Write a story about someone who keeps coming across the same stranger.

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“I Don't Know You” by Ivy Moonlit

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Jordyn had just moved to Toronto from Montreal, she figured even though she loved her french roots, and the style of photography she had developed there, she wanted to expand her portfolio, so she worked overtime, saved up some money for a while, quit her job as a cashier at a clothing store and moved to Toronto. This would be her big break, her big jump into a photography career and prove to her family and friends it wasn’t just a hobby. She had done some other mini gigs around her community, taking professional photos for her friends, she ...

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“Hello, Stranger” by Elaina Wyrd

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When I got the call, it wasn’t anything like the movies. I didn’t even know I’d gotten a call until after I was already sitting in the lobby, searching desperately for something to take my mind off of my surroundings.“Hello, this is Aaron Burnap with Crescent Skies Memorial Hospital. If this is Io Williams, emergency contact for Nina Williams, please call this number as soon as possible.” I let the phone drop from my ear. A few years back, I’d used my real phone number to enter some raffel at my old job, and ever since then, I’d been plagued...

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“Normal People and Narrators” by Aida D

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Kevin is just your average sophomore college student. Normal brown hair, normal green eyes, and the same normal red jacket that he wears every day. Nothing different about him. Just basketball and coffee. That's Kevin in a nutshell. Now reader, here we have a normal situation. Kevin sat in the same corner table near the window at Starbucks sipping his grande black coffee that he gets every morning before class. Nothing new. A ring signaled that someone was walking into the coffee shop. Kevin looked up, expecting to see the same business...

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“Few things left unsaid” by Chhaya Fulsunge

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Evening winter sun was warm and not too harsh.Street was less crowded. There was minimal traffic. One could easily see across the other end of the road. She decided to walk along with her friend until they get any cab. Since evening sun was hitting her eyes, she put her glares on. She loved this combination of evening sun and the cool breeze. As they both were walking, she saw a bike coming in their direction from the other side of the street. Slowly when the bike got near to them to pass, she saw him. It was not the first time that she seei...

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“Strangers in the Night (L1.4)” by Kathleen March

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There’s that rather nice-looking stranger again. I like his black, well-groomed beard. I keep seeing around the old part of Santiago de Compostela. Most of the time, I think, he wears a darkish pullover with a round neck and a nice shirt. He also wears a casual jacket that fits him well, ending at just the right spot on his hips. His shoes are dark brown, I think, and nicely polished. The man is definitely attractive, with his neatness and eyes like warm chestnuts. Well, I imagine that’s the color, since I haven’t gotten close enough to be s...

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“The Unfriendly Friend” by Ndekwoh Ojen

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I awake to see everywhere in the room bright and beautiful and as I glance at the digital clock hanging firmly on the wall across, it reads 10:15am. Doubting it, I grab my wrist watch and it confirms it.“What! I can’t believe I’ve been sleeping for the past 12 hours." I can’t tell how it happened but it did. Maybe they were right after all. I feel much better. I sit on the bed for a while trying to figure out my first task in this new home, and suddenly the thoughts of the events of the last four months start pouring like torrents of a Novem...

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“Dream boy” by Amruta Var

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At first, just his eyes. Intense. Brown. Glowing. Thick browed. I saw them many times and knew them by heart. I could paint them to the last eyelid hairs if I were an artist. Trust me. If I were given a thousand brows or eyes or just the retinas or, in fact, the lines on his eyelids and surface of his eyes alone, I could pick his. That much I knew them. I knew them so well, and I knew them more than him. I never searched for his eyes on other’s faces because I knew, if those eyes were there, my eyes would need no google, I will spot them rig...

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“The Tide” by Kelly Leong

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I hurried a little faster, the brisk wind seeping through my coat collar. I adjusted my thick grey scarf. My cloth bag of groceries swung side to side, bumping into my hip and right thigh. The pointed edge of the cereal box inside kept jutting into me. I shifted my bag. That was better. It started to slightly rain. Damn, I thought. I hated getting my hair wet. My apartment was only up the street ahead. I’m almost there. Almost there to a hot ...

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“A Strange Encounter ” by Keeley Love

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There he was again, same as always. Tessa Finch peered out of the corner of her eye in the crowded grocery store to see a tall, older man with a haggard face outlined by gray stubble. 15 years and he still looked the same. The familiar shiver crept up her spine as she thought about the mysterious man’s presence. Tessa became stock-still and a cold sweat broke out on her face as she tried to will her unwanted visitor away. “Miss? Can I help you?” The cashier woman at the checkout asked apprehensively, noting the young woman’s look of fear on ...

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“Stranger Kerrie” by Grace Sharma

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“Nice to meet you, I’m Grant”, I said as I briefly shook the woman’s hand.She would’ve been in her late 20’s, pretty face, dark hair, slim body with large breasts. She definitely had a surgical enhancement. Other than that, she was wearing a black Nike hoodie. Just my type.“Well, I gotta go grab some things. See you boys later.” The woman said, as she drove off in her navy Cadillac Escalade. I felt a hint of discomfort.“Who was that?”, I asked Eddy.“That’s Kerrie. She’s a friend of mine from middle school. Great girl. You interested, bro?”I ...

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“Estranged ” by Skylar Schylar

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Lance is a lucrative, swaggering businessman constantly on the move, a type of snobby and pretentious that wears dress shoes to a pool party. He’s unfailingly hooks up with pretty young things with supermodel figures, hair from shampoo commercials, and freshly bleached smiles. He’s always flown solo, so he, brick by brick, assembled his empire from the ground up, the solidarity he very much loved to bathe in. He is the kind of millionaire that made miracles you occasionally hear about, a self-made man, carrying around an inspiring story. How...

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“The Girl, the Book, and the Blizzard” by Peyton Mae

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The exposed ankle in the gap between my rolled-up jeans and the top of my sneakers is freezing, and it’s all I can think about as I hurry home under street lamps dimmed by snowflakes. It’s times like these, when the air is wet and cold and seems to encase you in the thinnest layer of ice, that I wish for the hearth of my childhood home in Maine. It was the perfect sort of place to camp out in a snowstorm: a log cabin with a crackling fireplace, stocked with canned soup and packets of hot cocoa and puzzles, not to mention a sizable collection...

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“Those Eyes” by Wendy Minore

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I first noticed him at the Farmer's Market, on a Wednesday afternoon. It was chilly due to the late fall weather and most stations had already closed. I was grabbing a coffee when I noticed him. He was in line behind me, and there wasn't much different about him. At that moment he was just another person rushing to get their last minute supplies from the Farmer's Market.The next time I saw him was the next week, on Saturday. I was picking up my little sister from school and he was in the parked truck next to me. It took me a second to place ...

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“Alice” by Britt Michielsen

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‘The first time I saw him was yesterday. It’s like he appeared out of nowhere. He was pacing back and forth in front of our house nervously. He looked up at the window of my room quite a few times but his eyes never really met mine. It felt like he wanted to tell me something, but before I could reach out, he disappeared. He was gone in an eyeblink’, I write down in my notebook right before the bell rings, indicating my English class is over. I put my pen down and quickly close my notebook before wrapping up my stuff and making my way out of...

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“A Familiar Stranger ” by Madison Chapman

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I think someone is watching me. I see the same person in many places. She looks familiar, however she is a stranger. She reminds me of myself when I was younger and happy. Though I do not think she is happy, because I think she follows me. I have seen her in so many places that could not warrant this to be a coincidence. She has been in my neighborhood, she was picking flowers that were growing through the sidewalk. I saw her at the mall, where she was ordering food. Then in the craziest places of all, I saw her at the same hotel I was stayi...

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Write a story about someone who keeps coming across the same stranger.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 182 stories

“I Don't Know You” by Ivy Moonlit

“Hello, Stranger” by Elaina Wyrd

“Normal People and Narrators” by Aida D

“Few things left unsaid” by Chhaya Fulsunge

“Strangers in the Night (L1.4)” by Kathleen March

“The Unfriendly Friend” by Ndekwoh Ojen

“Dream boy” by Amruta Var

“The Tide” by Kelly Leong

“A Strange Encounter ” by Keeley Love

“Stranger Kerrie” by Grace Sharma

“Estranged ” by Skylar Schylar

“The Girl, the Book, and the Blizzard” by Peyton Mae

“Those Eyes” by Wendy Minore

“Alice” by Britt Michielsen

“A Familiar Stranger ” by Madison Chapman

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