Write a story where a meal or dinner goes horribly wrong.

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“Strangers” by Sanjoy Chakraborty

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The world is full of surprises and men have different ways to react. Tarun encountered such a practical shock two years ago, In those days he was working as an M.R for a reputed pharnacutical company in Mumbai. His parents had high expectations of him and they wanted to make him a doctor. But the sudden death of his father due to a massive heart attack had put an end to that dream. He was forced to take up this job to get both ends to meet. However, he is quite happy with his job. The only problem is that he had to travel extensively as a pa...

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“Sorry, we don't have what you're looking for on the menu.” by Anderson Lemus - Del Cid

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My collar abraded my neck as if it were bark. Tediously scratching the surroundings to liberate some of the unrest. I do not know why my tie choked me as if I were strangled to force some truth out. Awaiting in a lobby, with a painting of some city with a body of water that elongated its beauty. I stared at that as I rehearsed what I could say, trying to avoid any possibility of spilling words from my mouth. For a month I sat on the edge, with aching thoughts in anticipation of this moment. After graduating from college, a job wasn’t one t...

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“The Cryptic Message ” by Ellie Vazquez

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Sarah sits down on the empty seat across from Gavin. She looks around, quietly taking in everything, but missing almost everything important. Her eyes finally meet Gavin's and he smiles. She offers a smile back, but hers is twisted and confused. The lights above their table are twinkling and low, setting a romantic mood. The sky outside is dark, way past sunset, the stars and moon visible in this part of town. Sarah stars at the stars, nervously twisting the plain ring on her pinky finger. The metal catches in the light and her Sarah's eyes ...

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“Starting Line” by Shamim Zuhura

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“6 Sisters later” by Faustina H.a.F

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I look at my sisters, then back to our parents. I know how mad our father is going to be, and our mother is clearly disappointed, not that I even care. That’s the things about being the Sunday of the sisters, I was always the one my parents got to take it easy with. My name is Iradessa. Yes, I know, my parents well... I don’t even know. Iradessa Pearl Blythe. My parents love to tell me I was never trouble. In fact, I was a very obedient toddler, child, pre teen, and teen. So of course I’m a very obedient young adult as well. 28, what a won...

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“Life is too short ” by NK Hatendi

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Anesu was busy in the kitchen, concentrating on putting the last-minute touches to the lunch on the patio when the back door was flung open, letting in a warm gust of air. Her two boys rushed in and charged upstairs like a herd of elephants and, in fits of giggles, tugged each other's shirts as they raced into their bedroom. "Can you please make less noise! I'm stressed as it is!" "Sorry, Mum. We’re going to get ready for Grandma's visit!" Anesu hadn't seen her for a week after their tense phone call when her mother had been snappy and so...

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“The Elephant in the Garden” by Amanda Carrier

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I paused before cutting the Thanksgiving turkey. Martha Stewart would have died of jealousy at the sight. Dried flowers and bare branches made a macabre bed for the white Ghost Pumpkins lined up like sentinels down the center of the table. More than admiring my perfect decorations, I wanted to take in the moment with all my family gathered again. It felt perfect. But things weren’t like the old days, the days before mom died. If they were, the faces around me wouldn't be straining to smile and choke out just the right complement for the bett...

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“Miss Cat's Unexpected Dinner Visit” by M.D. Smith

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When our grown children, grandchildren, and spouses assemble at our house for Thanksgiving, it’s a large party unto itself. We sometimes have one of several of my wife’s close single friends join us. This year two of our neighbor ladies were coming. Thanksgiving day was here. “Great, everybody, I got plenty of digital shots with the camera remote, now let’s all go inside and enjoy a true Jones family feast.” It was chilly but fair with overcast skies near noon in Alabama. Perfect photo lighting. I finished up the full family photos on the...

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“The Final Supper” by John Harnois

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It was just a few hours ago at one of those faux cafes on the corner of Atlantic and Fifth that I began to have a premonition which had such weight that its conception sent my head deep into the dark recesses of the earth. George Berkeley tells us that perception is nothing but essence; it is in this sense that I knew the world must have ceased in its existence of ‘being’ sometime between then and when I must have fallen away. Premonitions like these are too powerful to tell us anything other than that which already happened. With all this i...

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“Baked Beans” by Václav Skála

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Last warm beams of lazy spring has touched dry stalks of brown grass from last year, that is lightly covered by white unmelted snow on the Great Herds Platte, to leave that open wasteland freely for fresh cold wind, which is slashing four dark silhouette of riders galloping on horses from the eastern grassy plains to the western densely forested mountains. Strong contours of their tired faces move on the gold-orange and azure horizon, where these soft shades of colors are mixing between each other until th...

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“Dawn of Spring” by Chest Of Wound

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Dawn of Spring[1]Triggering warning: suicide, violence and blood Bleak moonlight paled the mottled shade of sycamore trees, along the Huangpu River, whirled several melancholy shadows, flittering, wavering, quivering, as if an obsolete wrecked ship in the vast ocean, or a ramshackle shanty in the windy plateau. Among all the lightening windows of thousands of buildings in the vintage Shanghai, there was one particularly somber, in which a girl wept sorrowfully, black hair smoothly flowing like a river, phoenix eyes shining like pearls, slim ...

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“A Dinner For Goners” by Aseel Murtada

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Glass flew everywhere! The density of the situation itself caused a ringing through Emily’s ears. Her brother laid unconscious on the ground while father and Nick strangled each other. The dinner table was ruined. Food, glass chairs, chunks of wood and much more inanimate objects laid themselves in disorganized syncs. How did this happen? It had only been an hour? An hour…… What had happened in the last hour? Emily found herself asking. She racked her brain to remember the events that took plac...

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“A Time For Family” by Bob E

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By the time the smoke had cleared, literally and metaphorically, the dining table looked like a spillage in a matchstick factory. It was hard to tell where the cranberry sauce ended and the blood began. I was trying to sit up and look around the place, but I must have broken some ribs and every time I moved, pain ravaged my chest. Across the room, in the doorway, I could see something. Something I recognized. Someone. I wiped my face, blinked tears from my eyes. Mum was standing there, her arms folded, looking over the carnage. She shook h...

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“Avenge at the dinner. ” by Ruen Roven

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Spark December - Her smile is violet, prettiest to be called. Aresco Fade - His smirk is monochrome, known strange yet marvelous. ****** Wandering around, my gaze caught the undeniable view. Mr. Driver? A firm posture rested against the back of the chair, his toned torso covered in a navy blue tuxedo. His eyes were facing his opposite who has a wavy brown hair that has been scattered all over her chest, her hooded eyes gazing back at him. Her dress ends at the top of the thigh, flaunting her slender, pale legs. Her hand ex...

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“Never Got My Apple Pie” by Freya Matheson

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It smells like garlic butter, and it’s making my stomach hurt. Sally’s cooking the same kind of instant mashed potatoes Mom and I use when we go camping, and inhaling the fumes makes me think of bug spray and days without baths. Even though the food looks terrible, I don’t complain because I like Sally; she smells like cats and cinnamon, and she gave me a York peppermint patty when we first showed up yesterday. “It’ll be our little secret,” she said with a smirk. She had lipst...

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Write a story where a meal or dinner goes horribly wrong.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 201 stories

“Strangers” by Sanjoy Chakraborty

“Sorry, we don't have what you're looking for on the menu.” by Anderson Lemus - Del Cid

“The Cryptic Message ” by Ellie Vazquez

“Starting Line” by Shamim Zuhura

“6 Sisters later” by Faustina H.a.F

“Life is too short ” by NK Hatendi

“The Elephant in the Garden” by Amanda Carrier

“Miss Cat's Unexpected Dinner Visit” by M.D. Smith

“The Final Supper” by John Harnois

“Baked Beans” by Václav Skála

“Dawn of Spring” by Chest Of Wound

“A Dinner For Goners” by Aseel Murtada

“A Time For Family” by Bob E

“Avenge at the dinner. ” by Ruen Roven

“Never Got My Apple Pie” by Freya Matheson

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Start or end your story with two characters sitting down for a meal.

Write about a group of strangers — or people who know each other, but may as well be strangers — eating together.

Write about a character preparing a meal for somebody else.

Write a story that involves a secret or magic ingredient.

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