Write a story about a character who finds guidance in an unlikely place.

Posted in Dramatic on Oct 27, 2023

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“Antiestablishment” by Wendy S

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He felt the bullets' impact, but there was no pain at first. Just a horrible sense of intrusion - those foreign things fused with his flesh in a way that just felt wrong. He ignored it and ran, taking random turns, hoping to lose the gunmen in the maze of the lab complex. It wasn't him they wanted. Not really. He and his colleagues were just in the way. When he could run no further, he took refuge in a storage closet. For a few hopeful moments, he thought he might just live after all, but the slow, measured steps approaching and stopping at ...

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“You Ain't Never Lied” by David McCahan

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Hayward Stockton was born in 1947 on a bus ride south of San Francisco when he was 23 years old. Prior to that moment, Lingyun Zhou had occupied his place in time. Zhou had just returned from another fruitless trip along the California coast searching for any employment in his chosen field of agricultural management, an area of study that had landed him a full scholarship at Stanford University where he graduated Magna Cum Laude. Even with such outstanding credentials, and service in the 3rd Armored Division during World War 2, he ...

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“Upon the Meeting of Silence” by Zoe Chadwick

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I sat alone in the hollow one evening to lose myself in the sound of a trickling brook. I forgot about the troubles of life for a moment, watching the water spiders dance upon fluid crystalline, the sun’s rays weaving about glassy stones smoothed over time by the water’s eternal flowing. There was a profound sense of autumn in the crispness of the air. Though I detested the thought of returning to the less appealing confines of my home, I eventually found it four o’ clock...

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“Lean On Me” by Debra Demars

Submitted to Contest #222

My husband and I had just moved in. Actually, we were still in the process of moving in. We were down to the smaller boxes. Lamps, knick-knacks, stuff you put on your nightstands, end tables, and a few boxes of kitchen utensils. We'd been living on take out for the past few days. Moving is such a hassle, and by the end of each day Bob and I had been just too tired to cook or even think about preparing anything. We had made some poor financial decisions in our lives, and as a result we lost our lit...

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“Time Machine” by Caitlin Beitel

Submitted to Contest #222

She opens the door to her building and starts quickly up the steep, narrow stairs of her fourth floor walk-up. The first floor wreaks of garbage as always. The second smells of heavenly spices and garlic and home. She whips around the third bannister and the familiar smell of weed wafts over her, instinctively easing the tension in her shoulders before the last flight and then she arrives. 4B. The apartment she’s lived in for the past four years. She frantically turns her key, leaving it dangling from the lock, door open. She throws her...

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“The Magic Bus” by S DeAngelis

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The Magic Bus Sally DeAngelis The old man could whistle. Real whistling, real songs. Old timey tunes. Ah, her Dad would like that. She couldn’t whistle until she was nearly 15. Before that, only on the inhale, which didn’t count. Now, her whistling was the breezy, tuneless type. She liked it just fine and whistled around the house until she heard her brother-in-law say to her sister, “Oh no, not that again.” She and the old man were way out on Route 7, waiting for the bus to take them back into town. It was an in-between weather day, t...

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Write a story about a character who finds guidance in an unlikely place.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 81 stories

“Antiestablishment” by Wendy S

“You Ain't Never Lied” by David McCahan

“Upon the Meeting of Silence” by Zoe Chadwick

“Lean On Me” by Debra Demars

“Time Machine” by Caitlin Beitel

“The Magic Bus” by S DeAngelis

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Start your story with a student on their first day of apprenticeship.

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Write a story that includes someone saying, “You’ve got this.”

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