Write a story that involves a secret or magic ingredient.

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“She couldn't eat meat” by Nandini Rawat

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After over timing for a week, Selma completed editing the project she was working at. Sighing in satisfaction, she smiled, reading the time ‘4.38’ and started bundling up to flee from the company. But how could the world give her to be in a thriving field with fluttering butterflies, even in her dreams? The world gave her termites. A pleasant male voice came from beside “Selma baby, can you rearrange my piece too” she looked at James pouting at her “My wife gave birth today, I have to run home right away” Selma stared at him with...

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“Curry” by Marie McLaughlin

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Shumesh woke up one morning in his family's farm. Uneasy, he stared at the sky, longing for an answer to an unasked question. Shumesh's home nation of Torsina was in a disagreement with Medara, a country to the east, and Shumesh wished there was a way to prevent the disagreement between nations from escalating into a full blown war. Shumesh's Grandmother told him stories along time ago of a land across the southern sea where a Goddess who could grant any wish lived, but no one had ever found the Goddess, as the land was inhabited by monsters...

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“The Secret Ingredient ” by Anvi K

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As I walked down the stairs, I see my daughter and step son bickering. “Good morning you too. What are you fighting about now?” “Hey mom. I was just telling Noah that he keeps eating all the food for the guests. Just for breakfast he ate 4 cupcakes” my daughter Allison said. “I was hungry Ally. I love the cupcakes you and your mom make. Besides, you can make more food for the guests. And didn’t you say that there is also a first come first serve rule” Noah said. “It’s okay Ally, we can make more. There is plenty of food for the guests. Check...

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“Breakfast” by Pamela Zero

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Muscles straining, Gelsoy stretched one of her left tentacles as far as she could, barely able to curl the tip around the softly shining pebble. It was wedged deep in a crevice but the blue glow emanating from it gave it away. She pulled at it, teasing the stone loose. She hid it from view and dropped it down into the sand, burying it deeply, quickly. “Any luck?” asked her mentor, Kess. She was just a meter away, the delicate filigree of a coral between the two of them. “None,” lied Gelsoy. As one of the tri...

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“The Photograph” by Kumar Subra

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“Honey! Something is seriously wrong with me! I think I’m losing my mind!” shrieked Daniel over the phone to his wife. His heart was pounding so fast that he felt as though it would just fall of his chest. He was shivering and sweating profusely. His hand was trembling while holding his mobile phone. “Calm down Danny. What’s wrong?” Jessica asked. “I don’t know Jessy. Something is wrong with my eyes. Or something could be wrong with my brain” Daniel’s panic was apparent in his voice. “Baby, please pull yourself together and tell me what is ...

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“ secret Love story” by Nayab Ghori

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When we hear cliched expressions of romance like, “I don’t care where we go. As long as we are together, we are happy,” it’s natural to roll eyes in response. What if those lines get uttered by an octogenarian to the love of her life? To further change things up, how about if both belonged to the same gender? A lack of understanding from society lasting decades, masquerading as hate and fear, caused two women — Pat Henschel and Terry Donahue — to lie to the world about their relationship. The coming-out tale of these two octogenarians is wha...

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“Secrets? Sure I know secrets. I read a book on them once upon a time.” by Clinton Siegle

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People don’t read like they used to. That is for sure. When I was lost one year. I think it was 1984 here which means 1976 to me there I was in Disneyland. First and only time I was there. I was like eight or nine, maybe.I had gotten lost in the Halls of President’s. Now in Disneyland there is a secret passages everywhere. And? Well, I saw a Disney character go into one of the passageways. My parent was elsewhere and? Well, I like exploring it is probably why I am lost most of my life.Anyway, I go into this hallway. Cement floors and a corri...

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“Esmeralda's Reign” by Sophia Borer

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Carrie had trudged through the dark purple forest since the change in leadership in her town, Chester Hill. The sky was a tainted green and the grass was a sharp black. She thought of when Chester Hill was normal; people would go around, weaving cloth, sharing biscuits with new neighbors, and thatched the straw roofs on the cottages. Then Esmeralda became Queen. Esmeralda was a witch. In Chester Hill, the townsfolk believed witches had cloaks and brooms, warts and green skin. They were said to come from far away lands where elves and fairies...

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“Bitter Almonds” by Tawni Winns

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My mother taught me that there were only 3 recipes that a woman needed in her arsenal. Lemon herb Engagement chicken to get a man to propose, chocolate layer cake to keep him around, and when you realized he wasn’t the man he presented himself to be almond buttermilk pie to make him leave. When Mother was just sixteen years old she met my father outside a diner. He was a 21-year-old mechanic smoking a cigarette next to his beat-up old truck. They locked eyes and well that was it. They welcomed little me a year later just a few months befor...

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“Ataraxia - Tales from the mountain's edge” by Maren Koenigs

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"My boyfriend made me play Skyrim with him this year and I never though a video game could inspire me like this. So, this story is a thanks to the amazing storytellers who brought this deeply thoughtful game and story to life." -Maren Koenigs They say as long as the Northern Lights shine and cover the skies with their shivering curtains of nacreous colours, that you’re never alone. Because there is something else out here in the frozen wilderness that is alive. But we, the people from the North, born and raised among the glaciers, we kno...

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“Jeweled Berry Dreams” by Kimberly Brown

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Dawn was walking through the tall grass from the little folks‘ dormitories to the dining area. She was chatting with one of her roommates. They were two-and-a-half months into a six-month magical study retreat given by Jack Moonheart, a powerful wizard. Dawn was a hazel-eyed fairy lady with curly, red hair, freckles and monarch butterfly wings. Her companion was a head taller. She was a fairy as well. She had long, light blonde hair, green eyes, and blue and purple wings. She was very skinny with overlapping front teeth, ...

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“Eureka” by Calen Cross

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I had been in my lab for months. My food, sleeping arrangements, clothing even, had been arranged beforehand so that I could dedicate myself to one thing- the study of alchemy. Turning lead into gold had been my original plan, but I found out through study, one can purify oneself and that transformation of oneself was the key to transforming anything else. It started with the gathering. It is important to find the purest, most essential supplies and materials that one can, for purity is of utmost importance. As I studied the ma...

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“Unwilling Bride” by Kimberly Vargas

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She was known as a Goddess, one always in a hot spring in her temple. It was small compared to the other gods, but she was visited more often than the others. People travel from miles to see her, and to ask her to grant them a wish. And she does, as long as they offer her something just as valuable. But doesn't take it as far as others have. Never shorten someone's life, never has some trick up her sleeve to deceive anyone. From her generosity she has became a well known name, and also a big target for some. Many have tried ways to kidnap he...

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“Grandma's secret” by Georgette Ball

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Grandma always said her secret ingredient was hiding in her recipe box, but I never saw it. Her box was a perfect cube with a gold latch on the front. Mostly orange, yellow and green, it showed a woman smiling down at a bowl in her arms while she stirred with a wooden spoon. Grandma said she was smiling because she knew the secret ingredient, but she was sworn to secrecy never to tell a soul. Just being in her kitchen was a treat for me in my younger years, but peeking in that box whenever grandma wasn’t looking was my little secret. I was...

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“Mr. Cleary’s Coffee” by Hana Mallory

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Make the coffee. Anna rolled out of bed. She had known since last night that it was her who would have to make mr. Cleary his morning coffee that day. Over sleeping was simply not an option . She didnt want to get up, but she wanted to make the coffee. Make the coffee. the floor was cold and forbidding as she shuffled to the kitchen, holding her housecoat tightly across her body. no one else was awake yet, but in about fifteen minutes life would be breathed back into the house. years living in the cleary household had taught anna that. ...

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Write a story that involves a secret or magic ingredient.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 116 stories

“She couldn't eat meat” by Nandini Rawat

“Curry” by Marie McLaughlin

“The Secret Ingredient ” by Anvi K

“Breakfast” by Pamela Zero

“The Photograph” by Kumar Subra

“ secret Love story” by Nayab Ghori

“Secrets? Sure I know secrets. I read a book on them once upon a time.” by Clinton Siegle

“Esmeralda's Reign” by Sophia Borer

“Bitter Almonds” by Tawni Winns

“Ataraxia - Tales from the mountain's edge” by Maren Koenigs

“Jeweled Berry Dreams” by Kimberly Brown

“Eureka” by Calen Cross

“Unwilling Bride” by Kimberly Vargas

“Grandma's secret” by Georgette Ball

“Mr. Cleary’s Coffee” by Hana Mallory

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Start or end your story with two characters sitting down for a meal.

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Write about a group of strangers — or people who know each other, but may as well be strangers — eating together.

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