleep at her desk. Even now, whilst she sits there, watching the coffee drip down into her mug, she is half asleep. Picking up a wooden stirrer, she mixes her coffee, hoping the steam will revitalise her (although it never does). With steady hands, she takes the coffee back to her desk, ready to finish her monotonous day. &...

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“Adaeze the mysterious girl” by BAWO EGBAYINOR

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Adaeze was the only child of her parents,tall,slim and dark in complexion. She was 8 years old when she started having premonitions,no one believed her because they thought she was too small to be saying things that is not met for her age. Adaeze is a very beautiful girl,respectful and above all hard working. She lost her mom at the age of 8. Adaeze woke up one morning and went to her mother to complain about what she saw about her but she wouldn't listen,she had wanted to go to the farm when the little girl told her not to. Adaeze cried bi...

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“Premo...What? ” by Emily Bronte

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As I lay in bed, I thought about my day. I got a pop quiz in history which I'm pretty sure I flunked, I finally worked up enough courage to ask a girl to the dance, and my best friend said he was quitting our band. It was a pretty mixed day, but it's not as bad as I think about it now. I’ve had worse days at school. I'm the only boy in our family of three sisters, a divorced mom, and an annoying cat. At twelve years old, I'm pretty sure I'm just as ordinary as anybody else. No one in my family ever listens to me, especially when I'm right an...

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“The Dream” by Cindy Calder

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It was a normal day when Zoe awoke. She got up, brushed her teeth, showered, and dressed for work as usual. Before heading out the door of her loft apartment, she stopped in the small kitchen to enjoy a cup of coffee and a piece of buttered toast. It was while she was sipping her coffee that she remembered the dream.The previous night, as she slept, she’d had a dream that she now suddenly and in crystal clear detail recalled. She straightened where she stood as chills moved down the length of her spine. How odd that she’d had the dream to be...

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“The Lady Who Brings Death” by Babika Goel

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Eleventh day. I’m still on the seventh floor of Al-Zabeera Hospital, in the heart of Riyadh. Doctors transferred me here as a patient under observation after having spent six months in the intensive care unit. My room is at the end of the desolated wing of this private ward.“Move” is what I hear being yelled out from the far end. The voice is deafening. It's likely that one of the ward lads is bringing a patient. But just then, a deathly silence descends on everything, and I’m gripped by a strange sensation.Unannounced and uninvited, a visio...

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“The Photograph” by Shoshana A

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This was for the fourth time Katerina got an unnerving sensation by gazing at the framed photograph hung in Jacob’s living room. Her mind was bombarding with questions and was crying for answers. Just when she was about to exclaim with surprise and shout for answers, she saw Mary glaring at her. Mary’s one look was enough to zip her lips; her silence was filled with anger and clamor. Within seconds, without uttering a word, she demanded Katerina’s passivity.Mary and Jacob, an elderly couple, shifted to Katerina’s neighborhood one month back....

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“A Day Out” by Lov K.

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Cotton white clouds trudged lazily across the sky as Henri sat in his apartment balcony and watched. The day was a sunny one, and neighbors in the residential buildings chatted and cooked, evident by the smell of barbeque wafting through the air. Families walked together in happy clusters. An old woman living on the ground floor watered her daisies and marigold flowers, some of the water spilling and trickling onto the street. Henri glanced down at his watch to remind himself of the time, shifting his book to the left hand as he twist...

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“What are the Chances?” by E Sampson

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I have now concluded three possible outcomes from boarding this flight: the plane explodes right after liftoff, the plane crashes mid-flight and everybody onboard dies, or the plane lands in Beijing and I spend the next five days cooped up in a hotel room that probably has a pungent Artemisia smell. I would have pointed all of this out to Alisa, my best friend who also happens to be a news reporter, but she is currently haggling the price of a t-shirt with the old woman running the airport clothing store. I instead choose to pick at my crims...

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“Hunted” by Azaushubel Emmanuel

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“Help help help” I screamed as woke from sleep, sweat drops dripping from my face, my fingers and toes twitching in fright as though I had just encountered a beast. The room was dark and hot as though someone had infused hot air into it while I slept, only the beaming of the moonlight shown into the room through the porous lock spaces of the creaky wooden window and the tin spaces between the inter logged woods reflecting on just a few areas inside the room. My night robe was soaked with sweat, and the dusty smell of freshly sawed logs us...

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“A PREMONITION & A PROMISE” by Kaitlynn Flint

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‘A PREMONITION & A PROMISE’ By Kaitlynn Flint 6/15/21 “Do you know why you’re here, Miss Creech?” The young woman sat crossed-legged on the cold fold-up chair, glaring at the chubby man who sat across the table. She cocked her head sideways, her bangs falling over her eyes. “Yes.” May Creech licked her lips. “You think I’m crazy.” The psychologist pressed his lips together and sighed. “We don’t like to use that word here, Miss Creech.” “But I’m still right. You think I’ve lost my mind,” she whisper...

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“Lilliet🌹” by Jade Orien🍀

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"Oh, what a ridiculous daughter that you have Jimery," Paulette says to Jimery as she puts on red lipstick in the mirror in their bedroom."Ridiculous is a bit mean darling" Jimery adds as he folds his arms across his chest."Ok, then the girl is delusional.""Will you stop calling my daughter horrific names."Paulette gets up from the cot and approaches Jimery in a devious manner."I call her what I see. What she said about the ship was horrifying what child speaks in vain."Paulette pushes Jimery out of the way as she passes by him.5 am this mor...

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“Uncle Bob's Pantry” by Craig Stokes

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Every Thursday for the past 15 years, my sister and I have made our weekly grocery run in Salem. Starting in 1977, the routine has been the same. That first summer, the kids had finished the school year, so Thursday logistics became increasingly complicated. Thanks to the availability of my sister’s unpaneled, dark brown 1972 Ford station wagon, we could squeeze in the four children along with the groceries as we made our way to Uncle Bob’s house. ...

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Start your story with a character having a premonition, but no one believes them.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 147 stories

“The 'End' ” by Rekha Yadav

“Terrance Winlow Bridden's Premonition ” by George Georgerfrost@gmail.com

“Mrs. O'Reilly” by Annie Goldberg

“Don't Believe Me? Watch” by Abbey Long

“Adaeze the mysterious girl” by BAWO EGBAYINOR

“Premo...What? ” by Emily Bronte

“The Dream” by Cindy Calder

“The Lady Who Brings Death” by Babika Goel

“The Photograph” by Shoshana A

“A Day Out” by Lov K.

“What are the Chances?” by E Sampson

“Hunted” by Azaushubel Emmanuel

“A PREMONITION & A PROMISE” by Kaitlynn Flint

“Lilliet🌹” by Jade Orien🍀

“Uncle Bob's Pantry” by Craig Stokes

🌟 Similar prompts

Write about a family with a long-standing tradition, whose members all have conflicting origin stories for it.

Write about someone who’s desperately trying to change their luck.

Set your story on (or in) a winding river.

Write a story involving a character who cannot return home.

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