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

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“Mistakes” by Inkstained Introvert

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Disclaimer: This piece is sort of a sequel to one I wrote a bit back titled "Tree Dream." It might help to read that story before this. This piece is very, very bad--as a matter of fact, I didn't even read over it once before I submitted it, because I wrote it all in a half hour and the deadline was (is) very soon and I need to get to bed. I might go back later and edit it if I have the time before it gets approved (if it even does). But, my warning: You'd be better off reading almost anything else. Maia leans trustingly into her hus...

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“Not Who They Think It Was” by 🌮 Kao Crimsonstar 🌮

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The autumn breeze of November 1963 made my straight-as-an-arrow mousy brown locks fly around my face, framing it, and my demure brown cotton dress rustled like jute as I skipped jovially out of Texas Institute of Astrophysics in Dallas, headed home. By walk, of course. That’s me, Evangeline Goodcorn, better known as Angie or just Anne. The 18-year-old girl who graduated a year early from school who always wears a brown cotton dress unde...

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“A Memory that Counts” by Benjamin Boxer

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The Crowe family farmhouse stood two stories high in a flat field of windswept broom grass. Ivy climbed the barbed wire fences that designated pastures for the six head o’ cattle that lowed, often, in the lower field—the one down by the creek and the parallel rows of pulp pine. A huge, largely unused barn opposed the house roughly two acres away. A single silo leaned slightly to the left—too tired to stand upright, too proud to downright lie. The farmhouse, especially after the trauma from recent events, protruded like an exposed beating hea...

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“Sweet Revenge” by Samadhee Ismail

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Priya The radio is turned on and Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata is playing in the background. I am in a classical music mood and so I have turned on the only classical music radio channel that I could find. Listening to classical music soothes my brain, making me feel calm and rationale and I could think properly. I was in the kitchen, cooking, the smell of spicy chicken curry and basmati rice cooking in the rice cooker filling the whole kitchen. The soothing piano tunes coming from the piano is calming down my nerves. Then I heard the kn...

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“Selfish.” by Lee Doe

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To me, the blood coating my hand was troublesome, annoying. It was apparent that Delia saw it for something other than that, a burden, proof of what she did. I groaned out loud in disgust. "W-What is it?" I could hear how frantic she was; it was almost adorable. "Well, now you have to clean this all up, bloodstains last awhile, and if we're not careful, someone could find them and know what you did," She inhaled sharply, "C-could they?" "Oh yes, it's happened numerous times to some of my other...stud...

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“The Savage Truth of Fear” by Elizabeth Inkim

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Once upon a time, there lived a girl who was once kind, if only she knew that the path to hell was paved with good intentions. There was once a time where she believed in fairy tales and love, but those frivolities had long since died in her chest. If only she had known the raw, savage truth of existence. Mortified by the taste of blood in her mouth, Nadine had not let the curling fingers of grief wrap itself around her heart since she had drowned in the lake. If only she had died that day, if only they had lived. With ...

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“Choices and consequences ” by Vameerah Darren

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“Landry Everton, the jury has found you guilty of breaking and entering, and theft, you will serve out a fifty year sentence in prison.” My heart dropped, no, this could not be happening. I looked helplessly at my lawyer, his head sunk into his hands. The room started spinning, my hands trembling with the realization of what was happening to me. “Look Lan, I get that you’re trying to help me but I don’t need it.” I shook my head, “No, Casey, you do need my help. How are you going to face your parents when they find out about this?...

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“Thinking It Over” by Tanja Cilia

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They framed me. It had been going on for weeks, not quite actually right under my nose, which is why I hadn’t noticed. Now, I fully understood the meaning of all those not-so-subtle comments before I wen out on Sick Leave... like you’re too good for your own good, and he who sups with the devil must have a long spoon, and beware of wolves in sheep’s clothing. They had been siphoning off money, and stealing goods, from the warehouse, while I was off work and recuperating from having all my teeth pulled out, and dentures fitted, after a ve...

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“Shy Hero” by Paige Winters

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WARNING: Suicidal Ideations Tony: Why do they blame me? I didn’t do it. I would never hurt her. I laid back on my bed with the lights off, tear streaks drying on my face. I don’t know how long I’ve been laying here, maybe days. Time has no meaning to me anymore. Not after today. I’d tried to help, I swear I did. A burning ball of depression had been unfurling in my chest since that day. Every day has been worse than the last. I’d finally gathered up all of my courage to go to school and… And my friends looked at me like I was a ...

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“Murder” by Puhalenthi Ramesh Vidhya

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Everything happened in a flash. I was just about to go to sleep when I heard the telephone ring. I used a rotary dial phone, which meant that I won't know who’s calling me. I walked over to the phone and held it up to my ear. "Hello?," I answered. "Hello. This is the Glasscam Police Department. I am the sheriff of this town. You have been convicted of the murder of a person named Paul Smith, who was killed this night. I have sent a few officers to escort you to the department," the sheriff replied. "E-- Excuse me, but I-- I haven't ...

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“No Bad Seed” by Jade Orien🍀

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There's a creepy man on our block named Mr. Templemen. He's been in the same abandoned house on the end of the block since my parents were children. Rumor around town he's a cold murderer. This rumor came about because 30 years ago a little girl named Cindy Albertson went missing. People in the neighborhood had said that the last time they've seen little Cindy she was riding her tricycle past Mr. Templemen's house. People even said that her tricycle was in his front yard & that later on that night he was in his backyard chopping somethin...

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“Nothing but the Truth” by ∙𝕒𝕦𝕕𝕣𝕖𝕪 𝕡∙

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Nine months. That’s how long I’ve been sitting in this dusty cell, hoping for a chance to see the light. The days are long and tiring, and I feel barely alive. I sigh, laying back on my flat mattress. I hear harsh footsteps, but I don’t look up. Is it lunch already?Then, I hear my cell door open, and two cops drag me out. “Where am I going?” The cops ignore me and continue to drag me up the stairs, and then I see it: daylight.The golden sun gleams with light, as oranges and pinks dance around it. The sky is filled with the glorious, dewy mor...

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“My Little Sister” by R Spinks

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I knew Abiola had done it. It pained me to say this, even if not out loud, because she was my sister and I loved her dearly. But still, it would be wrongful to give in to such a childish innocence and turn a blind eye to her sins. She was an adult at the time of all this, and capable of making her own decisions, so I didn’t call her and tell her off. I simply thought of how wrongful she’d been instead. She was not my baby sister anymore. She was grown, she was smart and she was dangerous.***Amare called me later that night, panic in his voic...

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“wrongly convicted ” by Amber Brownlee

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Getting blamed for something you didn’t do is one thing but getting a life sentence is quite another. I wasn’t even there the night my friend was murdered but according to fifteen witness they saw me stab Ruby. The only reason I received a life sentence was because I was too young to receive the death penalty, at fifteen years old I am the youngest person ever to be sent to prison, the judge decided that because of the nature of my crime I was too dangerous for juvenile hall so It was don’t pass go, go straight to a maximum security prison. ...

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“Words fell on Deaf Ears” by Debbie Teague

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“It wasn’t me; I swear! They took him - I was bound up and couldn’t help him.” “Little green men you say?” scoffed the sheriff. “Grey men with black eyes!” “Young lady, I have heard some stories in my time but yours takes the cake. You are asking us to believe that you and your brother saw a flying saucer in the field and “beings” came out from it, bound you up, and took your brother. Is that right?” “Yes! Honestly!” Sheriff Wilson did not believe her. Her protests fell on deaf ears. “Take her away!” Young Sus...

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

Submissions are closed

✍️ 179 stories

“Mistakes” by Inkstained Introvert

“Not Who They Think It Was” by 🌮 Kao Crimsonstar 🌮

“A Memory that Counts” by Benjamin Boxer

“Sweet Revenge” by Samadhee Ismail

“Selfish.” by Lee Doe

“The Savage Truth of Fear” by Elizabeth Inkim

“Choices and consequences ” by Vameerah Darren

“Thinking It Over” by Tanja Cilia

“Shy Hero” by Paige Winters

“Murder” by Puhalenthi Ramesh Vidhya

“No Bad Seed” by Jade Orien🍀

“Nothing but the Truth” by ∙𝕒𝕦𝕕𝕣𝕖𝕪 𝕡∙

“My Little Sister” by R Spinks

“wrongly convicted ” by Amber Brownlee

“Words fell on Deaf Ears” by Debbie Teague

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Write about someone who’s so obsessed with a goal that it leads to the destruction of their closest relationship.

Write about someone trying to atone for a mistake they’ll never be able to fix.

Write about two people who know they’ve made a mistake, and one of them wants to tell the truth but the other wants to lie about it.

Write about a character who’s so afraid of making the wrong choice that their indecision ruins the very thing they were hoping to keep safe.

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