Write a story about someone making a deal with the devil.

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“My little angel” by Shridhar Shivam

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So many followers, wonder how that would feel like. I guess it will take a long time before I can see that. Christina is a social media influencer, who posts dance videos. Most of her followers are boys and they comment on how cute she looks. I wish they could see her in real life, she is arrogant and often demines others using her videos. Almost all of my classmates post videos online but none of us have had any success. I started posting videos because I love dogs and feel like they are some form of angels, I used to upload videos for fun....

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“Iron Doors ” by Kiyana Marie

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Growing up with Riley was a blessing or at least that’s what I used to think, that girl could make a trip to the dentist office fun. I met Riley in my kindergarten class back when we were just five years old. We started to become close when our moms met at our classroom Halloween party. Our moms becoming friends resulted in a lot of play dates, by the time we were in elementary school we started having sleepovers almost every weekend. When seventh grade came around we started to slowly make friends with the wrong group of people, we didn’t k...

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“No Place Like Home” by Brandy Montgomery

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A big fat, I told you so, is coming to the world the day Artificially Intelligence begins to rage wars, and Lucifer discovers ways to make this accessible to his plans. The beautiful raven just delivered the second letter of today. Both letters are from different senders, Blair and Ananias, but both express the same feeling about how much they detest handwritten messages and that I don’t have a communicator. Ares, Divine Deity of War, supplies them to all guild members; I refused mine. When I walked away from the Divine War, I had planned fo...

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“May God Rest My Soul” by Alaina Armendariz

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The bar was dead that night, Ron remembered. The ‘storm of the century’ was in full swing, and the roads were flooded and fresh with potholes. The minister at his father’s funeral had remarked that it was by God’s grace that they were able to bury him before the storm reached its peak, else they would have had to delay for an entire week. “Where was God’s grace when he suffered in the hospital for three days after his heart attack?” Ron had wanted to ask. A thunderous roar reverberated off the walls as he wiped his boots on th...

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“Parlay With the Devil” by Scott Gil

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I met my friend Jed at a Gin Mill. The place was at the docks on the Brooklyn waterfront. The night was foggy, blanketing the ground most creepily. It felt like a scene in an old Universal horror movie, and I expected Boris Karloff to pop out of the next corner warehouse. A guy in a London fog raincoat was nearby with a dark fedora, and I amusingly thought it was Bela Lugosi with a hidden cape under there. And I would watch him use that crooked hand, staring with those deep black eyes. The heavy Hungarian accent seduces his victim for a bloo...

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“Meeting of Two Corinthians” by Peter Dymond

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“Come in and take a seat. You can place your jacket next to my two coats on the hook by the door. Now, I understand you passed the earlier assessments with flying colours. I have the report here in front of me and it is quite impressive. Almost as good as my little protégé; you can see him on the wall up there; front cover of Time magazine. That title still cracks me up. Anyway, I digress, you have done very well to get to this point of proceedings, but things get a little trickier from now on. You can probably understand the level of b...

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“Two Wrongs Make a Right” by Hunter Kinsman

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Jeff slumped down in the driver’s seat, slinging his head back. He closed his eyes, opened his throat, and let out a soul-searching sigh. He ran his hands through his hair that was weeks past needing a trim but was undoubtedly also thinning at the top. He reluctantly turned the car on; it was quickly getting cold. As he waited for the car to acclimate, Jeff began to question his faith, his persistence, his motivation to do what he does every day. Once home, he flopped his shoes off at the door and microwa...

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Write a story about someone making a deal with the devil.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 112 stories

“My little angel” by Shridhar Shivam

“Iron Doors ” by Kiyana Marie

“No Place Like Home” by Brandy Montgomery

“May God Rest My Soul” by Alaina Armendariz

“Parlay With the Devil” by Scott Gil

“Meeting of Two Corinthians” by Peter Dymond

“Two Wrongs Make a Right” by Hunter Kinsman

🌟 Similar prompts

Write a story about someone trying to resist their darker impulses. Whether they succeed or fail is up to you.

Set your story in a haunted house.

Write a story about a monster trying to become more human. Or about a human trying to become more monstrous.

You confront the monster you’ve spent many long years hunting. Except they’re not exactly what you thought they’d be…

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