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“Some Guy Named Harris” by Abby Morris

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As a child, I used to conform to the idea I was meant for greater things. But as I look out at the vast ocean ahead, I'm not so sure. Maybe I was truly meant to be a speck of sand on the enormous beach of life. Ordinary and unnoticed. Everyone desires to be remembered by someone. That's why artists make paintings to hang in museums, and hopeless romantics singing songs about lost lovers. I knew that the only way I'd leave my footprint on this earth was by pen. Even if it was just for a hundred years or so, I knew I ha...

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“The Idea” by Erin Rasnick

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I had just published my first book and it felt great! Now I had to come up with an idea for my next book. I decided to go get a cup of tea then I would settle in to write. The barista recognized me and made my order before I even got to the counter. I could tell this was going to be a great day. I took the scenic route home and watched as the trees swayed in the wind. When I got home, I headed straight to my desk. I opened up my laptop, ready to write. The only problem was, I...

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“Inspiration from Contemplation” by Jacob G

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It’s funny, you know? We come up with ideas all day long. We create worlds which show people the very depths of our imagination, our dreams, our soul. Yet there are times when we cannot convey the emotion we would like to share through words. The name of this common occurrence among people like me would be called writer’s block. I’m sure it’s happened to anyone who wants to write a book. When writing, you’re forcing your expansive imagination to be contained within a few sentences and somehow still connect to the consumer. Then comes...

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“Swashbuckling Princesses ” by Isabella Hightower

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“No, no, no, no…..” Seriphina sighed as she clicked her pen, “My dearly beloved,” she began to write, “I’m so sorry it had to come to this. I will always treasure the memories we share but I can no longer share a second more with you. I hope you do not hate me for this, for I could not possibly think of what I would do without your love.” She stood from his desk and quietly left the room. She would never return. “NO, NO, NOOOOO! THEY DID NOT! They did not just, AGH!” Sammie slammed her book shut and threw it at her wall. Groaning a...

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“Thanks, Richard” by Jordan Case

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James sits in his luxurious office, in front of his laptop and rubs his head in frustration. His walls are covered with plaques and framed newspaper cutouts. They read "New York Times Bestseller" and various other positive headlines. He reads an email from his publisher, Frank, that says, "The best I can do is one week." He sighs loudly. His wife, Janet, walks in drinking coffee. "Still stuck at the same spot, honey?" Janet asks. James turns around and replies, "Yeah...It's getting annoying." Janet walks over to him and sits on his desk. She...

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“Just like a Kite” by Rashmeet Kaur

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Life is full of surprises, at one point it will be nothing and the other it will become everything, the journey from nothing to everything is full of something, and that something is what we call as a – Lightbulb Moment.Sarah was a college drop-out, the lockdown forced her to pack her bags and leave the country along with her father and siblings, the financial crisis led the repatriation of this immigrant family to their own country –India.‘But, I don’t want to go, dad, what’s there in that rural country, anyway?’ Sarah asked.‘Much more than...

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“The Chronicler” by Cyndy Reads

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The Chronicler tapped the ink-wet quill impatiently against his desk, tiny black speckles adorning his old ceremonial coat, the desk, and the soft hay floor. The Book of Chronicles sat before his sharp nose and twitching whiskers, the pages sparse but for some names, dates and numbers. He gazed unseeingly out the window above his desk. The grass bent in the wind, a few neighbors strolled by. A peaceful day in the Kingdom. His tail twitched in frustration. “Dear? If you’ve not much work, perhaps you could fetch some food from the market?” hi...

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“The Dream that Came True” by Krista Garlock

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Looking around, realizing I am climbing up some cliffs with a group of adventure seekers and I feel something strange brewing from underneath my feet. I freeze to look at the person there next to me, noticing the cliffs are floating away. Floating away they start disappearing. Standing there unable to move, I start recalling all the risks I didn’t take in my life. I am wondering if the choices I didn’t make would have led me on a different path, away from this one. I can feel my heart beating out of my chest, louder and louder. He reaches fo...

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“Dreams ” by Lizzie Hall

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I run my hands through my hair, blowing out air as I lay in bed staring at the yellow wall beside me. I had almost grown unfamiliar with my writing, it was something that I had once done to pass time. As school had gotten busier, I found less time to write about the things I wanted to write about and more time to write about things people wanted me to write. I hadn’t picked up a book that I enjoyed in over six months, and I had a pile of books sitting in the corner of my small closet, waiting to be read. I had been wanting to read the books ...

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“Constant Ongoing Struggle With Ones Self ” by Morgan Van Zandt

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The old girl who was always postive, and smiling. Wanting to make everyone around her smile when she does. Is not broken, gone, and or forgotten. She just lost sight of the good parts of what she used to be. Sometimes there going to be a person that comes into your life, and changes you for the better. I found that person my soulmate, and he showed me that it’s ok to be happy. When he said he would put our relationship on pause, and my heart just broke. I am the only person to blame for acting that way. Which was greedy, selfish, pushy, emot...

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“The Writer” by GailD Prentice

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The Writer The bed had grown terribly uncomfortable. Don had tossed and turned now for three hours. Grudgingly, he rolled to his left side and stared at the clock that had become his enemy. Now, three in the morning and intensely agitated, he rose silently, to not wake his wife and tread softly to the extremely small room he had especially built for his writing studio in the hall. In this enclosed space, that had its own separate heating and cooling system and virtually soundproof from the rest of the house, he dropped into ...

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“A Future Foreword” by Olivia St. Lewis

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I stared gloomily into my coffee, willing it to tell me the secrets of the universe. Maybe, I thought, if I stare long enough, it would reveal everything. The truth about God, the cosmos, the afterlife... surely there was nothing coffee didn't know. It started each day. It held the keys to caffeine and productivity. Drinking it was a ritual, a prayer, a sign of devotion to the Gods of the Morning. And I prayed desperately, hoping, wishing, willing my beverage to speak and tell me those words I longed to hear. Unfortunately, my coffee did ...

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“The Story that Brought me Back” by ACE Concepcion

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Another cold night on this busy city. It's half pass 10 yet a lot of people are still walking on the streets eager to get to their destinations. Teenagers exited for some party they are about to attend, office people who just got off work, and some who are out for a night shop. Amidst these people one man in his run down office sits on his chair, in front of his desk that's facing the window. He just sits there and stares blankly on a white sheet of paper with a pen in his hand. He kept staring and staring as if some words would miraculously...

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“How NOT to self publish a book – a short memoir” by S. D. McKinley

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My lightbulb went off when I became homeless... Beyond the darkness, way past what you can see or even imagine is a massive wheel turning. It turns and trudges through people’s existence of experience, memories and dreams. Sometimes is tugs at your soul. Sometimes it pulls at your soul so hard you have no choice but to write. If you don’t write something down it will probably eat your lunch before it is able to hit your stomach. Then, after it eats all of your lunch the wheel will eat at your soul and consume the whole of you if ...

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“The Coma” by Gwen Anderson

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Natalia Grimwood, an overly cheerful girl with terrible cooking skills, hasn’t peed in over eight hours. In fact, she hasn’t moved anything other than her fingers since this morning. (Get your head out of the gutter; she’s been typing.) She’s simply stumbled out of bed, made a poor excuse of scrambled eggs and hasn’t strayed for her computer since. Her breakfast, now long forgotten and emitting a smell that not even the poets could put into words, sits next to an empty carton of OJ that was full not five...

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Write a story about someone experiencing a lightbulb moment of writing inspiration.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 140 stories

“Some Guy Named Harris” by Abby Morris

“The Idea” by Erin Rasnick

“Inspiration from Contemplation” by Jacob G

“Swashbuckling Princesses ” by Isabella Hightower

“Thanks, Richard” by Jordan Case

“Just like a Kite” by Rashmeet Kaur

“The Chronicler” by Cyndy Reads

“The Dream that Came True” by Krista Garlock

“Dreams ” by Lizzie Hall

“Constant Ongoing Struggle With Ones Self ” by Morgan Van Zandt

“The Writer” by GailD Prentice

“A Future Foreword” by Olivia St. Lewis

“The Story that Brought me Back” by ACE Concepcion

“How NOT to self publish a book – a short memoir” by S. D. McKinley

“The Coma” by Gwen Anderson

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