Write a story that includes the phrase “I’m free!”

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“The Island” by Patricia Williford

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THE ISLAND Two young men, their faces sleek and vibrant as sunlight, lifted the dull, rumpled old man onto the boat. The motor idled restlessly, ready to race its powerful legs across the water. The old man licked the sea mist from his parched lips, the salt burning the sores on his tongue. A woman standing on the dock, wearing a white dress and matching hat, let go of the two children she had been holding back and cupped her hands around her red-penciled mouth. “Goodbye, Papa.” “Goodbye...

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“Love” by George Anderson

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Mac had worked out he had been born old at a fairly young age because he had always had an old man's point of view. Now he was retired and had accumulated enough health problems to reasonably assume he was close to the end of the journey. He spends much of his time pondering the meaning of it all. Had he learned what he'd been sent here to learn? With age comes perspective was one of the first gems he had picked up on. Before he was thirty Mac had observed that what was important to you at twenty would seem laughable at forty and...

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“God's Will Be Done” by Tracie Johnson

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TRIGGER WARNING:GOD’S WILL BE DONE “And I tell you,” Pastor David Marks shouted above the chorus of ‘Amens,’ “as sure as God created heaven and earth, homosexuality is not inborn. God would not plant such a thing in the heart of a child. It is not an,” here he exaggerated the word, “orientation.” No one is compelled to commit such debauchery. You are free, I am free, we are all free to choose Christ above sin. There’s nothing that prayer can’t solve!” All seventy-five of ...

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“TEA TIME” by Charles Corkery

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TEA TIME No.74. Combined Services Detailed Interrogation Centre, Bad Nenndorf, Lower Saxony, British Occupation Zone. July 1945. British officer, Captain Smith, sat at the conference table and continued to brief his newly arrived commanding officer. “So that’s two more in custody, sir. They’re both in denial of course but we shall crack them pretty quickly with the help of Klein”. “Ah, yes. This Klein. What can you tell me about him, Captain? I hear he’s been a tremendous help to us in the hunt for these Nazis”. “First rate chap, sir...

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“NIKO'S FATE: A TESTIMONY FROM PRISON” by Melinda Madrigal

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What is fate? Fate is determined by the choices we make. Are the choices we make good or bad? Has fate finally come to get me? I ask myself these questions every day of my life. I governed my choices, my fate on what I thought I was supposed to do and because of my choices I landed in a place I never imagine I would be in. My name is Niko this is my story on how I landed in the most unimaginable place Prison. My story begins in my neighborhood of South L.A. where I grew up in a single parent home. My father wasn't in the picture, in fact I...

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“A Hero In A Random Place” by Candace Bellamy

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Why must I feel lost while everyone else around me seems to have it all? They obtain it with such ease making sure to showcase it all to everyone else. I am the one that defines my path for destiny, but which way is my route when it all feels like dead ends? There is a way out as long as my will stays strong, but I do not know if it can. It makes me think, why did my parents not do more to help me succeed in my journey through life? I have come to learn I can do better without them and their love for me is no longer there. Parents and teach...

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“Hopelessly Intertwined” by Gigi Hinton

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Alcohol thickened the air, the smell clogged my nose and made my head pound. Slowly shutting the door behind me, I made my way blindly through the dark room. I always hated this more than any other in the mansion, it always smelled like this no matter how much the room was cleaned. Feeling my way around, I stumbled towards the candle illuminating a small corner and the desk it sat upon. The candle’s light allowed me to see papers scattered widely along the desk, some covered in drops of alcohol from the large, half-empty bottle placed haphaz...

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“The Writing Process ” by Anne Reed

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Here I am again, staring at another blank page - well, not page, I write stories on my phone. You know those moments during the day when you have nothing to do at work so you take out your phone when no one is looking? Then you stare at the blank screen and commit yourself to the gods of writing, if there are any, but you’re fairly certain that if they existed, the writing gods would really enjoy tormenting the people who worship at their altar and - gosh darn it, I think that’s a run-on sentence. It’s so hard when the screen keeps scrolling...

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“Hidden” by Nandar Min Naing

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The bass of the music echoed around the club as if to trap the people in it with its sound of heavy oompf-oompf overlayed with a rap verse that consisted entirely of cuss words and a detailed description of women shaking their buttocks. Women clad in stringy bikinis and opaque teddies tramped up and down the walkway, some finding a seat on laps of leery men and some convincing over-eager twenty-something year olds to celebrate their bachelor party in the club's most costly, private VIP rooms. Podiums with erect poles were set up as strippers...

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“Thalia's Imagination” by Karen Ciesielski

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The cage was pink wire in the shape of a split-level house. Inside the cage were an assortment of hanging brightly colored toys, food and water dispensers and a small parakeet whose feathers were perfectly white. This is what Thalia saw when she opened her front door to the loud and persistent knocking that had awoken her. Dark circles hung baggily under her squinting blue eyes- a sign of her constant lack of sleep. Her insomnia had returned, as it often did when she was anxious or worried- which was often as of late. She rubbed at her eyes ...

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“A House, Not a Home” by Aliya Carmon

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CW (Content Warning): Violence, physical abuse, mental abuse, child trafficking, kidnapping, mental health My parents have warned me since childhood to be wary of the supernatural, ghosts, and all the like. They could never come to grips with the disappearance of their first son, Grant, and the screams Pop thought he could still hear every night. They never understood why they couldn’t come to terms with the phantom truck that clouded Pop’s nightmares. How had something taken him in broad daylight when we’d been going through the same routin...

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“The Echoist ” by Laura Ellasen

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The weight of my words fall at my feet like softball-sized hailstones from the sky. They drape over the room like a dense fog shrouding a highway. I have never communicated such thoughts out loud before—and since my therapist was in the room when I said them— I could not deny their existence anymore either. I feel like I just admitted where I buried a body. I have heard these thoughts jostling around in the floorboard of my mind. However, I presumed these thoughts were symbiotic—not parasitic. I had no idea that my true thoughts were ...

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“Peaceful Heart” by Keith Geaney

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Illuliolq sat cross-legged in the crater smoothed into the middle of his cabin’s floor. As soon as he closed his eyes, he felt the deafening voice of the world smash into his chest. This was normal. He distilled his breathing into a viscous bubble of calm around himself, gradually kneading flat the ripples of distraction until everything had settled into a vitreous flatness, the gleaming meniscus of a lake of molten sugar. Now, he could begin to heal. A thorn was working its way into the silence of his healing. He tried to smudge out its b...

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“Satterlee Hospital” by Catherine Hudson

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John woke up in the hospital bed feeling more tired than when he drifted off to sleep. Through the haze of his vision, he saw Mary Ann. He tried to smile for her, but the effort was too much. “Hi sweetheart.” He finally said. Mary Ann smiled at the expression of endearment and sat by his bed. “Hello John. How are you feeling?” John grimaced, not wanting to think about how he was feeling or not feeling. He had not quite come around to the reality of his situation and how he would get by in this life, in this way. “Tired. More...

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“A CONVERSATION WITH JESUS CHRIST” by Tim Frater

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“Jesus, I would like to ask you some questions, if I may.”“Certainly.”“First, are you God?”“Why do you ask that?”“Because it’s a common belief among many who claim to be Christians.”“But is that what the Bible actually reveals about me?”“I don’t know.”“Well, let’s examine what I myself said in Scripture, yes?”“Sure.”“Do you have a Bible handy?”“No.”“Ipad?”“Yes.”“Wifi?”“Yes.”“Okay. If you go to biblegateway.com you could select the NKJVersion to look up what I said to Mary Magdelene after my resurrection. It’s recorded at John 20:17. What do ...

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Write a story that includes the phrase “I’m free!”

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✍️ 60 stories

“The Island” by Patricia Williford

“Love” by George Anderson

“God's Will Be Done” by Tracie Johnson

“TEA TIME” by Charles Corkery

“NIKO'S FATE: A TESTIMONY FROM PRISON” by Melinda Madrigal

“A Hero In A Random Place” by Candace Bellamy

“Hopelessly Intertwined” by Gigi Hinton

“The Writing Process ” by Anne Reed

“Hidden” by Nandar Min Naing

“Thalia's Imagination” by Karen Ciesielski

“A House, Not a Home” by Aliya Carmon

“The Echoist ” by Laura Ellasen

“Peaceful Heart” by Keith Geaney

“Satterlee Hospital” by Catherine Hudson

“A CONVERSATION WITH JESUS CHRIST” by Tim Frater

🌟 Similar prompts

Write a story about someone successfully — or unsuccessfully — escaping their fate.

Write about a god desperately trying to get their chosen hero to follow the path they set out for them.

Write about somebody who wholeheartedly believes in fate, and views every little thing through the lens of predestiny.

Set your story in a world where everyone’s decisions are made for them. One morning, your character wakes up, and chooses not to go to work. Wait…chooses?!

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