Set your story in a lighthouse surrounded by powerful gale-force winds.

Posted in Dramatic on Mar 1, 2024

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“Well Wishes” by Jay Keller

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“Fin, I need you up on the balcony, lad. Another storm’s coming and the damn collector is stuck again!” Pari’s raspy voice rattled through the brass pipes that tangled their way through the lighthouse down into the kitchen. Fin stuffed the rest of his bagel into his mouth. Breakfast was always on the move these days with how often the storms came. He hopped up on the counter and climbed through the little scuttle hole above the fridge. ‘It’s not a door, It’s a scuttle hole! Just look at the hinge!’ The old man’s voice echoed in Fin’s ...

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“The Memoir of Zefir Cozbi: Tales of lies and deception.” by Rehaf Imran

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Name: Zefir Cozbi11/7/1943 - 11/12/1982Age of death: 40Cause of death: N/ALast record: This Memoir. Contents: This memoir details Zefir Cozbi’s experience at the great SeaFare Lighthouse for 30 days, surrounded by gale-force winds, at constant rates. ___________________________________________ 10/23/1982, I tried turning the thick, iron steel wheel against the pressure of the gale-force winds behind them. It was terrifying yet so thrilling to know that such death-hungry breezes awaited behind. I turned the wheel once more to secure it and ba...

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“Light, Wind” by Kate Forrester

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They made me do it. All the people with their probing questions and glances and frowns and sighs made me accept a position as a house sitter—for a couple of months, no less. House-sitter for a lighthouse, that is. My job entails a single responsibility: ensuring the beacon is illuminated each night and promptly alerting for assistance if it faltered. The light. At times, it feels almost palpable. Once the darkness really settles in, I watch the light make its rounds. With each rotation, it casts its glow over the water, illuminating waves of...

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“Between Withers” by Max Bufton

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A steely and grey cast sky with blooming clouds bulging over the horizon. The pale sun had barely rose but the old man had already been sitting aside the door for a time and watched the fellow leave without a word shared between them. A sloop on frothed seas in the distance rocking and jolting with the fury drawing nearer. The old man watched the fellow wind his way down the track past mossed stones and further to stairs of dark rock disappearing out of sight. He lit his pipe and began puffing and waited. The sloop drew nearer still before v...

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“Revelations” by Eleanor J Winstanley

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They had both left it too late to retrace their steps now. The melancholy old lighthouse was the only shelter for miles around and since the wind had harnessed its full force, cracking tree trunks along their path as though they were mere toothpicks, Kate and Robert had fled through its bowed red door. ‘This wasn’t forecast!’ Robert bellowed.Kate glanced sharply at her husband , her forearm hastily covering her nose and mouth. ‘It wasn’t!’ He continued, his eyes looking up and down the blue, paint - chipp...

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“The Lighthouse” by Willa Holmes

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I bunched up the billowing plumes of my nightdress, slicing through the thrashing grass. It was almost time. Affronted by the vicious torrent brought on by greys and purples above, I was far behind schedule. The crest of the hill reared its end, and I tore down the side against knives of clear water, a bitter scent that clashed with the salt spray. The damp grass whipped my ankles. The ruthless thrust of the wind’s hand propelled me like a rag. But although my looming lighthouse destination held its red stripes and glimmering beam at the for...

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“The wind and the waves” by Edward Savage

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Niall tapped the barometer with a fingernail and frowned as the mercury dropped to 1010. An hour ago, it had been 1015. “Storm on way,” he muttered as he crossed to the window on the north side of the living quarters. Beyond the thick glass, the distant horizon was a forbidding wall of dark, purple and black clouds. Overhead, cloud outriders of the storm were scudding across the wan sky, driven by the growing winds. The sea was a gun-metal grey, mirroring the sky and earlier whitecaps were now crests of white riding the tops of every wave. ...

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Set your story in a lighthouse surrounded by powerful gale-force winds.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 37 stories

“Well Wishes” by Jay Keller

“The Memoir of Zefir Cozbi: Tales of lies and deception.” by Rehaf Imran

“Light, Wind” by Kate Forrester

“Between Withers” by Max Bufton

“Revelations” by Eleanor J Winstanley

“The Lighthouse” by Willa Holmes

“The wind and the waves” by Edward Savage

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Craft a story where a character finds themselves swept away by the wind, either physically or metaphorically.

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