Your character makes a living faking psychic powers. One morning, they wake up with real ones.

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“The Hero” by Kaia Meredith

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The chain had finally broken. Snapped right apart and smashed her sign on the ground. It would have been surprising–by all means, it should have been surprising. The old rickety thing had been swinging on one chain for years and it damn well should have been swinging for many more. After all her foiled, painful attempts to fix the thing, it deserved it. Yet there it was, her namesake, shattered on the ground. The vexatious purple letters of Fortune Teller mocking her from the splinters. A piqued smirk curled a...

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“is this your card?” by E. J. Wilhelm

Submitted to Contest #127

“Find something you’re good at and stick with it.” Wise words from his father, to be sure, though Kyle was pretty sure neither of his parents had ever intended for him to be … well, saying a con artist felt a bit harsh. He was giving people exactly what they paid him for, in a basement room he rented for cheap that smelled like even cheaper incense, drowning out the world outside with thick walls and a white noise generator. It was better than a lot of alternatives. It started with the tarot cards, in more ways than one. Kyle knew a ha...

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“The Great Madame Lavinia” by Carolyn Sternes

Submitted to Contest #127

The dark room still thrummed with the feeling of those from the afterlife. Overhead the light flickered back to life and the smoke from the overpowering incense danced its way to the ceiling as though they held the spirits of those who had spoken from the other side. The overhead light finally after a few failed flickers came to life completely and lit the room completely. The bandana floated to the table and were followed by large hoop earrings that clinked on top of it. There was a small laugh that caught her attention as the door to the b...

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“Crystal Clear” by Nicholette A. Guy

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Bells rang overhead as the magenta door popped open to an incense-fused waiting room. Behind the counter, Tessa flipped on the open sign and parted the barrier beads to get to the “behind-the-scenes” door she and her coworkers had titled. Inside, the break room glared a sterile white color and droned like an elementary school cafeteria. “Yo,” Tessa said to her red-lipped boss. Her lips cracked open into a smile, “Good morning, Mystique.” Tessa groaned, “Come on, you know I hate that. I thought we agreed we could be ca...

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Your character makes a living faking psychic powers. One morning, they wake up with real ones.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 64 stories

“The Hero” by Kaia Meredith

“is this your card?” by E. J. Wilhelm

“The Great Madame Lavinia” by Carolyn Sternes

“Crystal Clear” by Nicholette A. Guy

🌟 Similar prompts

Begin your story with a character having a gut feeling they cannot explain.

Write about a character whose intuition is always right — until one day it isn’t.

Write a story about a problem with no good solutions.

Write about a character learning to trust their intuition.

Contest #127

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