Write a story about a character driving and getting lost.

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“BABY FEVER” by Asia W

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The morning after my daughter dies, I drive her to an IHOP. The road is scabbed with filled, worn-down, then refilled potholes so by the time we pull into the parking lot the old station wagon is shaking like a wet dog and Marnie’s left cheek is plastered to the vinyl back-seat. Cornsilk hair wreaths her tiny head, lips parted in sleep, pink fists only starting to grey at the knuckles. She looks so much like a porcelain doll that it makes my chest ache. Morning hangs a little lower with empty streets; sun scalds the asphalt, leaving dimples ...

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“The Rivers Sing Stories of the Mystical Coast ” by Kristi Gott

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Mountain waters,Cascade downhill,Rivers rising,As waters refill. Where river and sea,Are woven together,Nature surprises,With changes of weather. In watery depths,The salmon glide,In emerald forests, Through rivers wide. Labyrinths of the wild,Nature entwined, River’s stories,Beyond time and mind. By the River Otter Poet In the year 1898 the Mystical Coast sang with stories of the intertwined lives of the people, wildlife, and nature.They lived in a world of the flowing labyrinths of the waterways created by rivers and...

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“Lost in the Backwoods” by Brian Haddad

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"It seems the Bermuda Triangle has moved to the backwoods," Andrew muttered to himself. He glanced over at his phone, where the navigation app was still confidently tracing out a path deeper and deeper into the woods. He checked the time and his heart jumped. An hour ago he was supposed to be five minutes away from his destination. An hour ago? he thought. "OK, something is definitely wrong," he announced aloud to himself, pulling over on the dirt road that cut a rough, untraveled path through a dense standing of ancient trees.Grabbing his p...

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“Lost in Knuckles - නකල්ස් හි අතරමං විය” by John Rutherford

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He imagined he got lost on the dramatic day of his conception.As a sperm, after the ejaculation from his father’s penis, into his mother’s vagina, together with his fellow brother and sister sperms as they swam fanatically like blind tiny tadpoles into the cavernous uterus, and he believed in one defining and momentous moment, everybody turned left, and he alone turned right and swam along the fallopian tube, and found his mother’s egg, just like Prince Philip found Sleeping Beauty, more by fortune than fate. But surely, he was lost tha...

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“Lost To Find The Truth” by Hannah Lynn

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Gates appeared where there were none before. She slowed, showed her essential papers through the window, got them scanned and drove on. Not a word was uttered, not a drop of air came in or out of the car. Being a creature of habit, she found it difficult, if not impossible, to change her routine. She continued to leave for work at precisely 8:30 am to drive through the ghost town of empty streets, passing massive parking lots devoid of cars. Traffic lights continued to change colors, red to stop, green to go. Ra...

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“Outback” by Sergej Metodijevic

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A crisp night, clipped and polished. A lonely café, staring loneliness in the face; tumbleweed tumbling about, not a breath to be seen. The wind, the great romantic, whistled a lullaby to my friend and I. “Ah,” exhales richly Lionel Lav, displaying his vast leaning jaw to the world, “we have talked much, Jar.” “Indeed we have,” I affirm, “of things that are great - the men, the women, the children. And all in between that crumbles.”“Aye, and let it not be forgotten how my country was crucial to the war’s outcome.” With a shake of h...

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“The Drifter” by Luca King Greek

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Hope, Montana, population 488. He pulled up at the diner in the center of the sleepy town, stiff limbed and thirsty, and nearly out of gas. Jethro didn’t rightly recall where he’d come from that day, somewhere out West he supposed, but thinking on it puzzled him and made him uneasy, like he'd forgotten something important, or lost someone close.It was late, the eatery was nearly empty. Jethro sat at a booth, gulped ice water, picked up the menu and watched the waitress argue over the bill with a brown-haired woman sat in a corner b...

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“The Reservoir” by Stevie Burges

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The ReservoirMargaret began to feel fear rising in her throat as she drove in the dark. Where the hell was she? “Oh my god, what’s that?” she thought. Peering over the driving wheel, she realised it was a vast body of water that had appeared suddenly out of nowhere. Her car’s main beam caught sight of a small country lane to her right and, turning the car wheel, began to ascend rapidly. As she neared the summit, putting her foot on the brake, she scrabbled around on the passenger seat and located the discarded map. L...

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“Broken Brakes” by Waaa Intresting

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Miles are lost between the churning wheels, leaving a gritty trail of dust in their wake. Ashley’s hands clutched firmly on the leather wrapped wheel, it's cool surface against her skin, it's even cold, but as her hands curl around, and her fingertips tap the back, dancing on its circumference, she’s sure the wheel will yield to her warmth. The odometer ticks away, seems to mark some progress in increments, and the tapping rhythm syncs with the tire rubbers that hum softly against the road. Ashely, driving forward, she’s restless, restless t...

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“Megan Said” by LeeAnn Hively

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Molly had become someone boring; she’d wrapped herself in a cocoon of solitary shadows, separate from the world even when they moved in tandem. It happened in increments. One day she was in the middle of it–it being anything new and exciting. The next, premature departures became her signature move. She cited a sudden headache or an impending workday as her escape route.Soon enough, the tedium of social niceties weighed down on her. That’s when she started stepping out for fresh air and just not going back inside. The phone buzzed with conce...

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“Highway 99” by Raven Rhodes

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Sarah was driving on Highway 99, a cursed road and an old folks tale in her old town. The legend goes that Highway 99 is cursed, the dark road stretches 5 close to 6 miles without any red lights no communities of people, and dark creepy woods on both sides. A lot of car wrecks have happened on Highway 99 because of the hex put on this road by witches who practice satanic rituals. There is also the legend about the boy who died on Highway 99 or the so-called town's children who would get caught running out and they all mysteriously died. It i...

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“The Snowball Fight” by Thomas Wetzel

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`Brendan loved the snow. Having grown up just outside of San Diego he never saw it as a kid, never played in it, so when he moved into a small two-bedroom rental in the Boston suburbs after graduating from Northeastern University he purchased his very first snow shovel. That morning he had used it for the first time to clear his driveway and free his car from the foot and a half of snow that had fallen overnight in a surprise pre-Thanksgiving snowstorm that had closed schools and snarled traffic all over New England. Now, on his way to ...

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“Higher roads” by Joseph Molloy

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Sam recoiled, oscillating beams of light bouncing off of his tired eyelids and jolting him fully back into reality. It had been hours since another car had passed, and for this reason alone it felt like divine intervention - he hadn’t even realised that he was beginning to doze off. The realisation of his condition set in and Sam sat fully upright, taking in a deep breath and winding down his creaking window so just enough of the sharp winter air could reignite his senses. ‘Think it’s time for a pit stop’ he muttered to himself as he tu...

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“Lost and Found” by John Steckley

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Discovering that I am Lost I am so lost. I shouldn’t be surprised by that though. Not knowing what I am doing or why I am doing it is an increasing part of my life these days. This kind of ‘what am I doing and why am I doing it’ began a few years back when I turned 70 years of age. I would open the refrigerator door, and have no idea what it was I was looking for. I would stare and stare and eventually would give up and shut the refrigerator door. ...

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“Not All Who Wander...” by Jed Cope

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It was the radio that voiced the recriminations that he’d anticipated with such dread. Uncertain as to how best broach the subject, the radio stuttered and then fell silent. If the silence had been truly bad, his recollection of it was not notable. The jarring crunch of static that followed, an injured insect, gone wild thrashing about in the stifling cabin of the car, mirroring the noise in his brain. Radio and the chaos of his mind jamming but never getting into their groove, and in the midst of this punk track was a simple, repetitive lyr...

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Write a story about a character driving and getting lost.

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✍️ 98 stories

“BABY FEVER” by Asia W

“The Rivers Sing Stories of the Mystical Coast ” by Kristi Gott

“Lost in the Backwoods” by Brian Haddad

“Lost in Knuckles - නකල්ස් හි අතරමං විය” by John Rutherford

“Lost To Find The Truth” by Hannah Lynn

“Outback” by Sergej Metodijevic

“The Drifter” by Luca King Greek

“The Reservoir” by Stevie Burges

“Broken Brakes” by Waaa Intresting

“Megan Said” by LeeAnn Hively

“Highway 99” by Raven Rhodes

“The Snowball Fight” by Thomas Wetzel

“Higher roads” by Joseph Molloy

“Lost and Found” by John Steckley

“Not All Who Wander...” by Jed Cope

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Write a story about a character running late for a job interview.

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