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Start your story during a full moon night.

Posted in Mystery on Jun 30, 2023

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Painted Red

Submitted to Contest #205

Last light. It's like first light for the sailors of old, except it is the final hour of sunlight before the darkness of night swallows the sun for the second half of the day. Usually, Tholan would be busy at this time with the cruxes, setting up new boundaries. This night, however, was different. It was his turn to patrol with Lindia, and both would be checking upon the older cruxes near the trees about five miles out from their community. This night, there was going to be a full moon. This meant one thing: the Hunters would be co...

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Northwoods be Jammin’

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The light of the full moon cast its glow on the Thimbleberry patch making it an especially good night for Sierra Ann Squatch to pick berries at her property near Copper Harbor, Michigan. For the past several years, Ms. S.A. Squatch has been living alone in a secret location deep in the woods. We had the rare opportunity for an interview with Ms. Squatch, who is the owner of Northwoods be Jammin’. She allowed us to meet up with her at midnight in the middle of nowhere so long as we didn’t bring cameras and we promised not to disclose her exac...

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a mothers love

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Finally, the time had come. 19 years, she had waited. 19 years, she had patiently watched countless full moons come and go, each one a step upon a ladder, leading the way to the promise of a meeting with this exact full moon. 19 years, since her doting, sweet, kind-hearted mother performed her most treasured ritual in hopes of protection for an eternity. 19 years, since her mother walked away from that same illuminating, hopeful moon and lost her life.The details of her mother’s death were always ones that Luna wished she had never gone look...

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Harvest Moon

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        The burgundy disk emanated a sinister glare; the moon full, a monocle observing the night. Wind swished through the evening, behind schedule, hustling to reach its destination before reprehension.               In the distance, an auburn tail, fire hose thickness, disappeared into the overgrown Texas Sage.               “Did you see that, Daphne? ...

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Date under a Full Moon

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Mia stared at the full moon. She could feel its light touching her skin as she tried to remain in control of her powers. She had been a mermaid for less than a year, so she wasn’t quite good at that yet. Especially on a full moon night. “Are you sure you don’t want any help?” She asked, walking back into the kitchen. Clara, her girlfriend who didn’t know about the supernatural part of her life, was baking a chocolate cake. Mia’s mom had gone on a business trip for the weekend, so they took the chance to spend those two days together with th...

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Dryad

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We were outside, in the garden, when it happened. I remember it was dark, though the moon was fat and bright. “Reggie” I said softly, and moved forward to take his hand. I felt some remorse, it was true. He was so dull, so hopeless, so wrong for me. But still, I was sorry for the hurt I was about to cause him; yet the excitement inside me was bubbling, raising higher in my breast, threatening to spill from my mouth and eyes and ears like white hot lava. Reg saw it in my face and recoiled. Shock replaced suspicion on his shrivelled feature...

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Ghost of the Sun

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Have you ever thought about the windows on a train. How essential they are. Think about it; travel by railway would have no association with romance if someone went and sealed them all up. No world to watch go by. Just a sealed carrier binding its inhabitants with mission rather than adventure; a landing craft to burst open at the station and unleash dull, grey hell on unsuspecting cities. Yet tonight I would have given anything to board them over as though the guard had announced the next stop would be the zombie apocalypse. I was making ...

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The Hidden Moon

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There was death waiting for him. In a cold, haughty embrace that terrorized Urloc to his core. Nervous beads of sweat rolled down the side of his face and he closed his eyes to try to steel his nerves, but her vengeful cackle filled his mind and his eyes shot open in a ripe panic. White streams of moonlight cast through the window in front of him. The light shone as if it were a sun but with no warmth, no heart no soul. Instead, it was but a reflection. A hollow, fathomless well where there was no joy, no empathy...only misery.  A mise...

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Crimson Enigma: Unveiling the Moon's Secrets

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Night, shrouded in darkness and silence, unveiled its ethereal secrets. The moon, casting its luminous gaze upon the earth, felt akin to a watchful eye, a ravenous beast hungering for its prey. I lifted my eyes, drawn upward to behold a crimson full moon, an ominous spectacle. Whispers escaped my lips, an utterance to myself: “Oh, how magnificent, how enchanting. Moon, you are the embodiment of my devotion, you are my love.” With caution, I carried the sacrifice ascending to the rooftop. To my astonishment, a convergence occurred as a mult...

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THE BECOMING CEREMONY

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FULL MOON NIGHT ONE ALPHA The moon is high in the sky, a good time for a howl. My Midnight Pack is gathering. Tonight begins the Lycan Blood Pact. A ritual in which a pup becomes a Lycan wolf. Once in a generation when a pup reaches maturity, he/she will perform a rite of passage called the Lycan Blood Pact in the Becoming Ceremony and they will transform in front of the entire pack. Tonight, as the Alpha pf the pack and as a proud father, I will watch my daughter Mystic as she performs the Lycan Blood Pact. One day Mystic will become a ...

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Taken 2 Moonlight Ritual

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All three of us sat in a horse cart covered with a blanket draped across a pole, barely leaving enough room to sit upright. During our journey back to their mountain, we whispered if we talked at all. The driver stomped on the cart floor and yelled in a language we didn’t understand but learned meant: Stop! Quiet! The fair one is Bridget, and the dark one is Sala. I’m Anya. Each of our villages is far apart. We speak the same language but with different accents. Our stories are the same. Someone took us from our beds while we and our family ...

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Unscheduled Lunar Touchdown

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     The July humidity continued to hang across Delmarva’s Ayers Creek this Friday long after the sun set and the full moon encased the area in its heavenly glow.  The hot moisture imprisoned the lone fisherman floating his kayak along the surface like a straight jacket.       Yet Dr. Fulbright at first had embraced the relatively minor discomforts of the eerie evening. He thought they would provide a quiet retreat from the pandemic-induced terror he had faced in six months of 18-ho...

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Love Spell

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The moon is full and fat. They say it’s a supermoon tonight. When the moon is full it is a time for abundance and to bring what you want in. Bring a desire to fruition during a full moon.  The clearing is lush and the grass is soft. The smell of pine and earth fill the air. With the moon so full and fat and close, it’s almost as bright as daylight. Cicadas sing their songs in the surrounding trees and the breeze is soft and warm. Night creatures are stirring nearby in the woods as twigs snap and bats flutter past, and an owl makes a l...

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The value of being seen

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It was going to be a clear and bright night. The sun had finally released its warming grip giving way to a cool ominous breeze. It had been a long and gruelling, but very fulfilling day on the bicycle. Fred and Wylma. They had become a tight team over the months of riding. Wylma: the two wheeled metal pack mule that never gave up. They had set off together over a year ago to see the world. As is his ritual every day, Fred began his search for a place to camp for the night . He found a rough single track that eventually led into the sharp a...

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Under a spell

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The warm night air blew in soft whispers across her bare skin, like the hungry breath of a lover’s kiss. The full moon shone down upon the field, casting the scene in an ethereal glow that only added to the magic being performed. Small torches, no taller than Freya's waist, adorned the field, their flames flickering no larger than a fist. Some of the women had brought crystals to be charged during the ritual. They had scattered their gems throughout the grass, the jewelled faces glinting in the moonlight. Every member of the Neothine Coven w...

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