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Write a story about someone who starts noticing the same object or phrase wherever they go.

Posted in Thriller and Suspense on Oct 26, 2022

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“"THE HOURGLASS"” by Timilehin Soyemi

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                                         HOURGLASS.  Rene, Rene, Rene; she muttered gently. Wha- what do you want Kieran!! It’s 5 am. Let me get some satisfactory sleep, for once in my life (Rene said in a manner expressing his anger). “ It's mum,” she muffled Rene stood up swiftly he asked,  sh_ she- she’s alright right? Kieran...

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“Notes From The Red Balloon” by Ashlyn Truelick

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There's something over there, around the corner. It's round. It's red. It slowly turns out from the alley and makes its way slowly down the streets. It's a ballon. A red balloon. Something is attached to it. It looks like a note. I can't read it. All of a sudden, I hear screams out of nowhere. I see flames. Then, I see... my school. The visions stop and the red balloon is all that's left.  I wake up with goosebumps covering my body from a chilling dream. I'm not actually gonna let a dream get to me though, right? I look at the clock. ...

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“The Trials of Zkauba: Diligent and Disastrous” by Cara H

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The Trials of Zkauba: Diligent and Disastrous Can’t Get You Out of My Head 5 December 1932 The Yaddithian wizard Zkauba was beyond tired of sharing his headspace with the Earthman Randolph Carter. The rogue had hijacked his mind back on Yaddith, eons before Earth even existed. Carter caused the downfall of Zkauba’s homeworld, for his presence interfered with the wizard’s abilities in casting spells to keep the Bholes at bay. Zkauba had been wrestling with the invader for control over his own psyche for countless millennia. Carter gained the...

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“Forward is the Only Direction” by Muffin Hill

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As a military soldier, you told me, you always imagine yourself as a watch, that doesn’t have any direction but forward. As a soldier, it would be life-threatening to go backward or just to stay. This applies to our lives, forward is always the only direction. Then I started noticing that, your philosophy applies basically everything, and can serve as an explanation to any problem. When people say they are sad or feeling down, if you asked them why, they would most likely tell you about their guilt or sorrow about what they have done in the...

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“I'm Coming For You!” by Samarii Roach

Submitted to Contest #103

Hands in pain and sweat, covered in faded black from hours of writing. Eyes spasming, dreary, and light-red, stomach-churning saying, “Please feed me.” Body sniff and trapped by the design of the chair. Face filled with sebum and drops of tears poured on the scrap sheets of paper. Storms beating against the house, the wind pushing and pursing for some kind of damage to be seen on the house. Showers scattered, heavy and cold from the base of the clouds. War in the skies between the moon and the storm clouds. The moon fighting to have a chance...

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“The Silver Dagger” by Paradox Pilot

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Jared doesn't know why or how, but one thing's for certain: Someone is trying to kill him. It started on Monday that morning. He just got back from attending his cousin's wedding, relieved of the stress from planning with them on their special day. His body screamed with all the movements he made, but he still had to go into the office that day. It was when he got out of his apartment when he found it. He almost walked into an object buried halfway into his door, nearly taking his eye out. It was a dagger. Even half buried in the door,...

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“The wrinkle on your face” by Arpitha Giri

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Dev looked out the window from his classroom while his economics lecturer went on endlessly. He wanted to just be done with his class so that he could go back and catch up on some sleep. Not that he was lazy but he hadn’t slept well in days. He was unable to sleep without waking up in fear every 2 hours.  Nights started becoming dreadful for him now. The same dream haunting him over and over again. He didn’t know what else to do than just get used to it and ignore it for eternity. So much had gone wrong in his life making him alienate...

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“The Road to Eringard” by Blue Green

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The falling leaves danced like butterflies in the late summer breeze, tumbling and twisting around the young man as he sat in contemplation. He appeared not to notice, his eyes focussed on the letter clutched in his right hand. He was charged with delivering this letter to Eringard, although at this moment in time he couldn’t say with certainty who or what Eringard was. He knew though that this road would eventually lead him there, and he would ask for directions as and when the opportunity arose. He stowed the letter away in the inside pock...

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“A Jade Colored Dream” by Jeremiah Benson

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They say the things we search for are rarely out of sight. -I left it all behind. Not that there was much remaining. Ava, the woman of my dreams, broke everything off and started a new life, with a new man, in a new place far away. With nothing left, I moved too, into a building directly across from hers. The building was unfinished, half of the structure exposed a concrete skeleton underneath. Inside the apartment was completely bare too, no appliances, no windows, no bed, but those things could wait. The apartment was perfectly placed on t...

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“The Shattered Star” by Kaelynn Nakia

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Elisya Shuzuki hoisted her backpack higher on her shoulders. She walked down the streets of her hometown, San Francisco. It was afternoon, and she had just gotten out of school. Elli stopped at the crosswalk and hurried across. She strolled into her favorite hangout, Bella’s Bistro. She walked over to her usual booth in the corner and sat her bag on the seat, plopping down beside it. She opened up her bag and rummaged through the mess, looking for her homework. A waitress walked over to Elli, opening up her notepad.  “The usual?”&nbs...

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“Tag, You're It” by Wanda Hughes

Submitted to Contest #103

Since leaving Dr. Benden’s office I’d been followed. The tail wasn’t that hard to spot. A woman, wearing a bright red dress with a matching scarf tied around her long blond ponytail, wearing bright red heels, pushing a baby carriage. Not a stroller, but an actual baby carriage, bright red leather, sparkling white-sidewall tires with polished chrome wheels and handle. The hood was up, and a brightly colored quilt was draped over it to shade the baby within. Surely, they wouldn’t...

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“Lost and Found” by Sarah Tidwell

Submitted to Contest #103

  Even though she had approached this specific counter, and countless others like it, more times than she could remember, her body always forgot what her brain knew. The hiccupping heartbeat, the compulsive need to clear her throat, the inability to look the counter-attendant directly in the eye, the urge to press both palms flat on the cool countertop—her biology betrayed her every time.   She couldn’t remember exactly when she started haunting Lost and Found counters. She only knew it was after the accident. Only two things had e...

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“Let it go” by Robert Jones

Submitted to Contest #103

Eric took a turn and it immediately placed the morning sun on his eyes. He squinted and covered his eyes by placing his hand over them; he searched for the sunglasses in the car's mess, removing old receipts, and empty chip bags until they appeared.Eric put the sunglasses on and lowered his hand to the radio, shifting through the stations and pausing every time he heard music."Let it go!" The speakers blasted a song. Eric quickly smashed the radio, turning it off. He pulled out an old beaten cellphone with a smashed screen. He opened the onl...

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“11:11” by Anna Carter

Submitted to Contest #103

Oftentimes people say that when you suddenly see the same oddly specific thing, word or a sequence of numbers it’s either a sign or your subconscious playing tricks on you. It could be both of those things or neither but Jamie was getting tired of constantly seeing the number 111 or 11:11 wherever she went. It annoyed her in such an absurd way that she laughed at herself for letting a number bother her. The number was everywhere though, on the clocks, price tags, license plates of cars, page numbers and she even saw a girl on the street with...

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“SILVER LININGS OF HAIR” by Carolina Flores Acevedo

Submitted to Contest #103

This was getting out of hand, she has never denied having a very active imagination but this is too much even for her. This phrase, this message, these scribbles that seem to hint at her are starting to be a little too much for her liking. It started with this deja vu of reading the same thing twice, a happy coincidence, a story not even worth mentioning over dinner.   A week later and maybe around twenty more deja vu moments, her mind it's definitely playing tricks on her; and maybe she should not be so sketchy about those thera...

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