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“There was never a prophecy, it was all a lie.”
Write a story that utilises this line of speech to reveal something either devastating or hopeful.
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Ammer stands alone, his brother's lifeless body laying before him. Hundreds of people fly in every direction around him. The clang of sword against sword rings in his ears. Men and women shout and scream beside and beneath him.
For a moment, every one of his senses is overwhelmed, but when Ammer lowered his eyes to his brother everything went still.
The clanging and shouting ceased. Th...
As I kneeled down before the king I said my praises and looked up at him for the first time noticing how upset he was. Not long ago I was just an Orphaned boy living in the streets begging for food. when a man in a black cloak and two armed royal soldiers came to me,rambling about be the child of prophecy as he led me towards the castle I learned he was an old wizard named “laz”.
Looking to the ...
“There was never a prophecy, it was all a lie”
“What” I breathed out. My whole life was based around that prophecy. It was real. It had to be.
“I know what your thinking” she continued. “We needed a way to train you, to get you away from your family”
“My family must have been better than this” I spit back at her.
“It wasn’t” she replied. “They were, are terrible people. Do you know how many they’...
Everyone aims for something in their life, a goal, a person, an achievement, but in this world everyone has the same goal. Our scene is set in the small room of a 19 year old girl waking up in her collage dorm room…. “10 o’clock! No I can’t be late again!” Said a very panicked Elizabeth. She sprung up out of bed and rushed to her 10 o’clock world history class only to realize half way there that s...
“There was never a prophecy,it was all a lie.” The voice of the god who ruled all life was filled with anger and sorrow. He was sad that everything had gone wrong at such a young age. But no matter his grief, it would be impossible to let his true emotions show because he is always watching over everything. He has seen what could happen in a mere blink of an eye.
He turned, looking at the small f...
His childhood was turned to dust the second those words poured out of the old crone’s mouth; “There will be a child born at the last moment of sunlight on the year's shortest day. They will take up a sword and finally be the one to kill the king of the North.”
Sixteen years later, Jex holds the regions of his horse as he approaches the gates of Aro. The King of the North’s, Esther’s city. The gua...
I was meant for more than this, or at least that’s what they’ve been telling me my whole life. There was never a prophecy, it was all a lie.
I was promised the best and only the best. I was to become a part of something bigger, a community. They said I would be the best of the best and that I would be praised.
Instead,I’m locked in this human cage waiting for the end. Just my luck to ...
She had fallen for it, all of it! He’d convinced her, he’d convinced all of them he was the Messiah, but he’d used his power to rape, mutilate and murder.
At sixteen, she’d ran away from home to join them, for this perceived fantasy, fake salvation. But only Jesus had the power to save, and he didn’t do it, by hurting girls, by bringing children in to be hurt.
“There was never a prophecy, it w...
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