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STORY STARTER
Write a story through diary entries or letters discovered in an abandoned house.
Epistolary stories can offer unreliable narrators and incomplete narratives, giving you space to add mystery, confusion, or intrigue to your story.
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Police are investigating the death of a teenager named Elli Porter when they find her diary. They flipped through the pages.
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Dear Diary,
Today was horrible! My friends wouldnât play with me and it made me feel sad. I thought they were nice.
-Elli Porter, Age 6
Dear Diary,
My mom got angry at me and started hitting me. Really hard. I have a bruise. I have a headache from the hit.
-Ell...
Dear Reader, I assume youâve found this house abandoned and are full of questions as to why. Remove those questions from your mind and listen to my advice: Turn back and don't play sleuth. You do not want to know what has happened here. Leave.
- Jane
Dear Reader, youâve found my second letter which means you havenât taken my advice to leave. A most unwise decision but typical of a...
March 6th 1992
I heard the noise again, I don't know what it is but it appears to be coming from the attic. This is the second night that I have been woken up by it, when I asked Mom and Dad about it they laughed and said I was probably dreaming.
I pinched myself to make sure I was awake and I definitely was. The noise is a very light scratching, but not like from an animal or anything but as i...
December 8, 3750
Dear diary,
Itâs been 16 months since I was kidnapped and taken to the white room. I donât remember who I was nor my life before the white room. My life is the white room, everything I love is the white roomâŠ..
December 25, 3750
Dear diary,
I am alone, completely alone. Today a man in a black robe came to see me. He took my hand and stared deep into my eyes for a long time. H...
*CONTENT WARNING: Suicidal thoughts, and depression.*
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November 17, 1880
Dear Journal,
The men in white say I should write my days down in you. They say it will help me keep my sanity. I donât believe them, they lie. They told me a hundred and twelve days ago that Iâd see my family again. I havenât, instead all I see the plain white walls and the needles that put into my skin.
Instead, I wr...
1872
I write today to you Mr. Lawson, for a very particular reason. One of the properties my husband recently acquired seems to have come to us filled with mystery. I will not keep you too long with this, so I will make this brief. Enclosed, I have sent numerous letters Jensen and myself have found in increasingly odd places, not limited to: Under a floorboard, behind two broken mirrors (only enou...
November 12, 2021
Dear Diary
I made a big mistake. I lied told a friend I liked her Iâm not sure why, she hates me now. I hope she can forgive me
April 23, 2022
Dear Diary,
Why. I keep asking myself why did I change my mind. Iâm a horrible person.
Entries lied scattered on the floor a notebook a few meters away. Jackie looked at her best friend
âWhat are these.â
September 28, 2022
Dear Dia...
I ducked into the abandoned house as another bomb landed a few miles away. Too far off to find another place to sleep. But too close to stay in the house for long. Though from the wings marking the door I knew it would be standing long after the war ended. Which was probably why she suggested it. Though it had been years before I could get here.
Moving some debris, I flopped into a chair. But s...
September 9th, 2000
Itâs my birthday today. Meaning just another handful of people saying happy birthday and giving me presents that I might even barley use. Mom says she has a big suprise. Geez I wonder what it is.
September 10th, 2000
Itâs there worst suprise ever. Moving it to a new house. I hate it. There are vines everywhere. The walls. The whole house was a plant. Covered with weeds. The i...
May 6, 3428
The journey is going well, Richard has gone into the cryogenic sleep as planned. The Edison is running exceptionally well, it is projected we will make it to Andromeda in 30 years.
May 7 3428
I have successfully checked all of the systems. The rest of the crew has already enter cryogenic sleep, I will be joining them.
January 5, 3458
The Edison has woke me up early. All of the cre...
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