Write about someone who has a superpower.

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“Leo's Blues” by Dafne Flego

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Léonie didn't consider herself a superhero, even though she had a superpower. The reason she had never put any thought into devising a secret identity and stitching up a costume was that she didn't consider her ability extraordinary at all. It was just something she had learned from her grandfather, and what other grandparents must have taught other grandchildren, surely. She didn't speak of it with anyone because there was no need to share all the details of one's household routine with one's friends. Like whether you put trousers or a shir...

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“What, me worry? My SUPERHERO” by Judith Veder

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MY(SUPER) HERO What? Me? Worry? I was born in 1943 in New York City housing projects with that worry gene- no one knew about genes then- but do not know why me. Maybe it was the threat of the big war. Bomb shelters and signs for them all over. Ration cards talked about. Maybe it was because my father was drafted and my family constantly worried about him being sent overseas. Maybe money and poverty. Maybe who knows why? As a tiny thing, I’d sit and twirl my curly h...

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“Fireballs Suck” by Ethan Jarmush

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Wow I can shoot fireballs out of my hands. Isn’t that so cool! Oh wait. It fucking isn’t. When would that ever be useful in daily life? My select friends and family who know about it think it's the cat’s pajamas though. So I got something going for me. Let me clarify some things. It is a literal ball of flame that appears out of nowhere in my palm and shoots forward. When it makes contact with something, it straight up explodes. Like a missile. I practically get thrown back every time. And the worst part is, I can barely control the d...

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“False” by Josefina Rodriguez

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Living in a big city is boring, you either try your hardest to fit in or insist on being different, the line between is thin and almost confusing. I consider myself to be a very gullible and easy to impress person, and typically a small display of talent can turn me into a devoting fan; however i listened to the same very popular song four times in a row and i couldn't decide if i liked it or not, the lyrics were generic but the voice was average, almost boring average. I got tickets to her concert by mistake, they were sent to my house on a...

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“When Time is a Girl ” by Philip Carlisle

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Time is a girl. Did you know that? She’s a young girl but not in the way you’re probably thinking. For one to be considered old, time needs to have passed. Of course, to say she is young is to say only a little time has passed which doesn’t fit her either. Needless to say, I’m still figuring her out and I’ve spent a lot of time with her. I say she is young because of how she...

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“The 4 siblings ” by The 3 Siblings Li

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Ka-boom! Run for your life..... Hi I’m Lit. I am a adopted child along with my other 3 siblings. It was hard enough living in the orphanage, with the discrimination because of how we looked. Our parents worked in the nuclear industry. But one day, everything went wrong. The day was sunny and beautiful as our adopted farther (as our professor) said. That day as they just finished the brand new automatic bomb, something went wrong. Suddenly as they were about to check the engine of the bomb..... Ka-boom! The bomb had malfunctioned and caused ...

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“I Can Feel It” by Henriette Meerson

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Prompt: Write about someone who has a superpower.it is 7am and we need to get up, we always get up at 7am. I make sure of that. Then we take a walk and when we come back, we eat breakfast, or I eat breakfast, she usually just drink something while I eat. After that, she will go to the bathroom and do her thing. I try to follow her, but she insists that I wait outside the door, so I do just that, every day since she took me home. I like to sit and wait for her because I know that she will be safe. When she is done in the bathroom, I take a qu...

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“Superheroine Emily” by Tanja Cilia

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My real name is Emily Ħaġar; my Superheroine name is Emilymaltija.I am not the only Superheroine, you know – there is a whole camaraderie (good collective noun!) of us… Stephanie Brown, Cassandra Cain, Olga Mesmer, Natasha Irons, Gertrude Yorkes, Jean Grey, Anna Mercury…We all have different superpowers. Some of us can fly; some of us can read people’s minds; some of us can move things with our thoughts, and some of us are incredibly strong.Some of us can breathe underwater; some can fight fire with fire, or water with water. All of us can c...

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“Anger Issues ” by Lizzie Hall

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I closed my eyes, breathed in, and breathed out. My psychiatrist told me that every time I found myself spiraling, I should just breathe. Jokes on her, I can’t even breathe properly. I had asthma for most of my childhood, but it wasn’t something very present in my life. It was something that showed up at your doorstep one day and then is gone the next, never knowing when it’ll come back. Kind of like an absent father, God knew I was very fond of that one. I could see the public bathroom fairly well. The floors were dirty, sticky if you ...

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“Not Another Superhero” by Sai Renuka

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Aaryas' palms rushed to his ears as the humongous bus rammed into the jewelry store. It seemed as if diamonds rained from the sky, metal pieces, glass shards, and gold crumbs reflecting sunlight in myriad angles as they flew and fell, skittering across the street. Aarya and Maya looked at each other for a brief second, their postures straightening, and that was all they needed. He clumsily attempted to place the comic he was holding back into its rack and Maya simply dropped the bottle of what he assumed was some botanical chemical. They d...

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“Believe-me-not” by S. LaRue

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What defines a lie? It is a statement that is counter to the truth, yes? But then, what defines the truth? The truth is, in general terms, what is known. It is the general consensus of a population regarding an experience. This population can be anything, from the population of cells that make up a human brain to the population of humans that make up a country. Likewise, this experience can be anything, from a simple statement to the state of the universe itself. We believe truth to be absolute only because we believe our perception to be eq...

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“ANALOG PROPERTIES OF DIGITAL CIRCUITS” by Andrew Grell

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ANALOG PROPERTIES OF DIGITAL CIRCUITS By Andrew Paul Grell “First, let me say good work being able to contact me. But why on earth would I need a mask? I don’t leap over tall buildings in a single bound, you know, or wear my underwear on the outside, either. And I’ll save you the trouble of asking your next question. I don't have an origin story. I have a hypothesis about what happened. One hypothesis. Obviously neither collectively exhaustive nor, of course mutually exclusive. A sufficient but likely not ...

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“The Origin of McCool” by Iam Danger

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There is no 15 minutes of fame anymore. It had been shortened to 3 minutes, the average length of a viral video.The video was a wide angle shot. The caption was “Fat Funeral Fail!” It was a celebrity funeral of an 800 pound professional wrestler, so their was video. The oversized casket must have weighed a ton. The pallbearers carrying the casket down the aisle and up the platform built to accommodate the large crowd were all family members, 8 men, 7 of whom were in excess of 450 pounds, the runt of the litter looking diminutive at 200 pound...

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“Flying Man” by Bob Jasper

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Jason Koch stood looking out over the balcony of his 37th floor penthouse apartment in Manhattan. His earpiece had just picked up a woman’s screams coming from Central Park. Putting on his invisibility cloak, he stepped onto the ledge and dove as if entering a swimming pool. Rather than plummeting to earth, he streaked off in the direction of the screams. As he neared the park, he pinpointed the location of the woman and with his binocular night vision saw her struggling with an assailant who was trying to drag her into the bushes. He’d al...

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“The bottom of a well” by Suzanna Bakr

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Hero or villain. Who gets to decide? Is it what we are who we’re seen as when our faces are used on toothpaste ad billboards or on the screens on the busy streets that broadcast staged footage or an interview from last week. Or is who we are behind closed doors a real glimpse to what we truly look like beneath our skin. The big men and 1%, they get to choose who we get to be, what is most convenient. Or is it perhaps something we do against that, a path we make ourselves that only a few will know if any get the chance. Do we make ourselves o...

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Write about someone who has a superpower.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 334 stories

“Leo's Blues” by Dafne Flego

“What, me worry? My SUPERHERO” by Judith Veder

“Fireballs Suck” by Ethan Jarmush

“False” by Josefina Rodriguez

“When Time is a Girl ” by Philip Carlisle

“The 4 siblings ” by The 3 Siblings Li

“I Can Feel It” by Henriette Meerson

“Superheroine Emily” by Tanja Cilia

“Anger Issues ” by Lizzie Hall

“Not Another Superhero” by Sai Renuka

“Believe-me-not” by S. LaRue

“ANALOG PROPERTIES OF DIGITAL CIRCUITS” by Andrew Grell

“The Origin of McCool” by Iam Danger

“Flying Man” by Bob Jasper

“The bottom of a well” by Suzanna Bakr

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Write about someone who always comes to the aid of others.

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Write a story that features a protagonist with an archnemesis.

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