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Start your story with someone admitting a secret and end it with someone telling a lie.

Posted in Dramatic on May 1, 2021

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It All Started With A Box

Submitted to Contest #68

"Can I tell you a secret?" The small child's chubby hands clutch a crate with a shiny official cover and chocolate stains it. Smothering a laugh I reply, "What did you do now, Lizzy?"Elizabeth hands me the official looking package and showcases her missing teeth in a wide smile, "I took it for you but you can't tell anyone or mommy will be mad. Mommy's always mad." She sniffles before continuing, "I saw it in the bakery when the sheriff left his table to get another doughnut. It was so pretty I wanted you to have it. It's a present!"As Eliza...

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Telling a Secret and Telling a Lie.

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Sam walked over to me with a very serious look on his usually smiling face. He put his hand on my right arm, which is a serious gesture on his part. He is not a touchy, feelie kind of guy, more of the fist-to-fist and high five kind. “We’ve been friends for a long time, right George?” “Of course Sam, we’ve been buddies since grade school. You know that. And from there to high school, and then to our jobs here working for the same company.” “I need to tell you something, and you are not to share it with anyone”. He...

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The Dead Beyond the Cavern

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“I hear Their whispers.” “What?” Rae sat cross-legged on the couch, avoiding the eyes of her best friend H.J. “What?” H.J. asked again. Rae sighed. She had to break the news sometime. “I hear whispers,” she admitted. “From Them.” “Rae, what are you--” “I’m serious, H.J.” H.J. frowned. “Uh, Rae—” “I do. I hear Them, and I hear Their whispers. They’re not just in the cavern.” H.J.’s phone lit up. He looked down at it, his glasses reflecting the screen. Rae grabbed his phone and sat on it. She looked him in the eyes. “I’m serious, H.J. I hear T...

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Lying in Truth

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“I love you” It was the first time she had ever said it, although she had known for years. She whispered the words. He barely heard them in the silence that had become the two of them. He had waited months to watch those three words leave her lips, to taste their sweetness, but this felt futile. He wanted to pull her into his arms, tell her he loved her too, and etch his name forever in her soul. But he couldn’t, not now. They had been here before. They had already had this conversation, on these bleary concrete steps, setting side...

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The Taste of Heartache

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“How long?” Jared asked, holding the phone where he had discovered the vile messages. The question left behind a rancid taste in his mouth. He really didn’t want to know.“Four months.” Lisa whispered solemnly, hot tears rolling down her pale cheeks.The confession slammed Jared like a sledgehammer. He couldn't feel his hands. His brain became a raging bonfire.“Oh my god you've been going around doing this for four whole months?” He rasped, choking on the sentence.The room was filled with silence. Lisa couldn’t even muster the strength to look...

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Delirious

Submitted to Contest #68

1482 wordsRated 12+; violence"I've never said those words. Not once!" she screams.Our sun has been giving us life for 4 billion years. Small organisms felt its heat and made oxygen. In another 4 billion years, it'll explode and destroy us. The whole galaxy is gone. A spark of pain, and then nothing. That's how Clarke feels right now, standing on a hill, staring at the city, next to Laurelie. A first, a pain so great it can't be fathom it, then nothing.Laurelie pulls her hand away from Clarke. Her eyes are masked with shame, but undernea...

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Cold Hands of Fate

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“I’ve never been ice skating.” Saaya fiddles with her fingers. She looks like an angel when her head tilts back and long strands of her hair appear golden under the sun’s gaze. Her hazel eyes are like pools of warm honey, and her skin is a soft shade of brown. “But I’m afraid of getting hurt. It’s this fear of pain that always stops me from doing things.”My fingers clasp around the grey mug, so tightly because this feels like an illusion. The whole apartment feels as if it is from a magazine with its white walls and colourful cushions. Two m...

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Can I tell you a secret

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Can I tell you a secret?Or maybe I shouldn’t...It could spoil the whole story,I don’t know if I should…But I just can’t keep it to myself. It’s so terribly hard!I need to tell you what's on the noteYou know what,...I’ll just tell you.But if anyone asks you…You keep it to yourself.Or else.So you want to know what it is?It’s that....Hmm let me give you some background You should know.It all began with a note. A creepy note, a scary note, an ugly note. “I got it. you don’t like the note” you say but let me continue. I was so scar...

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Sisters are Forever

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“Please. May I have one more minute with my sister?” The guard hesitates but when I turn the full force of my tear filled blue eyes upon him, he relents. “Make it quick though. The warden does not like to wait.” My identical twin sister, Becca, sits in an orange prison jumpsuit on a hard metal cot. I look into her eyes, a mirror of my own, now dimmed and hazy from the injection the prison doctors prescribed to keep her calm. I guess I would be pretty worked up too...

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Revealing The Final Plan

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“You what?!” I tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth to Reeze. I told her that it started from the time that Valentina Levesque defeated me in the client presentation. The time when Mr. Pascual offered me my desired position by supporting his plan and accepted it. I told her that Mr. Pascual carefully managed to delay Val's application for citizenship and I was the one reported to immigration about the appointing day so that we can kick her out in the company. It was all the General Accounting Manager's idea. And now ...

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Chocolate Pudding

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I watched the clock on the wall like you’d watch a rabid dog; anxious and anticipating terrible things – like it suddenly rewinding and somehow extending Math class.Three. Two. One. RIIINNGG!!! I grabbed my backpack from behind my chair and almost assaulted Mr Rogers on my way out. I heard him grunt out my name with obvious disdain, but he didn’t call for me to come back. He knew his efforts would be futile.I rushed down the hallways like lightning and grinned gleefully when I saw that there was nobody in the corridors yet. The moment I spot...

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On the Lam

Submitted to Contest #68

September ’76 found me as the new kid in town and the foreigner, an American teenager in a Canadian high school. Gordon Bell High School in Winnipeg, Manitoba. I can still clearly remember my first day, down to what I was wearing; a red and green plaid western shirt with pearl snap buttons, light green bell-bottom jeans, and the red Adidas Gazelles that I loved so much. During the first recess I saw a tall dark-haired boy from my class having a smoke alone in a corner and went to introduce myself, pulling a pack of Craven “A” menthols out of...

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A Secret and a Lie

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Note: This short story is a work of fanfiction. “I must tell you something. You might feel differently about me soon. But I can’t keep it inside any longer.” There was a sudden chill to the air around them, and the darkness seemed to be waiting, holding its breath. Victoria drew her shawl around her tightly, in an effort at self comfort, and hugged her elbows. The candle flickered on the nightstand. Zorro glanced out the window as if to steady himself. “You’re married.” She blurted her greatest fear into the waiting silence. He glance...

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Stealth

Submitted to Contest #68

“Listen… I know you mean well… but you canNOT do that.” The medic stared at the injured man before her, completely bemused. He was a construction mechanic who generally worked on the main deck. He had been rushed to her after an accident that should have killed him—one of the cables used to stop incoming planes as they landed on the runway had snapped, and struck him across the chest. When she had heard the news, she expected a severed corpse to land on her table, like the many others she had seen through the years who had been ripped in ha...

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Cigarettes and an Orange Soda

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I have to tell you a secret.When I was younger I made a mistake. I haven’t told anyone because I was too afraid of what they’d think of me. But I am older now, and all the people who I let down have long since been returned to the ground. All these years I let the weight of my knowledge settle heavy on my mind like cement, coating my thoughts, weighing me down.I was ten years old when I found the receipt. It wasn’t much, just a water stained scrap of paper that had slipped down behind the driver’s seat of our ‘72 Ford Squire station wagon. T...

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