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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 Is As Wicked Does” by Gary Gallant

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WICKED IS AS WICKED DOESSabrina saw the terrified human up against the dead-end alley wall.She had herded him here to kill him away from curious eyes. Sheswooped down from the sky, a killer eagle on the kill. Stopping a foot above the wet, black pavement, she looked her hunted eye to dead eye.“Well, look at me defying gravity.”The soon-to-be-dead man did not respond; the terror on his face was enough.“Hell boy, that was funny; wicked is as wicked does.” She drove her teeth into the side of his neck, drinking deeply, savoring the flavor ...

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“Wicked They Say” by Maximilian Cartwright

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Wicked they called her. A foolish term, lobbed by rubes at that which they do not understand. A condemnation of themselves and testament to their own backwards ignorance. The Jews reviled and persecuted the prophets. What difference, this present generation? Fear was what ruled them. Not the mercy they professed. Not the humility, the meekness, the turning of the other cheek. No. Wicked they called her. All because of a few missing cats. All because of some blood and ground-up bone sprinkled upon a few thresholds. A fetish bag or two of cure...

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“Positively Wicked ” by AJ Shaw

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On a misty afternoon in the hallowed Haltonshire Country Club, Sir Reginald Thistleworth eased himself into his favourite leather armchair by the roaring fire. The air was thick with the comforting scent of pipe tobacco and polished wood, mingling with the faint dampness wafting in from the gardens. Across from him, Lord Percival Wainwright, a stately figure whose silver hair gleamed even in the dim light, settled into his own chair with a slight groan, steadying himself with his silver-fox-topped cane. Outside, a steady rain drizzled over t...

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“Something Wicked This Way Comes ” by Krysta Anderson

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Once there was a girl who dreamed about other life forms. She sensed that she wasn’t alone in this universe, and that there was more out there than just Earth. There had to be other life forms out there. Earth couldn’t be the only planet in the vast solar system that could maintain life forms. An odd dream came to her one day that changed her whole perspective on how she viewed the world. Marlene was in transition from eighth to ninth grade when she had the dream. Although she’d never thought of this before, this image would forever sti...

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“The Wicked Wiles of Pickett Piles” by Isabella Bair

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My father told me this story, which was passed down from his father and his father’s father and his father’s father, who used to live in the old country, Überland, when he was just a little child. Back in that land the citizens all lived in humble huts with straw thatched roofs and only in small little clans, very personal, very intimate. My great-grandpappy lived in a village called Naturliebshutten (I know, it’s a bit of a mouthful but don’t preoccupy yourself too much on the pronunciation, let us just continue.) It sat homely and cozy in ...

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“Wicked Way with Words” by Tempest Phoenix Smith

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Lecker means delicious in my father’s tongue. Not to be confused with lecture which he often did, especially after my sixteenth birthday when he warned me about so many things.Do not borrow money—this will lose you friends. He meant lending, actually, and I still confuse this word myself all these years later despite my mistake being corrected again and again. I tried to get round this by giving money instead when a friend of mine was stranded in December for lack of money to purchase a transatlantic flight to visit her much-missed boyfriend...

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“The Wicked Witch” by Holly Gilbert

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Everyone has talked about the wicked witch of the bog. How she ate children, turned princes into frogs, enslaved princesses… They never talk about the “witch” having a good reason to go against royalty. My name is Agnes. I was the kingdom’s mage. I started young at the age of ten, I have been studying ever since I was old enough to read. My father was a powerful wizard. He taught me how to turn people into monsters, and back again. I started my job at fourteen years old. To a recently married couple. A prince and a princess. They were perfec...

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“Wicked Deeds” by Lady Senie

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God, I hate being dead. It’s inconvenient. It’s smelly. It’s gross! Do you have ANY idea how many showers I’ve taken since my life expired? Yet here I am, still carrying around that ‘newly dead smell’. It wasn’t supposed to be like this, you know. I was in my prime! It wasn’t even a traffic accident or house fire that claimed my life. No. I was sitting in front of the boob tube, eating my usual Friday night lasagna, and suffered an aneurysm. Isn’t that just stupid? I think back on all the ways I could have gone out; this has got to be the l...

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“A wicked deed” by Tarja Mo

Submitted to Contest #277

Lydia stood apart from the other acolytes, as usual, during Morning Prayer. That day, she had tied her dress with a belt to give it a more delicate appearance, which earned her occasional disapproving glances from Elvera, though the abbess said nothing. Instead, the mother superior continued recounting yet another legend about Solara, the Goddess of Life and patron of all servants of the Monastery of Saint Heliopolis. But Lydia only half-listened, already knowing these stories by heart.Despite the Harvest Season coming to an end, the weather...

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“How the Wicked Witch Mended Her Way” by Rinanda Hidayat

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Every day I wake up with no one but my cauldron beside me, and every day its bubbling mixture splashes into my skin, burning me with pain to make sure I don’t fall asleep again. After I’m wide awake, I brewed the potions of the day: one that turns you into a rat, one that melts your bones, and one to catch frogs. Like any witch, I sang as I stirred–a cackling song of yore filled with curses and hexes. After I finished the mixture, I stored them in my bottomless bag and left for the forest. The forest is as old as the ever-rainy sky above; wi...

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“A Wicked Whisper” by Asher Mathews

Submitted to Contest #277

The wind whipped at my cloak, nipping at my bare face as I trudged along the mountain pass. The familiar path was shrouded in supernatural darkness, and the full moon was hidden behind a thick blanket of clouds. As I neared a bend in the path, I noticed the mouth of a cave that had never been there before. The cave’s maw was like that of a beast, jagged and menacing, ready to devour any victim who walked too close.I hesitated, my instincts screaming at me to turn back, to pass, but I trudged on. As I walked on the opposite side of the path, ...

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“Wicked or Wary?” by Jordan Frye

Submitted to Contest #277

Something Wicked This Way ComesDeep within the Enchanted Forest, where ancient trees weaved a perpetual twilight, there lived a creature the villagers called the Shade. To them, it was a wicked spirit, a phantom that preyed on the lost and unwary. Travelers whispered of shadowy figures lurking at the edges of vision and accused the Shade of blighting crops, poisoning wells, and snatching children.But the Shade was no spirit. She was a girl.Myra had been abandoned in the forest as a child. Her family, sorcerers of great renown, feared her aff...

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“Wicked Is the Face” by Jonathan Baldie

Submitted to Contest #277

Twil’s muscles ached, a deep burn that spoke of days in the saddle. She shifted her weight, trying to find a more comfortable position. The leather creaked in protest.“Easy, girl,” she murmured to her mount. The chestnut mare’s ears flicked back at the sound of her voice.The forest loomed around them, ancient trees stretching their gnarled branches across the narrow path. Twil’s eyes darted from shadow to shadow, searching for any sign of movement. Her hand never strayed far from the hilt of her sword.A twig snapped somewhere to her left. Tw...

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“A Bit Wicked” by Julian Hickman

Submitted to Contest #277

We were on a coach lurching back and forth, maybe twenty strangers, driving in and out of towns, threading between hedgerows, suddenly surprised by stone walls close enough to reach out and touch. God, that would have been a bloody mess if you really did, if you ignored the obvious, but it's the obvious that can lead people astray. We were riding the airport shuttle from Edinburgh to the Glasgow International Airport. A nice looking couple sat across from me. She was on the aisle like me and a man I assumed to be her husband at the window. H...

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“Wicked World” by D.W. Salinas

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It’s the morning. The clouds sit high in the gray sky that glows sickly blue as the sun comes up. Donna stretches, rising refreshed, ready to start the day. Her coffee machine whirls to life. Donna cracks open the machine’s feeding maw, a complex spring and lever system that splits the machine in half, revealing a receptacle the size of a shot glass protruding from the middle of the machine. She drops her coffee pod onto the receptacle, closes the machine with a loud pop, and hits brew. The machine whirls again, but it starts to chug and scr...

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