Write a story that takes place in the same building but in two very different time periods.

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“Moonbeams” by Emerald Lace

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1821 This had been her family’s land since the moment they’d snuck aboard the boats for the new ground and hid away from the religious zealots. They had made friends with the Indigenous people since they were both outcasts from the colonizers. It was their place where mother earth spoke to them and where their magic was free. She’d come from a long line of hereditary witches and was proud to bring into the world one more. She rubbed her growing belly under her skirts and watched as the men she’d hired built the sweeping victorian h...

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“The Legacy of Room 304” by Lennox Ducksworth

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The man entered the newly renovated Gentle Covert Hotel. It was a spacious circular lobby with golden pillars surrounding a lounge area that aimed towards the hard oak desks of the reception desks on both sides of the space. When the man walked in, all eyes were discrepantly on him. He felt the jolting energy in the room diminish to hush and weariness. Not the first time people stopped their daily routine to feel their safety shattered by just one reality-busting figure. Over time, he started to enjoy the attention. It wasn't often a “...

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“Thyme” by Charlotte Bedford

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2012: Sophie trod carefully on the aged, brittle floorboards of her late grandmother, Barbra’s cottage. Barbra was a sweet soul, she baked cakes for the neighbours and invited the shopping delivery man in for a cuppa every Saturday morning. It was an untimely death which had bestowed the family, shocking that such a pure soul could leave the earth so soon. The walls of the cottage had sunken in as if it were holding its breath. Sophie creeped up the large staircase at the end of the corridor which lead up to the master bedroom. The carpet w...

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“Fresh Starts” by Marcia H.

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The hardest thing she had to do that day was to swallow hard, tuck away her pain of deceit under her ribcage and wait until she found enough courage, forgiveness and peace. She was hoping she could find some peace here in her new apartment in her new building. She hoped that Apartment 3F would bring her some sense of normal back into her life. It was October 4th, 1977 and Katrina was more than ready to move forward after divorcing her husband of 8 years. That was the biggest and hardest decision of her life. She had to do...

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“Abyss of Revenge: What was once Home” by David Abu Bonsrah

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Bernice's ride through the city was amazing. She hadn’t planned this but there was one particular place she wanted to visit. Her heart pushed her to that part of the city where she once lived. Her body resisted the temptation to go to that particular location but her mind was there already. The scenes she’d tried had to forget was going to come back one way or the other but she took the risk. She turned a junction to the mansion she once lived in and noticed how developed that part of the city had beco...

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“Change is Consistent” by Steve McKenney

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A warm spring breeze, heavy with humidity, ushered its way down East Bay Street carrying the sounds and scents of the harbor with it. The day resembled a thousand spring days before it, yet was also unlike any previous day. It was its own original day, complete with its own sights, sounds and smells, none of them unique as individuals but on this day, they were. They were unique to this very moment of time and space. Never before and never again would these sounds and smells appear in the same way or in the same order. Cody Barnes was one ...

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“Juniper Bookstore” by Lauryn Ware

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The wooden Juniper Bookstore sign hanging above the entrance squeaks and trembles as Jude stands underneath it, watching it with a peculiar look. It’s not like he hasn’t seen it a thousand times before, every afternoon once he’d finished his last class -- American Literature, how boring -- but today he just stood outside the door to stare at the weak sign. He felt a whoosh of air behind him from a car speeding downtown, causing him to grip his coat to keep it from flowing up around him. He made a noise of annoyance and adjusted his round gla...

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“When Allison Met Roberty” by David Dicaire

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When Allison met Robert When Allison and Robert met they were ten years old. She and her mother had been living there for some time. He and his recently divorced mother moved in a floor below the young girl. They first met leaving to catch the bus. As it turned out, they were attending the same elementary school. They walked out and nearly bumped into one another. “Hello, my name is Donna and this is my daughter, Allison.” She was a cute little girl with dark, curly hair and hazel eyes. She was of averag...

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“The Wailing Corpses” by Advik Godbole

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Thesseley ran towards her master's chambers. She passed nervous cooks and other maids on the way. She went up the three flights of stairs to the chambers.She knocked three times on the door and waited. Her master eventually called her in. He sat on his bed, his head bent. He still wore his nightly clothes, even in the late afternoon.He coughed a few times and took a sip of his tea. He waved towards Theseley and beckoned her. She walked towards him, her skirt trailing on the floor.She knelt beside him and put a hand to his forehead. It was bu...

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“Then and Now” by Amrita Valan

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Nita hesitated slightly, then pursing her lips, walked through the ornate black columns of the entrance to 6 May fair road, Owner’s Court, a sprawling complex housing two identical apartment buildings back-to-back. She had lived in one of the apartments, in the front facing building for six years, between 1977-1983. She had been eleven when her father took up a job with a new company and they moved to the residential colony attached to the factory site, on the fringes of the city. That was where she had done most of her growing up but this a...

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“Parallel worlds” by Samantha Wicks

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1946– Brooker financial I stood in front of the four-story concrete building; Brooker finical the quickest growing company in Chicago. I was hoping to become their newest employee. I had seen the job in the paper early this week and had spent the past few days reading up on the company. I took a deep breath walked through the glass door to my future.I looked around at the main lobby, tile floor and dark wooden panels with gold accents here and there decorated the main lobby. I approached a girl at the front desk.I cleared my throat to g...

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“A House for Our Time” by Rhonda Valentine Dixon

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A House for Our Time—Part One It had rained for days. Their mother had forbidden the boys from sliding down the bank on Carew Street to hurl sticks in the swift-flowing brook. “It’s too dangerous,” she said. Fraser and Richard itched to disobey. Oh, the fun they could have. They’d throw sticks from the bridge, dash to the opposite side, and watch them emerge from under the girders in the swollen torrent. They’d bound up the track beside the brook to follow the sticks to discern their fate. Would they lodge in debris or find their way to the ...

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“New Hightur” by Ivy Spade

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New Hightur March 17, 2021 I was told by my therapist to start writing in a diary… So where to start? I just moved to a big city in Georgia called New Hightur. I live in an old apartment. If I am not mistaken, it was made in 1910. That’s over 100 years ago. Of course, they have remodeled it a couple of times. It isn’t anything special. It’s just a small apartment building with roughly 20 rooms. It was a huge deal when it first opened. It was the first apartment to open up in this city. March 30, 2021 I just got back from my session wit...

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“Me-yaw” by Mihret Adal Gidi

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31st of January 2013I know that’s what she always says. All the preaching Jo used to give us in the woods were simply a sound in her mind, sounds that ware quite annoying, but she believed it all. I just hope that one day, everything is going to change; the void I feel and I would tell her how frequently I used her phrase she used to use to quite me down. She would love it; to hear that I used those very annoying phrases she once used to annoy me... shut me up. That’s how I am; presumptuous whenever I think about her and also imaginative.I m...

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“REVENGE OF THE ANTS” by Sivaram Govindaraj

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He was called Pete and he worked for an oil marketing company. He was only 26 when he was offered a building site for sale by a real estate company. He was told “This would be a very valuable investment. All sites have been sold except this one. You would be lucky if you could land this one.” Pete consulted his father and wife. His Dad said “It’s no doubt a good piece of real estate to invest on. It will surely develop in future. However there’s a man who has lived in that region. He is about 90. I know him well. He told me that to build a h...

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Write a story that takes place in the same building but in two very different time periods.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 154 stories

“Moonbeams” by Emerald Lace

“The Legacy of Room 304” by Lennox Ducksworth

“Thyme” by Charlotte Bedford

“Fresh Starts” by Marcia H.

“Abyss of Revenge: What was once Home” by David Abu Bonsrah

“Change is Consistent” by Steve McKenney

“Juniper Bookstore” by Lauryn Ware

“When Allison Met Roberty” by David Dicaire

“The Wailing Corpses” by Advik Godbole

“Then and Now” by Amrita Valan

“Parallel worlds” by Samantha Wicks

“A House for Our Time” by Rhonda Valentine Dixon

“New Hightur” by Ivy Spade

“Me-yaw” by Mihret Adal Gidi

“REVENGE OF THE ANTS” by Sivaram Govindaraj

🌟 Similar prompts

Set your story in a major city that your character has a love-hate relationship with.

Start your story with the line, “That’s the thing about this city…”

Write about someone fighting to change their city neighborhood for the better.

Write about someone fighting to keep their city neighborhood the same.

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