Write about a mischievous pixie or trickster god.

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“Not Your Typical Pixie” by Kodi M

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If you ask a human to describe a pixie, more often than not they will describe a tall graceful figure with pointed ears and a kind eye. Growing up a pixie, this human vision is engrained in us from the moment training begins. It consists of learning how to safely use the powers we are assigned at birth. The council decides which pixie gets which powers depending on the need for each type. If more water pixies are needed one year, a surplus will be created. Sadly I defy everything about pixie culture and managed to evade the council and creat...

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“Peripheral Isabel you can almost see ” by Richard Hawkins

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We have all done it. Walk into a room and caught something crossing our path with the corner of our eye and never sure what it was. This is Isabel. A pixie who can change her size in a flash. She can flood the room with a flash to escape or shrink to the size of a mouse and hide behind a blade of grass outside. The reason you can not see her is because she can bend light around her like a prism. She will come to you when you are alone and play tricks on you to keep you guessing where she is. A playful heart who hates sadness and self pity. I...

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“Joy ride” by Michele Stigers

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Joy Ride Loki was having fun flying around the globe. It gave him much glee watching the people’s reaction as they looked up at him. Once in while he would he would breathe out fire and watch them run for cover. It made him chuckle. Soon there were post on the internet about the fierce dragon. Photos began to pop up of a green and black dragon. Eventually the military got wind of the stories. Colonel Rhodes was handed a message from headquarters telling him to take action dealing with the dragon. He finished reading and b...

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“The pixie goddess of sea waves back. ” by Shalini Perumal

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She waits for a moment of silence before she strikes. The tides are low, the sun is on an all time high and her resolve determined from under the sea. She can see the curves of the ship’s bottom making its lonely journey after intermittent sojourns, potentially to an island far away or long gone, while she gathered her sawdust before she would unleash her spell. It was a special kind of sawdust, reserved for the pixie goddesses of her tribe. She was Zaronga, the agile one, known to be extreme in tenderness and tempest when the mood and times...

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“CHEPI AND A GRIN” by Adele Maree

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Teeth….sharp, crooked brown teeth framed in a mouth twisted into a thin grin. That’s all I saw before I moved. I imagine the breath escaping that mouth smells just as foul as the teeth look. Where I’m sitting now, resting, trying to regain some semblance of sanity, I try to recall the detail of that awful episode. Chepi is sitting an arm’s length away from me, trying to catch her breath. If it wasn’t for her scream and warning to escape, I think I might have been in more pain than just my wings and lungs aching right now. “What just hap...

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“Trickery” by Jean Bloom

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*this is not real, not cannon, only for fun* Dolos sat high on the oak tree, overseeing the small village he stumbled upon. The town was full of action with people wandering the square and many dealers shouting out prices. A small rustling sound was heard behind him. He turned his head just in time to see a blur of grey hurling at him. He fell from the tree knocking his head on the sun-tinted grass. "What the hell Apate." "Oh come on," Apate said rolling over to lay next to him. "That was hilarious." She giggled and punched Dolos in the shou...

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“THE PROPHECY OF EIRE ” by Isabelle Roberts

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I zoomed through the field of dandelions, turning back to see the angry hoard of ladybugs scurrying after me. I couldn't help but giggle. Boy, oh boy, was it heavenly being titled as the troublemaker! Everyone already expected me to cause mischief and mayhem because apparently, that’s the only thing I'm good at. I looked back in front and sucked in a sharp breath at the sight of Kiki’s angry glare. I came to a halt and hid behind Kiki, using her as a shield from the storming ladybug army. She peered back at me with a grumpy frown...

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“It's Not Up To You” by Nicole Khomenko

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Our most regrettable moments come at rather unpredictable times, either when in the living room, eyes and lights all ablaze, tongues roaring and mouths spitting out whatever the fire burning in their brain feeds them, or in the little corner between strings of honeysuckle and sweet maple, when the sky presses down on you with humid hands as you blither out whatever little love confession you were holding in for the past month. Afterwards we may pound our heads against the wall or scream out some cries of indignation and exasperation, wishing...

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“Divine Providence” by A Mehendale

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“What did you do?”He bursts into the room, breathless as a man beset upon by demons, though she is certain she has not unleashed any.She does not turn to greet him, does not afford him any acknowledgement at all, save an absent hum.“What. Did. You. DO?”A hand collapses onto her shoulder. She exhales and lets herself grow heavy with it, roots herself to the floor. He makes to shake her arm, tug her around, but she will not be moved.This is purely for her own amusement. A power play of sorts. She has no intention of dragging this out, and besi...

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“The Pranking Pixie” by Evie Joy

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In the tiny pixie village of Honey Lake, lived one pixie who loved nothing more than to prank others. Her name was Kat, and some might say her prank were her way of getting attention. And when your big sister is Rebel, a very powerful and beloved pixie, one would try to stand out as much as possible. But on the other some pixies say that the reason Kat is mischievous is because she was born one April first. Kat, had been playing so many pranks on the pixies that they have actually gotten used to it, they would make jokes and laugh at ever...

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“THE HUNCHBACK” by Mara Masolini

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THE HUNCHBACK She had that lucky charm, which she always carried with her, since a lot of years. She had found it, as a child, in the Easter egg. The upper part of that object represented a little man which wore a tight, a hat and a bow tie. That little hunchbacked man was laughing with a smile more malignant than malicious. The little hunchbacked made the horns with the fingers of one hand, while with the other it held a horseshoe. The lower part of the lucky charm was a red horn. She, Terry, had never ...

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“Of Serpents and Kings” by Amelia Ward

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The trees provided a comfortable shade and the wind carried the pleasant scent of the lotus flowers to my nose. The garden was magnificent and worthy of the pharaoh. Hopefully, I would grow into that title. Everyone seemed to think that I was the divine ruler of the Nile. I would argue that the gods had chosen my older brothers for that role. I was just an insurance policy my father had made who just happened to pay off. Although, I accepted the position because, without my help, Egypt would fall into a period of chaos. ...

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“Olugwu” by Ene Tache

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Walking down the narrow path away from the village cursing myself for waking up so late, i took the left turn towards olugwu and hastened my steps hoping to get clean drinkable water since water from the nearby streams are rather salty... The walk to olugwu is a 5 miles walk..not something to toy with and if one eventually gets there late the whole water would become brownish from the constant and careless dipping of different clay pots into the stream by those that came earlier. It was a cold harmattan morning and the day was barely bright...

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“Dating is Tricky” by John Vincent Bahrenburg

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It’s not an easy time to be a god. Especially for a trickster god living on 49th street in Hell’s Kitchen, New York City, currently receiving mail under the pseudonym of Mal. Nope, it wasn’t an easy time for me at all. You might have heard of me by a few other names: Māui, Anansi, Loki. You may have heard stories of princesses, god wars, and superheroes. You may have been a target or an innocent victim of one of my pranks, plots, or practical jokes. For that I’m sort of sorry, but when it boils down to it, that’s just who I am. I can’t help...

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“Sacrilegious Beginnings” by Aym Less

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I focused on the click-clacking of my laptop, uncut nails tapping fiercely. Each key snipped letters onto the essay I was working on. Usually I could enter a meditative state where I ignored everything, from my hunger to my bladder. But it was simply too difficult to focus when chunks of your own hair kept drifting down and scattering between the keyboard crevices.I took a deep breath before I said, “Will you stop cutting my hair? You do realize it takes a while to grow back, right?”“Eh? Does it really?” A luminous face popped over my right ...

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Write about a mischievous pixie or trickster god.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 205 stories

“Not Your Typical Pixie” by Kodi M

“Peripheral Isabel you can almost see ” by Richard Hawkins

“Joy ride” by Michele Stigers

“The pixie goddess of sea waves back. ” by Shalini Perumal

“CHEPI AND A GRIN” by Adele Maree

“Trickery” by Jean Bloom

“THE PROPHECY OF EIRE ” by Isabelle Roberts

“It's Not Up To You” by Nicole Khomenko

“Divine Providence” by A Mehendale

“The Pranking Pixie” by Evie Joy

“THE HUNCHBACK” by Mara Masolini

“Of Serpents and Kings” by Amelia Ward

“Olugwu” by Ene Tache

“Dating is Tricky” by John Vincent Bahrenburg

“Sacrilegious Beginnings” by Aym Less

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Write about someone who’s spent a whole year planning a big prank, and now they’re finally ready to pull it off.

Write about someone who hates pranks and spends April Fools’ Day doing good deeds instead.

Start your story with a big company pulling an April Fools’ prank that ends up going horribly wrong.

Write about someone who goes to great lengths to avoid being pranked on April 1st, only to realize they had the date wrong and it’s already April 2nd.

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