Write about a character attempting to meditate or do something mindfully.

Posted in Narrative on Oct 26, 2022

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““Hi, I’m Austin. Can I help?”” by Ruth Zschoche

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TW: sexual references, death, language, misogynistic commentsThe wall was blank red stone. There was dirt in the cracks, and small pieces of ivy crept up it. But in all major respects it was blank.The light shifted over the space, and Austin was reminded of rays from heaven as portrayed in old Renaissance paintings. Was this what the masters had seen? Had they felt it?The cat came from the garden, moving lazily toward Austin's sunny spot. There were two ants alone on a mission, skirting around the patch of light, and moving with purpose back...

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“Home Coming - Feb 12, 1973” by Michael Regan

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[Mentions brutality and suicide.]“Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee” Meditation XVII, John DonneIt is Feb 12, 1973. I pour a shot of whiskey from the bottle that has remained unopened since I toasted the New Year with a friend. My wife asks if I am coming to bed. I shake my head. There is something on the TV I must watch.They are coming home. These men who had been brutalized and locked away were coming home.Not home, home, but Cla...

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“Hurt feelings” by Steven Creel

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March 14, 2022 She was the girl next door and for the longest time I felt she was my soulmate. I mean how could I not? Our parents had been friends for decades, we had played together almost everyday. She was my confidante. I could tell her all my secrets, all my insecurities, things I couldn't tell anyone else even if I tried. And she could tell me hers. I heard and watched so many things on the internet, t.v shows, movies and even from other people. "Marry your best friend." "Be with someone who knows you better than yourse...

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“Just Breathe” by Crystal Glisson

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Take a slow deep breath, in and out, I repeat to myself. I straighten my pose, and try to focus on my breathing. Meditating shouldn’t be this hard, but today is not my day. My focus keeps shifting to all the problems I had run into earlier in the day. First thing this morning, I had a flat tire on my way into work, then hit every red light on the way there. I had thought the worst was behind me, but that's like counting your chickens before they hatch. I work as an accountant, so it should have been a normal, boring day. Plus it was Friday. ...

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“Millennium Mindfulness ” by Maureen MacLennan

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Millennium Mindfulness First thing I notice on entry are the signs everywhere instructing people on what do to and where to go, and no one pays any notice. Question marks hang in the fetid air of the station, ‘where does the train leave from and what station do I need to get off at? Is there a map somewhere?’ There are maps everywhere by the way but pointing it out is not my job. I don’t work here, I don’t even live in the city but I’ve been here enough to know, you have to look up. In this city, well hell in any city now there’s ...

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“Meditative State” by Angela Terez

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On the other side of the paneling, Laney could hear the low humming sound reverberating through the thin wall: “Ohmmmm.” Quietly, she opened her bedroom door and crept down the hallway, her bare feet tamping down the gummy green shag carpeting. She pressed her ear to the door and then lay down flat on her stomach to see if she could peer underneath. Suddenly, the hum stopped. Her sister’s voice called out sharply: “Laney, I know you’re there!” The younger girl scrambled back down the hallway through her own open door and then quickly close...

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“Tranquil Torrent for the Moderately Neurotic” by D. Grimes

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Mom and I hiked out from the wooded path to where the calico-bark beech trees and overgrown ferns began to thin. I’d picked a particularly smooth stone from the trail, and continued to roll it between my palms.The land gave a wide berth to the reservoir, which flooded my peripheral. Peninsulas splintered into its circle, and miles ahead, pinched the lake to a narrow flow. They were all unoccupied on this quiet day, aside from the one we took perch on. In a fe...

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“Toxic Tribunal” by Brenda Ranney

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TOXIC TRIBE “The years tell us much that the days never know” - Ralph Waldo Emerson Nobody knows enough to be a pessimist, yet negativity and mental illness can be ingrained in the human brain at a very young age; perhaps even before birth. I know this to be true because this happened to me. Mental illness is a genetic factor in my family, and toxic genes causing viruses of the mind started with my maternal great grandmother. Mental health issues in my venomous clan mutated over the...

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Write about a character attempting to meditate or do something mindfully.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 38 stories

““Hi, I’m Austin. Can I help?”” by Ruth Zschoche

“Home Coming - Feb 12, 1973” by Michael Regan

“Hurt feelings” by Steven Creel

“Just Breathe” by Crystal Glisson

“Millennium Mindfulness ” by Maureen MacLennan

“Meditative State” by Angela Terez

“Tranquil Torrent for the Moderately Neurotic” by D. Grimes

“Toxic Tribunal” by Brenda Ranney

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Write from the point of view of a character writing a letter to their past or future self.

Set your story in an unlikely sanctuary.

Write about a character discovering a surprising strength in either themself or another.

Start your story during a team building exercise.

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