Start or end your story with a character receiving a hug or words of comfort.

Posted in Dramatic on Aug 25, 2023

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“THE HEALING TOUCH OF AN ANGEL” by Melinda Madrigal

Submitted to Contest #213

An Angel of God is sent from Heaven to a small town, call Twenty-One Palms to touch the lives of two families who are in desperate need of healing, love and faith. The Angel we shall call Angelica is sent to earth to Twenty-One Palms to the lives, the families Ortiz and Collins to bring good news. Each of these families is in need of love, faith and healing. These families have lost their faith in God, they have lost their love for each other and nothing in their lives can heal what they lost. The mission from God is to heal the families...

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“Obsession Without Direction” by Elin Su

Submitted to Contest #213

TW: MISTREATMENT OF HUMANSHere, even the sound of gale mercilessly tearing a branch from its tree in one instantaneous motion was tremulous. Here, it was always deathly cold unless we were inside His stone cottage. He fancied seeing us huddled on the freezing-cold ground, our skin paler than carnivorous caterpillars, our cheeks and lips plump and rosy. He fancied us untended, wretched, miserable souls. Real-life Bisque dolls with our prepossessed bodies and seemingly perdurable, tight smiles ruined under His sovereignty. He fancied us with o...

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“A naive Pig” by Sam Fuller

Submitted to Contest #213

‘” Pig” was an actual pig, he’d overheard one day the other animals who kept him within certain boundaries talking and pointing their fingers in his direction. “That Pig will fetch a price.” He was bored but it was all he ever knew, he could see land and vistas beyond, but they, to him were the realm of science fiction, not that Pig knew it, but it was the same way humans thought about outer space, unexplored, possibly dangerous! He didn’t understand much of those animals’ language but could glean words here and there. He jumped up, albeit s...

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“Bummer Man” by Roman Ansatz

Submitted to Contest #213

February 14th. It was just another day on the calendar for Tom Jensen. Just another day in the office, making sales calls to customers. However, everything and everyone he encountered today was trying to convince him otherwise. Vicky, the secretary by the front door, had pink balloons and candy in abundance. Flowers abounded in every lady’s cubicle. Three giant heart-shaped cakes were in the breakroom at lunch. Everybody took a slice as they made the same joke, “Better not spoil my dinner!” This was followed by excited discussion of evenin...

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“My Mother's Mother” by Annabella Bones

Submitted to Contest #213

If anything could be learned from the tragedy that day, it was that Fate spares no opportunity to deliver life’s greatest twists. “Silver Bullet” is what we named our 8-month-old SUV, folded like a tin can crushed around a pine tree where Sherwood Road meets Bangle Street two blocks from home. Blinding sheets of rain did little to chase away the smoke or noxious fumes. The acrid smell of burnt tread carried through the breeze. Standing tall against the night sky, the unaffected pine swayed in a wave-like pattern, bowing to the silent comma...

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“Sun and Snow” by Jason Dock

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It was the first snow of December. A heavy white blanket covered the ground and housetops. It was still early morning and silence rang through the air with the exception of random moments where snow would pile up too high and slip out of the dead fingers of trees or steep roofs. The air ran cooler than on normal snow days as if it could shoot ice through a volcano and freeze the magma inside. People were asleep, locked away in their houses with the heat turned on for protection from any cold pushing desperately to get in. Only one pers...

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“Three People” by Kristalyn Dickman

Submitted to Contest #213

It was bedtime, and we were only slightly behind schedule. Okay, we were way behind schedule. Who knew that getting a seven-year-old ready for bed would take so long? It didn’t help that I gave in and let Claire watch another episode of Bluey after we’d discussed only watching one. But that TV show was like a drug. I didn’t know what it was, but it sucked you in, and before you realized it, the end credits played, and a half hour of your life was gone. And you still wanted to watch another episode. I think I wanted to watch the next episode ...

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“Undusted.” by Lara Deppe

Submitted to Contest #213

Undusted. Dust had gathered on everything she owned including her love life. Dust had settled on the books in her library (otherwise known as her college textbooks that she couldn’t sell back to the bookstore at the end of each semester) that were stacked haphazardly on her Ikea bookshelf in the room that was supposed to be a dining room but because she never dined with anyone, it was her library. She did have a table but she certainly never dined at it. The table was a catch-all for everything she ought to remember to do but because the t...

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“Forever Grateful” by April Snyder

Submitted to Contest #213

Ava walked up to Jonathan and embraced him with everything she had, and he embraced with an intensity she had never felt before. Ava was headed to a new job, and she worked closely with Jonathan. The two had always been friendly, but they never worked together on the same portfolio. The opportunity came along, and it was a bit scary for them both. After coming from a long vacation, Melissa walked up to Ava to give her some news. “Ava, you will...

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“3 Short Stories of Human Touch” by Noisy Ether

Submitted to Contest #213

A human touch can be one of the most powerful emotions ever made. I wish I could feel the real hand of someone and feel the unnatural slight of a pulsing heart beating from one's veins. My life has been a different one. Not conceived from birth. I wish for no one to go through such pain. But I wish I was born this way and also could feel the pains of birth. A touch of a warm baby's face against mine. The warm feelings of tears on my cheek and on his or hers cheek. I often wonder why life is the way it is designed. Are people chosen to live ...

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“The Story of Three” by Stephanie Leon

Submitted to Contest #213

Dante, Demetria, and Lucius had their own unique traits, but Dante had something his siblings didn’t. He smiled at the signs Lillias taught him and paid more attention to Demetria’s books. He adopted Lucius' thrill of laughter after breaking glass and freezing when given directions. Of course, there were habits Lillias created. Dante, technically the oldest boy would be the chosen one to rule, and in order to make it happen, Lillias needed Dante to feel powerful, like kings in novels, act out scripts of men in love and favor the storms, qu...

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Start or end your story with a character receiving a hug or words of comfort.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 101 stories

“THE HEALING TOUCH OF AN ANGEL” by Melinda Madrigal

“Obsession Without Direction” by Elin Su

“A naive Pig” by Sam Fuller

“Bummer Man” by Roman Ansatz

“My Mother's Mother” by Annabella Bones

“Sun and Snow” by Jason Dock

“Three People” by Kristalyn Dickman

“Undusted.” by Lara Deppe

“Forever Grateful” by April Snyder

“3 Short Stories of Human Touch” by Noisy Ether

“The Story of Three” by Stephanie Leon

🌟 Similar prompts

Start your story with a character looking closely at something, or someone. They can't quite decide if what they're looking at is natural, or man-made.

Write a story about someone who is losing feeling in their hands and/or fingers.

Write about someone with a Midas touch: everything they touch turns to [fill in the blank].

Write about an AI or person trying to inject a ‘human touch’ into their work.

Contest #213

Enter our weekly contest!

$250

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Contest entries

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Stories

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