Start or end your story with two characters sitting down for a meal.

Posted in Middle School on Oct 25, 2022

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“The Last Supper” by Bahadrhan Cicek

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After the long holiday, I was again where I was. Alone and confused. I was thinking again about my life and how it goes. Everything was meaningless, fake and copy of each other. Only one thing was giving me hope. Emma. It was really weird experience with her. It was only 5 days together but it was as we have known each other for years and we spent thousand years together. I hadn't realize it until holiday ended. There was a big gap in my life. I had been feeling that I didn't have any memories, experiences or life before this holiday. I ha...

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“Maybe Tomorrow” by Esther West

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Lara placed the two plates carefully on the table, took a long, deep breath and straightened her dress."Matt!" she called up the stairs, "It's ready." The bounding of Matt's footsteps echoed down the stairs and into the hallway below, and suddenly with a wave of realisation, Lara felt her chest tightening and her heart racing. She began to silently panic at the thought of keeping this dinner down; she already felt so sick."Thanks, Lara, looks lovely", he mumbled as they both shuffled into their seats.The table was laid to perfection, ju...

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“The Second Bowl” by Edward Savage

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“Is this seat free?” the question surprised the man sat on the far side of the table hunched over his bowl of stew. He looked up from under beetling brows and grunted a response which was taken as assent. The questioner - a plain looking man around thirty years of age, of medium height, with pale blue, watchful eyes, set in a thin face - hooked an ankle around one of the stools on his side and dragged it out from under the table. He placed his bowl of stew and tankard of ale on the table and sat down. He nodded at the man opposite who ...

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“Wine, steak, and a proposition” by Anna Carter

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Wine, steak, and a proposition The tension in the room was so thick you could cut it with a knife, which was appropriate since not only was it a dinner party but the three people that attended it were tempted to slit each other’s throats at any given moment. They would not call themselves enemies but they did severely despise each other for reasons unknown to their respective inner circles. The meeting held place on neutral soil since none of them actually believed that the others would behave on their own territory, this way no one had the ...

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“A One Stop Shop” by Elisabeth Germain

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“Brian, how the heck are ya? Take a seat. How’s the fam? Happy wife happy life, am I right?” Brian remained silent as he pulled out the hightop bar stool and took a seat as directed. Almost everyone in their industry was aware that he had suffered a very public and expensive divorce the previous year. Brian reasoned that it was a fifty fifty shot whether Randy, ever the eccentric, had absolutely no idea about the split or was ironically amusing himself with no regard for the comfort of his guest. Randy gra...

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“Deja You” by Andrew Fruchtman

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Our story starts with a man puttering in a kitchen. Let’s call him Michael, once the most popular male name in America. Michael is preparing a very special meal for his wife. Let’s call her Susan. It is their forty-fifth wedding anniversary. Michael is fast approaching his seventieth birthday, the age where you max out your social security benefits but non-max just about everything else in your life. The age where you hesitate and second think your own mores and abilities as social and technological changes occur. The age where you can clear...

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“King Malachi's Guest” by Chris Wagner

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"Unhand me, you brute!" I smiled as two of my salamander-like underlings carried in a near hog tied figure in a pink dress to my banquet table, depositing her in the seat of honor. "Welcome, Princess Strawberry." When our eyes met, her face flushed red, all the way to the tips of her pointy ears. "What is the meaning of this, you, you scaly creep?" I waved to the feast my reptilian chefs had set out on the linen spread. "Dinner." She shook her blonde locks out of her face, giving me a pouty look. "What, you intend...

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“When The Kids Know” by Carolyn Varvel

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Start or end story with two characters sitting down for a meal When The Kids Know by Carolyn Varvel Sue Carson whispered fugitively into her cell phone, “Are you sure? Do we really have to tell them? I’m not sure how the boys will take it.” She chewed her lip as she listened. She looked quickly around the kitchen and realized she’d forgotten to do dishes when she came in from her after work meeting. Her son, fourteen year old Neil Carson slinky crawled out of the kitchen doorway, down the three steps into the sunken living room. “...

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“Peace Offering” by Allen Dorf

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Peace OfferingThe two were fighting once again. Phenius of the Zweihander and Garv of the Scimitar. Two legendary warriors of the kingdoms of Logozoros and Hemla. So powerful, and unorthodox, were these two that they would end up separated from their enemies every time they faced each other in battle. Their kingdoms had been at war with each other for 300 no signs of stopping. As such, today was another such fight between these two… and it now took them five miles away from where their actual armies were fighting...A man in bright, loose, fl...

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“The Text” by Yvette Francaise

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Her stone cold glare could freeze Hell. My mother sat across from me in a drab grey dining room at a white kitchen table. Her grey wool dress looked even more dull in the flickering chandelier above our heads. Her grey hair was in a bun so tight that it must have been the source of her tension. It felt as if I was in an interrogation for a crime that I didn't commit. My simple black sweater dress felt uncomfortable as I ran my hand through my long brown hair. Unfortunately dinner was a salad and chicken soup. "Have you considered yo...

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“It's a Long Way” by DREW LANE

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Water dropped from the green-painted pits of the porch on the other side of the door. Right there, by the counter that faced the gleam of the lake. It dropped and dropped just like the clock ticked and ticked in my back. It all ticked and dropped, it all dropped and ticked.And still, she wasn't there.I wasn't expecting her to show up on time. I wasn't even expecting her to show up. At all. The opaque clouds I had expected, the fog wrapping around the inn I had foreseen, even the rain at the foot of the mountain, I had imagined. But her showi...

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“Chocolate Apple Waffle” by Kinada King

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“Eric, can you also draw me something cute on the waffle?” “Something cute? Lots of things are cute, you’re gonna have to...” But Sonny wasn’t listening. Hey, at least he was thinking about it. “What would she like...?” I heard him mutter, as he stared at the green cafe walls. So it’s for that girl he mentioned a while back? “Alight, I’ll keep it simple and draw her a cute penguin or something. How does that sound?” “Hey, isn’t that just what you like?” Sonny said. He sighed soon after though, admitting his own defeat, “Yeah, a penguin’s...

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“My Older, Estranged Reflection” by NOKWAZI MOKOENA

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Today’s sunset is so cloudless and nostalgic, when it disappears I fear it will take a piece of me with it that is drenched in her memory. I feel out of sorts sitting here on the veranda without her. She should be sitting beside me right now and asking me to read from the holy book the scripture that her pastor was preaching on Sunday. She would complain how hot the weather is, but still find her sipping on piping hot tea. I would sit on the opposite chair beside her every day and tell her that she had the most beautiful brown eyes. T...

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“Perfect” by Nimisha Kantharia

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Then 7.00 pm I could hear the sizzle of the oil sputtering as my mother tempered the lentils. My eyes roved over and over our living room, making sweeping passes at first, then alighting on individual furniture and objects. I estimated that the edge of the sofa was the correct distance from the wall. I checked that all pot lids were placed the correct way up, that all electronic devices were closed shut and all throw-able objects were out of sight. And yet when the sound of the lift caught my ear, the ancient elevator creaking upwards and la...

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“Beef Stew and Love” by Felix Perry

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The late fall storm came without warning hitting the side of the mountain trail I was walking on in the Cape Breton Highlands as if it had been a heat seeking missle and the forest around me its target. Winds howled and shrieked with a deafening roar down the canyon and the unexpected and unforecast wet snow and sleet seemed to snap and snarl at any exposed skin. I had left the main sanctioned trail to follow a small side path, perhaps a deer trail out of simple curiosity as to wear it would take me. I had left the Keltic Lodge I'd been st...

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Start or end your story with two characters sitting down for a meal.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 264 stories

“The Last Supper” by Bahadrhan Cicek

“Maybe Tomorrow” by Esther West

“The Second Bowl” by Edward Savage

“Wine, steak, and a proposition” by Anna Carter

“A One Stop Shop” by Elisabeth Germain

“Deja You” by Andrew Fruchtman

“King Malachi's Guest” by Chris Wagner

“When The Kids Know” by Carolyn Varvel

“Peace Offering” by Allen Dorf

“The Text” by Yvette Francaise

“It's a Long Way” by DREW LANE

“Chocolate Apple Waffle” by Kinada King

“My Older, Estranged Reflection” by NOKWAZI MOKOENA

“Perfect” by Nimisha Kantharia

“Beef Stew and Love” by Felix Perry

🌟 Similar prompts

Write a story where a meal or dinner goes horribly wrong.

Write about a group of strangers — or people who know each other, but may as well be strangers — eating together.

Write about a character preparing a meal for somebody else.

Write a story that involves a secret or magic ingredient.

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