Write about a character who wakes up in someone else’s clothes — or utterly weird apparel they don’t recognize as their own.

Posted in Science Fiction on Oct 26, 2022

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“It's Time for A Change In Fashion” by Camille Alfred

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It’s Time For A Change in Fashion Camille Alfred I have spent the last three years working in the back room of the store. I have sewn hems until I can’t see anymore and I have done alterations for too many people who just don’t care enough. This week my apprenticeship is over and I get to move to the front of the sewing department. “Madeline! Madeline? Are you still here?” I hear my friend, Sarah, calling me. It is the end of our week and we are going to celebrate. “I am here, just cleaning ...

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“The Showmaster” by Ella Bennett

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My world felt corkscrewed. A dull throb in my head grew significantly at any attempt to open my eyes. All senses seemed to be useless. I lay still for a minute, adjusting to the stiffness that overwhelmed both mental and physical. What did I drink last night? My memories of the night before are but fog. Vague faces, warm bodies against mine, the floor vibrating due to the intensity of the music, and then black. My hand finds its way to my head, slowly I open my eyes to find myself outside, in an unfamiliar corridor. The cold co...

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“Falling Awake ” by Weston Wright

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It feels as though I’m falling, almost. The unnerving absence of sensation makes it difficult to tell. Somehow, the explosive bombardment of wind and noise that should accompany a fall is missing. The atmosphere is gone; it has no voice to scream its protests, and no tendrils to grasp at me to slow my descent. Descent through what, exactly? I see only darkness, interrupted by bright flashes of light, like flying white bullets that pass me in long streaks and escape into black nothingness, as if they never existed. I notice a rising anxiety, ...

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“The Young Bone Grubber” by Tanya Humphreys

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Hugo Bonaparte peeked around the upright granite slab and spied two men intent on unearthing the coffin in the fresh grave. The men’s nefarious deed was lit by a single, brightly lit lantern. One brandished a spade, the other a shovel. They were so mottled in the dirt-colored shades of their profession, they looked to him like haystack shaped monsters. But they were just men, under all the grave dirt, mud, and stench of rot. And he was jealous. He wanted that body. A faint voice breezed through the gnarled oaks...

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“Cold sweats” by Baxter Renfroe

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In the dawn everything was grey. A grey air, gloomy and silent with no sounds other than snores of boys, sleeping somewhere close by. There was cold, too, like a cold from the winters that Gabriel knew in Quebec. Winters of sunny snow in the mornings and wind and cocoa off the stovetop when Martine would come over to watch him and his sister after mama had gone to sleep, stiff from a night of standing in the textile mill. Now in this cold there was no ...

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“If the Suit fits” by Dayton Lavigne

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(Content warning: Swearing, Physical violence and implied drug and alcohol use ) I distinctly remember dreaming about riches and hot ladies when I woke up surrounded only by my poor life decisions and a hangover that could kill a goat. Looking around at my blurry surroundings with bleary eyes, I could make out the vague outline of a man in a five thousand dollar suit with his hands duct-taped together and his legs tied to a dining chair. After a moment of staring, I realized the poor bastard in the suit was me and that I was looking in a f...

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“The Bet” by Kelsie Bolton

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His eyes opening, a yawn escaping him as he stretches his arms. Sitting up he pulls the blanket off of him. Swinging his legs off the bed he walks off down the hallway. Rubbing his eyes another yawn escapes him. Opening the bathroom door he lets his hand fall from his eye, he looks up. His eyes catch his own in the the mirror. He freezes. A sleek black dress clings to his body not leaving much to the imagination. A slit follows up his leg to his upper thigh giving his legs room to breath in the tight fabric. Blue sapphire gem-stones dust his...

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“Taylor's Sequin” by Nat Mirotta

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As Janice woke from the fog of sleep, she absent-mindedly held a backscratcher close to her mouth like a microphone. Clawing back the covers, Janice eyed her roommate Lauren sitting at a writing desk near the window. Janice had never worn sequins or jumpsuits before, but she felt a little stiffened by the gold-colored one-piece that adorned her body at the moment. She had dreamed of Taylor Swift, again. “Have a good sleep?” said Lauren.“Yeah! But can you believe what I’m wearing, Lauren?”“Yeah! Pj’s, sleeping gown, jammies, undergarment...

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Write about a character who wakes up in someone else’s clothes — or utterly weird apparel they don’t recognize as their own.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 38 stories

“It's Time for A Change In Fashion” by Camille Alfred

“The Showmaster” by Ella Bennett

“Falling Awake ” by Weston Wright

“The Young Bone Grubber” by Tanya Humphreys

“Cold sweats” by Baxter Renfroe

“If the Suit fits” by Dayton Lavigne

“The Bet” by Kelsie Bolton

“Taylor's Sequin” by Nat Mirotta

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Write a story where a particular piece of clothing appears three times.

Set your story at a global fashion event — or a carnival ball.

Think of an item of clothing from your childhood, and write a story inspired by that.

Write about a character who decides to give themselves, or someone else, a fashion makeover.

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