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Write a story with the word “wicked” in the title.

Posted in Short Story on Nov 15, 2024

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“Wicked Musings” by Harry Stuart

Submitted to Contest #277

The secrets of the universe are locked up in some fantastical equation or algorithm, a cadence of numbering yet discovered, while the wiles of man are purest in word form. The careful articulations, yes, those subtle utterances are the spaces between heaven and hell.“I’m afraid.”“What are you afraid of?”“I’m afraid of falling for you.”And I kick you in the gut with a hard dissonance, because the words don’t align. There is a cosmic discord between the syllables sprung to life and the daily actions. You know this isn’t truth-telling, but you ...

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“A Wicked Walk” by Brynn Helena

Submitted to Contest #277

Safety starts to feel like a myth when you’re selling your body like it’s a hanger for a clothing rack. This is me, am I good enough for you? Are my legs thin enough, or do they rub together too much when I walk? Do you like my eyes, my chin? Should I swing my hips or not? Do I have a boring face, an average body? I’ve even been told I was too pretty before. A pat on the hand, the way a child gets a bandage for a wound that nobody can see. Sorry, we’re looking for uglier girls; you understand.  No, I don’t. The music is pumping in ...

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“Wicked theft. A cautionary tale.” by Trudy Jas

Submitted to Contest #277

A conversation with my computer. Computer voice expertly supplied by Derrick M. Domican. Thank you, Derrick for your time, thoughts and words. Couldn't have done it without you.Here we go, new week, new story. I need characters, and a plot with a beginning, middle and end. Who'll be my main character, what about a side character, point of view. Shall I go with close narrative? First person narrative? Oh, how about second person, always a challenge. But what about the plot, plot, plot, plot.I can help.Sh. I’m thinking. Plot, plot …Theft.Huh?...

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“The Wicked Aunt” by Rebecca Hurst

Submitted to Contest #277

It is a curious aspect of the human mind that what it chooses to remember is neither logical nor linear. This is especially true of childhood, where entire years of nursery and school are lost without trace, and our parents’ hard work, (if indeed they did work hard), is entirely forgotten, leaving only tableaus. When we scream at them as teenagers, we are working on poorly defined resentments. But Emma does have a memory, now two decades old, of her Aunt Fay: her father’s sister, childless, but so much more maternal than her o...

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“There's an Ick in Wicked, Right Guys?” by Carol Stewart

Submitted to Contest #277

Never let it be said that I wasn’t right behind her when she landed the role of Dot. I’d celebrated too, not that anyone noticed, for having returned from signing the contract, she was so lit up that, of course, it was she who commanded all the attention. But the victory stir was as mine as well, and before the champagne could be sent for, and the fans and Paparazzi arrived, and the corks began to pop, I’d already leapt up onto the sofa and made those Tik-Tok-tastic body-rolls, throwing my arms so high and wide, it had sent the spiders scutt...

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“All that's wicked is not gold.” by Ashlee Osborn

Submitted to Contest #277

All that's wicked is not gold. Trigger warning. Chopped off. Chapter one. Ashlee Osborn.  One day a women gave birth to two identical twins. One was a boy and one was a girl. They lived in a stone made cottage it had one bedroom a dining room and a toilet. It was so cold in the winter months and in the summer, it was so hot.  Their mother stayed at home while her husband butchered forest animals. He would shoot them with his bow and arrow that was passed down from his father it had been in the family for ge...

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“Wicked's End” by John Rutherford

Submitted to Contest #277

Pluto left Capricorn, but this Capricorn wasn’t in a fixed place in the heavenly zodiac sky. It wasn’t moving to the next part of the divided celestial dodecagon of the universe, to land in Aquarius for the next twenty years. That was for Galileo and Bonatti to muse over. Pluto was moving for more basic earthly reasons, he had no reason to know or reflect on Astrology, the future he knew better than the universe itself, and it was for the basic of all reasons. Any living creature on earth knew this deep-seated primitive instinct, and it was ...

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“The Wicked Match in the Powder Barrel” by Lily Finch

Submitted to Contest #277

In a town in a small, rural area in Ontario, a family with a long line of troublemaking taunted and aggravated everyone and anyone they wanted so much that the residents hated them enough to conquer the wicked with wickedness but justified it. "You'll never beat those som'bitches. Whatev'r you got they want, they take it and beat you for having it first," Harley Langford said to the rest of the fellas at the coffee shop.  "They need to be dealt with, and nobody needs to discuss how or why, do they?" Charlie Swanson said.  "I do...

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“Wicked works Downstairs” by Paul Tyree

Submitted to Contest #277

How does Wicked work downstairs, because Virtuous works upstairs, and yes there are two separate floors or levels that are set between them. Both have ideas that can either work for you or work against you. While Wicked wishes you would not succeed, virtuous wishes you would. Wicked has plans to ruin your day and to wreak havoc on your life in general, Virtuous wants to intervene in preventing Wicked's untimely demise of your happiest of moments. How does Wicked plan these unholy moments to become reality? Most are aware that Wicked has neve...

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“Wicked blood's draught” by Priyanjali Bhattacharyya

Submitted to Contest #277

I was busy fixing my hair when Jay arrived. My luscious black hair fell to my waist. Jay looked radiant. “It’s my marriage, Popsicles,” he said. “With Myra. You know her.” I looked away from the mirror (vampires can see themselves in a mirror – because you see, light doesn’t travel from *within* us right?) and said, “You mean your bewitching witch? Yes of course I know her, but that’s not why I am mad. I am mad at you because in the two years you turned me, you never told me Myra was not *just* your pet!” I pouted. It was just then that Myra...

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“When a wife becomes wicked (and other small things)” by Rachel Fox

Submitted to Contest #277

It would be a lie to say I didn’t mean to do it. That’s what I tell myself as I look down at you, or should I say at the body that was yours. With the person departed from it, it looks so benign, as though any spirit could have inhabited it. If only it had. We sit at our kitchen table. You slam down the knives and forks. Shake your head as you throw our food down in front of us. I know. I should be grateful you cooked. “Here”. “Service with a smile,” I put on a cheery voice, I don’t know how I’ll eat this with this lump in my throat, but I’l...

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“The Guild of Radner's Wicked Sword.” by Ken Cartisano

Submitted to Contest #277

I am the ninety-three-hundred and thirty-fourth Radnerian Guard.You will memorize this story. When you can recite it to me, word for word, in its entirety, without a single variation, you may be accepted into the Guild of Radner. I will not test you every day. Then again, I might. I may not test you for ten or fifteen years—but when I do test you, you must repeat this story word-for-word, in order to convince me that you’re ready… to be the ninety-three-hundred-and-thirty-fifth Radnerian Guard. Until then, you are an intern, nothing more. Th...

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“#ReedsyWicked - Finding Selene” by Esther Ruth Ezra

Submitted to Contest #277

The storm had settled when I reached the edge of the small, forgotten cliff of Black Hollow. Clinging to the very edge of a vast forest, Black Hollow was a place most avoided. Its darkened streets and whispering pines concealed secrets, tales of strange events, and mysterious disappearances. But I had a purpose in coming here, a task I couldn't shake, and one person I needed answers from. The last message from my sister, Selene, had led me here. It was cryptic, chilling, and unlike Selene. The message had read, simply: "They’re watching. Don...

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“Wicked Heart” by Donald Haddix

Submitted to Contest #277

Wicked Heart This story is one we all know. It is a depiction of the Toy Soldier. Let’s not waste anymore of the 3000 words. It was a bloody battlefield at the North Pole. Blood in the form of silver and gold glitter littered the bodies of Jack, the tin soldier, and the gingerbread men and was seeping everywhere. As Jack lie there injured, he saw his fallen comrades. It was a scene that would live in infamy in his mind forever. As the medics lifted him to safety, he began to fade. We begin this story in the land of Jimmy Vanderpool. Jimmy wa...

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“Wicked Memories” by Taryn Ariel

Submitted to Contest #277

(Sensitivity Note- This story contains curse words, sexual harassment, and bullying themes)Petunia’s heart raced rapidly as the rhythm of her high heels hit the hard tile floor. “Breathe bitch”, she silently scolded herself as she took another lingering look in the glass window of her old school’s hallway. Her freshly straightened, silky black bob floated playfully over her Ferragamo, form-fitting red dress. It gripped her hourglass hips and stopped just below her knees, accentuating her glistening, freshly fit calves.When she first tried th...

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