Write about someone who grew up in a bunker, and lockdown life is all they’ve ever known.

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“Skyward” by Barbara L

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SKYWARD She didn’t want to go to work today. She had a meeting at 8, deadlines by 9 and had a host of meetings, phone calls and emails to answer. But she had to go, and just as she was pulling into work and entered the building….. For 7am it was bustling with too much activity. Usually tranquil till about 8:30am she was startled by the noise. What was happening? “Haven’t you heard?” said her co-worker Evelyn. “We should have listened! We should ha...

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“Under the Surface” by Chloe :)

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Darkness. That’s the color I am most familiar with. Call it black, if you must. But to me, it’s just darkness. I don’t know how long I’ve been in here, I don’t know how old I am. Time is tricky to tell when you’ve lived in a bunker almost all of your life. I’m forgetting what the sky looked like. With the clouds and the sun. They’re all just names to me now. I hear my mother tell me stories of what it was like above. I long to leave this small place underground, this hideaway that’s far from the world I used to live in. But my father says it...

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“The Bunker” by Vanessa Queens

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Life in the bunker was quiet. Mr. Thorp and his son Eddie lived a peaceful, uneventful daily routine. But not for long. All this was about to change. Soon father and son would come into conflict.Mr Thorp- Father, tell me, why do we live in a bunker?Mr. Thorp took off his reading glasses and left the newspaper on the dining table. Eddie, his son, had just turned 17, and kept asking questions about the world outside the bunker. The truth was that Mr. Thorp had difficulty answering his son’s questi...

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“The Adventurer” by Amber Zhao

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Lorna stared outside the minuscule turquoise porthole, her roiling furious thoughts only tempered by the thought of the whole universe outside she had never known. Outside was a scarred wasteland of a landscape, poisoned by government and political leaders who had made the ravaged land into what it was now. Grassless, airless, lifeless, without lush blooming plants and flowers, or tall, protective emerald trees. Only the most courageous and selfless strode across the dead onyx plains, relentlessly giving up their precious time to plant new s...

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“The World Above” by Nataleigh Sandberg

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For someone who has never taken a breath of fresh air, my sister is very upbeat. But she doesn't even know. She doesn't even know that there's something besides this life. Something other than the musty air that we breathe from below the surface. I wasn't supposed to know either. But I found out. I don't know why anyone found that a surprise. I was bound too. I always wondered how those worlds described in the books I constantly devoured were created. I had always thought Wow, these writers really have imagination. But the whole time the tru...

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“Lucky us the world is ending.” by McCold .

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January 1, 2045 Ok, so the world is going to end really soon and all that. Blah Blah Blah there's no stopping it, yay. You're probably wondering why the world is ending and just because I have nothing better to do I’ll tell you. The pandemic just started and we are all forced to stay in our houses. Lucky us. I have only one room in my house, the government will come for me soon. Writing in this may be pointless but I might go mad without it. You may think that I should go stay with my family or close relatives, I don't have any. I should...

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“Wolfwall” by Sky Daniels

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“Stay at home notice.” Danzielle Adoel glanced at the announcer delivering the inter-dimensional news. She continued chopping vegetables to toss in a chicken salad. Terrain citizens were being told to stay in their houses because of a virus. She wondered if like their world same people would gain powers. She hoped for them they all got powers having a wall separate people from their loved ones sucked. Her older siblings like to talk about the before time or as she liked to call it BB (before Blood Bloods). Most of her family gained powers. S...

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“Fate is Unpredictable ” by Veda Vivek💎

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Brad: "Daddy!” I shouted from my bedroom. I instantly heard a thump thump, and the door burst open. My dad was standing in the doorway, looking at me with a worried look. "Yeah? What is it? Are you hurt? What happened? ” he asked, his eyebrows furrowing, the look he had when he thought something was wrong. If you couldn’t already tell, I had the world’s most overprotective parents. Makes sense though. We lived in a military bunker, and we have ever since I was born. Something about… was it war? I didn’t pay attention. I just kept...

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“The outside ” by Kaydence 3

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The sharp metal bedframe bites into my back, the old thin mattress doesn't help one bit. I turn on my side trying to get more comfortable. My parents say this is the safest place for us, and I guess I wouldn't know. I was born in here and I will die in here. I have always been good, followed the rules, but I feel a call. I want more than living in a dusty old bunker my whole life. There is a blackout now, they happen three times a day. I trace shapes on the concrete wall with my fingers. I here the zap of the power being brought back and sit...

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“Imprisoned by day free by night” by Anes Nia

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From the very first moment I opened my eyes to this unknown world around me, I was in here, in this box-shaped glass. A vast room with weird-looking glass walls. The thick layer of glass is sapphire blue, with nothing to be seen outside it. With no doors or windows. I’ve always wondered, from where I’m getting this delicious food. And where are these people who deliver this food coming from? Three meals per day, but no more than that is allowed to me. I was young and oblivious to what's around me. Accepting anything they gave m...

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“Life In An Underground Bunker” by A Cat

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CHAPTER -1 Year 2100 News was running through the devices that a group of unidentified objects were moving towards the Earth at an alarming speed. Initially, the scientist and other important people at the World Space Organization speculated that they were meteors. After monitoring the readings on their tracking devices they believed that the meteors would change their paths by the time they came close to Earth due to gravitational forces. &nb...

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“Choice” by Ella Salem

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I woke up and stretched. Looking around the room, my younger brother Greg was still sleeping. He never wanted to get up early on Sundays. “What’s the point” he would say “every day is the same anyways. Getting up earlier won’t change that.” I was starting to worry that he was becoming depressed. He was 14 and always miserable. He complained that everything was plain and awful. He wanted to do things other than work and meet people who were beyond our community. I wasn’t sure why, mom and dad always said we were safe here and we would never ...

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“Sparrow” by Stanzin Khenrab

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My mother used to tell about a world outside the bunker; she would tell me about the bright sky which changed colours, clouds of different sizes and shapes which poured water from them, she told me about humongous rocks called mountains. She would draw them on the wall and I would intently listen with amazement. But in complete honesty, I never believed in the world outside the bunker. That was because if it was actually real, then we could have gone there. But we never left the bunker; from the day I was born, my entire world was the bunke...

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“Morbus Aegrotatio” by Melanie Bobin

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"The cold. The cold is the only thing I know. It crawls in my skin, infesting me, leaving a-" Poetic, I smile. A piercing ring cuts through the room. I jump to my feet, a backpack and filter in hand. The crash door sets in, sealing off the air. I grab Bailey by the hair. Unfazed, she grabs her backpack and reaches for my hand. I tap on the door, weak spots only, and it limply falls. We run. Jump, sprint, run. The map of the base spreads out in my head. Left Left, straight. We're greeted by a guard, "Walkers of the full moon?...

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“A Damaged Future” by Camille Houde

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The lockdown had started over fifteen years ago and it showed no signs of abating. Well, that is how it seemed for Luna who had been forced to hide in an underground bunker with her family and best friend. Luna had been in Canada when disaster struck. Canada, the land of the hopeful, the last safe haven. Her father, a virologist, had known about the virus all along, but our of fear for keeping his family safe, he had chosen not to tell anyone. Until it was too late. The year 2135 AD had proven uneventful. As uneventful as it could be consid...

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Write about someone who grew up in a bunker, and lockdown life is all they’ve ever known.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 82 stories

“Skyward” by Barbara L

“Under the Surface” by Chloe :)

“The Bunker” by Vanessa Queens

“The Adventurer” by Amber Zhao

“The World Above” by Nataleigh Sandberg

“Lucky us the world is ending.” by McCold .

“Wolfwall” by Sky Daniels

“Fate is Unpredictable ” by Veda Vivek💎

“The outside ” by Kaydence 3

“Imprisoned by day free by night” by Anes Nia

“Life In An Underground Bunker” by A Cat

“Choice” by Ella Salem

“Sparrow” by Stanzin Khenrab

“Morbus Aegrotatio” by Melanie Bobin

“A Damaged Future” by Camille Houde

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Write a story that spans exactly a year and takes place in a single room.

Set your story in a post-pandemic world, where the effects are still felt even as your character attempts to move on.

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Start your story with a character struggling to remember the date, because every day is like the last one.

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