Write about two people who know they’ve made a mistake, and one of them wants to tell the truth but the other wants to lie about it.

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“Tᕼᗴ, ᑌᗰ... TIᗰᗴ ᗰᗩᑕᕼIᑎᗴ?” by 💖♎ℂℍℝ𝕀𝕊𝕋𝕐 ℍ𝕆𝔽𝔽𝕄𝔸ℕℕ♎💖

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The year was, well, the future. At least that's how it was perceived for a moment. I, being my fabulous 16-year-old, gorgeous self with my coke bottle lenses and my braces. Also my turtle neck shirts and my pleated slacks. Well, maybe I'm not gorgeous, but that's me, Jill Newberry. Who's that over there? Well, that's Scott Osborn. He's my best friend. Yes I know, he is a hottie. With his long blonde hair, his sky blue eyes, that six-pack, and those big biceps. (𝘠𝘶𝘮𝘮𝘺.)Whoa. Sorry. I shouldn't be off in la-la land. But it'...

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“Hello Love” by Mihret Adal Gidi

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Daniel Porter‘It’s fun talking with you🎊.’‘Same here... for me✨,’ he replies hosting genuine felicity. How is he in love this fast? He can’t believe it as well. He met her on a dating site and its been a year, the conversation was and is still going well. She can make him talk a lot, even about issues he never imagined telling himself about. That should be the reason for loving her this much, the addictive conversations.‘So, we are doing it finally, right?’‘No doubt at all.’ He replied to her. He is expecting to see her tomorrow and though i...

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“Mistaken Relationship” by Darnayes Pen

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"This is HORRIBLE!" "This is not happening right now!" Sherry cried. "It is impossible, I can't be pregnant!" "I can't be pregnant!" She screamed. Sherry and Casey had been married for 5 years but together for 7. They had both finished College and had their careers and were ready to start their family. They tried to conceive and after no success, they gave it a break. It took a toll on their married life as well. The one thing that Sherry wanted to give Casey was a baby and nothing seemed to be happening. She noticed after three years that ...

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“Tapped For Error” by A. S.

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His rosy-cheeked face peers at the bundle through an excitement induced fog, the thick lenses of his glasses magnifying his eyes to an impossible scale. Fading adrenaline lights his hickory smoke eyes, projecting his confidence to the corners of the room.“Well, that was fun and all… but now that we’ve had our laughs, we need to take it back.” Sweat plasters his snowflake hair to his scalp and he runs his fingers through it, raising it to stand on end.A carefully folded lump sits between us and every few moments he will tear his gaze away, re...

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“Tales” by Cathryn V

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The RAV4 sits like “exhibit A” on the blacktop outside of our apartment, facing me with its little dent; that dent outlined by a smear of red paint. Even when I walk out of the room, it draws me back again, “here I am,” it says, “I’m right in front of your door with my blood on your car.” Of course, it’s not blood. My head hurts from being awake all night, checking on the dent, as if it would disappear like a bad dream. But this is a living nightmare and it isn’t going away, dent or no dent.It is the day after our trip from the coast, a...

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“Decisions” by Alexander Wolfe

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Candle light set a soft glow to the otherwise dark room as our bodies seemed to move as one to the pounding music in the background. Nothing else mattered in those moments but the feel of each other. Our bodies climbed together, racing toward the peak. As we reached it together, the neighbors probably knew it. We gradually brought each other down. I collapsed beside her, spooning her immediately. Her small, soft body gently panting and heavily sweating against my stronger, just as sweaty, body. I was slipping into the grips of sleep wh...

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“Hanna Ghosts Her Sister” by Jeni Conrad

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“I know I shouldn’t have done that. It was really stupid. I know that part. You don’t have to keep reminding me,” I said, fiddling with the zipper of my backpack while it rested on my lap. I watched boys skate around the curved cement at the skatepark. There were benches along the side so people could sit and watch. It was chilly out, and no one else was nearby; I could talk freely with the ghost only I could see. “You’ve only got one sister. Sure, she’s a bit…excessive, but she’s not that bad,” Brandon sat next to me, the bench visible th...

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“To hell and back with you” by Zena Jalloh

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There was… so much blood. He gurgled like a fish out of water, choking on the liquid now spilling from his neck. It was so strong — the smell. My stomach churned the longer I looked at him, gasping and writhing on the wet asphalt. But, I couldn’t tear my eyes away. His white t-shirt was now stained red. His movements were sluggish, and when a bubble of blood from his slit neck popped, it splattered. I could feel some of it land on my face, but before I could properly gag, my arm was being yanked away. “Rosella, we have to go!” She pulled har...

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“Truth or Lie” by Jade Orien🍀

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one day my husband & I moved to a town called wood deck a southern town.My husband Eric had a new job in this town which was the reason we moved here.We are originally from Mobile, Alabama.Eric & I were high school sweethearts.We fell in love at just the age of 16 & we got married right in my parent's backyard at 18!I knew he was the love of my life from the moment our eyes latched!We both promised each other on our wedding day to always be there for one & support each other. Since that day we did just that!But suddenly all o...

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“A Truth and a Lie ” by Night Fall

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Mia's brown eyes opened. Cracks in the ceiling, moldy smell, stains all over the brick walls...well, home is home. She sighed, and tore herself from her thin blankets. Mia brushed the tangles out of her long dark hair. She changed into her school uniform that her mom could barely afford, and opened her door to the kitchen.Her mom was standing at the sink, that is, if you could call it a sink. It was barely large enough to set the dishes her small family used after a meal. Her mom turned around, she was a frail woman, not very tall. She had s...

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“I Believe You” by Hannah Cairns

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I Believe You By: Hannah Cairns I messed up and I still don’t know why I did it in the first place. She didn’t deserve what she got. Alisa was a good person, and I am not. I am a horrible person who deserves ten times worse than what she’s going through. I look at her in that bed with that tube down her throat and I want to die. I wish that I was in that bed instead of her. There aren’t many people in this world like her, she was caring and wanted to make an impact in this world. “Im sorry Alisa.” Two we...

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“Cedar #3” by Julie Ward

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Every summer for as long as I could remember, I went to Camp Wukchumini with my hometown church. My family wasn’t terribly religious, but we went to Beachside First Baptist Church every Sunday. My mother was a big believer in the “serving” part of serving the Lord. We sorted cans at the food drive, served heaping plates to the poor at Thanksgiving and gave our old toys away at Christmas, whether we wanted to or not. “Giving is the best reward,” my mother would say as she packed them into brown cardboard boxes.The way I saw it,...

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“Death is a Kindness” by Rin Smit

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JEREMIAH The easiest choice is to dump the body in the river. Maybe it’s the simplest choice too, but by far this is the stupidest one. I can’t believe he’s even saying this. I need to stop shaking. I’m not sure what is more shocking. The fact that if I hadn’t egged Elijah on, he wouldn’t have pushed me, and I wouldn’t have fallen on him and his head would have never hit that rock. That’s when I froze. He was just lying there, a low groan seeping out like the final gusts of air leaving a blow-up air mattress. I stood there staring at him d...

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“WHEELS WITHIN WHEELS” by Sivaram Govindaraj

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Mr.Roy was a political VIP. He was a minister who had control of several new projects and was part of a team which chose equipment to buy and projects to take up. He had just crossed 40, was balding and had a rotund figure with a big moustache. He belonged to the LPT party which ruled the State. It is fair to say that Roy was not corrupt. In fact he prided himself on his incorruptibility, and was held in high esteem in that regard. That day Roy was in his office when legislator Maya walked in. She had crossed 50 and was an imposing figure du...

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“Istvan, Agi, and the Chimera's Despair” by Tyler Runde

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In a heavily-wooded area, not far from a swift-moving river the locals called the Gyors Veszedelem, there once existed a small village. In this village there lived a boy and a girl named Istvan and Agi, who had grown up beside one another as neighbors. As far as children went, they were decent enough, imperfectly kind-hearted and unintelligent in the way that children often are, but they were also very wicked for how their actions would visit misfortune upon their hamlet. It was one morning that the children set out together into the woods...

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Write about two people who know they’ve made a mistake, and one of them wants to tell the truth but the other wants to lie about it.

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✍️ 120 stories

“Tᕼᗴ, ᑌᗰ... TIᗰᗴ ᗰᗩᑕᕼIᑎᗴ?” by 💖♎ℂℍℝ𝕀𝕊𝕋𝕐 ℍ𝕆𝔽𝔽𝕄𝔸ℕℕ♎💖

“Hello Love” by Mihret Adal Gidi

“Mistaken Relationship” by Darnayes Pen

“Tapped For Error” by A. S.

“Tales” by Cathryn V

“Decisions” by Alexander Wolfe

“Hanna Ghosts Her Sister” by Jeni Conrad

“To hell and back with you” by Zena Jalloh

“Truth or Lie” by Jade Orien🍀

“A Truth and a Lie ” by Night Fall

“I Believe You” by Hannah Cairns

“Cedar #3” by Julie Ward

“Death is a Kindness” by Rin Smit

“WHEELS WITHIN WHEELS” by Sivaram Govindaraj

“Istvan, Agi, and the Chimera's Despair” by Tyler Runde

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Write about a character who’s so afraid of making the wrong choice that their indecision ruins the very thing they were hoping to keep safe.

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