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Write a story where your character is traveling a road that has no end.

Posted in Fantasy on Sep 16, 2024

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“Beyond the Labyrinth” by V. Luna

Submitted to Contest #239

BEYOND THE LABYRINTH “I come from Southern Ocean, Antarctic. In underwater, they call me Aatma. I come here through my dream but I can feel, see and touch all things. Everybody also can see me. I didn’t want to live in only Antarctic. I wanted to travel on this earth and wanted to walk on the ground and beautiful roads by these beautiful legs. Absolutely right, I was mermaid. No one agreed me to travel on here. Although they couldn’t let me, I founded my way how to travel here. That’s practice my spirit level to connect with my soul. So,...

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“Uptha Road” by Michael Jefferson

Submitted to Contest #239

The smoke around Jack dissipates. He’s standing at a crossroads. All four signs say Uptha Road. An ostrich bounds down the road toward him. It stops to survey him, honking loudly. “Bad enough I’m lost. I don’t need any comments from the vegemite gallery.” “Vegemite? Yuk,” the ostrich replies. Jack stares at the ostrich. “Okay, so where’s the ventriloquist?” “What makes you think it’s a trick?” the ostrich asks. “Hmm. No strings. No visible computer chips. The beak even moved when it spoke. This is one realistic dream I’m having.” The...

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“The Gap in the Mountains” by Neil Achary

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Si was midway on his journey when he stopped and sat on a white rock. An adjacent, crooked signpost with indecipherable letters (except an 'A' and an 'O'), pointed up a rising, straight road. His manual watch had stopped at ten o’clock, and he had forgotten to wind it up when he woke up earlier. He could not remember what time he left the hotel, but he did remember the rosy sunrise from the dirty bedroom window. Thirsty, and a bit warm, he took out a water bottle from his leather backpack and drank from it, then looked back. As he did so, a ...

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“"My name is Ozma”” by Tee Farewell

Submitted to Contest #239

"Hey, guess what?" I texted my buddy as I lounged on my couch, scrolling through my phone. "What?" he quickly responded. "This week's Reedy writing prompts are about fabulism," I said, excitement bubbling up within me. "Okay, so?" he said. "So? So it means I can finally write an Oz story I've been wanting to," I said. "No, you can't. They won't take a story based on copyrighted work," he said. "It's in the public domain, though. As long as I steer clear of specifics from other people's recent stories, I'm good. Trust me, people write Oz stor...

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“Miss Fox” by Holly Gilbert

Submitted to Contest #239

“You can’t run forever.” That voice echoed in Miss Fox’s brain. It was a dark night, filled with a thick fog. She loved fog. Her father used to wake her up every foggy morning to look at the pieces of the mountain range that weren't coated by fog. She pulled her black hood tighter around her head, being careful not to reveal the bumps that are her ears. Fox ears. Time had passed slowly. It started to rain. Her eyes began to grow sleepy. Then she smelled something. Coffin varnish. The hairs on her neck stood up. She had to get out of he...

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“Yellow Wood” by Kellie Krevosky

Submitted to Contest #239

“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by,” Rhiannon stared at the sign in front of her, an overwhelming sense of dread blossoming inside her chest. The Yellow Wood was famous, or infamous, depending on how you viewed it. She sighed and readjusted the pack on her shoulders. Indecision was paralyzing her to the spot and the sign in front of her was neither ominous nor helpful. It was a single wooden pole with two weathered signs that directed travelers in opposite directions. The one that read The Road po...

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“Infinity” by Rachel Peterson

Submitted to Contest #239

Mina walked. She always seemed to be walking, always on this road of hers. No matter. She would find its end someday. And while she waited, she could think. Her feet moved, and her mind was free to ponder the world that surrounded her.  She looked up from the muddy road, admiring the soft blue of the sky and the contrast of the sharp black mountains that cut into it. Below the mountains were deep green pine trees, the space between them covered in wildflowers of every color imaginable and then some. People rarely had the time to admire...

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“A Place of No Return” by Jocalyn Imbody

Submitted to Contest #239

Wili had always been a run and go, Legs fidgeting as if they’d snap off and leave Their upper half behind in the dust without a second thought, They were always moving. Well, today- as always, Wili was on the move again, as they cycled down the street. Today was the day. It was Grandma’s birthday. Grandma had been getting worse since the flu outbreak this fall when Wili went to school. One of Wili’s roommates, Blu, had gotten the flu, and all he did was hack and yack, his face a vibrant burgundy, as the mucus that clogged his esophagus ad no...

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“The Road to the Millers” by Hope Linter

Submitted to Contest #239

My electric car battery died in the middle of a valley of green pasture, speckled with black and white jersey cows. In a better frame of mind, I would have appreciated the setting; the spring blue sky and the winding rural road that disappeared ahead over a hillock, like in so many of those paintings, where I loved to let my imagination wander and lead me into the unknown. But now, over the crest, a kilometre away, there wouldn’t be adventure, but another no-news nuisance story.  “Damn asinine assignments,” I shouted, and hammered my he...

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“Lemonade Down the Road” by Alan Norcott

Submitted to Contest #239

Heat lifted off the concrete engulfing me, in a serape of dry air. Rays of light came down from directly above, blindingly illuminating the arid wasteland. It sat on either side of the cracked road. Listlessly, one step after the next, my legs moved asynchronously, the right seemingly more motivated than the left. Dogtags swayed left and right, and boots scraped the road below; If you were to ask me how long the journey had been I would tell you it didn’t matter. In war, you learn to understand the true uncertainty regarding duration. Althou...

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“The Endless Road” by Cameron Dumlop

Submitted to Contest #239

The Endless Road I don’t when I started walking this path, I remember pieces of what came before but they were only broken fragments. I know well the scene I am in, the dull grey cobbles matching the murkiness of the twilight sky. This place is forever stuck in eternal dusk; the last glimmer of sunlight was consumed beneath the horizon, yet the shroud of night never descended into its usual plumage of fathomless onyx. I remember this well enough, over and over and over. I know I had many moments like this one, where I remember this place. ...

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“Keep Moving” by Jasmine Guillory

Submitted to Contest #239

This forest is the motherland of gluttony, it writhes in the soil, sluggishly sprouts from the earth, and feeds for eternity. Amidst the forest, amidst the decay lies a heart. A breathing, beating, hungry heart. Its dirt-path veins spread along the forest searching for its next meal like the silk-trap of a spider web. But this forest is nothing if not lawful. Follow her rules and you will be safe, follow her rules and she will remain hungry.  Debris snuck its way into Sparrow’s sneakers as he shuffled down the dirt path. He cursed Wr...

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“House of Windows” by Andy C

Submitted to Contest #239

How am I supposed to fall asleep again tonight when she, so infinitely far away from me, I feel the weight of her cold, sinking breath? Outside my window I can hear them again; they exhale in a swelling of the air, the shivering drone of midnight-cold cicadas. I rose and stepped out of bed. My feet crawled into each worn-down boot and slithered each thinly tapered arm through my rusted overcoat, and I thought to myself; it's time to face the sharp cold so here I go down that road again. I opened the glass door inside the steel fram...

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“The Journey” by William Braden

Submitted to Contest #239

I read the final script, several times. I still wasn’t happy with the result. The director said, “Once again from the top, on my mark. Roll the tape in three, two, one, go.”“The journey is long, I made my preparations and the hardest part is behind me, the first step. I travelled for a while until I met a friend, and she followed me for a while. We stopped for a rest. I got up to continue the journey, she no longer followed me but walked with me. My load was lighter and I was happier. We held hands and lived in a house where there were child...

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“Eran's Journey” by Farai Gotora

Submitted to Contest #239

Many years ago on our green and blue planet was a never ending road. It stretched out for infinite miles and was as circular as it was linear. The peoples of the world all knew this road and walked upon it, some only a few steps and others vast distances. While all knew it and beheld its wonders, no one could say where it started nor where it ended, only that it was there and it affected every living thing just as every living thing affected it. The origins of the road were left for people to speculate on. There were as many theories as ther...

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