One day, the sun rose in the west and set in the east.

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“The Life Cycle” by Natalie Dafoe

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She sat on the dew-drop laden cow grass blades in the early spring morning, her breath still crystalizing in the fresh air. Her dirty brown locks cascaded down her shoulders, gently brushing her back. The sun barely peeked up over the horizon, sending splays of orange and pink sprawling across the transforming sky. However her eyes faced not east, but west.Encompassed in the melodic music of nature, she remained silent as if to absorb the delicate peace of the moment. It would not be long until the sun would fully rise, the sky transfiguring...

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“Wanderlust” by Courtney Haynes

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I fell in love with my wife because she was different. Because her mind didn’t exist on the same wavelength as the rest of us. We poor mortals on this earth cannot comprehend the depth of Brenda. But “depth” sometimes can be confused for a fickle mind.After we built our dream house in the country, I soon regretted including windows. For every night when my wife would look out one of those wretched portholes, she would always get this look and start dreaming. A look of longing. A desire to travel to some unknown place.“I want to travel,” she’...

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“Somewhere Out There” by Christina Steele

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The windows rattled. A too familiar sway of fixtures lifted the Grand Counselor’s eyes upward as the Historian Laureate’s walking-on-marbles stride stopped by at last reaching and grabbing the podium. ‘Please begin,” commanded Director Zo “Over time, the top scientist on Venus noted that decreased volcanic eruption patterns corresponded with a declined rotation speed of the planet. While we were busy exploring space, our molten core depleted. In response, the planet slowed, wobbled, then came to a standstill. Eighty percent of our populati...

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“Rise and Set” by Abigail O

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After the blackness of night, Earth's star rises on the horizon, spreading her gold in every direction. She comes in the way that natural forces do, needing not invitation yet feeling her welcome. The light is her gift, bold and free, for anyone who cares to open their eyes in the dawn and watch the world awake. This is our sun, a fire ignited to bring warmth to creation and inspire us to seek our own beauty within.The sunrise is the warmest hues of the rainbow, the colours that bring a gentle passion to the soul. It is the calling of the sk...

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“Starry Love” by Neha Dubhashi

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There are two lovers in the wind: one whose hair shimmers like spun gold, and the other, whose beauty is less vibrant. The other has a more subtle type of beauty. Her skin sings with starlight promises, with a softer, more mysterious lilt than her lover. Her lover is more outgoing, more passionate. But she is more loyal. More kind. For the fiercest power lies in being gentle. The lovers leave the other for several hours. The vibrant girl smiles, saying her time away does not seem as long as it is. In fact, she enjoys her work as much as her ...

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“By the Light of all the Lanterns” by Arthur Tiberio

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He had been gone a long time. Even now, after all this time and all these many seasons, he was not quite sure that he was back. He stood at the end of the world and the edge of the world (for all worlds have an edge, just as they have a center or a sky), and he stood so firmly that the stones groaned and shifted under his weight. When he departed, there would be left in his wake two footprints, left as clearly in the rock as if the hard granite had been dust on a windless moon. Today there was a firm breeze from the north, which forced him t...

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“If the World was Ending ” by Ivy Moonlit

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If the world was ending, would I know? Would I feel that uneasy pitt in my stomach and that gut feeling something was wrong? Would the world be twisted upside down? If the world was ending would it be quick and painless, or would it be painfully slow? Would the world just stop spinning? If the world was ending would the sun rise in the west, would hurricanes and floods take over or would it act as if it were any other day? If the world was ending would there be a panic? Would I understand what was going on? Would I just los...

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“A God's Chariot is Change” by Chelsy Maughan

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Atlas placed the unbearable weight on his shoulders on a white pillar, its large expanse still spun brilliantly. Exhaustion filled his body, this punishment seemed too much for one to bear. He stretched his large golden biceps, no one would notice if he took a short nap, maybe a few hundred years would do. Leaving his post meant he might receive a more brutal punishment, he didn’t care. He paused to look around, no other Gods were nearby. Atlas laid his massive body on his small cot, and fell asleep quickly. His loud snores attracted the ire...

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“Something I don't know ” by R. K.

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The book slams shut. Then, as if it's a game of follow the leader, the rest close as well. Soon, every computer, every data log, every file, every piece of information ever recorded, shuts down, turns off, erases. Forget. What did I forget? I never forget. I am the greatest mind, I have the best memory, my IQ is too high for a word like "genius" to define me. Why did I forget? The Sun. I see it; or, I don't. I'm looking west, searching for a sunset that should be there. I check my watch, check the sundial in the yard. They bot...

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“The Day When the West was East” by George Georgerfrost@gmail.com

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No one noticed. It didn’t even make the news, but when I woke up that morning, the world as we knew it had changed and nothing would ever be the same. Consistency and routine have been the mainstays of our understanding of the universe, but when there is a change, even a slight variation, what is and what was becomes an uncross-able border. Sunrise on that May morning did not seem to be such a big deal. The summer was on its way melting the past weeks of winter away in one warming breeze. The homeostasis of our commun...

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“Telling The Sun Goodnight” by Kali Bennett

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As I stepped foot on that dirty old bus I noticed something. Something different. Something totally unusual. But no one else seemed to care. “You’re not listening to me!” I said angrily into the phone. “What is there to listen to? The sun rises in the east and sets in the west, you’re going crazy.” “No, I’m not! Look out your window, please for me Keeks.” “I am looking out my window, the sun is rising- in the east!” She says sighing. “No, it’s not!” “Look I got to go, we’ll talk when you get to school.” “Okay.” I sigh. I was very concerne...

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“if only it were a dream” by Angelica Chuang

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A few years ago, as a global pandemic had spread throughout all the living species on planet Earth, things have been eerily quiet. Humans that had not yet been infected by this disease huddled in their homes, fearful of what may happen if they should step outside. Hundreds of millions had died in a matter of days after a mutated and unforeseen form of the virus rampaged the Northern Hemisphere, then consequently wiped out the Southern Hemisphere. Deathly quiet, the planet was without movement or noises. I’d experienced the horror of the...

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“Death isn't easy” by Emili Silvi

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Everyone had known the world was ending. It was not a secret, much as the government wished it to be. It started four years ago, when I was a child of thirteen and my baby sister was one. The weather started getting funky around Christmas. Birds migrated back because the south was kicking up a freezing blizzard and the north was getting flowers everywhere you stepped it was so nice. Scientists said something was happening with the sun, but what kinds of things would have it snow in the south while the north grew toasty? The icecaps melted, ...

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“The Big Picture” by John Steckley

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The Big Picture Walter was a good photographer, one of the best in the business even if he did say so himself. He said that his ‘great gift’ was the ability to see what others could not, and then capture that vision so that others could share in his ‘genius’. His ‘great flaw’, not that he would ever admit to it, was his overpowering competitiveness, especially as it rose to the dizzying heights of arrogance. That was especially true in his relationship to his brother Elliot, who was also a photographer, and who also worke...

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“The Town that Defied the Laws of the Universe” by Deborah Mercer

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The inhabitants of the small Norfolk seaside town of Breezehaven wouldn’t have been human if they weren’t occasionally jealous of their near neighbours in Hunstanton. Oh, there were no barriers or riots, or anything remotely like that, and it was by no means unknown for there to be what were called (only in jest, of course, people hurriedly added) mixed marriages. The good folk of Breezehaven even sometimes expressed a certain pity for their counterparts in Hunstanton. “We can live perfectly well without being the answer to a ...

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One day, the sun rose in the west and set in the east.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 72 stories

“The Life Cycle” by Natalie Dafoe

“Wanderlust” by Courtney Haynes

“Somewhere Out There” by Christina Steele

“Rise and Set” by Abigail O

“Starry Love” by Neha Dubhashi

“By the Light of all the Lanterns” by Arthur Tiberio

“If the World was Ending ” by Ivy Moonlit

“A God's Chariot is Change” by Chelsy Maughan

“Something I don't know ” by R. K.

“The Day When the West was East” by George Georgerfrost@gmail.com

“Telling The Sun Goodnight” by Kali Bennett

“if only it were a dream” by Angelica Chuang

“Death isn't easy” by Emili Silvi

“The Big Picture” by John Steckley

“The Town that Defied the Laws of the Universe” by Deborah Mercer

🌟 Similar prompts

Write about a person experiencing the 'overview effect' (a feeling astronauts report having when they first view Earth from outer space).

Write a story about a Google Street View driver.

Write a story that begins and ends with someone looking up at the stars.

Two people who thought they were the last people left on Earth end up meeting by chance.

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