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Posted in Narrative on Oct 26, 2022

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“Love and Turmoil” by J.R. Hughes

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The markets were open and people filled the streets. It was hot, but no one cared as they were happy to spend their coins on the drinks and sweet fruit that the vendors sold. “There she is,” Kai said, pointing out the window to the woman perusing the stalls, not noticing the carriage pass by, or the man inside who had fallen for her during the nights he snuck away from the palace to explore the world he had never gotten to see. The king, Kai’s father, was very protective of his only son. He spent most days training to take over...

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“Bittersweet Invasion” by Logan Hessek

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The lights in the house flickered. Maybe those light bulbs are bad, Jay thought. The entire house began to shake. It’s probably just a minor earthquake. We get those sometimes. The pipes in the kitchen sink burst and water started spraying all over the floor. Looks like I’ll need to call a plumber. No big deal. The whole roof was ripped off the top of the house like a band aid. A giant flying saucer hovered above the house, emitting a brilliant greenish glow onto the exposed interior. All of Jay’s years of therapy amounted to nothing...

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“The Road to Istanbul” by Andrea Mariana

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Milos wasn’t a particularly smart boy; everyone in Samundzhievo (his mother included) admitted as much. He knew that he had been born in the Year of Our Lord, Sixteen-Hundred and Forty-Two. The priests had told him that; they would know, after all, since they could read and write. According to his mother, that meant he was ten years old – practically a man – and that he had better start behaving like one. But whatever Milos lacked in brilliance, he made up for with a strong sense of danger. He discerned the latter when his mother pressed h...

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“Flames Without Regrets” by Susannah Meghans

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Flames Without Regrets She stood still at the kitchen counter feeling completely numb. “Why the hell are you like this,” he had screamed at her for what seemed the millionth time over. Each day everything went wrong like acid trickling upon their life. The stench of his three-day-old clothes saturated the kitchen as he walked down heading to work. When she recommended changing them, his eyes only bored hatefully into h...

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“Don’t Let the Sun Come” by Jan Gwazdacz

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George hopped from one tile to the other, avoiding the lines in between, and holding his mother’s arm. From an uninteresting, gray nothing, the wall on his left became a window, giving onto a flat yard, filled with asphalt, white lines and airplanes. George thought it must be bigger than the yard next to his elementary school, but couldn’t really guess how much time it would take him to run across it. Baggage and waiting is all he saw there; people leaning on their suitcases, lying on them, standing with them, forgetting them, going to get t...

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“The Flight” by Sue Kassirer

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Watching the news every night was getting to be too much for Alison. George, now retired, had it going all day—formerly a no no, but now somehow permitted. And given the pandemic, they were both home nearly 24/7. The bombing of the children’s hospital, the desperate people packed onto buses and trains, the ones left behind because there was no more room or they were too old or stubborn or disabled to leave, the men who couldn’t leave but had to and in many cases wanted to stay back and fight. &n...

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“Mortal Unity; Immortal” by Abhishek Todmal

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What stood once as a refuge for dreams, a haven for the spirit, and a pleasant confinement for the body, now resembled grounds taken over by the Truveau’s.The Mance’s were one of the oldest families in all of England. Their wealth had at one point surpassed that of the Crown, and whilst for all their riches they had much to show of, it was their heritage – their standing as a respectable group of persons in this time of times, which classified them as a family worth loving. Certainly, of these persons, Aron Mance was an individual whose indi...

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“Through the Bushes” by Nick Cevennes

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McTague poked half his head out of the bushes. He had run out of ammunition and had lost his haversack for four days since he was first hunted by the Apaches, and was in danger of going dehydrated. He surveyed the jungle with his tired, swollen eyes, opening as wide as he could. There were no arrows or red marks on the cypress trees. It appeared that the hunters had not been here. He walked up the open plateau, wrapped in his ermine coat, trying to make a fire to keep warm. Just then he heard something whiny. Fifteen years ago, McTague...

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“A Chance at Freedom” by Alicia Griffin

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They stood quietly in front of their apartment door - Faustina holding their 5-month-old son, Luis, in her arms while Antonio read the document he held in his hands. Their 5-year-old daughter, Gladys, watched intently from the other room, while the military official stood at the doorway; satisfied with his delivery and more than delighted to rid those who didn’t care to support the communist island and its ideologies. Faustina looked at her husband as he turned to face her, nodding approval. Finally! After four years of applying for ...

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“Repercussions” by Eric Holdorf

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Repercussions The lights flicker when he enters, and go dark when he closes the door. Hearing his shoes shuffle in the cement hallway, she rises from the couch, then at the threshold, feeling for ea...

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“Whisper of Hope” by Kreig Durham

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“Papa told us that he would catch up to us,” a little tawny mouse pup whined as the caravan of animals wound its way along the plains.“I know, Simon,” his mother replied to the child she carried, “But he has to take care of the village before he comes.”Another mouse pup, taller than Simon and with deep chestnut fur, sighed and sagged her shoulders, “Mama told you that six times already, Simon.”Simon huffed, shifting himself in his mother’s arms to look at his sister. He opened his mouth to argue back with her, but their mother cut in, “Simon...

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“Why me, Why Us?” by Marlina Jackson

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It was like any other afternoon. Come home, bang through the side door, throw my bag.. wherever, and make a snack which I’d promptly destroy while playing my much missed game, Right? No siree. My mom hasn’t been feeling to well so I made sure to be quiet. Whole house dark, have you wondering if the electric bills been paid or not. I stumble over a shoe, of course it’s mine! Then.... I hear something. Now I hear something but I don’t want to hear ANYTHING. It’s just me and my mama. But I do. As I walk up the stairs, suddenly I’m yanked down b...

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“Friends” by Rick Mullholand

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The doorbell rang so I went to see who was at the door. When I opened the door, I was surprised to see Tom ‘WildMan’ Morse standing there. He gave a weak smile and asked if he could in and talk with me. I said of course, and we both went to the living room and sat down. I never knew how or why he was nicknamed ‘WildMan’, but it was what everyone called him. I believe it was something he had done when he was young and living in South Carolina. He was the person who organized the golf outings that I became part...

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“Reedsy” by Christopher Little

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Jim is a scrapper, both literally and figurately. Both are critical to his survival in one of Missouri’s most poverty-stricken counties. It is a mild mid-December morning and the couple, as usual, are walking the country road to nowhere. They see him from a distance. He bends over to inspect something on the ground, rearranges a few things, then stands up, takes a few steps forward and leans over to do it all over again. It is a routine seen many times. Over the last two years the couple have interacted with the scrapper numerou...

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“Shifting ” by Karen Lethlean

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Shifting An eerie evening; even now as sun withdrew its light from hills there seemed a whisper – Here comes night-time, beware! Sitting on the veranda, mesmerised by that view off into shadowed bush at the base of Eagle Hawk Mountain, were a hodge-podge group of hikers under my leadership. Closeness enforced, but still there, helped to overcome a sense of isolation dusk evoked. Some hikers were locals, but most were from overseas. They’d heard about majesty of this region and wanted to experience Eagle Hawk fully, in person, rather th...

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Write a story about someone forced out of their home.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 54 stories

“Love and Turmoil” by J.R. Hughes

“Bittersweet Invasion” by Logan Hessek

“The Road to Istanbul” by Andrea Mariana

“Flames Without Regrets” by Susannah Meghans

“Don’t Let the Sun Come” by Jan Gwazdacz

“The Flight” by Sue Kassirer

“Mortal Unity; Immortal” by Abhishek Todmal

“Through the Bushes” by Nick Cevennes

“A Chance at Freedom” by Alicia Griffin

“Repercussions” by Eric Holdorf

“Whisper of Hope” by Kreig Durham

“Why me, Why Us?” by Marlina Jackson

“Friends” by Rick Mullholand

“Reedsy” by Christopher Little

“Shifting ” by Karen Lethlean

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Write a story about a scientist.

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