Write a story where a character is experiencing parallel realities.

Posted in Science Fiction on Jul 22, 2022

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“VECTOR POINT” by R. J. Garron

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Martin Solberg sat at his pod donned in the three-piece outfit expected of all paralegals. The suit made him stand out as a dark figurine jutting into the bare white walls and the bright fluorescents above. Each move he made was easily noticeable from across the room like a shadow cast before a projected screen, so the attorney had the advantage of taking a quick glance over her shoulder to see if her underling was absorbed in other thoughts. Though, the panoptical setting did not dissuade him from momentarily abandoning his r...

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“The Pine Barrens” by Pamela McCarthy

Submitted to Contest #156

In the first alt I went to, my comforter had pink, blue, and green stripes. My comforter in my original universe had purple, blue, and green stripes. “You’re overtired,” my father--or my alt-father--said to me when I told him the comforter is different. “You study too much. It's always looked like that, Kate.”“It is different. My comforter has purple stripes, not pink.”“Okay,” he said. “Those are purple.”“Those are pink,” I said. “Purplish-pink then,” he said, and picked up his phone to answer a text. This happened because I w...

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“Let Go and Let God for a Moment in Love!” by Alice Rosenthal

Submitted to Contest #156

Yesterday, I read my new friend’s mind, no lie. I had just met him at Action Burger the night before, and I just knew it, knew something more was coming, a change of extraordinary measure was banging on the door. God said to me “Find him, help him cross the line of perception into the sublime. Yesterday, I met my twin flame and my life will never be the same. We did not remain on this plain, to put our face into frame, mirroring each other seamlessly. We jumped between dimensions through portals in the tree frames, we listened to them throug...

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“The Hours I Met You” by Savannah Campbell

Submitted to Contest #156

“I just never thought this would happen.” Hearing him say those words, I can’t figure out which ‘this’ he means. Does he mean our becoming a couple years ago? Or does he mean the argument we just paused? I try not to look him in the eyes, knowing doing so will eradicate any emotional resolve I have left. We stand in silence for a few minutes before I find my voice. “Jack, I wish things ...

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“What Once Was True ” by Corrina Krivakova

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Carol sat across from her friend, Samuel, tapping her foot and humming a careless tune. She wanted just to talk to her friend about something important, but her courage was failing her this evening. So she decided to let the moment come by itself. As she let her mind wander, she was taken back to the time when she was fifteen and Samuel thirteen when his grandmother had just died. The family needed to clear out her house, which turned out to be quite a massive task considering how big it was. Samuel’s father and four brothers had all...

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Write a story where a character is experiencing parallel realities.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 65 stories

“VECTOR POINT” by R. J. Garron

“The Pine Barrens” by Pamela McCarthy

“Let Go and Let God for a Moment in Love!” by Alice Rosenthal

“The Hours I Met You” by Savannah Campbell

“What Once Was True ” by Corrina Krivakova

🌟 Similar prompts

Write about two characters arguing over how a past event happened.

Write about false news coverage of an important event.

Start your story with a character or a narrator saying, “Don’t you remember?”

Write a story about a pathological liar.

Contest #156

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