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“The Elder Huntress” by Sahoor Qanit

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Listen, if you’re a hunter or a huntress, I need you to run. Run as far away as you can. If you’re one of us, you’re not considered to be a human anymore. They’ll come for you. They’ll crush you. If you think you’re one of us, I need you to stop everything you’re doing and I need to cross the Hunters Bridge. That’s the only place where you’ll be safe. It will be too late for you once you realize who you really are. Ignoring the signs is pointless. They’ll turn you to dust. Do you want that?I never chose to be like this. I didn’t choose to be...

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“The Doppelgänger” by Lamar Wiggins

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The Doppelgänger Twist of Fate: A Psychological Horror Written By Lamar Wiggins. The cabin in the woods had been abandoned for years, but one night, a candle burned in the window. Marcus jumped over logs and ducked under branches as he ran through the moonlit forest. He needed to find his way out of this nightmarish trap. His thoughts of guilt tried to distract him from the task at hand. Only his determination to escape superseded the freshly engraved images of terror circulating in his mind. They say the choices we make create our reality...

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“Stardust High” by Patricia Parent

Submitted to Contest #225

Everybody wants to be somebody. Cecilia Sterling was definitely someone special. As we could say, she made it. She was a thirty-something actress famous for her roles in a lot of romantic comedies from the 90’s. She was the golden teen back then, and one of the most popular Hollywood socialite now. Everyone wanted, and still wants, to be her. If the word cool could be personified, it would be Cecilia. Her trademark sideswept long wavy blonde hair, her heart-shaped little mouth and cartoon-like round blue eyes made her a timeless beauty. She ...

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“Eyes of Void ” by Space Corn

Submitted to Contest #225

TW: Mentions of suicide and mental health topics, profane language, and death “We left the house at 2:30.” I looked up at my therapist, and seeing her gaze was still locked on me, I continued, “2:30 in the afternoon. That was when we got in the car and left the house.” “Where was your family going that day, Myron?” she asked. Her face still held the same concentration. “An…a-amusement park, I think,” I paused for a moment, reviewing the information in my mind, “forgiv...

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“"My Doppelganger"” by Nomcebo Phungwayo

Submitted to Contest #225

"Ma'am why is it that you are not in your usual room on the tenth floor", murmured a senior hotel attendant when he saw Lucy's doppelganger leaving a room on the seventh floor. Nancy is a middle-aged black woman, attending a science conference in Abuja, Nigeria. The day had earlier turned into a series of unbelievable events. Firstly, Nancy met a man who told her she was really fast in changing from her wet tracking clothes to a lovely formal floral dress, he also asked with a smile, if she took a shower before coming to the restaurant as it...

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“Tap.” by Ian Grogan

Submitted to Contest #225

Tap. Tap. Tap. You awaken slowly out of what was once a deep slumber. You rub your eyes and focus on the darkness around you, acclimating to reality. The clock on your nightstand says 3:42am. You yawn, trying to figure out why you are awake. Tap. Tap. Tap. An unfamiliar and sudden rapping sends a shiver deep down your spine. Turning to your side, you nudge your partner who only moans as an automatic response. You are alone. You sit up, creakingly, in the king size bed, push the comforter to the side and dangle your feet off of the edge...

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“Thanksgiving Twin” by Amanda Cedeno

Submitted to Contest #225

It was midnight when I, Salina Wolfe, was in the bathroom looking in the mirror and hesitating. I am five-foot four in height. My hair is shoulder-length, auburn hair with side swept bangs to hide the scar over my left eye. My eyes are blue. I wore a t-shirt I received free at a restaurant that hasn’t been around for five years, black maternity pants with holes in them, and socks and tennis shoes that used to be white at one point and both have holes in them. ~What am I doing? Am I really doing this? Do I have a choice? Do I ever have a ch...

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“On The Other Side of the Mirror” by Andrés Hernández

Submitted to Contest #225

He had always wanted to travel to Spain, driven by a powerful attraction he couldn’t explain, but he had never had enough money to cross the Atlantic.He lived and worked as a store clerk in Miami, a modern city founded just over a hundred years ago, a metropolis with large and luxurious shopping centers recently built, and skyscrapers rising along the coast, dominating the vast neighborhoods of one- or two-story houses with gardens, and, if there was money, with a pool, neighborhoods that extended all the way to the swamps, many kilometers a...

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“Kate Could Go Anywhere” by Laura Shea Souza

Submitted to Contest #225

After the divorce was finalized, Kate told Henry that she hoped he would meet someone wonderful. She had really meant it when she said this, but what she hadn’t expected was that Henry would meet her, twenty years ago. It wasn’t actually Kate, of course, that would be impossible. It was McKenzie, thirty-years old to Kate’s fifty, with the thick, dark lustrous hair that Kate had had in her youth, the unlined skin and rosy lips, the piercing green eyes free from crow’s feet. “Jack and I bumped into Henry and his new GF last night out at d...

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“A Deadly Runaway” by Zoe King

Submitted to Contest #225

My eyes water; my head spins. I’m not supposed to be in the attic, but that is what inspired me to come. “Don’t go back …” a whisper arises. “The stairs will swallow you whole …” I feel it is true. Though the voices in my head usually conduct experiments on me. “Cam?” calls a voice from below the stairs. My mother. “Cam? You know I won't let you up here. Are you …” Her voice fades. I duck behind three large moving boxes and stay crouched. “Don’t go back …” the eerie sounds continue. Different words this time: “Even for your mother …...

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“A Shadow of Myself” by Jamison Courcy

Submitted to Contest #225

You settle down across the table. The old man sits in his chair. An old, sunken face holds deep lines of age, years of experience coming in jagged lines. Dark, stringy hair clings to his pale face, down to the middle of his back, unwashed and matted. His voice comes out in an eerie groan. "There is a shadow in my room." Behind the old man, out of the corner of your eye, you see a shape. Humanoid in nature, the shade morphs the more you tried to look its way. Just as you may have made out its stature, its face, it shifts once agai...

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“Meeting My Doppelgänger” by Hope Linter

Submitted to Contest #225

“I saw someone, who looks exactly like you,” Janine, a friend in my running group said. She sat kittycorner to me at the end of the large dark table in the back of Starbucks. I nodded, deep breathing, I didn’t like being at that end, closest to the washrooms with the exit doors at the other end of the cafe. In fact it was a phobia of mine, I’d mentioned to Janine and a couple of others, but I’d made light of it myself, and we’d laughed it off. But ever since then I’d challenged myself to go for coffee with the group on Saturdays after our ru...

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“I Am What I Am” by Robert Radcliff

Submitted to Contest #225

My apparel is sticking to my body as the sweat envelops me. Its late evening in the nightclub area of Bangkok as I say bye to the last of my work colleagues who had joined me for some drinks in the Silom area pub which I often go after work.I have decided to walk back to my apartment which is barely ten minutes away.Maybe the events of the last few hours will become less scary to me once I have ceased the alcohol intake.I go to the pub washroom and look in the mirror. My good-looking physique is overshadowed by signs of despair on ...

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“My Doppelgangers” by Thomas Schilling

Submitted to Contest #225

My Doppelgangers You may love them; you may hate them but everyone has at least one doppelganger. If you don’t believe me, ask yourself, “How many times has a complete stranger said you look exactly like someone they know?” I’ve never met Jim Kinzie, Donald Spenser, Gordon Schmidt, or Florence Cooper but I must look like them. I understand the resemblance to Jim, Don, and Gordon and I really don’t care to meet them face-to-face, but I’m dying to meet Flo. I have a full beard and mustache, and I’ve been told I look like Ernest Hemmingway. P...

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“Déjà Vu” by Alex Galindo

Submitted to Contest #225

CW: mentions of a firearm “Don’t try to sweet talk me. I have a gun to your head,” I snap. The pressure in my skull rapidly transforms from an annoying throb to a stabbing pain that matches my tachycardic heart. They say the darkest hour of the night is right before dawn. I think it’s also the quietest. I know it’s quiet because I can sense the contrast between the emptiness during my sleep and the raw screams that escaped my throat when I awoke to a figure standing next to my bed. I had gone to bed alone in my apartment tha...

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Write a story about someone coming across their doppelganger.

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✍️ 48 stories

“The Elder Huntress” by Sahoor Qanit

“The Doppelgänger” by Lamar Wiggins

“Stardust High” by Patricia Parent

“Eyes of Void ” by Space Corn

“"My Doppelganger"” by Nomcebo Phungwayo

“Tap.” by Ian Grogan

“Thanksgiving Twin” by Amanda Cedeno

“On The Other Side of the Mirror” by Andrés Hernández

“Kate Could Go Anywhere” by Laura Shea Souza

“A Deadly Runaway” by Zoe King

“A Shadow of Myself” by Jamison Courcy

“Meeting My Doppelgänger” by Hope Linter

“I Am What I Am” by Robert Radcliff

“My Doppelgangers” by Thomas Schilling

“Déjà Vu” by Alex Galindo

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Start your story with someone buying a cursed — or perhaps blessed —mirror from an antiques store.

Write a story about someone trying to paint (or otherwise create) a self-portrait.

Write a story about a character who one day notices that their reflection has taken on a life of its own.

Set your story in a house of mirrors and make the atmosphere increasingly eerie.

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