Set your story on a warm summer evening with a full moon, when everything feels magnetic and your character’s about to meet someone important.

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“Between Me and The Moon” by Mikel Montgomery

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I had never been one for attending parties. Yet I was standing outside my best friend’s house, attending the biggest party of the school year. The backyard was full of my classmates, and music blared from inside the house. Occasionally, someone would come to the front yard where all the vehicles were parked. If that wasn’t embarrassing enough, I was alone. When the music wasn’t playing loudly, the only noise that filled my tired ears was the singing voices of midsummer crickets. My back rested on the driver’s door of my father’s old bla...

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“The Night I Met Him” by Savana Clarke

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I used to believe that love was simple. A facade people portrayed to mask their undying loneliness. That people used love to avoid being alone. I used to think that the way literature captured love was just a ruse to push people into the perpetual cycle of believing that loving yourself was not enough. The way the main character found herself when she fell in love. I used to think that love was fake because I had never been shown, taught, or ever felt true love. Until the night I met you. It was the first night of summer, the humid night a...

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“The Ride Home” by Jack Connolly

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The walk to the train station was taking longer than Terry had anticipated. His legs felt heavy, and he couldn't shake the feeling there was one more thing he needed to do before he left. This happened the year before, and the year before that, and now that it had fully set in this time, he tried to run through the possible things he could have forgotten. It was an exercise in futility. The apartment had been cleaned thoroughly, the keys were in the mailbox, and he had retrieved the security deposit back the night before. He checked his pock...

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“Life Without You [Dedicated to Anna]” by Matan Komisarchick

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Five years. Well, maybe a few months shorter than five years. I thought to myself, trying to recall our last meeting.The night moved on silently with its business, completely disregarding my presence. The sun drew its last breath and dived into the sea, coloring the horizon in a giant splash of red and gold. Applying for the celestial vacancy, the full moon rose confidently over the mountains of the east. A few brave stars blazed through the clean summer sky, and a warm breeze gently caressed the bare hilltop I was waiting on, in a rhythm of...

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“A Magical Night” by Catherine Hudson

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Dear Mother, I am waiting to board the packet boat in Syracuse and I thought I would write you my first letter to reassure you that I will be writing to you as much as I can. I am very excited to board the boat and start my new endeavor in Wisconsin. The boat travel on the canal seems simple enough and I am sure that it will be pleasant. I will only be on it for a few days, I hope, before reaching Buffalo. I hope from there that travel will not be too uncomfortable over the Great Lakes. And after that, only God knows at this time. I heard ...

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“Seeing Love” by Nancy Hibbert

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I knew you never loved me. The words were a mistake. As soon as she said them, Amy knew it. She hadn’t intended to attack Daegan, but thrown words couldn’t be hauled back. Not trusting what she’d say next, Amy fled from Daegan’s disbelieving look. Her volcanic anger wasn’t his fault. It scorched everything. She didn’t know where she was going when she got in her car. Just that she wanted to drive until the aching stopped. From the day’s heat, her skin felt afire making her longed to tear off her clothes and plunge into icy waves. Though it...

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“The solitude between two strangers ” by Alexandra Bobe

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"A full moon night is always special," is what Mayuri’s grandmother always used to say. The use of the past tense made her whole body shiver. Mayuri always considered herself a moon lover, a person who found comfort in the beauty of a full moon. She always found herself staring at her, the moon, admiring her undeniable beauty and forever grateful for her presence. The moon knows all her secrets and all her problems. She manages to sooth away all her worries just by shining far away in infinite space. But this particular problem was har...

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“Coming in hot” by Kelly Jackson

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This is my nightmare, this is my actual nightmare. Why did I have to come out? What on earth possessed me? One of my least intelligent ideas and perhaps my last. An unforgiving heat wave had forced us out. Between my tossing and turning on the pull-out sofa and Gromit’s relentless flitting between dog bed and kitchen floor, we were on track for a hopeless night of insomnia. As I stared at the ceiling I fantasised of plunging into an icy pool, floating bare, gazing at the blackness above. But let's be real, this isn’t California, th...

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“Clairee” by Carolyn Mendoza Elliott

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Carolyn Mendoza Elliott Clairee What am I doing here? I have no business being at this party. Kelly insisted that I attend this Fourth of July celebration on the lake tonight with her and her husband, Shawn, while their oldest daughter, Victoria, stayed home with all of our children. “Torie hates the noise fireworks make,” she lied. “The kids can see the fireworks from your back porch better than ours. And you know that Debbie has been dying to have a sleepover with Ariel since school let out.” The last sentence was true; our thirteen-yea...

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“Under Vail's Moon” by Char T. Grayce

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Summer still lingered in the lower altitudes but leaf peeping in the high country was about to peak. I checked into my room at the Arrabelle in Vail, Colorado. The ornate fixtures, crown molding, and crystal chandeliers testified of the luxury that can be expected from this high-end establishment. The French doors to my balcony beckoned their guest over the threshold to the view of the slopes, the village below with details reminiscent of a Swiss Alpine setting, and alas, the rising moon began to shimmer behind the pines. I g...

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“Happier” by A.T. Westbrook

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Whenever I tell this story, I always start with the bleakness, the colorless hollow into which he might very well fade away. The words change depending on my audience, but when the reel plays in my mind, I always see the same film… He repeated the words—have a great day… I love you, too—and put the phone down. Arranging his desk under a distant gaze, his hands followed along the unseen tracks of well-tread ritual marking the start of his evening and her morning. Before, he might have paused for a moment to enjoy the afterglow from these co...

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“The Eyes of the Moon” by Kevin Alphatooni

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There are some nights when you can lay your head down at the end of the day and drift off to sleep rather comfortably. Your pillow cradles your head ever so snugly, extra soft after a long day, putting the mind at ease. I can’t say I remember the last time I had one of those nights. For the past five years, I’ve tossed and turned, limbs restless while my hands claw at the sheets, grasping for something just out of reach. Alone in the dark, it did not matter if my eyes were open or closed, the image was always the same. A haunt...

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“Lacerta” by Jane Horsman

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Night falls the same way it always does, and my time is passed the same way it always is. The sun disappears in his orange-red painted farewell, and the moon takes the place her lover left. I always imagined they were in love, anyway. A forbidden, never-to-be, romantic in a sad way kind of love. I lean against the windowsill to watch the display and wonder if the moon is as in awe as I am of her sun’s ability to paint the sky like that. Once the black-blue covers the horizon and the stars start to poke through, but before I can find the c...

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“Look Out for One Another” by Jessica B. Lowery

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(Note: There's a scene where a robbery occurs.) It’s not safe for a grown woman to be walking home by herself. I don’t have any choice in the matter, as my workplace is ten minutes away from my house and my car got repossessed because of some screwed up financial crap that happened, so I couldn’t make a payment on my car last month. I packed a whole bunch of self-defense tools in my purse. I had a good excuse to walk in a wonderful time in the evening with the full moon. I look up to the sky, the clouds obscured some part of the moon, and...

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“Teenage love story” by Rya Johnson

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‘We got lights!’ Staci yells through the commotion of the looming lunch rush at the popular fast food chain. ‘Meat down! fries down! and get in your station! Robert fry side! Kane burger side! Mae is the floater! Where is Blake!’ Staci barks, her flat mid western accent drawling her words as she positions herself behind the speaker, back ramrod straight and ready to slams orders into the kitchen. The thick smell of grease saturating the air as the various foods begin to cook. ‘Bro have you seen ...

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Set your story on a warm summer evening with a full moon, when everything feels magnetic and your character’s about to meet someone important.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 75 stories

“Between Me and The Moon” by Mikel Montgomery

“The Night I Met Him” by Savana Clarke

“The Ride Home” by Jack Connolly

“Life Without You [Dedicated to Anna]” by Matan Komisarchick

“A Magical Night” by Catherine Hudson

“Seeing Love” by Nancy Hibbert

“The solitude between two strangers ” by Alexandra Bobe

“Coming in hot” by Kelly Jackson

“Clairee” by Carolyn Mendoza Elliott

“Under Vail's Moon” by Char T. Grayce

“Happier” by A.T. Westbrook

“The Eyes of the Moon” by Kevin Alphatooni

“Lacerta” by Jane Horsman

“Look Out for One Another” by Jessica B. Lowery

“Teenage love story” by Rya Johnson

🌟 Similar prompts

Write about a character having a spiritual experience at a concert or a nightclub.

Your protagonist walks past an intriguing stranger, then turns around to take another look at them. The stranger turns around, too. Write about what happens next.

Write a story about someone who finds someone’s diary, and tries to reunite it with its owner. It’s up to you whether they read it or not!

Write a story about a character who returns home changed by someone they met on a trip.

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