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End your story with a truth coming to light.

Posted in Horror on Oct 25, 2022

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Who am I?

Submitted to Contest #92

*This is dedicated to those finding their truths in themselves and living their best lives. Who am I? I finally know who I am but it took many years to figure out the truth. My legal name is Ben Vixen. But well there is something I have been hiding from everyone since I was really little. I am 24 years old, a successful healthcare administrator at a top-notch health care organization with improved sentiments for patient care and the like. It is my passion to work in the health care industry. It is my passion to live life to the fullest and...

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Darkness (TW Vent)

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“It’s like drowning, like watching a lifeless form of yourself slowly suffocate knowing surely whats going to happen, but you hate to admit it. On each dive deeper the pressure of the water becomes more and more unbearable. It feels like you want to cave in and break down. Like a submarine lost in uncharted waters, unable to see or navigate. You call out mayday, hoping for help, but help is so far away. Too unknowing of your particular situation. How one small thing goes wrong and destroys the ship. But that small thing could take days to ye...

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Light on a Path

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Brian and Keith, sixteen-year-old friends, camped without adults for the first time. In the mid-afternoon, Keith drove his car to arrive at a clearing for their campsite. Camping for the last six years, the boys felt confident in their ability to find firewood and prepare a campfire. Keith and Brian each wore an old tee-shirt and blue jean shorts. To cool off, Keith pulled his shoulder-length brown hair into a short ponytail. He busied himself shifting his load of firewood, practicing showing off muscles with his tattoo. Brian prepared ...

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Alex and Emma

Submitted to Contest #92

Our story is a story of a young girl named Alex. Alex had a seemingly perfect life and everything was perfect until 3 months after her 14th birthday when everything changed. Alex Pov If I had to give you a day where my life went downhill I would say June 21st the day she moved but the thing is do I regret this I don’t oh my family regret this hopefully now time to tell my story. June 21st it was a hot Day in June school has just ended a week ago and summer has officially begun really the pool is open Taurus were all over the place young chil...

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REFLECTION

Submitted to Contest #92

TW: violence Millie was almost ready for the dance when suddenly her phone started to ring. It was almost time for Kevin to pick her up. She took a peek on the cell screen while finishing her makeup. But it was not Kevin's name flashing on the screen rather it was an unknown contact. After hesitating for a moment she finally ceased dabbing the blender on her cheek and received the call. "Hello"-Millie answered it with a deep voice. The other side didn't reply anything at first. All she could hear was some loud panting, like someone was runni...

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Water Bubbles

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Arletta was made for the rain. Not for her the sunny bright cheerful days that her peers so enjoyed. Rain made her feel cozy and comforted even when she had to be out in it. For her, everything felt closer, within reach. She had discovered, when she was very young that if she sat quietly and closed her eyes, she could actually feel the water as it made its way from heaven to earth. As she got older, she would reach out with her thoughts to the highest peak of the thunder cloud. She would choose one individual drop and track it, feeling the r...

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A Fork's Life

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                                  A Fork's Life It's dark in here. So dark I can't even see the rest of my brothers and sisters lying next to me. But, of course, this is how it should be when one's living quarters are inside a drawer. Look at me clean and sparkling. And so, another morning begins as it has done for more mornings than I care to remember. I imagine prison mus...

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The love for blood

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In a world fueled by the resentment of everything humane, battle was a religion. Kindness was a damnation and violence was glorious.  ----------------- The rising sun was an explosion in the sky, splattering its orange hues across the horizon.  He sat atop a raised golden stage, an offering to the gods, a deity. The girl kneeling in front of me on the dusty sand, raised her head in utter challenge. Defiance. I yanked her hair upwards so that her placid face was pointed at the sky. She kept her eyes fixed on the smear of col...

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Under The Spotlight

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“This is absolute hell,” Nate mumbled under his breath, shivering, as he sat on a wooden bench pressed up against the brick wall of the school in the courtyard. He scrolled through old instagram posts of the girls in his grade, completely bored out of his mind, and he pulled the hood of his navy blue hoodie tightly around his face in an attempt to block out the cold december wind from chilling him to the bone. Not like he wasn’t freezing already. Like most of the boys at his high school (except the nerds who actually wore ties), he wasn’t dr...

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the light that was never shed

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He sat on the dock, legs hanging over on the edge of the lake. The moonlit surface reflected a beam of white that grazed his eyes. His feet swung back and forth, only inches above the shifting ripples pattering relentlessly at the shore. His hands were clasped in his lap, twiddling with each other. He stared fixated on the horizon, eyes on the ever moving silhouettes that danced about the night while the silent whispers of the wind sung their song. A crack of a twig disturbed the cool. A stray bird chirped, its voice echoing in the ravine....

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IRONY

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I saw my schoolmates gush over how splendid I look as I got off my Bugatti La Voiture Noire that was driven by our most trusted driver and the car itself was led by other two cars driven by bodyguards. I can't blame them if they look up to me that much, If you didn’t know me you’d probably think that I was a prince that was living the best life. I have the good looks, the money and I’m smart, what else could I ask for? They gave way for me when I entered the university, they were whispering nonsense to each other, and avoided my eyes as if p...

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Shadows of the past

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There once was a girl named Katherine and she had a very crazy life. When she was in middle school she was very social and likeable. She even had a best friend and her name was Alison.  Everyone in the school liked her and she got along with everyone. Once summer had came around, Katherine wanted to focus on some time for herself; she did not want to see anyone or do anything that would distract her from having some time for herself that would included not seeing Alison. Over summer she had gained some weight. When she entered 9th grade...

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Truth Always Prevails

Submitted to Contest #92

Human beings have a natural love for light. It is no wonder, for light and all it represents was the very first thing that God introduced into his creation.The first two verses of the Bible proclaim,In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.” (Gen. 1:1-2)Creation was a structureless, lifeless, lightless, and watery chaos. And the Spirit of God hovered like a mother bird over the chaos....

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Once upon a time, Joshua Jackson was accused of stealing a million dollars and was also accused guilty of the offence, but the Court through evidence found out it was not true when finally, the truth came to light.

Submitted to Contest #92

Once upon a time, Joshua Jackson was accused of stealing a million dollars and was also accused guilty of the offence, but the Court through evidence found out it was not true when finally, the truth came to light. There is a saying that Guilt as according to the evolutionary psychology is the brains way of making sure we didn't veer into behaviour that would leave us ostracized from tribes and other families. Also, nowadays, a little guilt is a good thing to not having any is a sign of sociopathy or narcissistic personality disorder entir...

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Fish Under the Water

Submitted to Contest #92

I walk into his bedroom and his absence fills the space. With him, he has taken the breath out of the room, and just like him, it will never return. It is left lifeless, not like a battleground is lifeless, but like a wall is lifeless. I run to shut the window, forbidding the wind to distribute his scent throughout the streets, allowing his aura to dissipate and be broadcasted to any passerby that Danny is gone. Crawling into his unmade bed, I bury myself in the quilts. I fight to hold onto his smell the way one fights to hold on to a bar of...

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