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Write about a character who’s had their future foretold from birth — but isn’t sure if they believe it.

Posted in Fantasy on Jul 30, 2021

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“Loving my future” by Jerlin Johnson

Submitted to Contest #62

I crumple the paper in my hand. This is utter bullshit! Not thinking twice I throw it into the dustbin before lying back on the bed. What’s up with my family? Okay! I know, we have traditions. All families do. But this is insane. Getting some religious people to foretell every member’s future and living your life waiting for that to happen. Who does that? And what is the use? My parents were told that there only daughter, Alicia Spencer, wouldn’t live past her 21st birthday. Which of course isn’t true. But would they listen? They t...

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“Nightmare” by Anii ✨

Submitted to Contest #62

It was the nightmare again. Again as it always came. Without fail.  The drifting ice. The empty sky. Desolation.  She was all alone in a world where no one cared. No one knew. No one was. She was a miserable figure in the dark. Her mistake had destroyed her. She was trapped in an endless universe of darkness and ice, where only she survived. But barely. Her soul was gone. Her heart with it. The only thing that kept her alive was the vision. The vision within the vision.  The flower.  The dark blossom whose purple t...

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“Weight of Prophecy” by Chelsea Angell

Submitted to Contest #62

Prophecies were normal in their world. In fact, it would be unusual to not have the local prophetess visit on the eve of a baby's birth to deliver some form of vision of their futures. Whether it be something so casual as their destined career path or something so significant as their greatest moment of triumph, most would have some clue as to what would befall them during their lives. And when the royals were born their destinies tended to be so much greater and more significant.  The Prophetess of the Central Guild swept into the s...

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“Finding Golden Midnight” by Sierra Tkacik

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On golden midnight, two sisters will fall in love and cause the return of dragons.  What utter garbage.  When I was born (five seconds before my sister, mind you), the midwife was almost frightened. “That girl’s got a battle in her,” were her exact words when she saw the black and silver streaking through my too-long hair, the translucent paleness to my skin, “I’m not sure we’ll like the outcome.” But my eyes opened soon after to see the cold world I had been forced into, and both she and my mother were taken by the sparkling blues...

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“Future Enhanced. ” by Nasreen M

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         We dont know what our future holds for us, it’s just the matter of time. We make or destroy our future by our own good or bad decisions. But when you’re marked no matter what, you can’t change you’re destiny by you’re doings.1I heard the door bell and knew Dad had brought me a gift as promised. Excited I run to open the door, almost tripping three times on books, stairs and on a flat floor. I hate my clumsiness for wasting my time. But can’t help it as I was born with it. I know the pain ...

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“Do As You're Told” by Inkstained Introvert

Submitted to Contest #62

I’ve always found it funny how Tellers are never wrong.  My best friend’s older sister, Kyteari, was Told when she was nine. She was Told she would become a dragonrider; which everyone laughed at, because dragonriders must be unwed, untouched, unbound, virgin, clean, free; and Kyt was long since betrothed to the Duchess of Aolderen’s secondborn son. Even as her parents laughed the Telling off, there was uncertainty in their eyes, but they laughed nonetheless. “Preposterous,” they said. “A dragonrider, our daughter? Never.” And then Kyt ...

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“Some Heroes Read Books” by Cassie Poormokhtar

Submitted to Contest #62

         Above my desk, two sentences loomed over me. They had been painted in my bedroom before I was even born; it was the one thing I wasn’t allowed to change in the room. According to my parents, these two sentences were my destiny.        “At seventeen, this young hero will save the world. At twenty-one, she will be mourned by all for she will die a legend.”         My seventeenth birthday was tomorrow. I was...

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“The Dragon Lord” by Meredith Lindsey

Submitted to Contest #62

The sparring stick whizzes past my ear, only inches away from knocking me out. I return the assault with a swinging blow from my own wooden cane, but it meets Yona’s stick with a clack. My arms and legs burn with the familiar urgency to keep up with my teacher, but I can feel the cane growing heavier in my hands. Always too soon, I follow Yona’s fake to my left and find myself being greeted by the earth. My shoulder stings where the stick connected, and I can already feel a welt blossoming beneath my leather vest. I lay on the ground for a...

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“The decoy princess” by Kay Fairfax

Submitted to Contest #62

They told me I was born to be a hero. My fate and the princess’s became intertwined on the day of our birth; two little girls came to this world at the same hour – one to rule the kingdom, one to be her decoy. I never knew my parents, and I was told it was for the best. There was no time or space for them in my life, they said, and I shouldn’t care about a pair of peasants whose greatest achievement was producing the princess’s look-alike. For the first few years, the princess and I were inseparable. With our rooms adjacent, we spent ...

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“Battle of a Bastard ” by R.M Sualla

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Staring at the silk shoes covered with leather in my hands all my hopes of becoming one of the Knights of the kingdom sunk again. So much for being told I would be king oneday when I am not even a knight. I signed hopeless. I always waited for the day I will join the Knights since I was very little. I knew I would make a fine Knight because I have been good with the sword since I was a lad. All the times I have come forward when new Knights are being recruited, I was rejected without even being tested. It's still something I can't quit...

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“The Eternal King” by Jennifer NaDell

Submitted to Contest #62

The Child was found in the woods of old Dead Devil Grove. He was found by a middle aged couple who had a dream of a baby boy in the woods and needed saving. In the dream they were told to retrieve the child and go to the town of Darkwell where they were too meet a woman by the name of Luciana Shadowwalker. Upon finding the little baby boy, the couple made haste to the town. They did not want to keep Luciana waiting because in the dream they were told she would be watching their every move and if they were to run away with the child, they wou...

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“The Blackout” by Maphefo Mojapelo

Submitted to Contest #62

THE BLACKOUT Family members and relatives are considers to be the alternatives of your own parents, they should take or replace your parents’ place and duties when the parents leaves this world in terms of death. It is the inner part that determines your intentions, it can be kindness, hatred, love, peace, support and care we decide on our own accord. Though some events can leave you miserable, your natural personality will determine in which state you belong, whether you are heartless / full of hatred or you are kind and loving. In the capi...

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“Destiny” by Book Worm

Submitted to Contest #62

Raghav, the go-getting young man in her hobby class, wanted Rashmi to introduce him to her beautiful classmate Akira. “What is the point?”, Rashmi warned him. “Her parents are devout Tamil brahmins and she will be allowed to marry only someone whose horoscope matches hers.” Unlike most Indians who have their horoscope prepared at birth, Rashmi did not have one since her progressive parents did not believe in horoscopes. They belonged to a reformist sect of Hinduism that viewed Indian astrology as an irrational knowledge system and believed t...

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“The Cosmic Dream” by Manaskriti Sista

Submitted to Contest #62

   Once upon a time, in a world far away from ours, there lived a family. Now, this wasn’t an ordinary family, they loved to build electronic devices. The youngest son, Aaron, was the smartest of the five, and was always playing with gadgets. His two older brothers would play with him and teach him what they knew.     Their family had been trying for ages to build a device that could take them to other worlds, and let them communicate with them from a very far distance. Adrian, the second oldest of the brot...

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“Holding On” by Vivien Leanne Saunders

Submitted to Contest #62

Dolus watched Aridnae climb the stairs of her father’s palace. Fury and adoration twisted his stomach into knots. She did not gloat over her victory, and in a way Dolus hated her for it. If she had gloried over her battle, then of course she would have deserved some revenge. If she had made some scornful remark over how easy it had been to banish her foe then he could have despised her.  Her hair was like honey, and her skin was like silk. The god imagined silkworms spitting her out into an infant’s cradle. He coaxed himself into believ...

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