Write a story that either starts or ends with someone asking, “Can you keep a secret?”

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“Like Family- Like Children” by Maahi Shah

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It all started the evening Veronica returned to her high-class penthouse. "Andre, please carry my Chanel shoes and the other bags into my room," politely requested the only Walter daughter. "Sure, Miss Veronica!" Veronica was a classy girl back from New Jersey who had just settled in her parent's hometown, Waretown. It was a small, constrained town known to be innocent but had hidden mysteries to never be told. Veronica, a protective, young black-haired and black-eyed girl was always in a mood of partying. She had just come back from shopp...

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“Grietje's Secret” by Sue Marsh

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Grietje's Secret Suzanne Marsh 10 May, 1940 Rotterdam, Holland The Luftwaffe planes began flying over Rotterdam early in the morning the made a deafening roar. My parents heard through the “neighborhood grapevine”, the Germans were invading Holland. My Father Johnnes Aidenkamp, ran out the door, what he saw made him tremble. He informed my Mother Adda, that he wanted her to keep my brother Cas and I down in the cellar while Rotterdam was being bomb. He said he had a meeting to go to and would return around five o'clock. He took his b...

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“Layla Eases His Worried Mind” by Joshua Scott Hotchkin Wordpress.dungherder.com

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As a general rule Gus was not convinced of the trustworthiness of squirrels, but he did not consider Layla to be like any other squirrel he had ever met. Layla was his friend and confidante, the only other living being he could fully trust, besides the Queen, of course. "Can you keep a secret?" he asked, as his furry friend ate sunflower seeds out of his hand. "Of course you can, sorry I asked." Layla looked up at him and gave Gus a reassuring look, followed by a warm smile and a wink, then went back to work nibbling busily on the sunflo...

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“Scholastica's Secret” by Kathleen March

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Lavinia once again is following Rosalía’s poem through the city of Santiago. This means she is headed in the direction of the museum that is attached to San Martiño Monastery. She is walking toward the museum, because among other religious artifacts, it housed the statue of Santa Escolástica, Saint Scholastica. Her saint, of sorts, although Lavinia wasn’t Catholic and maybe not a believer in anything... except that Scholastica, for some reason she believes in Scholastica. That Saint Lady has something about her, Lavinia is convinced. Sh...

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“The Wish” by Kaylynn Lee

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“Can you keep a secret?” I was going insane. That had to be it. There was no other explanation. If it wasn’t caused by my nightmares that occurred every time I closed my eyes, it was sure to be because of her. At first, I thought she was some hallucination. Some waking reminder of those nightmares. But the car crash that took my daughter, Sarah, had happened over a year ago, and it wasn’t like the girl that appeared to me, in any way resembled Sarah. It didn’t make sense that these two things would be related. Besides, some nights were...

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“The Guest In Room No. 301” by Parul Srivastava

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April 5th, 1954: “Can you keep a secret?” “Excuse me, sir?” “Mr. Fizi, I will tell you what happened last night. But before that, you will have to promise me to keep it a secret.” “Sure sir!” He then brought his face towards Mr. Fizi’s ear. Mr. Fizi’s eyes became wider as his ears absorbed the words. His face was flushed in horror. Disbelief was all over his bulky frame. *** My dear grandma had told me this story. Her husband and my grandpa, God bless his soul, was an engineer who worked with the railways. Traveling to differen...

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“The Butterfly's Gilded Cage ” by Ananya Bhalla

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Thomas rested his aching head against his palms, willing the headache to go away. It was only three a.m. in the morning and he already knew that it would be one of those increasingly frequent bad days. A cup of coffee that he’d brewed for himself lay abandoned beside an assortment of white pills on his kitchen counter. Thomas knew those medications wouldn’t work, tried to convince his wife of that, but she never budged. And in a way, it gave him comfort. Taking pills let him pretend that he was in control of his body and mind. But the fantas...

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“Silence Broken” by Maurice Mullen

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I awoke with a start into the complete and utter darkness of the night. I lay there wrapped up in my sleeping bag straining my ears to try and find the noise from outside the tent that had awoken me from my slumber. I control my breathing taking deep slow breaths to be as quiet as possible. The heavy silence of the desert surrounded me completely. Did I only imagine the sound? I laid motionless letting my eyes rove around the tent trying to see anything through the darkness, but I could not even see the sides of my small single p...

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“A Hum” by Lisa Hines

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“Can you keep a secret?”The voice rose up inside Mildred’s mind, taking her by surprise.“Yes,” she replied aloud. She thought she could. She felt she would know the answer for sure if the question had stayed put. It had been just there, so close she thought she could grab ahold of it. But like so many things nowadays, it was slippery. She held very still, eyes squeezed tightly, eyelids making delicate tissue paper ruffles, feeling through the blackness trying to find it again.She opened her eyes and found she was alone. Hadn’t someone just a...

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“Forever Will End Here” by Gianna Nevoso

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“Can you keep a secret?” The words leave Lexia’s lips, hanging in the air between her and Nevie. Without an immediate answer, Lexia stands up from her bed. She begins pacing her room, walking from one pink wall to another, even pinker, wall. Lexia focuses on the objects in her bedroom in an attempt to calm her. She passes her dollhouse, one people have told her a seventeen-year-old shouldn’t own, and her nerves pile higher. Nevie laughs. It’s a sweet sound Lexia would bottle and release when she needed euphoria if she could. “Of cours...

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“Dead Secrets Tell No Tales” by Stacey Osvett

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“Can you keep a secret?” the small voice seemed to intrude on Sylvia’s reading from nowhere. She put down her digital reader and looked around to see the source of the question. Twisted around in the bus seat ahead of her, a small girl with chestnut hair and large round eyes looked expectantly at Sylvia. Sylvia smiled, but kept her lips tight and flat, hoping to encourage the girl to turn back around and sit quietly. She picked up her reader again and looked down at it, although she couldn’t concentrate with the small child’s gaze boring in...

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“Pancakes” by Audrey Winter

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“Can you keep a secret?” “Of course!”I cursed at myself internally for answering too fast, too eagerly. I glanced up and saw she probably hadn’t noticed. She looked eager herself, her eyes bright and her whole face full of excitement. A waiter stopped at our table with our coffees. Cappuccino for me, flat white for Em. He flashed a friendly smile and asked if we were ready to order. I glanced over at Em and let her take the lead. If she wanted to ask for another minute so that she could tell me whatever was on her mind, she would.&...

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“Daughters” by Mr Jingo

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“Can you keep a secret?” Alma whispered this after a half hour in the closet. Margo, her older sister, was battened down in the far back corner, knees held up to her body and nervously folding her pajama pantleg to alleviate tension. Their closet wasn’t big, forcing them to sit amongst dangling clothes and Alma’s collection of cartoon plush toys. “I already know you peed,” Margo said. “Why do you think I moved so far away from you?” “What?!?” Alma replied, almost shouting. “Don’t try to pass the blame on me!” It was past midnight when...

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“Pretty Little Lights” by Cal Carson

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When did the lights first appear? I guess it was about a week ago. I was sitting on the foot of my bed, looking out the window…The night was warm. Too warm. Summer had taken full effect and the leaves were full and green. The pool that day had been in the nineties, and sunburn covered my neck and shoulders from when I went berry-picking. Most of the berries had dried up, anyways. I had spent all day binging Netflix and now my mind felt like it had fallen off the train of my day and was left behind in ...

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“And I am a creator at heart” by Elizabeth Inkim

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“Can you keep a secret?” I whisper my question like a prayer into the open arms of the wind. Letting the words hang in the unending silence, I wriggle around in my spot by the window. It is an old, weathered thing, a patch work of glass. Remnants of generations gone by. I do not know what I am waiting for, it’s just me and my notebook. I do not know why I say it or when it even started, but, before I write in my journal, I ask it to keep my secrets. Ridiculous I know, but there is something comforting about it. Recently I have gotten into th...

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Write a story that either starts or ends with someone asking, “Can you keep a secret?”

Submissions are closed

✍️ 421 stories

“Like Family- Like Children” by Maahi Shah

“Grietje's Secret” by Sue Marsh

“Layla Eases His Worried Mind” by Joshua Scott Hotchkin Wordpress.dungherder.com

“Scholastica's Secret” by Kathleen March

“The Wish” by Kaylynn Lee

“The Guest In Room No. 301” by Parul Srivastava

“The Butterfly's Gilded Cage ” by Ananya Bhalla

“Silence Broken” by Maurice Mullen

“A Hum” by Lisa Hines

“Forever Will End Here” by Gianna Nevoso

“Dead Secrets Tell No Tales” by Stacey Osvett

“Pancakes” by Audrey Winter

“Daughters” by Mr Jingo

“Pretty Little Lights” by Cal Carson

“And I am a creator at heart” by Elizabeth Inkim

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Write a story about a meeting of a secret society.

Write a story about an old family secret surfacing generations later.

Write a story involving a conversation that’s packed with subtext; the characters aren’t quite saying what they mean.

Write a story where the readers are in on a secret that the characters are unaware of.

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