Write a story about a character who can’t tell what’s real and what’s not.

Posted in Horror on Oct 31, 2022

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“Never Mind” by Jed Cope

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He writes. That is all there is to it. There is nothing else. There has been nothing since the entire planet closed their doors on the world and hid from the angel of death. No one told him that he had to sacrifice a lamb and mark his door so that the angel would pass them by. He did not know, so he did not act. His ignorance was the angel of death. Life is a big, dark joke and he is living in the punchline. The angel of death played a prank on him. It wasn’t the pandemic that took Leo, his little lion. Not directly...

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“Thursday's Child Has Far to Go” by Carolina Mintz

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Bus number eight took Prudence downtown to work every day. She always sat in the same seat, second up from the back, the one with the stuck window. No one was ever sitting there when she boarded, and after a while she considered this to be her seat. She liked this seat because she could watch the people on the bus and on the sidewalk. On this particular day, a Thursday, it started to rain. She hadn’t noticed the dark clouds as she ran from her brownstone to catch the number eight on the corner and hadn’t brought an umbrella. Now, as the bu...

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“Between Now and Then” by Wendy Lathrop

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Ellen walked her champion Golden Retriever into a side room off the main convention center floor for a quiet place to brush Amber one more time before her next competition. “Amber” was short for the beauty’s official name of “Amber Star of Dreams”, which was on her pedigree and all her competition records. Her coat was thick and long, and Amber’s physical beauty was made even more entrancing by her easy-going nature and clear love of being the center of attention. In the show ring, Amber smiled and turned her head toward the judges in a...

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“Reading your dreams.” by Dayana Martinez

Submitted to Contest #167

Reading your dreams. After of coming to house was walking on the street, I felt very cheesy I don’t know truly why. My body was very weird in the morning up. I don’t know was colorful of my new favorite’s red lencery, or aunt´s boots gave me as a gift in August, may also be wintry weather, I kept to supermarket after look some ribbon that remind me to my mom, pulled out my list from my purse, I had Cortinas,...

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“Fantasies” by Nyxlan Marigold

Submitted to Contest #167

Have you ever had the idea that we might just be in a coma and what we know is just our imaginations trying to keep us from going brain dead? Or maybe you've thought that all the stars are like holes in a cup, and we are just small creatures roaming a fake land? Maybe it was that this world is the real hell and real life is better than this? Nobody can really say anything is real for sure, can they? Harper loves to get lost in books, spiraling down into her own imagination. Fictional, Realistic Fiction, Love stories, Novels, nursery rhymes,...

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Write a story about a character who can’t tell what’s real and what’s not.

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✍️ 80 stories

“Never Mind” by Jed Cope

“Thursday's Child Has Far to Go” by Carolina Mintz

“Between Now and Then” by Wendy Lathrop

“Reading your dreams.” by Dayana Martinez

“Fantasies” by Nyxlan Marigold

🌟 Similar prompts

Start your story with a daydream sequence, before snapping back to reality.

Write a story about someone who overthinks every single thing, blowing the tiniest incidents out of proportion.

Set your story inside a character’s mind, literally.

Write a story about someone who thinks their life is a romcom and they’re the protagonist.

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