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Write a near-future thriller where a piece of everyday technology has turned against your character — and only your character.

Posted in Thriller and Suspense on Jul 27, 2021

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“Maybe Tractors Shouldn't be Able to Drive Themselves” by Morgan Douglas

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You’ve heard of self-driving cars and remote usage of drones but within the next ten years, a whole new kind of self-driving technology will be on the market. It’s the way of the future, replacing human transit and machinery with technology that can do this itself. An aid to humankind and it would turn out to be a great asset. However, people, just like with self-driving cars are apprehensive of self-driving tractors.  In its prototype testing phase, the results were surprisingly great. The self-driving tractors were functional and wer...

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“I'm No Psychic” by You'd Think A Writer Would Have A More Creative Name .

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1403 wordsRated PG: violencePrompt: Write a near-future thriller where a piece of everyday technology has turned against your character--and only your character.Author's note: this story is for my parent, who gave me the idea“...and over here, we have the history of Edward Louie, creator of the first fortune-cookie machine. In the late 1960s, he was tired of folding thousands of cookies each day…”I ignore the guide my family is listening closely to. Today was my mother’s turn to choose a place to go. Our portable fortune cookie folder had pi...

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“It knows everything” by Joane Unknown

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Phones. They know everything about us. They know more about us than we do, and that is not normal. Location, friends, enemies, school, age, family, every single thing, that small device takes it and you will never know what it does with it or what it will do. They are dangerous and you may call me crazy, but I am right because it affected my life. But there are not only phones, but there are also laptops too. Now you are like: "She has problems with technology, and that is why she said all these things!". No, I don't. I think technology is i...

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“A Robot for A Best Friend” by AVAN SHIPECK

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Hi. My name is Julie Maxwell. I am 17 and go to a private high school at Academy Prep High. And, remember we live in a world with robots and is 2350. I also have one best friend, Norma Anderson. We do everything together, sleepovers etc. Okay, enough about me, here is where everything gets real, literally. So, I met Norma in first grade, and you would think everything was normal and we would be best friends, right? Well, no. Last year, she met this guy, who I dont even know, and they have hung out together ever since. So, I lost my best frie...

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“Gone” by Navneeth N

Submitted to Contest #82

It all started on our journey home. It was a desolate highway, with only the occasional car.  “Daddy, I have to go to the bathroom.” “Do you have to go right now? There’s another rest stop an hour away.” “No! I have to go right now!” I exchange a glance with my wife, Mary. Emma, the five-year-old in the backseat, whines again, saying that it’s urgent.  We keep driving until we come across an abandoned-looking gas station. The clouds gather far away in the sky, and it looks like there’s a storm approaching.  “Okay, hurry up gir...

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“The rouge coffee pot” by Heather Knight

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My name is Athena-Jade Stroganoff, the year is 2121. A lot has happened since the year 2021. In the last hundred years a lot has changed. We discovered that the coronavirus from 2020 really was a government ploy to make the American people look away from what the politicians were doing, they were stealing children and working with the Al-Qaeda. But in the year 2022, only a year after Joe Biden had become president he was executed for his treasonous behavior. Once he was removed President Donald Trump stepped back in and brought our country o...

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“The Evil Phone” by Cat Girl

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Primrose woke up on a clear Saturday morning, feeling well rested. She felt quite happy because the day before, she had scored a date to prom. Her date was going to be her best friend and crush of two years, Abby. Primrose had waited a long time to ask Abby out, as Primrose did not know whether Abby like girls or not. As it turned out, Abby did. Primrose lay in bed for another ten minutes before deciding to get up and eat breakfast while looking at her phone and text Abby. Primrose really wanted to post about her date, but some of her follow...

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“The Monster and His Creation” by Isabelle Saadatmand

Submitted to Contest #82

   When I first agreed to build the world’s first sentient robot, I had just finished reading Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein. That was my first mistake. The university agreed to pay me a great sum of money if I could pull it off, and I said I’d try. So now, here I am, hiding from my monster much like Victor hid from his.    I finished it’s creation only two months ago. It sat up in the bed, turning to me with it’s empty eyes made of metal and wires and glass.   “Where am I?” It asked, so politely...

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“Automation” by Elizabeth Fringle

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Pop! Today was a Friday at the Fitzgerlad's house. Movie night. Every Friday we would take turns choosing a movie, and this Friday it was Jenna's turn. Jenna, my little sister, is a 7-year-old girl and is obsessed with shows such as "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic", and "Dora". Everytime her turn comes, she insists on watching the same exact show. Lucky me.  We were getting ready to start the movie. Ma was popping popcorn in the microwave cubical device while Pa was setting up the intergalactic disk on the screen. We all huddled to...

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“The Trouble With Phone Upgrades” by Ryan Haynes

Submitted to Contest #82

Characters: Hugh Hugh is an alien in his 30s that looks very human. He cleansed his home planet from evil when he was a teenager, and he came to the Earth to do the same. He uses a dark helmet that covers his body with armor that increases his strength, and it also gives him access to futuristic weapons that appear by thought. Hugh has also created an alternate world called the Reflection Dimension, a safe place to keep the most dangerous criminals, with their only means of escape being to pass a test to show that they have truly given...

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“Give the Devil his Due” by Hannah Ehrlich

Submitted to Contest #82

Jemma DodgeWhy did it have to be me? It definitely didn't seem fair. I grew up in a small town, always got good grades and went to an excellent university. I graduated in the year 2025. The same year that wretched laptop came out. I don’t know why everyone wanted one. It didn’t have many different features to a regular laptop. The only thing it could do that was different was it could send physical objects through some type of force field to another person who has the laptop. It seems like a glorified fax machine to me but as soon as it was ...

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“Don't mess with them” by Johan Rosenblad

Submitted to Contest #82

The video showed two anonymous hands putting eggs and flour and sugar in a plastic box and sealing it with a green, plastic lid and some gaffa tape. Next, the hands threw the box into a washing machine together with dirty towels and a pair of socks. Cut to a close up on a dial on the machine, hand turning it up to maximum temperature. Short sequence showing the washing machine working. Then the hands open the machine and remove the box, open the lid - and voilá; lifting out a perfectly baked bread. “Great job, guys. Put that after the micro...

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“Mergatroid” by David Dicaire

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  Mergatroid Damion ran and Mergatroid followed.  The machine was relentless; it’s pursuit the stuff of nightmares.   But, the tech geek wasn’t going to wake up from all of this. This wasn’t a bad dream; it was hard, cold reality. The tech-savvy teenager had been so bored during the current pandemic that he had turned to fiddling around with the household appliances to relieve the doldrums. As a child, he had amazed everyone with his ability of understating high-tech gadgets and machines a...

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“WHAT’S ‘APP’ DOC?” by Claire Tennant

Submitted to Contest #82

I could never say that I was a technology whizz, therefore, I cringe when someone talks about the new or latest ‘this’ or ‘that’. It took me ages to use the automatic teller machine, or progress from the basic microwave; the kind that when you twist the dial to your right it cooks or to your left, it defrosts, to one that does almost everything. Come to that, the only thing I loved with a passion was my dishwasher, again fairly basic, but it did a powerful job. Mind you, I don’t know that much can be done to improve the design of the di...

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“The Night at Hospital” by McThunder Gacha

Submitted to Contest #82

As soon as Charli stepped in, she felt weird. She felt anxious. She ignored the feeling and walked to her mom's room in the hospital with her 10 years old brother, Charles. Charles is a bright student who gets A+ in all subjects except Math. While Charli is a student that can get easily traumatized since she has depression. She has a special connection with her phone and diaries. She likes to be alone and her only friend is her brother.Her mother was diagnosed having Alzheimer 6 years ago, when Charles was born. Her mother slipped down the s...

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