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Write a story that involves sabotage.

Posted in Dark on Oct 26, 2022

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✍️ 19 stories

Lights Out

Submitted to Contest #114

Darkness and silence filled the room, hand in hand, as the great door slammed open and all candles were snuffed out. I could smell wisps of smoke dancing in the air with petrichor. Though I could not see, the sound of footsteps on the stone floor thumped towards my throne, telling me of intruders. Whether they were friend or foe, I would not know until their faces and intentions were revealed. “Let us have light!” I yelled. As the flames flickered to life, the forms of three men became visible below me. Pieces of sticks, leaves, and mud-co...

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The Addictive Personality Of Worms

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[CW – Drug use, strong language, mental health issues, animal abuse] I feed cocaine to worms. It is an act of natural sabotage. I only do it for the good of all mankind. You might think that it’s weird or cruel. You might not understand. You might be curious as to why. I have my reasons, which are thus. Worms are delicious, if you ask birds. I’ve never tried one myself, but birds seem to delight in having them. They also seem to only really eat at breakfast time. Further to that, the earlier the bird eats, the more successful it is. There i...

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Undercover

Submitted to Contest #114

 “Run!” Josef yelled to his best friend.  Legs pumping and chests heaving, Josef glanced sideways to his friend and smiled. The exhilaration of pranking others was just too great for the duo to stop. The smile hurt both boys’ faces as they escaped from the angry men whom they just pranked. They were yelling curses and chasing after the troublemakers.  Ever since the Nazis invaded Paris, things have been gloomy. Josef had always been bright and cheerful, but now the only times he smiled was when he was running away from the fum...

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Starstruck

Submitted to Contest #114

ㅤIn a tiny apartment above a sprawling city, Martha Grint was eating a bowl of cornflakes and watching the evening news. Around her, celebrity gossip magazines were piled several feet high on every surface. A workspace had been cleared in the centre of the coffee table, now covered in paper scraps, a large pair of scissors and an industrial size bottle of craft glue. A bulging scrapbook sat in the middle of it all. ㅤHundreds of photographs of one man populated the book’s pages. The man was attractive, in his mid-forties. The scrapbook c...

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Zombies!

Submitted to Contest #114

I deserved to be the first to die. The dead breached our walls and now roamed freely as members of my community ran for safety. I looked down at the bloodied knife in my trembling hands. Did I really just do that? I could hear people running wildly in all directions outside; their maddening screams as they fled the ravenous creatures made me shudder in horror. The barn that sheltered me was quickly filling with smoke, making it hard to breathe or&n...

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'If it were your daughter, it would be different.'

Submitted to Contest #114

//Hi everyone! I feel like I should put a warning here. The story deals with emotional gaslighting, manipulation, emotional abuse, and people coming to terms with it. This is based off of a friend's situation in real life and they gave me permission to make a fictionalized story around it. If anyone has gone through this I’m sorry for you and my heart goes out to you. God Bless// “It’s a long story.” Malcolm avoided eye contact with the young woman who he once knew. “You lied to me and lied about me, I have time.” Alison stepped out on h...

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The Saboteur

Submitted to Contest #114

“We have to leave now, Sara,” my mother said.“What!” I said. My parents were leaving to meet a friend so they literally left me with my sister who was right now raking the backyard. “Eve, we are going now.” Mom said.At first Eve did not hear but on the second time she looked quickly up as if for a moment she had left a different world and came back to this one. Without thinking about the rake she carelessly flung it down and ran inside. After a few kisses and goodbye’s Dad opened the door. Suddenly all the heat escaped from the house and I f...

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It Was Only A Joke

Submitted to Contest #114

Have you ever seen the movie Frozen? And no, I am not talking about the Disney movie. I'm talking about the movie where these friends got stuck on a ski lift over the holiday weekend. If you haven't seen this movie, then I advise you to. The field trip that I'm on is just like that. It was supposed to be the best senior field trip ever, and it will be one that no one will ever forget. At least the people that have survived so far wouldn't forget it. There have been at least two deaths, and half the group has gone missing. And that's not even...

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The sack of the capital

Submitted to Contest #114

It was just after daybreak, and the city administrators were beating the gongs to signal the opening of the markets. The large open square was already filling with throngs of people as they swarmed in from the alleys of the neighboring wards. Dust teemed in the sweltering air, kicked up from the crowds as they milled about, crushing the sunbaked turf beneath their feet. Street-vendors, trading goods and trinkets of all kinds, were crying their wares from their booths. Retailers and customers hammered away at each other over prices and amoun...

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Deathbed

Submitted to Contest #114

Dear Brian, We now are in our twilight years, myself, bedridden and at death's door from years of abuse. I can’t help but think about our glory days. We both were fierce competitors. Although it may not have seemed it, I had tremendous admiration for you. It went far beyond that, in truth, I had a fear of you. It derived from my own inadequacies. You see, I have always been jealous of your talent. It started shortly after we first met, I’ve heard of you prior but still expected to beat you. At that time, in my mind, I was unbeata...

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Loving Henry

Submitted to Contest #114

Gia was only 15  years old when she looked into the eyes of Cody for the first time. It took less than a minute for her soul to recognize him. Then without saying a word he turned and walked away from her. The sharp sting her heart felt never went away although he did. One day he just didn’t come to school. Someone told her that he had moved away suddenly. She regretted not speaking to him.  Gia married Henry Jackson Broussard in the summer after she graduated from college. She had plans to become a teacher but her plans changed ...

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I Am the Resurrection

Submitted to Contest #114

Tristan Frost blew the dust off of a stack of gold coins. His miniature tower of wealth was more money than anyone else had in Atlantis. He stood behind the counter at the trading post and awaited his next customer. Atlantis, a forgotten town on the road to nowhere, was nestled deep inside the New Mexico Territory. At its height, Atlantis was a pit stop on the southern route to California. But now, after the gold rush, Atlantis saw more tumbleweeds than passers through.“Mr. Frost?” Jacob Smith said with sunken eyes and a dry mouth.Frost...

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Destroy the Oil Realm

Submitted to Contest #114

“What the hell? Why didn’t they explode?” Musa asked Sipho as they strained to see the oil storage tanks in the distance. They were perched on a ridge about two miles from the refinery where they had planted four limpet mines at around midnight. It was now 2 a.m., and the bombs should have gone off precisely on the hour. “What do we do?” Sipho asked. “It would take us too long to go back and adjust the timers. It will be daylight. We’d easily be spotted.” “Let me think,” Musa said. As the leader of the operation, he would have to call it o...

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You Have to Draw the Line

Submitted to Contest #114

YOU HAVE TO DRAW THE LINE The Pitcher At twenty-eight, Maggie had three kids under three and a head full of distracted thoughts.  She couldn't get over how much she had to do now that she had a new set of twins and a toddler.  Her mother lived far away.  Well, Maggie thought, she'd gotten a lot done today.  She took the twins for their six month check-up; just shy of 15 pounds, they were a bit small but healthy.  Teddy needed new shoes and he chose brown ones.  She even got a h...

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The Iron Road

Submitted to Contest #114

 You think it’s easy, don’t you? Being a narrator and all. All I have to do is say what I see and put it down in a way that sounds nice and keeps the reader captivated. But you are so wrong. I have lived through it all. I have seen things that I can’t talk about and usually am not allowed to share my feeling on because no one cares about me, the omniscient narrator somewhere in the clouds. Well, I can’t take it anymore! I’ve seen too much to remain a distant presence. This isn’t about me, but I watched it all which is more than you woul...

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