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Write a story about a character experiencing déjà vu.

Posted in Nonfiction on Oct 26, 2022

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✍️ 39 stories

Like I'm Tired

Shortlisted for Contest #30 ⭐️

Some man in blue oversized coat starts to laugh as he spins another horrendous tale about something we all will probably forget before the night shift. He is sitting on a stool by a careless couple, holding a glass of foamy beer in one hand and laughing. The drunken men are all listening to his tales of a far off country with no name - only that the women are pretty- and about the necklace on his pudgy neck.I am listening too because he amuses me in a kind of desolate way. I know he is lying and he knows it too but we all sit or stand and li...

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Octopus

Submitted to Contest #30

Amadis the octopus seller had never tasted an octopus. A long time ago he lived on the banks of the Campisi—but that was a long time ago, and he doesn’t live there anymore. Nowadays I hear he lives in a deflated balloon in Mongolia somewhere, but I don’t tell stories in the present, I tell them in the past. Amadis the former octopus seller who probably lives in Mongolia is a lot less interesting than Amadis the octopus seller who lives on the banks of the Campisi. So a long time ago he lived in a fish stall by the Campisi. He didn’t sell fis...

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Living Nightmare

Submitted to Contest #30

Inhale. Exhale. A wet tree limb smacked my face; feet sucked on moist earth with each step. Inhale. Exhale. Sunlight flashed through the treetops and vanished just as quickly, a giant strobe light in the sky, as I ran forward. Inhale. Exhale. Just breathe, I told myself. Stop running, and just breathe. They won’t find you now.It took a while for my legs to respond to my mind’s plea. At last I stilled, muscles quivering, the adrenaline rush gone and weariness setting in. My daytime desk job had not prepared me for this; my body was not used t...

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Walking in White Wedding Dresses (reprise)

Submitted to Contest #30

“Every thread costs a dollar,” I whispered to myself as I smoothed out my long wedding dress that reached past my ankles. “So, Georgie, if you run past me with those scissors again, or if god forbid you accidentally snag my dress--”Dad grabbed me by the shoulders and pulled me aside. “Alright, Deliha, I think that’s enough,” he coaxed. “You’re stressed, I get it. Your mother was stressed at our wedding too.” His eyes softened at the mention of my mother. I felt the same sinking pit in my stomach he was feeling. You see, my mother passed away...

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Mindiacid the playacting

Submitted to Contest #30

They say scientists have found out ways to teleport things within 10 feet. Particles are discrete packets of energy with wave like properties as studied under quantum physics and matter is 'stuff' of universe consisting of protons and electrons with wave like behaviour?I don't know much about these things but I know what I feel. My story starts in somewhat a movie- like opening which is actually the backdrop of the real thing. It looked like a perfect house surrounded on all sides by tall eucalyptus trees spreading a fresh smell all around....

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Daylight

Submitted to Contest #30

DaylightSometimes the daylight glare can be so penetrating, that I’m forced to shut my eyes. Maybe it is because in the basement dwelling where I live, very little light gets in. I've always hated the sun. You know on those really bright sunny days, when it feels like the sun is purposely directing its searing, white hot light directly into your pupils, and then suddenly a cloud covers it for a moment? When you can finally just let your eyes breathe a second? I like that. I like that more than anything else in the world. That moment of relea...

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Middlewood

Submitted to Contest #30

I know this road, thought Lena, walking down the quaint cobbled street of the town where she had never previously been in her life. I know that there is a church with a squat stone tower that is slightly awry at the end of the street, and know that down that side street there is an inn. Or if there is not, there ought to be.      I do not think or feel, or at least I don’t just think and feel. I know.      Some may have been scared by such a notion, by such knowl...

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Again

Submitted to Contest #30

Déjà vu: That’s what the strip club next to my office building was called. I discovered on a Tuesday, in addition to busty babes, they also serve a delicious shrimp cocktail. During my lunch break, I hid my face with big sunglasses so no one from work would see me go in but most were too preoccupied ordering at the food trucks. So I walked into the windowless building because I wasn’t in the habit of my elementary years of packing a lunch. All the interior was black. The ceiling and floor, although black as well, glittered like stars. I stuf...

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STRANGE CASE OF A LINQUISTIC TIME WARP

Submitted to Contest #30

“Happy BIRTHDAY to Mollleeee, Happy Birthday to you!” Okay, maybe they can’t sing but that’s not why I consider them my BFF’s. They’ve always been there for me, ever since I became a ward of the state – at 15. I don’t remember anything before that; no childhood memories to speak of. So when these two girls took me in as their pseudo little sister, my gratitude was overwhelming.  “Smile. Make a wish. And blow out your candles,” yelled Tiffany. She started recording the momentous occasion on he...

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Déjà Vu Dolly

Submitted to Contest #30

PRESENT Sarah woke up and headed for coffee. Sitting beside her coffee maker was a note she’d written to herself. The library was holding a book for her, and had a date with someone named mark at 6. In small letters under the date she had scribbled, “So dreamy, your lucky!” Finished with her coffee, she hit the bathroom and got ready while thinking about the mysterious Mark, and wondering about tonight’s date. Walking to her car, she felt she was seeing the same people and going to the same destination as yesterday. Glancing to her lef...

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O'Hara

Submitted to Contest #30

The rain had stopped before 2:30pm. But the moisture from the rain hung in the air making the environment pale. I sat on the couch waiting for Nellie's call that I didn't know when I fell asleep. I woke up 30 minutes later to a knock on the door. I sluggishly dragged myself to the door but when I opened it, I couldn't find anyone. I paused for a while. I was a bit confused so i just went back in.Nellie hadn't called. We had an appointment with a client who wanted to buy a house uptown and it was getting late. So I picked up my phon...

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But Not For Me

Submitted to Contest #30

The old man wore the same red cap he always did when taking walks in the park. His wife had given it to him, many years before, as a gift for his retirement, and even though it was old and rough on his ears he wore it still. There was a small hole in the back of it, not even perceptible unless it was pointed out, but the old man knew it would grow and soon enough he would be forced to put the cap away. Until then, he thought, I’ll make the most of it. His wife had died a few years before. It had since been long enough that her death didn’t m...

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The Pull Over Surprise

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Life is strange at times and it can throw you a curve ball that is so unexpected and yet at the same time be very informative at the same time. My girlfriend and I are those kinds of chicks that live on the edge and enjoy taking chances, something like testing fate. We were always pushing the limits and seeing what would happen, but we'd do silly things only together so that there was proof of our stupidity, and believe me, there were times that stupidity was lesser of the outcomes. There is a particular day that comes to mind when we both d...

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Nightmare

Submitted to Contest #30

Thick globs of sticky red. She thinks: Oh god, poor soul. Until it dawns on her that it’s hers. The redness spreading down her legs is her own. And she doesn’t understand why the paramedic looks at her oddly when she tells him, I’m home, this is my favorite chair…no, I don’t know why I’m covered in blood. She hopes the stain will wash out.He shines a bright light into her pupils; leaves white circles bouncing around in her retinas. As she tries to regain focus, she wonders what happened to the ceiling. The sky is a dazzling blue she’s never ...

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The Mechanics

Submitted to Contest #30

She tapped the screen of her phone, "The GPS isn't working and there's no signal on the mobile phone either. How are we going to find the place? At least we know we are in the right town, I saw the sign at the entrance." Brian, her husband shook his head, he was fine driving but could get lost at the drop of a coin. "The estate agent picked me up from the station. Maybe we should find a shop or somewhere to get directions." A little voice piped up the back seat, "Mummy, Daddy where are we going?" This mother smiled, "To our new house, my dar...

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