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Write a story that starts with the reveal of a long-kept secret.

Posted in Mystery on Jul 17, 2021

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Long Lost Family Reunited?

Submitted to Contest #37

I was an artist. Just a twenty year old, I couldn't do much but spend most of my time out in the wary old sun, speckling my brush with blots of coloured paint. I was different from both my parents, however. My father was the rare one with tanned brown hair with streaks of deep, glinting black. My mother had a pure chocolate river that cascaded beautifully down her back. I, however, had blonde strips with brown.I had always wondered where that blonde had come from. My mother used to tell me that it probably was a mixture of brown and black. I...

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SEX AND FERTILITY AGENT

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Michael Robinson is not the real father of her super teen daughter, Terri Robinson. They were joined together in holy matrimony twenty-something years ago, but there’s an intruder sometime, somewhere, somehow. Impregnated, but no one suspected that he was not responsible. The baby was born and grown up under his roof.‘’Michael’’ She whimpers.She only calls him Michael when something is serious or she’s done something very wrong. ‘’There’s something I need to tell you’’.The next door, leading to their room, half-open, unmindful. She suck...

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Abandoned truth

Submitted to Contest #37

There are people who never need a disguise, like superman all they need to do is change a pair of glasses or a hairstyle and they are someone new. The girl was like that, she was every girl next door: not pretty, not ugly, not pale or particularly brown. She walked in a way that didn't even draw the attention of the street cameras. Her clothing wasn't overly fashionable or bright in colour. Everything about her made her blend in, as if the rain had smudged her into the sidewalk, as if she was only a shadow of no importance, more boring to ob...

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Blue

Submitted to Contest #37

January 1, 2019 (Tuesday, 10:15 p.m.)I want to confess, to you a stranger. I want to reveal my secret.And maybe because you don’t know me...you still might get the chance to know me better than anyone else.Blue - I hope the title didn’t confuse you, or if it does I hope that it gets your attention.If you are going to ask me what I'm feeling right now, maybe it is too absurd to say that I'm happy, because I'm definitely not. It's a kind of mixed emotions; scared but there's a hint of excitement knowing that I will no longer hide this. It is t...

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Chapter 1 of "Leaning Secrets"

Submitted to Contest #37

“Oh my universe,” she said, gasping.“That bad,” I asked. She kept pointing at my face with a surprised expression.“No,” she whispered.  “You just look so different. Why would you change yourself when you look like this?”I stared into my mirror at the natural face I’ve had for 20 years. She is beautiful, gorgeous, even. But she doesn’t fit the name I now hold. I know that I am beautiful. But I’ve forced myself to cover it for the 6 years I’ve been in public school.“Why would you use makeup to make yourself u...

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Confessions of a Murder

Submitted to Contest #37

Hey you, I am going to tell you a deep secret. A deep secret that I have been hiding for so long. Now, is the time to tell you this long kept secret of mine.Do you remember Esha? Of course you do. After all, Esha is your older sister. Do you remember the day Esha mysteriously disappeared into thin air the night of our school spring dance? Esha never disappeared. I killed Esha that night.***You were just a freshman in high school. And Esha was a senior, like me. You would never have thought in your dreams that you will marry the most popular...

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One Summer Day

Submitted to Contest #37

When I heard the words coming from my mother’s mouth, a sense of vertigo caused me to grab the back of the chair in front of me. From the beginning of the conversation, I had a sense of foreboding.“You’ve always wanted to know why your father went to jail back then, right? Well, since I had to tell the FBI agent who wants you to go to work for them, I think I should tell you, too.”Not knowing what to say, I merely nodded my head.Mom hesitated and took a big breath before she started. “Well, it turns out that while I was at the Bingo or out o...

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Child of the Sea

Submitted to Contest #37

The townspeople would call Lucia a child of the sea. Her bright, cerulean-blue eyes would shine with the promise of unrelenting waves, both powerful and magnificent. The smooth slope of her jaw looked like polished coral, innocent perfection. Her hair, silky long and raven-black grew long and abandoned, almost trailing to her calves. Those few assets alone would invite all the barely adult boys to her apartment, the small, grungy, white one, which, not surprisingly, was tucked away by the ocean. After talking with her, they’d quickly leave. ...

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Confession

Submitted to Contest #37

“It was me,” I whisper, hardly audible. “It was me!” I screamed to the Crowd of ever silent people, waiting to convict me. You could hear a pin drop. The judges sit there, stunned to silence. “I killed mayor Kragen,” I say in a low tone. Judge three stands up and slaps his hand on the desk. He has a receding hairline and a smirk that never leaves his face. He smells like everything artificial and I hate him for it.“Case postponed!” He growls. The crowd stares in disbelief. Postponed? What is that supposed to mean? The crowd slowly rises and ...

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🆃🅷🅴 🆂🆃🆁🅰🅽🅶🅴🆁

Submitted to Contest #37

I am walking down the hallway, carefree. There’s not a worry in the world I must deal with. Then I see him. The stranger.He’s tall and dark and thin, and most girls in my class crowd up to him. I don’t know why I don’t, but there’s something… off, like a tree branch swaying on a seemingly windless day. I turn the corner, and he turns with me, staring hard. I look back into his eyes, and I am falling, falling into a hole of eternal darkness-I snap awake. I don’t understand my dreams, the way they start normally, and then he shows up. But not ...

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The Incident

Submitted to Contest #37

A rowdy tavern in a small town. Thick smoke hanging low over the small crowd of patrons who were partying and pigging out on cheap beer and food.This was the last place that Daniel wanted to be. Yet there he was, sitting alone in a booth at the Rusted Cap, waiting anxiously for his friend."Did you hear the news? They finally reopened that hit and run case from a few years back,"Daniel perked up, glancing over his shoulder at the booth behind him.He disliked listening in on others, but the topic caused him to pause."What, that gymnast? W...

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FOUND YOU

Submitted to Contest #37

Let’s play hide and seek and I’m sure, I’ll definitely find you because there is nothing in the world that secrets will stay hidden forever. A woman was standing in a front of the mirror, looking for her reflection, thinking if she can do more, if she can show to others how great he is, but she’s thinking she’s not because there is judgement, there will be a mouth that can hurt you emotionally so you hid it to be perfect, to not be judged even it’s not you. You can be more, you can do more, if you just be yourself, you can be changed but don...

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Never Trust A Stranger Named Rob

Submitted to Contest #37

“Oh my gosh! Rob! I found the letter! Her clues paid off!” I exclaimed. A little over a month ago, Rob was a stranger. I thought he was stalking me. But now I know. We are siblings. He is my older brother that I never knew about. My mom died before she could tell us. But now, it’s like we have known each other for years. “Alright. What’s it say?” He asked. I opened the envelope, careful not to break it. I unfolded the paper inside and held it in between us, so we could both read it. My Darlings, If you are reading this letter, I need you to ...

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My Blood's Secret

Submitted to Contest #37

“Hey dad, what’s up?”“I wanted to talk about your sister.” He was speaking fast, and I could almost smell the alcohol on his breath through the phone-line.“Oh, okay. What’s happened?” A dozen different scenarios raced through my head, but he sounded angry not upset. She’d done something, not had something happen to her.“Stop telling her to get a blood test. Her baby will be fine.”“But- isn’t it worth checking? If she’s a carrier for sickle cell-”“She isn’t. Your mother wasn’t a carrier, and neither am I.”All I could hear was the static of th...

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A car accident, a secret and a doctor

Submitted to Contest #37

Alicia Madison leaned against the wall in the hallway right outside the emergency room hub,and took two large breaths behind her blue surgical mask. Sweat was popping up around her forehead.Behind her goggles, a few tears were in her green eyes. She blinked a few times, and when she finally could catch her breath, she took her gloves off, and threw them in the trash can beside her, and lifted her goggles to where they lay on top of her head.Her dark brown, long hair was covered with a surgery ‘skull cap,’ and her dark blue scrubs were covere...

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