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Write a story in which a character eats something that they shouldn’t have eaten.

Posted in Mystery on Dec 8, 2023

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✍️ 62 stories

Red Velvet Lips

Submitted to Contest #228

Standing in front of our gilded mirror, I ran a hand down the side of my spotless white tube dress. The punishing cardio and calorie counting had been working. I looked great in this dress. The new diamond on my finger caught the sunlight streaming through the entryway window. Three-carat and princess-cut, the diamond sparkled brilliantly.            This dress, the ring, my fiancé were all perfect. This engagement party would be too.         &nb...

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One and Done

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One and Done The air was light in the mountains. And the breeze was cold against his face. His hair waved with the gentle wind, making it gracefully dance across his brow; carefully revealing his blue eyes from underneath the bronze of his mane. In the distance, beyond some rolling hills, he saw a cluster of flowers. “Looks like no one’s been here for years… decades maybe… even centuries. I may be the first person to have ever seen this place,” he thought to himself. He approached the flowers. They grew tall, probably about five feet...

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Enrico's dairy allergy

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Enrico moved to Leicester a few years ago from Italy, Florence. He planned to study and to find a job here. Unfortunately, England universities were too demanding for him and he didn't get in any of them. That was a really bad time for Enrico. After a third university didn’t approved him, Enrico fell in apathy and closed in his home for one month Anyway, for Enrico a job was always more important than anything, so he get a job as an Assistant in a builder company. That was always weird and cute when 7 years old Enrico asked his mother if sh...

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Babes of Montego Bay

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“Welcome, welcome. Lemme take yuh bags, sir." "Oh, thanks mate." A short, afro-haired gentleman in a baggy suit takes a suitcase from the father and proceeds to pull a satchel from his shoulder. "Really there's no need." The man holds the strap of the bag in attempt to keep it but the pudgy Jamaican gives an insistent tug. "Oh. Thank you. What's your name?" "Mi name eh Grumpy. Dat wha mi friends call me, anyhow." "Well, it's nice to meet you Grumpy," says the man's wife as the Jamaican insists on taking her bags too. "This is my wife Samanth...

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Who Stoled Gramma's Meatball

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For as long as I can remember, I have spent every Sunday afternoon until I was a teen, around the table at Grandma's house. However, I, the oldest grandchild Annie, had the honor to sleep over Grammas the night before. So, I had the privilege to be there every Sunday, before the rest of the family arrived.As soon as Grandma and I would return from Sunday Morning Mass at St Joseph's Parish, Grandma got started on the gravy. I know most people call it sauce, but in our family, we called it gravy!Ever since I was just two years old, Grandma wou...

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Xmas Lunch

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Lilian despised Xmas—the frantic rush to buy presents when the shops were teeming with customers. Navigating through the overcrowded shops, wondering what the hell she would buy. Each counter was knee-deep in potential customers, and given her petite stature of 5 feet, the whole experience was a daunting task. Once the gift shopping was complete, the next challenge would await her - boarding a bus or struggling to the underground train station amid bustling pavements outside the department store on Oxford Street.  Th...

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Herbie has a feast

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-Come on Herbie, hurry up,but careful you don’t cut yourself…you’re looking especially sharp today! There was laughter, as usual. Good humored, but still directed at me.  What must I look like? Trying to impress at our company's annual conference in the swanky Olympus Hotel. Our new range of coffee fizzy drinks was being launched and we had each been given a small sample at the entrance.The pilot batch was selling well and I vaguely recalled once joking to my boss about making carbonated coffee. She had rolled her eyes, but six months...

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An Unsettling Appetite

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Richie Metzger was a skinny twenty-three-year-old man with an insatiable appetite that would end up getting him into trouble. His last job had ended when his manager popped in, only to find Richie eating on the clock. Richie turned around to see the balding, somewhat curvaceous man standing behind him, looking shocked, horrified, and slightly nauseous with an accusatory finger pointed right in Richie's face. "If you think this is acceptable, you are absolutely crazy. Richie, I can't believe you'd do this!" The manager bellowed, and spittle ...

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THE PRESIDENT OF THE WORLD

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“As the President of the World, there is something you need to be made aware of. I’d like you to prepare yourself. It may come as quite a shock,” the android assistant said. His name was Adrien and he had been the presidential chief aide for the last ninety eight years. “Don’t you worry your pretty rubber head about it,” Jason Stratophalus chuckled in a heavy New York accent, “I’ve seen a lot of crazy stuff in my day.” Yes, Jason Stratophalus had been around for a while. He was eighty six years old, even though he looked no more th...

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"Sеcrеts of thе Forbiddеn Mansion"

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Thе anciеnt mansion loomеd ovеr thе cliff, its ivy-clad walls concеaling sеcrеts as old as timе. Its oncе-grand halls еchoеd with thе whispеrs of history, and within its labyrinthinе passagеs, a mystеry waitеd to bе unravеllеd. Amеlia Braddock, a young and inquisitivе journalist with a pеnchant for thе macabrе, found hеrsеlf drawn to thе mansion. Rumours of hiddеn trеasurеs and long-forgottеn talеs had lurеd hеr to this dеcaying rеlic of thе past. Armеd with a flashlight, a notеbook, and an unyiеlding curiosity, shе еmbarkеd on a clandеstinе...

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Eat Up

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Sometimes, in the storm of all things, Lilith forgets that her life is ultimately that, hers. Supposed to be lived. Not something to be done for others, in any way. It’s supposed to be on her own terms, right? And yet, she still finds herself here, in this auburn park in her grey city. Every time. It’s not always auburn, mind you. It’s autumn right now, and it stains the leaves and bark in deep shades of yellow, red and brown. It crinkles the grass and thickens the air with the smell of wet soil. Lilith takes a deep breath in, savouring ...

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Worldly

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She was not interested in dating.   At first Sarah was just reciting a fact in her mind, just stating the obvious to herself. When she finally realized that Drake, the father of one of her daughter’s little friends, might be expressing interest with his small talk in the school pick up line each day – yeah, no. She was not interested in dating.  She braced herself, ready with an excuse when he greeted her each day with a smile, asking about her day. But he just kept – being nice.  It turned out they did...

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The Man in the Stocks

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 Just twenty-five years after the infamous Pied Piper deceived the good people of Hameln, something equally sinister occurred in the history of our town. Now to understand what happened I want you all to picture the town square as you see it now, the center of all commerce and misunderstanding, and imagine the following stores and houses along the milkman’s route which stood from left to right as I point to them… The saying that arguing between God and science is “like a butcher arguing with a baker that his bread is not meat” originate...

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Sweet Nothings

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Darla slumped in her armchair, trying to regroup. The thirty-minute drive from the airport to her sister Trudy’s house had terrified her more than her seven-hour transatlantic flight. Her theory was that the petite Trudy made up for what she lacked in inches with aggression, especially when driving. Trudy looked concerned as she handed Darla a glass of wine.“Are you okay? You look kind of peaky.”“Jet lag. It might be nine in the evening here, but my body thinks it’s four in the morning. Anyway, fill me in on what’s going on with Dad. Just do...

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Ode to Joy

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The first day I met Mrs. O Shea, I thought the sun rose and set in her classroom. She played Beethoven's Ode to Joy, on an old record player, for our grade three class, and it delighted me. It was a variation on the classical piece; now turned into a folk hymn, with lyrics, gentle guitar arpeggios, and vocal harmonies. I had never heard anything so lovely. She was speaking my language. The language of Music, with a capital M. I thought I was in heaven, and I loved her for it. If only the rest of the school year could have continued in t...

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