Start your story with someone witnessing magic from a hiding place.

Posted in Fantasy on Dec 9, 2022

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“Magical Night” by Chase Stuart

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The room is average size, the walls are bookshelves overflowing with books and journals and papers. There’s a table in the middle of the room with herbs, plants and animal parts as well as beakers and vials on it. The floor holds piles of more books and loose pieces of paper are scattered on it. Against the wall opposite the door there is a standing cupboard. The one door from the cupboard is closed tight, the other is open just a crack, just enough for someone to peek through. Hailey was crouched down in the cupboard looking through the cra...

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“Flick” by Judith Von Esh

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There it was again. Flick. Flutter. Flick. In the stillness and silence, there it was. Old Jack rubbed his eyes with the grimy callused fingertips poking out of his fingerless gloves. He pushed the thick Yankee beanie further above his furrowed and wrinkled brow. He alternated between widening his eyes and squinting his eyes. He shifted his weight, his dirty boots discoloring the snow underfoot. Clouds of panicked condensation swirled around his large nose in quick bursts. Heart pounding, tripping, and stuttering, Old J...

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“Music and Magic” by James Reed

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1 'Old Steve' is how most folks referred to him. He was a story teller, a home-grown oral historian with a prodigious memory. People of all ages listened to him. He was 12 years old when he arrived in town on a September day in 1906 and joined the crowd celebrating the completion of the railroad. The town was finally connected to the outer world by something that didn't involve horses. Orpahed at age five, he was passed between families. He never got past the eighth grade. An adventurous kid, he had hitched a ride as a brakeman on a suppl...

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“All I Can Give” by Michael Krass

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PROMPTS: Witnessing magic from a hiding place, Write a story involving a magical potion ALL I CAN GIVE by Michael Krass When you were a kid, I took you to the movies. It was about a fairy who lived in the woods but was so small that no one knew she was there. But it was her magic that made the flowers grow. "You leaned over to me," hand in the popcorn bucket, of course, and said, "is that real? no, magic can't be real." I didn't answer because I lost you into the movie again and you never asked that question again and I never b...

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“ArkMan's elusive book” by Sri Vi S

Submitted to Contest #176

Magic or Real She could not tell For she was, A Creature of magic They said. What she saw Was this magic or real That she could tell For that was live and real!! Nyaya was looking for this book from the skies to the earth. The only place left was somewhere out there in space he reflected. This elusive book was somewhere but there were no links nor traces of its location. It was all too simple. His grandfather ArkMan had told him a story from this very book. When Nyaya asked where he could get this book from, his grandfather said he...

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“Ice Cold” by Christopher Biery

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“‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; the stockings were hung by the chimney with care, in hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there.” - Clement Clarke Moore I remember it as clearly as I see you now. Christmas memories tend to stick with you. I was sitting at the top of the stairs peaking down at the tree. It was late. I can’t be sure of the time, but it was well passed my bedtime. That year, I was determined to witness what all children hope for: Santa Claus placi...

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“Plenty of Time” by Autumn Vise

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Had she known Ish was hiding under the table, she would have gotten him out of the room before agreeing to help with the interrogation. Rosemary knew the moment her familiar walked towards the table in the otherwise barren torture room that the boy was there. Her hands currently gripped the head of the poor idiot who had allegedly stolen from her boss, or so she had been informed in the summons she received. He refused to talk, so she needed to extract the information from him via magic. Yet when Osiris, her gray tabby Maine Coon, left...

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Start your story with someone witnessing magic from a hiding place.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 52 stories

“Magical Night” by Chase Stuart

“Flick” by Judith Von Esh

“Music and Magic” by James Reed

“All I Can Give” by Michael Krass

“ArkMan's elusive book” by Sri Vi S

“Ice Cold” by Christopher Biery

“Plenty of Time” by Autumn Vise

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Write a story involving a magical potion — which may or may not work.

Cast a magician (a real one, or a party entertainer) as your story’s protagonist.

Write a story told from the point of view of an animal.

Set your story in a magical bookshop.

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