Write about someone facing their greatest fear.

Posted in Dramatic on Sep 16, 2024

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“Regaining Glory” by Faith Mazzei

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I was all alone in this dark room, banging my fists on the steel door. All of my friends were off fighting while I was here doing absolutely nothing. This is how our “adventures” often go. Everyone else fights and gets all the glory, while I was just the boy that tagged along. “Oh Raphael! You did such an amazing job fighting those dragons, how did you do it?” they’d ask. “Stacy! Stacy! Over here! Mitchell! James! Troy! Oh we love you!” Then there was me, just plain old Barnaby who was always left behind. They were takin...

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“The Box ” by Bárbara Chechil

Submitted to Contest #206

Walking to nowhere in particular was now apparently her favorite hobby. She would just walk for miles on end in these desolate streets, never reaching her destination. She left her house before the sun rose, at indecent hours in the morning, and she would just walk. Sometimes in a straight line, sometimes in circles. She did not mind the cold, or the fog that haunted our town, or sometimes even the rain which hammered the top of my house like a mischief of tap dancing rats. She would never talk to anyone, not to the old woman who...

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“Bottom Rock” by Scott Jacobs

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At the bottom of the earth there’s a speaker. I couldn’t tell you where it is–believe me, I’ve looked–but what I do know is that it’s been playing the same NSYNC song for two years. Don’t get me wrong, NSYNC’s not bad by any means. But there’s two problems. First, it’s a song from their Christmas album, creating complications that should be self-evident. Second, the speaker’s junk. Justin Timberlake’s singing is great, but not when he’s being dragged kicking and screaming from the golden throne of high fidelity as the drummer scrapes his fin...

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“Redlining” by Jacob Chudnovsky

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I’m not a dog person.I’ve tried. I really have. But even the sweetest puppies become stressed and start growling in my presence. They can sense my anxiety and terror.I don’t blame them. I was walking home alone after dark. I was a scrawny six-year-old, small for my age. But growing up in the small village of Korovino near Kiev, I knew every human, pig, and sparrow and felt no fear.I picked up Nick from my ex-wife’s house in the South Side on an unseasonably warm Friday evening in December. I had my son for the weekend. As we walked to t...

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Write about someone facing their greatest fear.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 109 stories

“Regaining Glory” by Faith Mazzei

“The Box ” by Bárbara Chechil

“Bottom Rock” by Scott Jacobs

“Redlining” by Jacob Chudnovsky

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Write a story that contains a flashback of a nightmare.

Start your story with a character seeing something terrifying.

Write about a character in a situation where they have to be brave for someone else’s sake.

Set your story in an eerie, surreal setting.

Contest #206

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