Start your story during a full moon night.

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“The Beginning” by Tiffaney Day

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“Come on, Aine! We’re gonna be late! Mother won’t be pleased!” The wind carries Maeve’s admonishment through the trees, where I follow just a few paces behind. Ignoring the comment, I continue through the forest, focused on reaching the clearing some ways ahead. Just enough moonlight filters through the canopy of leaves above to enable our journey. We are indeed running a little late. Considering this is supposed to be the most important night of my life thus far, I may have spent just a little too much time getting ready and put us a littl...

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“Legend of the Elements” by Cindy Thornberg

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Something scurried. Heart racing, Fenna Achterberg turned, looking back from where she’d come, straining to see in the moonlit environment. The spiral staircase behind her led down to a whole world of ancient books and centuries of dust. The bookcases, so tall they had made her dizzy to look up at, were all neatly organized in endless rows, creating a labyrinth of a library. Tall and narrow windows in proportion to the rest of the majestic structure, let in the moonlight, casting a silver glow. The earthy scent of old pages was thick and s...

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“The Lims” by Luna Reeds

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The first thing I noticed, was the cool breeze that engulfed my body suddenly. I could smell pine and taste the coolness of the air in my mouth. Then, the brightness of the large full moon in the sky shone on me. It shone on us all. We were here once more. I took a deep breath, enjoying all the aromas and feelings of my surroundings. It has been a while since I stretched my legs. I squatted briefly to stretch my hamstrings and quads.“Ladies and Gents,” began a familiar voice, “Satan has sent us here once more, awaiting another human sac...

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“Blood Moon” by Nick Patterson

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If you had told Jacob a week ago and that he would be wielding a shotgun against his former coworkers, while running for his life from unearthly monstrosities, he would have told you to stop smoking crack. Now, as he sat braced against a door, shotgun in hand, bloodied and beaten, he wishes someone would have. The sad truth is no one had any idea any of this was coming, and even if they had, there is a very slim chance anyone would have been able to stop it. His introspection is broken as a clawed hand, caked in dried blood, slipped through ...

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“My Fear of a Full Moon. ” by Julian Black

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I was a very complicated teenager as most teenagers are when they are coming of Age but I over complicated my life something which stayed with me well into my adult hood. I was and still very much am a huge fan of the Horror Genre and I just loved being scared watching a horror movie but little did I think it would have traumatic consequences for me in my teenage years. I guess it all started when I was going through puberty and I had no idea what was happening to my body and the changes I was going through. For some unknown reason which I w...

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“The Mystic Stream of Virility” by Charles Frederick

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The Mystic Stream of Virility Nobody knows how long “Odinga,” a ghostly sculptured human skull with a complete set of bloody teeth and what looks like a watery eyeball has been sitting in the king’s fire mantle. Both King Jaja11, 95, and Malua Okenga, the greatest storyteller in the community and 115 years old have vowed that this half-dead, half-alive skull has been there before they were born. Folklore has it that their great, great grandfathers used to sacrifice human beings periodically to the gods through Odinga as a means. of app...

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“The Lost Princess of Migdon” by Sabrina McClain

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The full moon had always been Stacy’s favorite night. When she was little, she used to love learning about the history of the moon, the science of it, as much as a 6-year-old girl with a limited attention span loved learning about everything. She would keep track of the different phases in her notebook, and get mad when someone said that it was a full moon when it was technically one night before or one night afterward, even though you couldn’t tell. She wanted to be careful, precise. And the night of the full moon, if it wasn’t cloudy or ...

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“Letting Go Under the Scorpio Moon” by CJ Souza

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It was a full moon in Scorpio, but young Aristelle’s mind was drowning in a whirlwind of chaos, leaving little space to contemplate which phase the moon was in. She never would have begun her journey had she realized what intentions the moon had held that night. Aristelle's sixteenth birthday should have been a day of carefree celebration, filled with excitement over which dress or hairstyle to choose for festivities. Instead, she found herself grappling with a weighty decision: which crystal would be the best companion for her as she travel...

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“Bedlam the Lich. ” by Jack Sink

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The moon sat perched atop two thin clouds. Its light shone on an ancient castle littered with holes and cracks in the foundation. Its once fierce and dominating series of towers reduced to a single withered pillar, barely holding its own weight up. A figure zoomed ahead in the night sky, its leathery wings appearing as a giant bat soaring into the single pillar of the castle. The beast let out a short sigh that bounced across the tower's stone walls. He descended a staircase leading to the lower levels of the castle.He surveyed the vast...

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“Full Moon Mystery” by Brwn Trout

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"It is a Full Moon tonight, Harold," says Sabri, a confident african american mother with sass and attitude. "Yeah, that just means the criminals have more light to run away with" Harold is an older detective, more world-weary and beat up, with a quirky sense for investigation. "I don't know, Harold; they say a full moon has some magic associated with it." "The only magic I want tonight is finding out what happened to this richer than god snobs family album." "What a weird thing for our perp to steal, no money, jewel...

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“From the Belly of a Blue Moon” by Misty Dyan Batson

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Parasites were living inside my belly, they made a new home there beneath my ribcage. My temperature must have been over a hundred and six. My brain was literally boiling in my skull but in the jungle, there was no thermometer and there was no doctor, there wasn’t even a bed. I lay on the dirt floor watching the full moon beam through the thatch hut window, I felt I could touch it if I could only raise my arm. There were 6 elders sitting in the dirt in a circle around me, three men and three women. I was still wearing the panties...

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“Dylan's Closet” by Zack Herman

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It’s Friday evening and Megan Reese is in her “happy Place”. She’s stretched out on the couch in the living room with the TV on a baseball game between her Reds and the Pirates. Megan is barefoot and dressed in a pair of cutoffs and an oversized T shirt with her long blonde hair in a ponytail. She’s worked hard all week as the manager of Rusty’s, a local burger joint and she deserves an evening of relaxation. Yes, it’s going to be a good night for her. However, when she looks out the picture window and sees the full moon rising, she knows ...

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“In the Shadow of Bald Mountain” by Zachary Thomas

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The old Ford pickup, having spent its entire life on its wheels, was now upside down at the bottom of Angel Creek. Steam hissed slowly from the radiator and the frame was now a twisted mess of metal and rust, draped over mid-stream boulders. In the light of a full moon, Gerald McGraw groped for the driver side window frame, trying to pull himself out. Broken glass glittered his hair and clothes, cutting into his elbows as he tried to wrench himself free. His right leg was still pinned between the dash ...

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“The Horse Moon” by Elizabeth Marvin

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Filka is staring at the beautiful full moon when her apprentice calls for her, “Horsemaster Filka! The ceremony is starting!” She turns to the boy, Jak. He’s only been here for a few days, but Filka thinks he has a promising career. The horses like him and he has a firm but kind touch on the young princess’ ponies. Filka walks into the royal dance hall and ruffles Jak’s hair. “Thank you Jak, you lead. We’re next to the blacksmiths this year.” She pushes him ahead of her. “Do you remember Trisha? We’ll be next to her.” Jak takes the lead, qu...

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“The Place” by Stephanie Arnal

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Krista pulled her sweater tighter around her body and shivered. There was a chill in the air she hadn’t expected for a summer night. She should have worn a thicker sweater. Her eyes raised to the full moon, peeking from behind misty clouds high above them. “Do you think we should have done this another night? It’s creepy out here during a full moon,” she looked anxiously over ...

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Start your story during a full moon night.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 81 stories

“The Beginning” by Tiffaney Day

“Legend of the Elements” by Cindy Thornberg

“The Lims” by Luna Reeds

“Blood Moon” by Nick Patterson

“My Fear of a Full Moon. ” by Julian Black

“The Mystic Stream of Virility” by Charles Frederick

“The Lost Princess of Migdon” by Sabrina McClain

“Letting Go Under the Scorpio Moon” by CJ Souza

“Bedlam the Lich. ” by Jack Sink

“Full Moon Mystery” by Brwn Trout

“From the Belly of a Blue Moon” by Misty Dyan Batson

“Dylan's Closet” by Zack Herman

“In the Shadow of Bald Mountain” by Zachary Thomas

“The Horse Moon” by Elizabeth Marvin

“The Place” by Stephanie Arnal

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Make your protagonist go through a rite of passage.

Write about a character who develops a special ritual to cope with something.

Make a character perform a ceremony to set something or someone free.

Write about a character who breaks free from a tradition to create a new one.

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