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Write about a character who everyone thinks is guilty of something terrible, but isn’t.

Posted in Thriller and Suspense on Jul 16, 2021

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An Unfortunate Series of Events

Submitted to Contest #70

The opening and closing clicks of the shutters of the cameras feel like a part of me now. Lights flash, some white, some blue, some red. I’m blinded. Chester is walking behind me, his hand on my back, trying to protect me from the crowd and comfort me at the same time. My parents and Courtney got left behind, calling everyone they knew to get enough money to get me out. Microphones are shoved at my face, trying to get a word out of me. But I’m not going to say anything. Anything and everything I say will be used against me.I pointed out to t...

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No Second Thought

Submitted to Contest #70

What was Joel thinking? What he did will cost us our lives and cost this company more than ten million dollars. He’s lost it. Our retirement, our pension, gone; it's madness, is what it is. To sell company formulas and not give a damn; give no second thought to put us in danger. What the hell was he thinking? We’ve lost everything. I can’t grasp it. I could kill him, literally kill him. We’re ultimately going to prison. Guilt by association. Selling secrets to foreign powers. Espionage carries the death penalty. The cost of what he did is ...

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Veil

Submitted to Contest #70

Fernando didn’t kill his son, Adam. But everyone believed he did. He had to clear his name and prove his innocence. He also had to rescue his son. Fernando spent time inside of a maximum-security state prison. But tonight was a special night. Fernando’s wife helped him escape prison. Fernando had bruised and bloodied knuckles from knocking the daylights out of a prison guard. Fernando never punched a man before. He fractured a man’s jawline and broke his nose.A few days ago, Fernando killed the Devil. Since the Devil is a supernatural b...

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Demonomania

Submitted to Contest #70

The clock ticked away, quiet and slow. White walls, white floor, white ceiling. Bars on the window, a guard at the door. Fluorescent lights overhead. Bare table, naked metal chairs. All bolted to the ground, of course. Mirror on the wall — fake. People on the other side, clipboards and notebooks in hand. Silence in the room. “How’s she doing?” “She’s fine.” “Is she safe?” “She’s somewhere safe.” A silence. “Nice family?” The doctor nodded. “A nice family.” “What are their names?” The doctor shook his head and groaned. “No...

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Whatever Happened to Natalie Park?

Submitted to Contest #70

They all think I did it. They all think I killed my best friend. I didn’t, though. However many times I plead innocent, they don’t believe me. They think I am lying. I’m not, though. Even though I was the last person to see Natalie Park alive, I did not kill her. They say I’m crazy. They say I’m deranged. They say I deserve my own padded cell.  Why would I kill my own best friend? “Avena.” I look up at the sound of my name. My sister, Magnolia, stands in front of me.  “Lets go. You’ve got a trial.” I want to curl up in bed and coco...

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Asking to Die

Submitted to Contest #70

(Author's note: this is another experimental piece. Determine the killer. If you want to add your answer to the comments, feel free!)That practiced smile. It’s pinned to her cheeks, peeled back over her teeth, tightened into place. And as fleeting as she’d like it to be, it’s stuck—for hours, for days. This entire week will see glimpses of it until her lips crease. Because she hates the holidays.And she hates me.“Backroom.” Mother gestures behind her. Fold me into the furthest corner.“Right.” I return that smile. It glides over my ...

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Hope in midst of chaos

Submitted to Contest #70

I felt chills on my spine. I was sweating so bad I thought I might pass out. I couldn’t make out the figure that was approaching me slowly; I was panicking, why had I agreed to this? I wanted to run so bad but I knew I’d have to pay the price either way. I tried to hide behind a dusty cupboard but my insides flipped out as I felt a cold hand grab my shoulder and cover my mouth before I could shriek for help.~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Ryder“Hey Ryder, wait up,” I stopped short in my tracks as soon as I heard Caden; my best friend, call out to me. I fla...

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The Ghost of the Past

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“Where are you taking me?” I ask for the fifth time, as Levi leads me forward, a blindfold over my eyes. “I’m still not going to tell you, no matter how many times you ask.”  He replies, laughter in his voice.  Without warning, he stops walking and I smash right into his muscular back. I use my hands to push myself away from his back and I rub my forehead.  “I just got a face full of shirt! Next time, warn me!” I call in the direction I’m assuming Levi is. I hear his snort and assume I got the direction wrong. I feel two st...

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The Fate I Didn't Want

Submitted to Contest #70

The reason I wrote my life story for you was in the hopes that you, or possibly anyone could read it, and believe me. Everyone else thinks I’m a liar and a traitor, but in truth, I am someone just like you. I know what it is like to be human, but they don’t.My name is Nabilah. It supposedly means, ‘a person born to goodness’, but no one seems to care. I have spent the last two years on the run, trying to blend in, hide from what people think I did. They think I savagely murdered my own family, my sweet adoring family of two brothers, a baby ...

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The Deceivers Among Us

Submitted to Contest #70

“Blue did it.”  Sweat glistens on my forehead, threatening to spill down. The slight tremble in my hands is no aid to me. I know that I should speak now to tell them. Tell them that I didn’t do it. The fact remains that the bloody knife lays at my feet next to the body. Pink’s body.  The blood glistens eerily back at me as it drips off the blade and stains the floor.  If only I knew. All I remember is a blinding flash of white - but white had been hurled out already. My eyes dart around the circle of crewmates, endeavorin...

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When is a You, a You?

Submitted to Contest #70

At one time if it should ever have fallen upon my shoulders to be put to the wheel, I would have hoped they are not sagging in lassitude as they were at that present time signifying defeat. The circumstances for their sorry state were, I guess, too ordinary in a lot of cases but in my own, unusual. I had endeavoured to live an exemplary life, one of restrained boredom as commented by one of my acquaintances. But in this instance, I had failed miserably, but lifted the spirits of the aforementioned individual. I had been accused of a lar...

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Sorely Mistaken

Submitted to Contest #70

Dr Fletcher sheltered under a desk in a colleague’s office until long after the sounds of smashing glass, splintering wood and snapping metal stopped. He’d been hiding there for nearly three hours, fearing for his life. The demonstration that began outside the clinic some six hours previously had started peacefully enough; most of the sign holders sat in folding chairs they’d thoughtfully brought along, drinking tea and coffee and striking up the occasional chorus among the more vocal members of the crowd. The songs they sung were rather inv...

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Kind of Embarrassing

Submitted to Contest #70

“Maybe it’s a WITSEC family,” said Kevin, Jimmy’s friend from two doors down.Jimmy shook his head. “A wit what?”“You know. Witness protection? Run by the government? You haven’t seen the movies?”“Movies?”“The one with Steve Martin is fuh-nee! Maybe he’s in there.” Kevin pointed at the house in question. They watched from the curb across the street, leaning on the fire plug. Jimmy pulled his hood over his knit cap.“I don’t think Steve Martin... Why would he need…?”“He played a guy the mob was after, ‘cause he snitched.”“Oh, you mean…”“Yeah. O...

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The Goat

Submitted to Contest #70

The hate was real, but it was also consistent. David did not mind it when they ignored him at the mall, pulled their children away from him at the park, or refused to help him in any store where he needed to shop. By this point in his life, it was normal. 'It's him, isn't it?' 'Yes. Who else could it be?' 'Can you believe it?' 'Not at all.' 'You won't believe who I saw today at...' 'People like that should be...' 'They should not be allowed to...' 'I know.' 'Shameful.' 'Disgraceful.' 'Awful.' 'Ugh...' And on and ...

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Honesty of Purpose

Submitted to Contest #70

I am not as young as I used to be, but I do what I can. Even with a sharpened trowel, it's sometimes still difficult to dig the holes in the hardening ground of late Autumn. But the time and effort is always worth it, because into those holes will go the flower bulbs for daffodils and tulips. And then next year, on Spring days, I will get to enjoy looking at their beautiful colors gently swaying in the breeze.I was kneeling on a small pad next to one of my flower gardens in the front yard one Saturday morning when I heard someone say my name...

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