Write a story in the form of diary/journal entries about a secret or confession.

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“Between the folds” by Sam Greene

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21/7/2021 The day was gentle and expectant. It was one of those days with God rays bathing the white and turquoise kitchen, making dust swirl languidly in ways that spelled out afternoon siesta, but not quite yet, let's just linger for a little while, awake. The air smelled citrusy and was warm on the skin. We were doing the dishes, bumping our butts against each other every now and then. I would come up behind you, ironically over-performing my deviant gender identity, and pretend to hump you. At that point I felt like an eternal boy riding...

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“Earl ” by Mikayla Peck

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March 12th, 2076I knew the day would come when I would have to confess this to someone. Yes, I'm confessing it to a leather bound journal I keep in my nightstand but it still counts right. I did confess it to the good Lord Almighty a time or two as well.I'm rambling. I tend to do that now that I am a bit older. Oh, who am I kidding I do it constantly. Always have, always will. Well, I better just spill it. It's not like anyone will read this anyway. He has been gone too long for anyone to care. I married that son of a bitch back in 2014 on a...

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“The Wandering Mind” by Caroline Offutt

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October 18, 2024 I am in the 9th grade and am 15 years old. School has been in session for over a month, and I am already struggling. Every day, I return home, holding back the instinct to break out in tears and crawl into a ball on the floor. I control this urge; I do not like anyone to see me weak, much less crying on the floor. How is this possible? Am I stupid? Is there something mentally wrong with me? These questions keep me up at night. I lay in my bed as a pool of cold, wet tears begins to fill up my bed. My mind drifts to my smug, ...

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“Forgiveness” by Maximilian Gunnarsson

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8/1-24Today I met Noah Moran. 21 years old and since yesterday, an idiot who wants to become a human resources specialist. This was the second thing he told me, which I retroactively regret prompting, and I almost right then stopped listening to him. He asked me about the book I was reading, and had never even heard of Dostoevsky. I hate living in a collective. 9/1-24I had lunch with Noah today. He stopped me as he was walking into the building’s entrance when I was leaving after my lecture. I had Rogers again, and again he kept i...

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“Final Reading” by Tiffany Harris

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3/28/17The finches stopped calling. I sit and count empty minutes. My coffee gets cold. The pen leaks ink onto my pants. Sixth pair this month.Her room stays at fifty-two degrees. I check the thermometer six times a day. Write down the numbers in columns. Time. Temperature. Humidity. The paper’s getting thick with data that means nothing.Found her retainer under the bathroom sink. Blue plastic, crack down the middle. Cost eight hundred dollars three years ago. The orthodontist said it would last five years if she was careful. She wasn’t.The ...

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“Too Many Miracles” by Kasey Kirchner

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Dear Book, I don’t know how much longer I can keep this up. We’ve been on four dates in the last two weeks. Four and a half, if you count our miracle of a meet-cute at the library. But it’s all about to implode. I can feel it. Earlier today, we went to a place called “What’s A Burger Between Friends?” (“What’s A Burger?” for short—ridiculous name, I know.) God, I was so nervous. If I could still sweat, I would have sweated right through my shirt and my jumper. One of the few perks of being dead, I suppose—no more sweat. I c...

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“Everything I Couldn’t Say” by Savannah Gallimore

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My Dearest Child, The time has come to tell you the truth. I suspect there are some things you already know, but there is so much more. Enclosed with this confession you will find $280,400 in cash. The entirety of my wealth.I pray it will aid you in whatever you choose to do with the information here. And I hope it will be enough to secure your freedom. Once, I knew your father and as you know we grew up together. He was a good man, until he wasn’t. I couldn’t say what it was that changed him, but after ten years of friendship he became some...

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“Past Questions” by Andrea Krist

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Dear Diary, I know that it's been a few days since I've opened your pages and tried to put something down on paper. Things have been a little crazy. There's a lot that gets built up over time and trying to pack up a life lived in one place for so long is a challenge. It is absolutely amazing how much one can accumulate in just a few years—let alone a decade. You just don't realize how much you have until you're forced to sort through all of it and assign it a value—keep or don't keep. And that's why I'm taking refuge in your pages right now...

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“The Journal of John Millner” by Jaime Metcalf

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The Journal of John MillnerEntry 1: October 1, 2023I’ve never done this before—kept a journal, I mean. But Dr. Callahan says it might help me work through some of my…issues. I told her I didn’t see the point. “What’s the use of writing down my thoughts when they’re rotting my brain from the inside out?” That’s how I feel, like something has infested my mind, burrowing deeper every day.But she said it might help. So here I am, scribbling away at nothing in particular.I’m not even sure where to begin. My life has always been ordinary—painfully...

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“Confessions of Desiring to be a Mother” by Sarah Martyn

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3/14/2020 / Dumb virusI’m mere weeks away from marrying Kyle and our wedding might be in jeopardy because Kyle’s under a travel ban until May… it may inhibit our ability to have our April wedding. I’m still holding out hope. A virus I cared so little about has the potential to ruin our plans. 3/19/20 / Shaky groundI resigned at Central earlier than planned. Financially for Central, it’s right. For me, scary. Especially with the wedding in question still. I’ll marry Kyle without a wedding yet. I’ll move tonight but I don’t know if that’s what...

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“The Girl in the Red Coat” by Vera N

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Journal of Kit HarringtonOctober 1st, 2023 9:12 PMI never thought I’d keep a diary, but I don’t know where else to put my thoughts. I need somewhere safe to store them, somewhere no one can find. This book seems like the best bet for that. It’s old, worn, a leather-bound relic I found at a used bookstore a few weeks ago. I wasn’t looking for it; it found me, really. And maybe that’s what I need now—something to find me and make sense of this mess in my head. It’s been two months since *it* happened. Two months of avoiding eye contact, of sle...

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“A monster come to light” by Brian Carney

Submitted to Contest #273

I’m not sure when I became self-aware. I was just there, like waking up and having no idea where or who you are. I would fade in and out awareness or waking up. I will explain that later. I became aware one night, night as he slept, I was just a dream to him. I could move now, I sat up in the bed, it was exceedingly difficult to move, the legs were shaky and felt thick, as if they were just asleep themselves. His arms felt as if I was wearing a heavily weighted shirt. I was able to make my way into his office and collapsed into his office ch...

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“Rachel's Confession” by Tania Miller

Submitted to Contest #273

My hands are shaking as I write. My husband is having an affair with one of his former students. She is not even old enough to drink. While I cannot prove it, I believe he is with her right now, scheming about how he to get rid of me and make it look like an accident. It would not be the first time Logan killed someone. I cannot go to the police because who would believe that the town’s favorite high school teacher and devoted alderman is a murderer? He serves as a deacon at First Baptist Church. He played Jesus on Good Friday, f...

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“Never Forgotten” by Michelle Moore

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Dear Diary, I killed a man once. I was 6 years old, and to this day I have never told a soul.Mitchel leans back against the barn wood headboard, eyes closing with an exhale. Instantly he is taken back to his Grandparents farm, like he has been every day for the last 32 years. A gentle fall breeze blows overgrown hair into his tear filled eyes as he looks across the field. The last of the suns warm rays slice through the unharvested flax and fall on his ashen face as he watches the scene in front of him. A scene no 6 year old boy should ever ...

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“The Treasure Chest” by Kyla Davis

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The antique rocking chair finally arrived, a long-promised heirloom that had traveled through several family members before being handed down to me. It was as if everyone had forgotten their commitment until they were tired of the sad chair. I wasn’t there to claim it when my grandmother passed; her verbal wishes had been dismissed in the absence of a written will. In the end, people remember what suits them best. Most of her belongings were distributed, leaving only a few old trunks, which I claimed just in time. My father had snatched them...

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Write a story in the form of diary/journal entries about a secret or confession.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 70 stories

“Between the folds” by Sam Greene

“Earl ” by Mikayla Peck

“The Wandering Mind” by Caroline Offutt

“Forgiveness” by Maximilian Gunnarsson

“Final Reading” by Tiffany Harris

“Too Many Miracles” by Kasey Kirchner

“Everything I Couldn’t Say” by Savannah Gallimore

“Past Questions” by Andrea Krist

“The Journal of John Millner” by Jaime Metcalf

“Confessions of Desiring to be a Mother” by Sarah Martyn

“The Girl in the Red Coat” by Vera N

“A monster come to light” by Brian Carney

“Rachel's Confession” by Tania Miller

“Never Forgotten” by Michelle Moore

“The Treasure Chest” by Kyla Davis

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Begin your story with someone either being followed or following someone else.

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Write a story that hides something from the reader until the end.

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