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Write a story titled ‘The Locked Door.’

Posted in Dark on Oct 26, 2022

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“The Locked Door” by Anna Coon

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I’ve been stuck behind this locked door for 5 years. Moryen the elf captured me when I was just a dumb teenager going on a walk. I was clearing my head after a fight with my mother… I’m sorry, a disagreement. Royals aren’t allowed to have fights or even talk about our feelings. But what I wouldn’t give to have a fight with my mother now- a real fight. I miss my family; I miss my friends. Heck, I miss PEOPLE. I only see the elf when she visits once a week to drop off food. Behind her back I call her a goblin, ogre, witch- all the...

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“The Locked Door” by S. R. Griffet

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What happens behind the locked door? There’s an easy answer: no one knows. For decades, my school has had this one specific door locked. No one knows why. The story goes like this: the original principal of the school was killing his students and locking them behind the closed door. When he died, he threw the key into the lake for no one to discover. Another story was the principal lost the key. What do I think? I think it might be a bit dangerous to go looking into it. I mean, what if it’s true? What if the man murdered his students and sho...

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“The Locked Door” by Sara Casnellie

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​​​​The Locked Door My house is a regular house. Yep. Just a regular house with a family living in it. Nothing more to it really. Well, there is one more thing. This is the fact that ever since we moved in, a door of steel has been locked ever since we moved in. Me and my family have never found the key for it so we make up stories about it. My mom says that maybe this house is haunted. My dad says that behind the door is a magical land. But me? Well, I think that the person who owned this house before us, was a murd...

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“The Locked Door ” by George Georgerfrost@gmail.com

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My name is Zigfried Zanmori.  Besides the cumbersome name I have lived with all my life, I was now standing in front of a locked door.  I have no idea of where the key is or what secrets lie inside of the vault behind the large iron door.  I’ve been warned that there are certain doors and portals that are better left locked.  Pandora’s Box flashes through my mind, but my curiosity is a much stronger impulse at this moment in my life.  This house belonged to my grandfather Zarkoff Zanmori who was as eccentric as ecc...

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“The Locked Door” by P.J. Byrd

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I know we often built it up in our heads, her and I, Audrey and Me. We built it up so many stories high, too many stories. We were magnificent architects of horror. The obstructions got so tall, we would say, “Stop.” And we would stop. “There are too many stories in our heads, “we would say. “Stop.” I also knew this. I knew this was the hardest life we or anybody else ever had to live. And I should be quiet. I could be loquacious though and she often knew better than to continue like that, stirring alphabet soup like a mad man. But...

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“The Locked Door” by Mandy Sayers

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The kids are small enough to fit together in the bathtub. They splash each other and try to stand up. I tell them over and over they need comfy butts in the tub. I have a recurring fear of them falling, swallowing water, and dry drowning hours later while asleep. I read about it in a mommy blog once. To keep them occupied, I wave a bubble wand over their heads. The opaque bubbles float down to pop in their outstretched hands. The glee something so simple can bring lifts my mouth into a smile.  I bundle them in towels, swipe q-tips in t...

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“The Locked Door” by Sheryl Thomasson

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The house. The house that has haunted my dreams since I was a child. That’s where it all began. It was a old, three story, stucco house with dark beams throughout and an old, dank basement. I hesitate to even mention the attic, lest it creep into my dreams once again.My father moved into this house with my stepmother and her 4 children after divorcing my mother.I remember thinking there was something really wrong with my stepmother. She was always talking about all of the ghosts there were in the house. I often wondered if she were a witch. ...

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“The Locked Door” by John Steckley

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  Not very surprising for a man who is living his lifelong dream of being a detective, Allen Johnson is a frequent reader of detective novels, particularly the older ones. He especially likes the ‘locked room’ stories that include Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”, Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes story “The Problem of Cell 13, and the several stories of that genre that C. K. Chesterton wrote for the intrepid Father Brown to solve. What does surprise him on this day, is that he has a locked room case now that he...

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“The Locked Door” by Gianluca Angelucci

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There is a locked door, at my place. Probably I had better not call it “my place”, it’s just the place where I am. Maybe it would be more correct to say that I am it’s dweller rather than it being my place… Doesn’t make much of a difference, does it? Whatever the case, there is that one door that doesn’t want me to go through. I roam, one room to the other, yet my path leads me back to that merciless obstacle, just one single locked door. Where are my manners, I should at least say my name, shouldn’t I? I am… actually… does that even mat...

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“The Locked Door” by Matt Cox

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Whatever you do, do not open the Locked Door. That was the last thing Mother had said to him. That and he was a Good Boy. Good boys don’t break the rules, do they?  And he was a Good Boy. He would be a Good Boy. He made breakfast and cleaned up yesterday’s dishes. Upstairs, he did his homework. He hadn’t gone to school and no one told him to since Mother had left, so it must be Saturday. He wondered if he had missed the bus. But he had been awake when it was supposed to come, and it never did. So maybe Saturday was really long. Sil...

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“The Locked Door” by Michael Mackenzie

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 Amidst the City’s newest skyscrapers The 30th Street Hotel stood as an ode to the elegance of older generations, carrying within its walls and rooms and hallways the sins of its occupants.Darrell had never been inside the hotel, but one evening, a call came from the hotel's manager, requesting his services.   He stood in the lobby, basked in the jazz music radiating from the hotel’s atrium and admired the flickering lights of the chandelier. Lavender lifting from the front desk as excitable guest waited to check-in and o...

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“The Locked Door” by Michael Martin

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He gripped the doorknob, the cold brass sending a chill through his small hand. He turned his wrist, not surprised to hear the click that always accompanied the knob’s premature halt. Well, the door always clicked now. It didn't before... but he could hardly remember a time when the knob was able to rotate past this point.Was there ever a time when this door opened? The doorknob stopped at exactly the same spot when he rotated it left and when he rotated it to the right. He didn’t react; he no longer reacted. He no longer crie...

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“The Locked Door by C.E. Metcalf” by Conrad M

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When I was a child, I lived with my grandmother why to this day I don't really know. Not that it really matters. Many years have gone by since then. But one thing I'll always remember was a locked door. I asked many times what was behind it and grandma would always say nothing for you to be concerned about. But of course, I was a curious boy like most boys my age. I wanted in the worst way to find out what was behind it. No matter how hard I begged grandma she never gave in. She caught me a couple of times trying to pick the lock on the door...

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“The Locked Door” by Angie N

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One step, two steps, three…. “No, this isn’t right!” screamed Kevin. He could not think about any other word but God or else he would have to go right back to the first step. He felt tension build up in his chest and could not let the intrusive thought come true. If he said any other word, he was going to burn in hell. As Kevin repeated the process, he felt his mind becoming bombarded with anxiety. It was like a scorching sensation in his heart. He then rushed to the kitchen and skimmed through his refrigerator for a bite to eat. There w...

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“The Locked Door” by Cindy Joyner

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The Locked Door by Cynthia Joyner      It was 1978. winter in the old steel town of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  I was twelve and had just entered into that awkward preteen stage of life.  It was hard enough being shy and so unsure of myself, but at this age, those qualities seemed to be magnified immensely by the fact that I was the oldest of three girls. I was a quiet girl, that pretty much kept to myself.  Reading was my favorite pastime.  I loved the escape a good book offered.  To clean my...

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