Start or end your story with a character noticing the beauty in something they've seen hundreds of times.

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“Embrace Your Dreams” by Evelyn Liang

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Raindrops were falling from the sky, and one could just glimpse the busy street with quite a few elaborate carriages. I trotted through a muddy narrow path, using merely the faint flickering glow of lamp posts as navigation. My stomach growled in protest, struggling to overcome the appealing scent of fresh baked bread from my basket. No, I shall not, I told myself sternly, for I was only here for the reasons nobody but I would understand as I knelt down besides a dark hooded figure. Dukes, duchess, baroness. By Jove, how much I used to ...

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“A Look Back at Home” by Story Time

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Alice would wait until Friday to tell the kids. There was no point telling them on a Tuesday so that they could sulk about it all week. If she told them on Friday, and then told them they could have their friends sleep over, there was always a chance they’d forget about the whole thing in an instant the way pre-teens do in between crushes and rocket maintenance. Her optimism was dampened when Ari, her eleven-year-old, informed her in between bites of Moon Mounds at breakfast that he did not remember anything about their last trip. She balk...

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“CHARLOTTE GONE” by Del Gibson

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CHARLOTTE GONE by Del Gibson The birds are chirping right outside the window, though Sue doesn’t pay them any attention. She thinks about the day her life changed, altered for the worse, it will be forever immortalised in the painting that hangs above the fireplace – over the years she has looked at this painting, its beauty, the colours, the catastrophe that occurred, and she remembers… The painting, her four-year-old daughter Charlotte had created eons ago. It’s a stark reminder of the day Sue lost it all. She has looked at the painti...

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“Copiously Profuse Trash Talk” by Amy Specker

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Fellow citizens, I come before you at this time to bring to light a problem that we all face. In your mind's eye, I want you to envision being at home and relaxing in your favorite chair. You can hear the screeching of tires as a large, burdened truck halts to retrieve yet another of its intended loads. From the comfort of your living room, you can hear the thudding made upon impact of the weighted canister as it is mechanically put back in its original resting place after expelling the contents it had harbored internally for the past seven ...

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“A Bus Ride” by Lauren Kim

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“Good morning.” The greeting jolts me upright from where I sit on the bus with headphones in. It’s not directed to me, I realize, as I observe an older man exchanging nods with a elderly woman coming aboard. He holds a leather briefcase in one hand and a bus pole in the other, moving as he speaks to make room for her passing. Feeling slightly embarrassed, I relax back into my seat. The dull rumble of wheels and engine sound beneath me. The music is to help me think. A writer for the quasi-newspaper The Point, I’ve been assigned to write abou...

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“Through a New Lense” by K.M. Kinley

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Slap! Michi threw another clump of clay onto the growing amalgamation in front of him. He reached outwards to gather some of the material between warm fingertips and pulled it along the wires that jutted at various angles. From a distance, the skeletal structure looked vaguely humoresque in form. Twisting limbs bent themselves backwards at an uncomfortable angle while the ‘s’ curve of the body itself warped in a way that looked equally as discomforting. It was the shape of a human form that was too contorted to be natural. It was the bend ...

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“The Rose Tree” by Melinda Madrigal

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Can a tree be beautiful? I ask myself that same question everyday when I walk past the Rose Tree on my way to work, on my way home and when I'm sitting on the bench looking at the tree. I see its beauty from afar and from near, the Rose Tree is a magnificent beauty and one that should be cherished. I see the Rose Tree as a beautiful part of nature that we should all take care of, but not many people see the Rose Tree like I do. Over the years many people have sought to destroy the Rose Tree, but thanks to people like me who see the Ros...

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“Twenty Below” by Knox Whitney

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12Aug2021Word Count 2,340Twenty BelowbyKnox WhitneyOne “We could go snow camping.” He eyes her over his paper, over his reading glasses, over the round oak breakfast table he’d built just for her. “Where are you thinking?” “Haven’t thought. We’ll know it when we see it.” “It’ll take me a day to get the RV in shape.” “That’s not exactly what I have in mind.” She sips her latte and tries not to smile too big. “How about a rea...

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“I Promise” by Ema Fancher

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“I can’t...I won’t...I-I just can’t do it again!” The unusually dim, yellow lights, the insufferable small talk, the 3 hours of actual work, and 5 spent wasting precious time only to finally be free to go home absolutely exhausted. Jenn sat in her car and stared numbly at the concrete office building, mouth agape. Sure at one point, she had been excited to work here, but that time had long since passed. Now, every day she fought with herself to get out of bed, to put on the make-up, to drive the dark streets to purgatory. She eyed her car c...

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“New Year Lights” by Joshua Smith

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TW: murderThe ball, once again, rested at the top of the pole, illuminating the colors of false hope and broken promises to come. The blues reflecting on the buildings surrounding, light falling on glass rippling like the ocean waves in which you sail with no knowledge of what will come. The waves that cover the city’s soon to be new year, that can pull under all those who believe they are innocent. The blues shifted down the color spectrum, to the reds. My favorite color. The blood that would seep through lies and deceit like when a mo...

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“It May Have Been Maybury” by Karen Lankford-Carnes

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It May Have Been Maybury By Karen Lankford-Carnes She was back, supposedly to “take care of some business”, except there was no business left to take care of. Her older brother and his wife had taken care of it already. They were the dynamic duo of taking care of business. They were also the only ones in the family who had their shit together. Kathy, Kelly or Kim...no, Kaye was her name, decided to take a walk around her old town. She was reminded each time that she visited a doctor that her name could’ve been Kathy or Kelly or Kim. It w...

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“Stupid dog” by Michelle Fisher

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"You stupid dog." I groaned as I looked at the pile of poop on the floor. It was large, with a suspiciously large fly sitting on top of it. My dog, Elmo, was looking up at me with an innocent look in his eyes, like he hadn't even seen the mountain he'd made stinking up the room next to him. "That's where you're supposed to poop." I spat as I pointed at the newspaper laid out in the corner of the kitchen. He only opened his mouth and wagged his tail vigorously. I glared at him. He wasn't even my dog really, he had been my Grandma'...

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“TOUCH THE SKY” by Praise Olamotse

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‘Platinum books’. A publishing company presently in its prime as the public’s interest in their work grew hysterically after they released the best-selling book few months ago with the title “THE STORY” by Umoru Praise. Since the release and the public’s elation towards the book, Platinum books have been business with the creation of the Novel’s sequel, including numerous interviews that comes in, minor publishing books, magazines, articles and many more. Naomi was on her messy desk once again. She had two laptops she fixed her a...

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“The Fourth Day” by Tyler Hanson

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Biting winds sink their teeth into all who enter the Boreal Forest. Trees once ripe with foliage, have long been draped in dresses of snow. Lost to time, only those who inhabit the lands can perceive the trails through the forest. Yet, outside of the forest, there are some who hear the call of knowledge and adventure from the land. The calls to map the original paths, and to discover the other side. These calls are short lived, when faced with the edge of the forest. Many slink back to their homes unable to conquer their own fears. Those who...

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“Eastern White Pine” by Maria Avisal

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“Ugh, this chicken again?! Seriously? You always make the same two things, I’m so sick of them,” I whined as I strolled into the dining room, late for dinner. My mother sighed but didn’t respond, dropping a piece of baked chicken on her own plate. “So when are you going to try to tell us about Seattle?” my father asked, showing a rare awareness of where I had been recently. He didn’t irritate me nearly as much as my mother, pro...

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Start or end your story with a character noticing the beauty in something they've seen hundreds of times.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 74 stories

“Embrace Your Dreams” by Evelyn Liang

“A Look Back at Home” by Story Time

“CHARLOTTE GONE” by Del Gibson

“Copiously Profuse Trash Talk” by Amy Specker

“A Bus Ride” by Lauren Kim

“Through a New Lense” by K.M. Kinley

“The Rose Tree” by Melinda Madrigal

“Twenty Below” by Knox Whitney

“I Promise” by Ema Fancher

“New Year Lights” by Joshua Smith

“It May Have Been Maybury” by Karen Lankford-Carnes

“Stupid dog” by Michelle Fisher

“TOUCH THE SKY” by Praise Olamotse

“The Fourth Day” by Tyler Hanson

“Eastern White Pine” by Maria Avisal

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Write about a character who’s known to be a cynic, but secretly romanticizes everything.

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Write a story about a character who takes nothing for granted.

Write a story about a character who’s secretly nobility.

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