Write a story where a character is exploring their religious or spiritual identity.

Posted in Fiction on Oct 26, 2022

Submissions are closed

Sorry, we are not accepting submissions for this prompt as it is not part of an active contest. Make sure you don't miss our next contest by creating your free Reedsy Prompts account.

Or create a new Reedsy account:

Why not check out our active contest?

✍️ 59 stories

“The Purgatory from Pittsburgh to Paris” by Tammy Cooper

Submitted to Contest #132

“You are exceeding the speed limit.” The English-accented GPS voice, Lorna affectionately called him Bob, was continuously correcting her driving performance and filling her head with obvious bits of instruction. She was well-accustomed to being told what to do, having endured the control of a boatload of peons since she was five years old. Not once in all that time had she been blessed with helpful guidance; instead she’d been manipulated, used, mistreated, and forgotten. Now finally in control of herself, she would likely end up a Google s...

4 comments 4

Read story

“A Backslider's Trip Back Down to Jesus Country” by Ashley Cullen

Submitted to Contest #132

It’s been two days since they left North Carolina. They inch down, further south, running on fumes. The children stare out the window at nothing, exhausted. The adults hang on to a sliver of sanity, powered by the gas station coffee running through their veins. At last, the crunch of gravel wakes the backseat passengers, and the car slows to a stop. The silver-haired matron of the family runs out to greet them. She asks how the drive was and hugs the boys close to her body. Two big pots of pink and purple petunias stretch out around the smal...

2 comments 2

Read story

“Searching for souls” by Leila Shahtahmasebi

Submitted to Contest #132

Jasmin picked up the book she had been recommended to read and took a look at the back cover. For the last few years she had become taken with the idea of the world more as energy and humans as electromagnetic beings, and if anybody recommended or spoke about a certain subject to her then she had felt she was hearing it for a reason. Her philosophy lately had very much been everything happens for a reason. Very easy to agree with this idea when things are going well, a lot harder to want to believe it when something bad happens. Though when ...

0 comments 0

Read story

“Spirituality ” by Dane McCormack

Submitted to Contest #132

Spirituality is a funny topic that I’ve explored in several different ways throughout my life. Spirituality is often linked to religion, that there is a God up above us, looking out for us and helping us. I’m a Catholic, born and bred, I even had a stint as an altar boy to strengthen my faith. Back then, I lived my life following the Catholic values, which are; believing in the life and dignity of the human person; calling to the importance of family, community, and participation; respecting rights and responsibilities; developing options fo...

2 comments 2

Read story

“Orange Alert” by Sajeev Poovadan

Submitted to Contest #132

“They had put out a storm warning,” she said looking at him as the darkness thickened outside.Her tone was viscous. It had a languor that clouded his resolve in a layer of weakness as tactile as sin. He held the rosary in the pocket of his habit, with the Cross cradled on his index, the thumb caressing the profile of the crucified form. He could feel his sweat. The rain descended in a scatter of drops on the roof tiles and picked up the rumble of the monsoons over the backwaters, spiked with the breaking of thunder. The lights went off.She c...

0 comments 0

Read story

“Late Night Thoughts of A Runaway Ego” by Brooke Woodworth

Submitted to Contest #132

(Brief mentions of child abuse, mental health issues, and inter generational trauma)Finding God isn’t a chronological event. Finding God is cyclical; a collage of experiences that unite into one brilliant and terrifying mosaic.My grandmother died in my sophomore year. My mom, a chronic case of untreated, anger-issue-prone narcissist, experienced a great deal of distress from this. My grandmother was the one person who loved her unconditionally. Not just because she was her mother. Meme was kind, and didn’t deserve the suffering this world br...

1 comment 1

Read story

“The Lonely Man” by Neyshalie Rodriguez

Submitted to Contest #132

I don’t remember how old I was when it first happened, but I do recall still being a child. It all started on a very troubling night where images of monsters flooded my young mind. I was tossing and turning in my bunkbed unable to fall asleep when fear took complete hold of me. I wasn’t quite sure where all these feelings were coming from, all I knew was that I didn’t want to be in my bed anymore. Usually when this happens to a child the logical thing is to slowly sneak into their parents’ room and get in bed with them, but lucky for me...

0 comments 0

Read story

“ The Good News” by Marty B

Submitted to Contest #132

Susanna reads the plaque above the clock in the office, ‘Jesus Saves Sinners’. Will Jesus save her if she has Pastor Mason’s baby? The sun shines brightly through the glass doors and windows of the Heritage Baptist Church front office, highlighting the two-tone tan desks, with no papers or pencils disturbing their empty desktops. Two women sat as a matched set, both at one each desk, each with carefully blown-out dyed blonde hair and in pastel sweater sets. Fidgeting anxiously, they kept looking at the phone.“Shouldn’t they h...

2 comments 2

Read story

“Ice Core Crisis” by Tina Erickson

Submitted to Contest #132

Sensitive themes: Death, CancerI was born Catholic. Well, maybe not born, because who really knows if we enter the world with not only the gasping cry of our first breath, but with a basic moral or spiritual sense of being at our core and in our bones.Did you know that there’s a “Baby Lab” at Yale that studies babies as young as 1-year-old to find if they are born with a sense of morality and a simple understanding of the difference between good and evil? In one of their experiments, researchers begin with a puppet show; after all, what unde...

1 comment 1

Read story

“Puritans and Icons” by L.J Sunwing

Submitted to Contest #132

“Did you see how smug he was?” Alison immediately shot off walking out of the large convention center. Shannon walks next to her with a less enthused reaction to Alison’s extreme bouts of passion. Struggles in the rowdy girl's faith had left ideas slamming up against each other in her mind like waves claiming and eroding the edges of rocks. Her heart was never sure if it was twisted with anxiety or a sense of conviction as she felt her life begin to change at the end of high school. The combination of graduation and the suicide of her best f...

0 comments 0

Read story

“A New Woman” by Dylan Yarbrough

Submitted to Contest #132

All was not well at the Foothold camp. It was a small outpost that housed a modest force of guards and a whole host of carpenters, stone masons, and other laborers. It was also the temporary home of Rosha, an old hunter who was brought on to work as a guard. Due to her knowledge of the wilderness surrounding Foothold, Rosha was invaluable to the village planners that originally staked out the future village. Everything had been routine and simple for the inhabitants of Foothold, but as the trees began shedding leaves for winter life grew mor...

0 comments 0

Read story

“Salvation” by Betsy Lynch

Submitted to Contest #132

Note: Some parts of the narrator's reporting may be disturbing because of mental health issues, pornography and sexual discussion, social media abuse, and religious questions and implications. “Why doesn’t Christine get to go to heaven? Why doesn’t God love my best friend?” Ok, maybe a little too whiny. Mom danced around my words, her responses learned long ago. “The plan of salvation,” she reminded me, “says only those who believe Jesus was God’s son who sacrificed himself so that we might have eternal life,” she emphasi...

1 comment 1

Read story

“"God? Anybody there?"” by Rodd Dana

Submitted to Contest #132

“God? Anybody there?” It was one of those days in which all the negative, depressing crap that could be imagined had smashed into his reality. He was again turned down for employment, due to over or under-qualification, or due to the fact that he refused to be a guinea pig for the recently mandated vaccination program. His job as a grade-one lab researcher for a chemical company had been terminated five months before, due to the recent world-wide plague. The lab’s required shutdown was said to be ‘indefinite’ with any future employment...

0 comments 0

Read story

“Coming Back” by Lynn-Marie Reed

Submitted to Contest #132

For Elizabeth, a morning at church was something to look forward to. Not because it was part of her family’s routine, but because it was not. When she was told they’d be going to church and needed to look nice, she thought it was because it only happened every so often. She actually hadn’t known that other families went religiously, every week. It only started to become clear to her when they arrived and saw other people shaking hands, hugging, sharing how their week had gone. The pastor also announced weekly updates as well as a quick reha...

0 comments 0

Read story

“God Botherers ” by Anna Rogers

Submitted to Contest #132

I’m Alex (short for Alexis) Roberts, my younger (and very annoying) sister is Geneva (Neva for short) and we live with our mum. We’re also God Botherers or Christians, Mum converted after her and dad split up. As a newly minted solo mother she needed someone in her corner. With a handful like Neva I guess she figured only God was up for the job. Honestly my sister would try the entire heavenly host’s patience. Dad’s a cop and he preferred crowd control duty to managing her in full flight, Actually he met mum crowd controlling but that’s a wh...

1 comment 1

Read story

Load more stories

🌟 Similar prompts

Start your story with a character saying “Are you there, God? It’s me…”

Dialogue – 108 stories

Write a story about a couple with fundamentally different beliefs.

Valentine's Day – 23 stories

End your story with a character saying “Thank you, God. Thanks an awful lot.” (sarcastically or not).

Dialogue – 44 stories

Write a story about a teenager whose family is moving.

Teens – 46 stories

Contest #132

Enter our weekly contest!

This week's theme: Time to Blume

$250

Prize money

280

Contest entries

127

Stories

Ended on 23:59 - Feb 11, 2022 EST

Won by Adam El Nabli 🏆

Title: Inshallah

View details

Win $250 in our short story competition 🏆

We'll send you 5 prompts each week. Respond with your short story and you could win $250!

Menu

CONNECT

BLOG

APPS

TOOLS

ABOUT

Write a story where a character is exploring their religious or spiritual identity.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 59 stories

“The Purgatory from Pittsburgh to Paris” by Tammy Cooper

“A Backslider's Trip Back Down to Jesus Country” by Ashley Cullen

“Searching for souls” by Leila Shahtahmasebi

“Spirituality ” by Dane McCormack

“Orange Alert” by Sajeev Poovadan

“Late Night Thoughts of A Runaway Ego” by Brooke Woodworth

“The Lonely Man” by Neyshalie Rodriguez

“ The Good News” by Marty B

“Ice Core Crisis” by Tina Erickson

“Puritans and Icons” by L.J Sunwing

“A New Woman” by Dylan Yarbrough

“Salvation” by Betsy Lynch

“"God? Anybody there?"” by Rodd Dana

“Coming Back” by Lynn-Marie Reed

“God Botherers ” by Anna Rogers

🌟 Similar prompts

Start your story with a character saying “Are you there, God? It’s me…”

Write a story about a couple with fundamentally different beliefs.

End your story with a character saying “Thank you, God. Thanks an awful lot.” (sarcastically or not).

Write a story about a teenager whose family is moving.

Contest #132

Enter our weekly contest!

$250

Prize money

280

Contest entries

127

Stories

Win $250 in our short story competition 🏆

Explore more writing prompt ideas: