Write a story where the readers are in on a secret that the characters are unaware of.

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“Legitimately” by Fall Write

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"This is no way it's goin' to work, August." Margareth said pulling her luggage. "Okay then, you leave and do not ever come back telling me I didn't tell you to work things out." Augustine said waving his hands while talking. Margareth leaves the condo and never shows up again. After a couple of days, Augustine flies back to America to finish his remaining two weeks of his masteral at med school. He just visited Margareth to clear some misunderstandings but they ended breaking up. After nine months, Margareth gives birth to a healthy baby bo...

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“The Stifle of Summer” by Sue Catrama

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Emma and Joe were too young to understand what they did. Joe had two brothers much older then he which he looked up to and hung on their every word. He was a teenager but not like his brothers were at his age. He was more interested in gaming and being friends with Emma then in the relationship his brothers thought he was in. She was oblivious as to the label Joe's brothers and friends put on them. All they knew was that they enjoyed each others company and one of them was going to be the gaming champion by the end of the summer. One mid sum...

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“The Dream Inspector” by Philip Baker

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«And now, the injection of methylpyrrolidinium and fluorosulfonylimide in the blood, is gonna produce the right amount of relaxation compounds, that will bring the brain to the desired relaxed state without losing its critical judgment ability.» said the man in the white robe.A long white robotic hand moved mechanically to the back part of the patient's brain interjecting a long needle right in the center of the cervical spine, pouring a green liquid.«It will only take a few minutes before the subject reaches the required mental state to beg...

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“The Walnut Tree” by Angelina Tutarkova

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There is something radically callow about city girls on summer holidays. Tangible entitlement perfumes the air whenever they visit the country. It demands reverence upon arrival, the bend of a knee, if you will. Nature’s, people’s, whoever’s. With no care in the world nor a task on their schedules, they starve for isolated freedom and feel so deserving of it, too. As if their privileged lives have been so exhausting to live. I call it a day to remember. Showers of warmth bring pollen-drunk beetles into a wal...

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“Rumor Has It” by Tim Benson

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“Rumor Has It” Mark was only a few steps inside the café when a sturdily built woman with a black apron wrapped around her ample hips walked up to him. “Mornin’, hon, you can sit anywhere you’d like.” “I’m meeting someone here”, he replied, just as a man in a Stetson hat, waving his arm, caught his eye. “I think that’s him there in the first booth.” He walked toward the man and asked, “John?” “That’s me.” The man smiled and stood up, extending his hand. “John Meecum, and Mark, I recognize you from your picture in your weekly column.” What Yo...

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“The Greatest Mystery of All-Time” by Brett Ray

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In the beginning. God. Creation. Adam. Eve. Within six days God created all things. He formed heaven and earth, light, plants, animals, and then man. Once man took center stage, however, of all the complexities that God had accomplished, it would be man’s mistake-ridden life that God would monitor, and quite frankly find much humor therein. Perhaps the sole purpose for man’s creation was that simple. Shear amusement. But this is not a story about why or how humans came to be. This is a story about the first man, Adam, and how he nearly ...

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“Treasure” by Hana A

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It was my little brother who discovered it first, buried in the muck. We were playing his favourite game, King of the World, and he was scrambling up the trash mountain to claim his rightful realm when he slipped, and one pudgy leg dislodged a heap of what looked like femurs. They clattered down towards me in an avalanche, bleached white by the fat sun. I was wearing my helmet but I held my breath anyway as a great galaxy of dislodged dust rolled over and around me in slow-motion, and then hung there in the air, catching the sun, almost glit...

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“Crucial Misdirection” by Aditi Kumar

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‘Get the grips to park in the street, but we’re not paying if they’re towed. That’s on them. No, no - the camera stays with him, he picked it up yesterday. The DP’s gotta be in charge - yes, 7:00 am sharp. Not a moment later. If I can be early, so can they. And -’‘Dear, your bag is absolutely filthy. And your bed! Lord, it’s been a year at least since you started using those sheets, I’ll pop them off…’‘Mum! My AD’s on the phone!’‘…along with this one, I’ve got some things in the machine anyway -‘‘Can you leave? I can’t remember anything if y...

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“If only” by Saakshi Joshi

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Trigger warnings: suicide, self harm, drug use Evan parked outside Alexandra’s house and rang her doorbell. No one answered the door. He rang it 3 more times, his panic rising with every minute that passed. He called her cellphone continuously and had no better luck. He lifted her doormat and found the emergency key she kept there. Entering her home, he spent 15 minutes making sure that she was not there, and then finally placed a call to the police. And then, he got into his yellow Toyota sedan and drove off, hoping to find her befor...

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“THE SECRET OF SULTANA DACOIT OF NAJIBABAD” by Deepti Singh

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It's a story of nineteenth century when India was a British colony and going through the revolt times of freedom against the British rule and the Zamindari system . The Sultana dacoit was the name of terror famous in the terrai region of Najibabad town in Western Uttar Pradesh. The impact of his terrifying footprints were making it difficult for the British officials and the rich landlords of northern India to live and move freely. The most interesting fact as locals claim to be is that he was always generous towards...

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“The Best Friend and The Boyfriend” by Kay C

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The woman’s blond hair flows out from beneath her in waves, its tips reaching the legs of the coffee table some feet away from her. Surrounding her body are multiple yellow number tags, indicating placements of the items strewn about the living room. Various items are spread across the area: a spiky hairbrush, a dictionary, an unopened box of condoms, a blood-stained rope. Her eyes are closed, her legs and arms splayed out, as if she was simply sleeping on her living room floor. The female detective watches the man in front of her as she ...

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“Jonah's Story” by Katelynn Laird

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The scrape of the blade against the cold, metal table sent a shiver up his spine. A pleasant shiver. He’d waited too long since last satiating this primal urge, an itch that never quite left the back of his mind. While once he’d desperately stamped out the life of any small woodland creature, or occasional errant pet, that he could find, Jonah now had his extracurricular activities down to a science. Long had it been since a simple squirrel’s broken neck soothed his itch. Everything had changed when an unlucky serial killer came to town year...

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“Sound the Alarm” by Kevin Leonard

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Throughout history, an untold number of people have predicted the end of the world. Big names too. Hippolytus of Rome predicted the world would end in the year 500CE. Christopher Columbus figured it would happen around 1656. Charles Manson tried his best to bring it about himself in 1969. Perhaps most famously, in the sixteenth century Nostradamus, the man known by his contemporaries as the much more ordinary Michele de Nostredame, in his famous quatrain X.72 made a very distant but specific prediction: the world would end in July, 1999. Inv...

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“Cerulean Blue” by Mary Corbin

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Cerulean Blueby Mary CorbinUpon leaving the company of Volga Petrovych, one would always feel as one did when leaving a dog shelter empty-handed. You wanted to feel compassion and provide companionship, be able to save her, but you just couldn’t find the room. She was a 42 year old, tall and frumpy, hair dye-from-a-box blonde whose St. Petersburg accent had not diminished one iota after 24 years of living in America. Words were heavy and dark as motor oil, dripping with anguish from her mouth all running together in a monotonously rapid...

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“The Day It Happened” by Lisandra Bergey

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The Day it Happened Lisandra Bergey October 30th, 1938The day it happened, Tony Zambelli was spending another unsuccessful Sunday night trying to get somewhere with Victoria Carlson down at Love’s Cove along California coastline. After kissing for several minutes, Victoria wriggled to sit up a little straighter. She smoothed the skirt Tony came nowhere close to shuffling and check the perfectly buttoned blouse. Tony sighed and clasped her hand. “You...

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Write a story where the readers are in on a secret that the characters are unaware of.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 101 stories

“Legitimately” by Fall Write

“The Stifle of Summer” by Sue Catrama

“The Dream Inspector” by Philip Baker

“The Walnut Tree” by Angelina Tutarkova

“Rumor Has It” by Tim Benson

“The Greatest Mystery of All-Time” by Brett Ray

“Treasure” by Hana A

“Crucial Misdirection” by Aditi Kumar

“If only” by Saakshi Joshi

“THE SECRET OF SULTANA DACOIT OF NAJIBABAD” by Deepti Singh

“The Best Friend and The Boyfriend” by Kay C

“Jonah's Story” by Katelynn Laird

“Sound the Alarm” by Kevin Leonard

“Cerulean Blue” by Mary Corbin

“The Day It Happened” by Lisandra Bergey

🌟 Similar prompts

Write a story about a meeting of a secret society.

Write a story about an old family secret surfacing generations later.

Write a story that either starts or ends with someone asking, “Can you keep a secret?”

Write a story involving a conversation that’s packed with subtext; the characters aren’t quite saying what they mean.

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