Write about a character coming out of a long hibernation (either literal or metaphorical).

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“The Boon of being Tardi” by Ernst Muller

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“That was quite a nice nap, wasn’t it?” It feels life forces flowing back into its tiny body. It stretches its extremities in all directions as far as they can go. They are a bit stiff, but all still operational. “Boy, that feels good! Let’s see: where am I and when?” It activates its multiple sensory organs to their fullest functionality. Thousands of fine-tuned packets of information returns to its brain. Its primitive eyes do not have the same high resolution as ours, but hair-like sensors exceed all of our senses in sheer sensitivity...

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“Oak Girl” by Steven Kleckner

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They never meant to fall in love, the man and the Dryad. Dalyn had not even believed the stories of spirit women linked to a tree. Not just linked, but part of that tree. Some people claimed they amounted to the same thing as the tree’s soul. Dalyn could be called a free-spirited young lad. A friendly and well-liked man, he could have had his pick of any of several young lasses. But, his heart belonged to the forest. He enjoyed nothing so much as spending time in the woods, wandering further and further into its depths. He hunted the lesser...

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“The Garage” by A.J. Brown

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Billy opened the door from the house to go into the garage. It was the only part of the house he hadn’t been in but it was time. His friends had garages at their houses. They had been in them and described them so why couldn’t he see this one? He walked in the garage and closed the door behind him. It was much bigger and extravagant than he had expected. By the way his friends had described garages, he thought he’d just walk in, see a car or two of his parents’, then maybe a lawn mower and some other stuff like tha...

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“The Mind of a Patient” by R. Fisher

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Sweat trickled down my forehead, dripping on the side of my face, tickling me with its movements. It gathered and formed a bigger droplet, only to fall and disappear in the air.The snow ridden path slowed my running, still I kept moving. I wouldn't even doubt if someone told me I was in a swamp, just the sheer difficulty in treading the snow was unimaginable. Without rest, my feet took step after another seemingly afraid of what might happen if they stop. An intangible entity crept up from behind, indicated only by the wind following it...

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“Frozen” by Dr. Reemanshu Bansal

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Write about a character coming out of hibernation (either literal or metaphorical)Time seemed to stand frozen for residents of a small village, Maana. It was at the highest altitude where human life was medically possible to survive. Due to heavy snowfall for almost six months, the residents had to shift base to plains approximately fifty kilometers downhill. For them, it was a routine year after year. There was loss of human life as well as of animals. The scenic beauty was divine, which attracted tourists for the six months when it was sum...

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“Glimpses of the other side - My spiritual awakening” by Elle S

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I long to discover what being on the other side is like.I've had elusive whiffs of it. I've taken fleeting glimpses of it - miniscule parts of an overwhelmingly wide vista. I've tasted the robust flavor of it. I've felt the consummate warmth of it. I've heard of its amazing splendor. How do I get there? Well, that is my secret.You see, I have visited the other side, but I have not trulybeen a part of it. Each time I rouse from my physical sleep, I have a missionin mind, and that is to access the other side. Although my senses haveperceived a...

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“Hey, Are You Okay?” by Adelaide Murphy

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What do you do when your mind collapses on itself, when the entire world seems bleak and empty? What do you do when your body gives up, and even walking across the room to pick up the TV remote seems like a tiring chore? What do you do when exhaustion overtakes you, when the action of putting on a fake smile and pretending everything is okay destroys what's little of your sanity? She’s been wondering this for a while, from the comfort of her bedroom. That's the only place she can think, without any distractions except for the growing pile of...

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“The Window” by Lunny Muffin

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In the empty hours of the silent morning, the clouds above cleared a path to the light, parting the space between the cold air. All days seemed empty to him he thought soundlessly from behind the window. He watched slowly as the light of day crept from where it had wondered off. It came out with no rush. Touching the bits and pieces of the new dawn without a care in the world. He consorted that it must be the work of fate. Life moving on with a pace so slow that matched a lot of things in his life at the present time.With each parting cloud ...

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“Cat Naps” by RIC .

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“Wake up.” I don’t wanna. “I know you can hear me. Wake. Up.” You can’t make me do anything! “Leave her alone, she’s just taking a cat nap.” Cat nap… my brothers. Where are my brothers? “Yeah. For the past sixteen hours!” Sleep. We all huddled in a pile. All four of us. “Let her sleep!” Yeah let me- SPLASH What. The. “Hell!” Her roar echoed throughout the cave, bouncing, and rebounding off the walls. All four heifers stared at her, disappointed, except for one. ...

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“Back to Life” by Rajesh Patel

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In this part of the world, winters can start as early as mid-October. The days start getting shorter. The sun sets earlier. The cold kicks in. You see less people walking past sunset. It gets really quiet. It feels like the town is in hibernation. If ever the snow starts even earlier, then, a few, like me, we don’t leave the house anymore. In my case, I have a contract with my employer where as soon as the first snow fall arrives, I am allowed to work from home. Till when? Till winter ends. So easily, I stay home from November 1st, so...

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“Spring Beginnings” by Jenne Gentry

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“The beautiful spring came, and when nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.” -Harriet Ann Jacobs The sun peeks in through small crevices in the thick, out-dated curtains, refusing to be ignored. “It's time,” Lucy announces to the empty bedroom. She's been holed up for months in the quaint little house that she'd bought, sight unseen, in a desperate attempt to escape from a bad situation. An aftershock, of sorts, she'd shut down entirely and spent her days hiding under the covers. It was as though she'd forgo...

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“Winter Awakening” by Raymond Ogilvie

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I woke to a knocking near my head and a mouth cracked dry. My bones popped and creaked as I stretched for the first time in months. It was great to be out of that cramped coffin. “Good evening lazy pants, you hungry?” I nodded to Jules, my brother born 80 years before me, but my best friend. A tickle ran across my face, which I seized with my thumb and index finger. I crunched the spider in between my teeth. The blood of arachnids was never as tasty as those from mammals. “So winter’s come already? Seems like just yesterday we shut in fo...

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“The Wakeful Dead” by Millie Du Preez

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She didn’t know whether it was the hunger or the incessant screeching of the hibernation alarm going off that initially woke her, rustling her from her hibernation after all these years. Her youth hadn’t been touched by the past 256 years of hibernation; immortality had its’ perks after all. Though waking up from hibernation could feel like a slump to the world of the ever living, or the immortals, as they called themselves. Some just called themselves ‘the hunters.’ Last time she had been awake the humans had caused their own apocalyp...

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“Sienna” by Bob The Cool Guy

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I haven’t talked to Sienna in so long, I think. My best friend. I don’t have her phone number. I need it. I pick up my phone and text her mom: I miss Sienna. Do you know her phone number? But then, I get a text saying I shouldn’t see her. But why? I ponder. That’s exactly what I text Sienna’s mother, Ms. Jones. Still, she says no. I look for her the next day at school. But mysteriously, she’s disappeared from school. I ask all of my friends if they’ve seen her. They don’t even seem to know she exists. They don’t. I keep asking, but every tim...

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“Deliver Us From...” by Jeannie Labelle -Potvin

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She fell into the winter with a carcass covered in layers and layers of beautiful brown fat. Lovely layers hanging low, covering wounds inflicted over a thousand years. Battles fought, some won, some lost but each one leaving behind a wide wake of damage. Each step out onto a fresh killing field, leaving yet more scars. Stabs that twisted and turned, leaking blood at every orifice . Stabs that punctured organs nestled deep within a frame so battered and bashed that it knew mostly, only pain. She had endured pain so ...

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Write about a character coming out of a long hibernation (either literal or metaphorical).

Submissions are closed

✍️ 158 stories

“The Boon of being Tardi” by Ernst Muller

“Oak Girl” by Steven Kleckner

“The Garage” by A.J. Brown

“The Mind of a Patient” by R. Fisher

“Frozen” by Dr. Reemanshu Bansal

“Glimpses of the other side - My spiritual awakening” by Elle S

“Hey, Are You Okay?” by Adelaide Murphy

“The Window” by Lunny Muffin

“Cat Naps” by RIC .

“Back to Life” by Rajesh Patel

“Spring Beginnings” by Jenne Gentry

“Winter Awakening” by Raymond Ogilvie

“The Wakeful Dead” by Millie Du Preez

“Sienna” by Bob The Cool Guy

“Deliver Us From...” by Jeannie Labelle -Potvin

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