Write a fantasy story about water gods or spirits.

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“Arthar : Son of Lord Seidon” by JESSICA MYRCIANA JELIUS

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Far at the lower part of the sea, lies an extraordinarily excellent underwater realm. Complete with a pearl-designed manor and a swank ruler of ocean water, Lord Seidon. Lord Seidon is a strong ruler of the oceans, he has numerous children. They love the underwater world wherein they live. Lord Seidon and his brothers made the humans, whose love kept up the god's interminability. Over the long haul, nonetheless, the humans started to revile and resist their creators. The half god Arthar was born to the mortal queen Morgane who was conceive...

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“The Call” by Maxine Merritt

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The first time my fledgling lungs fill with air, its humid warmth almost makes me choke. It’s thick, somehow, so unlike the frigid waters of our gorge. As I rise from the sea, I can feel my salt-crusted shoulders already beginning to sting in the bite of the wind. So, I think, this is what it is like to live above. The sea mud seems to hold tighter to my feet with each step that I take towards shore. Footstep by footstep, I pull further from home. The lights of land are bright and diffuse in the heavy air; as I grow closer the spot...

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“Esme” by Maeve G

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“But I don’t want to go. I love this island. I love the wind on my face and the sun beating down on my back. Running through the warm sand until I collapse into the waves on the shore brings me great joy. Swimming with the fish and mermaids, and riding the dolphins into the sunset every evening means so much to me. And I love watching the exotic birds hatch and fly free into the sky. Listening to the tales sung by the long grass and tall trees... This island is a part of me which I will never part with.”“I love this island as much as you do ...

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“The Fae of the Sea” by Sierra Tkacik

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People have always known about the fae. Lessons are taught from birth on how to keep safe, to keep the only freedoms that are certain. There are common lists in every town. Never stray from the paths, or venture into the forest after dark. The faeries know better than to visit the beaten paths, where they are at risk from hunters and mages, looking to use their inborn magic for their own gain, but off of common paths and trails, the fae host constant revels, and no one is safe from the celebrations. After dark is the same story, but m...

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“When the Flood Comes” by Chester Sakamoto

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It was an election year. The role of mayor was up for grabs in the city of Varanasi. By spring, it was down to just two candidates: the sitting mayor and a lady who was running on an environmentalist platform. The townsfolk, being the creatures of habit we humans are and averse to change, were all set to reelect the sitting mayor. After all, he’d done so much for the city as far as industry was concerned, and industry meant more jobs. You appease the public, you make them happy. Never mind the fact that industry sometimes leads to certain ra...

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“Fated ” by Sarah El Dhaibi

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I had been trapped and perched on this rough Boulder for days, the oceans violent waves smashing senselessly onto my legs. The suns blazing heat scorching my naked skin that not even the water could heal. I was being punished. Being punished for refusing to live an imprisoned life. It was all worth it, however my plan did not go as I had hoped. Nonetheless, I escaped. My bones ached heavily, weighing my body down, leaving me with no energy. Transitioning from mermaid into a human body was excruciating. I was hungry, thirsty a...

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“The Flume And The Flute” by Steven Nguyen

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It was said that some eons ago, there existed a union of unlikely creatures, and as far as records went, that was no real account at all; but if we were to assume that such a thing couldn’t exist, then a disservice to the realms would be far too great, in every sense but the metaphysical. The realm of the mortals and immortals harnessed their purest of its essence, and they distilled it, cared for it and then named it water, or if it was the other way around, that water was such the driving force that created the reality of the realms...

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“To the Moon” by Bunni Kuwabara

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From high upon a mountain top my view rests on the land below. Snow bright but soft, shades and hues cast a blue and radiant glow. Fluffy flakes drift to the side on an ever downward draft. The sky above gray and dense with plumes of clouds that never change it's view; I think I've had enough. And so has she. The terrain spreads out down and as far as the eye can see. The trees stand speckled across the land, limbs bare and reaching toward a sun which never seems to shine. A pathway that leads to civilization and back; dirt with patches of...

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“Rathios” by Jeremy Johnson

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The season of the Sea Titans had begun once again. Shifting currents and cyclical changes brought forth warmer waters, from the east, across the vastness of the Necromantic Sea. The typically clear blue waters started to shift to their darker hue, causing the smaller creatures to migrate north towards cooler and clearer waters. Much of the larger sea life soon followed. Fish and other creatures that could survive in fresh water, migrated inland through the vast river network to shelter there until it was time again to ret...

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“Blood is Water” by Claudio Murgia

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It was weird the way she looked at him. Do all the water spirits look at humans like that? He didn’t know. It was the first time he had seen a water spirit. She looked shy, lowering her eyes, flipping her small blond eyelashes. She was the size of his hand but he could see everything in her as if it was magnified. She mimed something with her mouth, as if to say something. But he couldn’t hear her voice. He motioned that really he could not hear her. She flew close to her. He felt bizarre. Her slender body stirred something inside him, somet...

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“FRIZZY” by Mara Masolini

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FRIZZY He had originated___or had been born___in the water of the bathtub, in the Morrison ‘s house, while Tommy, the youngest son of the Morrison, a child of five years, was taking a bath. Who knows how, who knows why , at a certain point, he, Frizzy had come out in the water of the tub, which was full of soap bubbles ___and Tommy was playing with those ethereal colored bubbles, making them move, making them fly, blowing on them____ Who knows who could have created him….ah, he, Frizzy really co...

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“The Great Battle Between Fire and Water” by Rebecca Holmes

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Water laces through the air, lancing and darting down and around the grove that stands at the edge of the sea. Although the sky is bare elsewhere, the rain falls in torrents here. Its journey speeds downward and then slowly relaxes until the droplets hang suspended, gathered in the form of a woman that in turns laughs and cries as she sits upon a mossy stump. ‘I am glad you could make it, Sul’ says a deep voice located near the sea. The goddess of rain, for it is she, looks towards Elma the Great Sea Goddess...

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“Sea Foam” by Ivy Kova

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My father always had great advice. Old words of aged wisdom, poignant as whiskey, resonated with me throughout my years as advice, old limericks, cautionary tales, or simply afterthoughts to pass time. My favourite piece of advice by far was... Tell your pains to the sea. Throw them, shout them, claw at sand and curse at clouds. The sea will take your energy and create joyous, monstrous winds to help fuel sailors on their journeys across acres of salt water; their prayers of thanks will guide you through your aches. As my throat grew hoarse ...

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“Surfing With Gods” by Joshua Trockel

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Eilon let out a sharp breath as a wave crashed over the front of his board. He spat out the briny water that flooded his open mouth and shook the wet from his eyes. I need to stop drinking so much of the ocean. His shoulders ached and his eyes burned from the constant surge of salt but he plunged his right hand into the cold and propelled himself forward. The ocean was frothing. The undulating currents seemed inexorable as he waded through. Though small from the coast, on their surface, they felt enormous. Each crest was a mou...

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“Mildred and the Sea Lovers” by David Dicaire

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Mildred and The Sea Lovers Once, there was a poor starving artist named Mildred Armstrong. She was a mid-thirties female, somewhat attractive, but really down on her luck. The previous week she had been kicked out of her loft and now lived on the beach in a cave. Mildred fished for her food and drank the water from a nearby spring. She didn’t own very much having sold everything to pay the rent only to be evicted in the end. It was frustrating to say the least. She had put so much in her r...

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Write a fantasy story about water gods or spirits.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 227 stories

“Arthar : Son of Lord Seidon” by JESSICA MYRCIANA JELIUS

“The Call” by Maxine Merritt

“Esme” by Maeve G

“The Fae of the Sea” by Sierra Tkacik

“When the Flood Comes” by Chester Sakamoto

“Fated ” by Sarah El Dhaibi

“The Flume And The Flute” by Steven Nguyen

“To the Moon” by Bunni Kuwabara

“Rathios” by Jeremy Johnson

“Blood is Water” by Claudio Murgia

“FRIZZY” by Mara Masolini

“The Great Battle Between Fire and Water” by Rebecca Holmes

“Sea Foam” by Ivy Kova

“Surfing With Gods” by Joshua Trockel

“Mildred and the Sea Lovers” by David Dicaire

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Write about someone who goes to extreme lengths to get themselves to a tropical island.

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Write about someone who’s lived on a tropical island their whole life and is leaving it for the very first time.

Write about someone who books a bargain vacation, only to be told when they arrive that they need to share a hotel suite with a stranger.

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