Write a story about a pathological liar.

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“Downward-facing Dog” by Dempsey Hyatt

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“Girl, you gotta get back on your horse and mount someone,” my friend, Andrea, said as we sipped our Mai Tais in a tiki bar that was equidistant between our respective apartments in Brooklyn. I gasped and said, “Andrea! That’s a bit crude. I’m not looking for sex, I—” “Not looking just for sex,” she corrected. &nbs...

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“Liar Liar” by Jim Hirtle

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Liar Liar Jimmy Quinn sits on the back porch looking past the cornfields, painted gold by the hot sun, past the blacktop highway absent of cars on this Sunday before school starts back up, past the river he knows is on the other side of the road, separated by a hundred yards of thorny thistle and broke down cedar. Past it all and into nothing. He had walked across the field, over the road and down the prickly hill more times than he could count, carrying a fishing pole in one hand and a cooler in the other. Shifting his dark green eyes, ...

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“The Semi-Golden Years” by Don Tucker

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Retired couple James and Martha Newcombe were using their sudden heaps of time to do and see new things. They had five children who were no longer children and long ago moved out to start lives of their own. James, a former physician, and Martha, a former high school history teacher, would often dream and hypothetically speak about the journeys that would take place once they had the time. More than once, usually over morning coffee or evening wine, they would be walking the Valley of the Kings in Cairo or admiring the astonishing views of t...

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“Dangerous Predator on Planet Earth” by Violetta Salabay

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Good morning World It is the year 2022 , nine in the morning . We are live with today's news. China has reported a new type of species has been discovered , it's been described as being potentially harmful . They have said it can swim underwater , fly above the clouds at abnormal speed , and run long distances . Most recent reports are saying that the number of such species are increasing at a rapid pace , they are also prone to spread various diseases . And no it is not a bat . Joe Biden has released...

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“Liar” by Clara Candace Farr

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Liar“This is my pencil,” he said defiantly to his mom. “That’s your pencil?” she repeated slowly hoping he would correct his lie into a truthful statement. “Yes!” he doubled down. She walked out of kitchen and quickened her steps around the corner. She was in a run when she hit the stairs up to her son’s bedroom. She flung open the door to see her bundle of work pencils and a few other items from her desk on top of his dresser. Why lie about a pencil? The thought kept turning over in her mind. This small ac...

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“Great Eyes, Better Lies and Other Red Flags” by Jess Lane

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This story contains sensitive content including domestic violence, substance abuse, cheating and strong language. I met him through friends. After dating a string of non working musicians with a variety of mental health issues and a knack for “borrowing” money from me, he was a welcome change, or so I thought. My low self esteem and desperation for a “good guy” was so blinding you could have wrapped me in a giant red flag to the point of suffocation and id still excuse them away. Oh thank you for this big red blanket, I was so cold, can...

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“The Pathological Liar” by Stephen B. Allen

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The Pathological Liar:It has been said that I am a “Pathological Liar” by some…an “Accomplished Liar” by others…or even a “Skilled Liar Of Epic Proportions Not Seen Since The Dawn Of Man”!I particularly like that last one; it sounds almost Biblical, don’t you think?Were it to be true, that would have to mean that I would out-rank all of the scum which human history has produced. Ruthless dictators who massacred millions in their warped quest for power? Sorry boys…back to the end of the line, for I’m Number One! Warped psychos whose only purp...

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“Importance of the Unimportant” by Marie White

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Opposite me at her kitchen table cluttered with mail, opened and unopened; pink pens; dog-eared romance novels; and half-spent sugar cookie-scented candles, Kailyn glares at me like I’ve murdered her firstborn child. Her face is as red as paprika, bluish veins swollen and silhouetted in fluorescence leant by the light weeping clouds fling through her window’s gossamer curtains. What point does she see in having curtains if they let so much light in? I asked her when she got th...

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Write a story about a pathological liar.

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✍️ 38 stories

“Downward-facing Dog” by Dempsey Hyatt

“Liar Liar” by Jim Hirtle

“The Semi-Golden Years” by Don Tucker

“Dangerous Predator on Planet Earth” by Violetta Salabay

“Liar” by Clara Candace Farr

“Great Eyes, Better Lies and Other Red Flags” by Jess Lane

“The Pathological Liar” by Stephen B. Allen

“Importance of the Unimportant” by Marie White

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Write about two characters arguing over how a past event happened.

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Write about false news coverage of an important event.

Start your story with a character or a narrator saying, “Don’t you remember?”

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