Write a story that takes place across ten seconds.

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“10 Seconds ” by Robyn Pasman

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10 I was not prepared for this. My eyes dart around the room, targeted and efficient. A few moments ago, I distinctly remember thinking that the room had become crowded. Bodies had been packed onto the dancefloor to the point that it was brimming. Teeming even. A sense of beautiful anonymity had engulfed me. How then does it now feel so barren? The sweating mass that was just moments ago pulsing around me, now feels like a swarm of hungry spectators, razor focused on me. The freak at a freak show. Or the single person at a New Years Eve pa...

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“She meant everything to me” by Mari Hasegawa

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*Hello there! This is the first time I post a story on this website. I hope you guys enjoy it! ^w^*'1'We met at the university and I fell in love with her at first sight. People were asking me: " Why do you like her so much? She doesn't seem that attractive and doesn't have much of a personality either. " They weren't seeing what I was seeing though. She had always been beautiful to me. Even when she was upset, her eyes would always show compassion and love. The image of her pure smile and soft blonde hair that i could put my fingers through...

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“A Good Wife Takes Care of Her Man” by JEANNIE MESSING

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Warning: Violent. He quickly and forcibly walked up to me. As his hand reached for my neck I began to feel the pain. The power he used lifted my entire body up off of the ground as he shoved me into the grill of the van. The spikes in the grill pierced the skin on my back. Our eyes were locked and I was struggling to breathe. My lips moved but the words wouldn’t come out. “Please stop, I’m so sorry, help me.” His other hand created a fist and I watched as he drew his arm back, I thought for sure he was just going to smash it into the van for...

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“The Symphonics of the Angels Fallen” by John Rockk

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Priest or rock god, that was my dilemma. Since the beginning of my reason aware life, I had looked for my personal answer. My mind swirled between the religion I was brought up in, Catholicism, and the religion I had come to love from experience, rock music. Not just the basic rock and roll of the genre’s inception, but what it had morphed into: the pageantry, the theatre, the opera that is teen angst, that is the feeling of rebellion that makes you invinc...

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“The Deconstruction” by Emma Klein

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"I'm having a hard time communicating with Ryan," the words fall out of Katrina's head as she shakes it. This is our sacred time together, a time to pour out wine and spill tears over the events of the past week. My weary soul always seems to find its rest right here at Katrina's kitchen table. I lend a gentle ear as Katrina talks about her husband Ryan, and lately she's been listening to me blow off steam about my parishioners without passing judgement. Katrina couldn't be further from the type of person I work with on a daily basis, and I ...

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“Nothing In Particular” by Terra Bransfield

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4/11/20 5:52:57 “and so forth, you know what I mean?” I’m not really sure who she is, or where she came from, but she seems nice enough I guess. “I mean, there’s something majestically tragic about being forgotten.” She says, more to the air than anyone in particular. “Something about knowing that you exist, but no one else remembers is kinda beautiful. It’s like you’re a secret that was once shown but now is being sheltered from everyone else and you’re the only one in on it.” Honestly, I don’t really know what she’s talking abo...

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“An Eternity” by Sunnie Indigo-Flynn

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Ashley felt Oaklynn’s small, sticky hand slip away from hers. She heard a small, pitiful whine fall out of Oaklynn’s ice cream covered mouth, and by the time that Ashley had whipped around to look behind her, her tiny six year old girl was enveloped in the large crowd. Ashley immediately felt sick, her stomach dropping to the very bottom of her feet. She could feel bile rising in throat, she wanted to throw up. The giant Los Angeles crowd gulped her right up, surrounding her small form and blocking her from seeing her daughter's long, blonde...

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“Just” by Za E

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Harriet gazed deeply into Joanna's dark brown eyes and leant in to whisper in her ear. "Your stupid you know that. That's why I love you." She lent in to rest her forehead on joanna's soft lips when the bomb went off. They just needed more time to love. "You know what why don't I just kill myself won't that make everyone happier? Wouldn't that make your day?!" Fiona yelled across the room, smashing her beer bottle on the floor. Timothy, her teenage son, cowered in the corner of the room. He was crying for the third time that day when the b...

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“Trickey” by Nicole Guilalas

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Hurry!” I hold the candle as I looked at the darkness surrounding me. We played a goddamn joke. Me and my friends, and now, we’re paying the price. We shouldn’t have been here. We shouldn’t have messed up with the ritual. We shouldn’t have opened something that has been shut close on purpose. It is our stupidity that led to four of my friends dead. I couldn’t speak, my hands are shaking. The fire is lighting up the only space that I could breathe in. “Now, listen Maya. You have to do this.” I heard Ron reminding me again from the nth tim...

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“HH:MM:10” by Heather Jacobs

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Trigger warning: pet death Ten. Panting, sweating, heart beating violently. I feel it in my throat. The motion is nauseating. A steady rhythm denoting the continuation of life, and forceful enough to make one sick. I pedaled frantically in pursuit of my best friend. The street a black velvety expanse of freshly paved road. This felt like the longest distance anyone could travel. The incline unrelenting as I was unable to keep up with her pace. Shadoe stops in the middle of the black sea and looks behind her. I call out her n...

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“ The Tenseconds” by Arathi Raghuveer

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“Ten, Nine, Eight, Seven, Six, Five, Four, Three, Two and …”, “MooooM”, screamed Wilbur, “Oh, My God, why did you scream, you shocked me”. “Mom, Dad’s spaceship which would take him to space couldn’t blast off it burst into pieces at the last count”. Wilbur was weeping hard, he was uncontrollable” “Kid, Your dad is safe and sound at the space station”. “Did you have a bad dream child, don’t worry it’s just a nightmare, you dad is safe and we can speak to him this weekend”. Wilbur was a 6 year old kid who was father Smith was on a mission in ...

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“Ten Fleeting Seconds” by Valerie Preston

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Ten Fleeting Seconds We had to play outside for nearly the whole day when we were children. “Can we come in Mum?” we would ask and the short reply was “No off you go and find something to do”. So we would find something to do. We would all go down the steep dirty track, racing to see who got there first, pushing and shoving and laughing until we reached the bottom. Deidre was always last and we would call her a rude name relating to her size – she would always cry and we would then call her a ‘big fat baby’ and start splashing at the e...

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“Never Gave Me a Reason” by Que Pasta

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OneI’m sitting in the back of the taxi, headphones in and forehead against the window. Letting the cold seep into my forehead as the music fills the silence, I close my eyes. I’m trying to remember if I had grabbed my mother’s present from my desk, or if I was going to have to buy a back up gift when I arrived in Denver, again. How many airport ornaments could I give her before she stopped letting me in the door? The answer was that there was no limit, but by now she should have known how terrible of a child I was. I should have been able to...

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“A Moment in Time” by Gillian Del Mundo

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Ten. “Get in, get in!” Michael hears his friend call out to him. He presses the timer on his phone that is set up on the tripod and makes a beeline to where his group has already settled in their poses as they stand on the golden sand. He runs over to the side, next to his best friend, William, and puts an arm around him and makes a thumbs-up with his free hand. “Open the champagne!” His best friend tells their friend, June, in the centre who rushes to open the bottle by the time the camera clicks. “Hurry!” They all laugh in exciteme...

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“Unsolicited Advice” by Danielle Burke

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Do you know how many thoughts can go through your brain in approximately 10 seconds? I can’t tell you the exact number, but that’s not really important. What I can tell you is there are enough to completely derail one’s life. The countdown began when my boss, Marshall, whom I’ve so been wanting to get to know better, emerged from his office with tears falling from his eyes. I can say without a doubt that on any other day, I would have shot out of my desk and been hot on his heels. Why? Because that’s how I’ve always been. A comforter...

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Write a story that takes place across ten seconds.

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✍️ 256 stories

“10 Seconds ” by Robyn Pasman

“She meant everything to me” by Mari Hasegawa

“A Good Wife Takes Care of Her Man” by JEANNIE MESSING

“The Symphonics of the Angels Fallen” by John Rockk

“The Deconstruction” by Emma Klein

“Nothing In Particular” by Terra Bransfield

“An Eternity” by Sunnie Indigo-Flynn

“Just” by Za E

“Trickey” by Nicole Guilalas

“HH:MM:10” by Heather Jacobs

“ The Tenseconds” by Arathi Raghuveer

“Ten Fleeting Seconds” by Valerie Preston

“Never Gave Me a Reason” by Que Pasta

“A Moment in Time” by Gillian Del Mundo

“Unsolicited Advice” by Danielle Burke

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