#three sentence stories

[pebblysand]

Hi Jo! you are a hero 🥹

Can we see the howlers between Ginny and Ron and Hermione and Ginny about Albus? Or either McGonagall or Hermione reacting to Ginny not going back to Hogwarts? :)

😅 thanks! i can't really do the first ones in three sentences, but i'll do the second.

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roll call

The first sign is: silence, at the end of the roll call - not the unusual kind; it rings familiar but distant, like the old rock music the love of her life used to play on his Muggle radio growing up, like the way the girl at the end of the list of students stopped answering to her own name a long time ago, unless it was called by one of the Carrows. It was last winter that Filius began calling it 'attitude,' gave her detention she chose to ignore (went out to party instead); he asked Minerva to discipline, somewhere in the nexus of Head of House and Headmaster and Transfiguration Professor, Leader of a Rebellion and Quidditch Enthusiast -

'How -' she laughed: 'how, exactly, do you want us to "discipline" kids we kept alive but not safe?'

So: after the silence, that day, Minerva looks up and there is no messy bun of golden-red hair peeking out from all the tables arranged in neat rows down the Great Hall; she marks the girl missing and she is worried - worried sick like every other time the girl has gone missing this past year, with no solution to be found - until students report that her bed is made and the sheets undisturbed, and Granger looks up, too, bites her lip, and says: 'I think she's at Grimmauld -'

Minerva wonders, then, not for the first time, if maybe Albus was right: maybe love is the answer to it all.

#three sentence fic #three sentence stories #castles #i am doing these until in no particular order whenever i have time until AO3 is back up #feel free to message me prompts

[empty-cryptid]

Gonna be stuck in a car for an hour later. Anybody want a 3 sentence story? Send in an ask.

Open for 3 sentence story prompts

#ask stuff #ask me stuff #three sentence stories #encanto

[buqbite]

"The act of understanding someone started off with admitting that you didn't know anything about that person."

- CH. 539

[ID: Blue-toned Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint fanart of Kim Dokja emerging from huge book pages. He is in his Demon King form, his face is shadowed, and he is clutching his throat. Han Sooyoung and Yoo Joonghyuk, much smaller than Dokja, stand on the rippling pages and look up at him. End ID]

(ID by princess-of-purple-rose)

#needed an emo sentence for an emo drawing #I think about those three a lot. a lot. And there's a lot of that thought put in here #orv #omniscient readers viewpoint #kim dokja #orv kdj #yoo joonghyuk #orv yjh #han sooyoung #orv hsy #orv spoilers #yoohankim #yhk #my art #ok so. #Its like. there is so much impossibly deep sadness in this story #At the core of this story. Because kdj is the sole reader of this story #the enemy of the story and in the end it swallows him up and he becomes it. The ramifications of his boundless misery are world ending #And so much of him wants to become it and die alone. It feels like beating the final boss a bit doesnt it #But they won't let him. Theyll travel the snow field n travel the pages and text and the story again and again to reach him #And its so much greater than them and its so lonely and suffocating #But what else is there than to show that you wont give up on loving this person? That they are at the center of it all? The most powerful #yet powerless at the same time #I need to go the fuck to bed

[hjemne]

Babygirl I have 38 thousand words of incomplete trigun fic spread across 8 wips and have no idea how to even start dealing with it

#this is an actual request for help #there are two im happy just to ditch entirely #3 that are p much written in complete sentences but are just AU fragments and i don't think i have the energy to turn into a proper story #ive got 12k complete and edited words for another but then i just cant work out how to get to the story's end #and then the last two are half-written half-drafted and just keep getting longer and longer and i HATE properly write up my drafted notes #just... what do i do #can I put the first three up for fanfic adoption and see if someone else knows what to make of them #if anyone wants to proof read /advise on a modern au where WW realises hes gay breaks up w Milly and falls hard for Vash who then disappears #or a post-trimax fic where knives uses the last of his energy to resurrect WW & WW relearns who he is with melanie livio and the orphan kids #(with vash angst thinking hes hallucinating WW) #or a polygun/vashwood fic where WW tries to hide his injuries & the others realise hes got strange healing bc he nearly dies before the #vial kicks in and WW+Vash then talk about EoM/Knives and it ends in a polygun snuggle pile bc they talk it thru as a crew TM #please let me know #trigun #vashwood #trigun fanfiction

[thebearchives]

As a prompt for Arthur beating him at a video game and something along the lines of "Get on my level, noob"

Also congrats on 1k, you could have your own meet and greet 💚

thank you for requesting!! hope you enjoy arthur playing fall guys :D

your fingers tightened around your switch, eyes unwavering from the screen as you controlled your tiny jellybean man around the last few obstacles that stood between you and the finish line. beside you, arthur cursed at his own switch, still miserably stuck on the first obstacle.

"i give up, i cannot win this game. this is so stupid. i don't want to play ever again." arthur dropped his switch, a heavy sigh escaping his mouth.

you smirked, eyes still focused on your screen. your jellybean character dived towards the finish line, and you cheered loudly, "let's go! another game, another p1 finish. get on my level, loser."

arthur narrowed his eyes at your smiling face, fingers nimbly grabbing his discarded switch, "again. i want a rematch."

#— 1k celebration #three(ish) sentence stories #arthur leclerc x reader #al4 #arthur leclerc #arthur leclerc drabble

[therentyoupay]

#24 JUST SAY IT JELLSAAAAAA ARTGHHHAHAHNSNNEMWMEMWJAJHAJAHAHHAHA

On July 1st, the lonely house at the top of the mountain was finally sold.

— In which Jack(son) Overland tries his best to befriend his neighbor, one woodworking project at a time. { neighbors-to-lovers!fic, modern-mountain-living!au }

Prompt from @aicosu: Three-word sentences: "Just say it."

ao3 ❆

#aicosu #OF COURSE A DRABBLE WAS NOT ENOUGH APPARENTLY #this literally came out of nowhere #i naively reblogged a ��three-word sentence” challenge for funsies on tumblr #and then aicosu came out of nowhere with a fun prompt #and one failed stranger things!au later #all of a sudden jack was living on a mountain and this story wrote itself over the course of a damn week #it started as a drabble one-shot #but it got even longer than expected #so here's the first half of what is now a quick two-shot! #second part should be up soon it's almost done! #therentyoupay snow globe #therentyoupay fic #jelsa

[isawken]

#my name is that fun level of unique where no one knows what it is and no one knows the cultural origin #so they very rarely have any preconceived notions #meaning i get the standard “tell me the story! ” response which i have refined over the years #to a tidy three sentences and also an optional joke fourth sentence when i really wanna set the mood #kenposting #tumblr polls #ken lore time: my actual real name is the name of a mountain named after a bastardization of a cherokee word #which my mother further altered to give a more ~feminine~ spelling so like #if you dont know the area where the mountain is or have familiarity with cherokee language then. it just sounds made up #(which technically it was. see aforementioned “bastardization of cherokee word”)

[ginger-ale-official]

Just found out my ex girlfriend from middle school follows my mom on Facebook and regularly comments on her posts. She has a joker profile pic from suicide squad. She does not follow me.

#three sentence horror story

[fictionadventurer]

If you're still doing the three-sentence fairytale retelling thing: how about Bluebeard as a comedy of manners?

SETTING: Parlor in an elegant mansion. A large window overlooks a sunny rose garden.

BLUEBEARD, a young man of somewhere less than thirty, so-named for the cyan tint to his whiskers (it's a long story), stands before the window, speaking to ARTHUR, a man of about his age. A black cat with white paws sits on an armchair.

BLUEBEARD: It's very simple. Aunt Augusta doesn't know I'm married, so she's preparing a wedding for me. Genevieve, the chosen girl, showed up this morning with six bridesmaids. I couldn't send them away, so I've locked them safely away in one of the upstairs rooms.

ARTHUR: And your wife has the key?

BLUEBEARD: She has all the keys. But don't worry, I've already solved that problem. I've told Catherine to never, under any circumstances, open that door.

ARTHUR: [after a stunned silence] You, my friend, are doomed.

#answered asks #three sentence fic #bluebeard #fairy tale retellings #sir arthur #(i've set this up to be a sir arthur story but reserve the right to decanonize it) #this was a very fun one #i'll admit it stymied me for a bit #but then i had the image of a man hiding away women amid a frantic wodehousian scheme and beautiful possibilities opened up #i've made myself laugh several times during brainstorming

[legolasghosty]

Three sentence AUs: Willex sci-fi au?

Oooo fun, thanks for the ask! Sorry, a bit more than 3 sentences...

Willie has to force his wings to stay folded on his back as he hurries through the corridors. Where in the lunar glow is he? They swear they've gone over every inch of the space station already looking for him. He forces himself to pause, take a breath, use their other senses. They can find him. He always can.

There's footsteps coming down a stairwell, too heavy. Ray. Two people talking on the bridge, too energetic. Julie and Flynn. The smell of honey coming from the engine room, too sweet. Reggie. The guitar music in the bunks is Luke and Nick. The scent of roses nearing the kitchen is Carrie.

Willie begins to worry. What if he's gone?! What if he couldn't take seeing Willie anymore, thinking that he'd have to leave soon and they'd be separated. What if-

The landing bay doors open on the lowest level, allowing a small ship inside. His ship.

Willie bolts for the stairs, not caring if his wings open and allow them to glide down instead of running. This was more important than protocol. They arrive just in time to see him step out of the ship, back from a practice flight.

His steps are a bit unsteady from the change in gravity and he sounds tired as he records a log of his flight and he smells like basil and mint.

"Alex," Willie calls, grinning as his feet barely skim the floor.

Alex turns at the sound of his name and a tiny smile pulls at his lips. And he doesn't even know yet.

"Commander Covington approved my transfer," Willie says as he gets closer, their feet coming to a stop on the floor in front of Alex. "I'm staying."

The astonished smile that breaks across Alex's face at that is almost sweeter than the kiss he pulls them into. They're safe, they're staying together. It's gonna be okay.

(Send me an AU and a character combo and I'll write you a 3(+) sentence fic!)

#Three sentences the thing said #Willex: heh yeah nope #anyways they're both aliens in this #Alex is a Flora and Willie is a Beez #alien species a friend and I came up with #long story #I have way too many thoughts about this AU already dang it #ah well #legolas tag #julie and the phantoms #jatp fanfic #willex #jatp #alex mercer #willie jatp

[phlebaswrites]

Songs and Shadows

Summary:

A collection of ficlets in the Witcher fandom, written for the Three Sentence Ficathon 2024.

Please, read with care for yourself, check the tags and skip the stories which are not for you.

Rating: Mature Fandom: Wiedźmin | The Witcher Relationship: Geralt of Rivia & Jaskier Word Count: 134

"You'll never find them," Jaskier pants, but he still has the vitriol to spit spite into his torturer's faces. ”Never."

He gave his word that he'd keep Geralt's secret to the grave, and if his silence is the only weapon he has left then he'll make it into a blade they can cut themselves bloody on.

A fitting end for the Witcher's bard.

Read the rest on AO3.

#Phlebas Writes #The Witcher #fanfiction #Story: Songs and Shadows #Series: Three Sentence Ficathon 2024 #Geralt of Rivia & Jaskier #Jaskier #okay to reblog

[forest-of-stories]

Three Sentence Ficathon Roundup (To Date)

Prompting for Dreamwidth's Three Sentence Ficathon has closed for another year! Writers can respond to prompts year-round.

This seems like a good time to pause and share what I wrote while it was active. I ended up compiling most (not all) of my prompt fills on AO3, mostly (though not exclusively) with one multi-chapter work per fandom and one fill per chapter:

Brief and Strange (Stranger Things)

Flashes Through the In-Between (The Owl House)

Slivers of Shivers (The Magnus Archives; this one actually combines fills from more than one year)

Small Suggestions (The Hypnotists)

And here are my prompt fills for the Masterminds series, most of which exist as separate works because I didn't realize I'd be writing so many:

Unsustainable

I Try To Own My Destiny

Breaking Containment

Scattered Sketches (3 parts)

Life in the Fishbowl

I probably wrote more for this round of the ficathon than I did for any of the previous ones, and I had a blast! Also, if any fans of Gordon Korman's Hypnotists series are reading this post and want to respond to one of the prompts I left (1 2 3 4 5 6), I would be beyond thrilled. <3

#my stories #three sentence ficathon #stranger things #the owl house #the magnus archives #hypnotists trilogy #masterminds trilogy

[z-h-i-e]

Three sentences: Silmarillion, Glorfindel & high-spirited?

Full council sessions, with all the serious expressions and all the lords in their somber colored robes would have been mistaken for funerals if not for the Lord of the House of the Golden Flower.

His garb was as shining as his hair, which he never pulled back or wound into a tidy bun or braided into a single dignified plait, but instead he would stroll into the chamber with curls bouncing, unbound, often with flowers adorning him, though these were oft periwinkle, violet, and rose, to offset the color of his tresses.

His eyes and face shone with excitement, and his voice was merry even in the midst of the most heated debates, for Turgon had chosen him wisely, sagely stating that while all other members of his court were as bright as the stars in the sky, there was only one sun, and that was enough for the council of Gondolin.

#three sentence story #Glorfindel #Gondolin #Silmarillion #shiny boi #high-spirited #House of the Golden Flower #The Sun Lord #never mention him by name once but y'all know who I'm talking about #<3 u anon

[enby-mori]

an actual picture of me choosing which pronouns to use for Q when writing

#the answer is whatever flows better #get ready for my new story where the pronouns change three times in the same sentence #bungou stray dogs #bungo sd #bsd #my archive

[thebearchives]

Pierre gasly and single father

thank you for requesting!

you heard his voice before you saw his face— either of their faces— too focused on which can of soup would be the best for tonight's dinner.

"excuse me, miss," his small hand came out to tap your leg, head only coming up as high as your knee. "my papa thinks you're the prettiest girl ever!"

it took a second for his words to really register, cheeks flushing slightly as your eyes caught sight of his papa— standing a few steps away, confidence almost oozing out of his pores.

you cocked your head, "does this work for you? using your son as a wingman?"

"not sure," he started, "it all depends on if you'd be willing to give me your number."

bit longer than 3 sentences, but this is me we're talking about.

#— 1k celebration #three(ish) sentence stories #ask #anon #pierre gasly x reader #pg10 #pierre gasly #pierre gasly drabble

[halfelven]

love random not even logged in readers just dropping their 'constructive criticism' on your 100k+ story that you're putting online entirely for free. this is just a rant btw

"You obviously have a great talent and I think you should work on honing it some. As much as I’ve enjoyed the story, there are a few things that stand out that you might consider looking at. I feel like the story isn’t sure what it wants to be at times; is it character driven or plot driven? It doesn’t flow smoothly because sometimes we have these wonderful character vignettes, like Illumi and Kalluto on a road trip or Kite/Leorio/Gon/Killua in an apartment where plot doesn’t really feel important, followed by what feels like heavily plot driven beats, like Kalluto and the spiders. In addition, it contributes to confusion because sometimes we see established characterization turned on its head. Especially the weird way everyone all of a sudden just sort of was OK with Kalluto being a spider and then working with Illumi when they just went to all that trouble to escape him? It all kind of feels forced and not natural. You know?

Anyway, I’ll definitely keep reading and look forward to seeing what happens."

first: love you trying to sound legitimate with your "in addition" like this is some kind of writer's workshop. second: in what way would I, the writer, think that an incomplete part of my story in which the reader does not yet know most of the main motivations (they are only hinted at so far) feels forced and not natural when I know what's happening, where it is going (and where I haven't had other readers comment with confusion about that part)

and moving on. don't do this. also like i said this is a wip in and no, no one is cool with Kalluto being a spider and no they're not cool working with Illumi, really. it was already established that some of them /have/ been working with Illumi before this~ he's someone that they know. like have you never been in a seriously dangerous situation that you just have to get through before you get back to what you want?*** also at this point Chrollo's real motive hasn't been entirely revealed.

Killua keeps changing his mind about what he's doing because he's a scared kid whose self-hatred is destroying him from the inside out. the POV is so tight that I have to keep dropping reminders that what is stated in the narrative is often not true! Illumi's POV, for example, keeps showing Killua as really loving him and being happy he's around but struggling with a desire for freedom, while with Killua's POV he's terrified of Illumi most of the time. like how is that not obviously a distorted POV where you can't trust the narrator?

"where plot doesn’t really feel important, followed by what feels like heavily plot driven beats"

this part is especially irritating because it's like yeah that's how I want to write it? this isn't a published novel. I don't have to commit to making sure every scene is important to the plot. I can spend time writing a full scene about someone drinking a glass of water and then 13 chapters in a row that are for moving the plot forward. I didn't even tag it as a novel... I did tag it for unreliable narration and I keep getting annoyed that people keep ignoring that.

"I feel like the story isn’t sure what it wants to be at times; is it character driven or plot driven?"

it's both??? it's neither??? it's a fanfic??? why do I keep getting comments lately where people are expecting me to adhere to like fucking publishing standards. this keeps up and I will write a chapter which is entirely about a minor character drinking a glass of water. watch me. I'll write one about phinks drinking a glass of water and you'll like it*

"Overall, the story is good and presented a compelling alternative to CA. Look, each fan has their own opinion on CA and I know I didn’t like it. I think it was a product of what Togashi was going through as he began to experience health issues and then finding himself right back where he said he wasn’t going to be mentally after he ended his earlier manga. We can never know for sure, but it certainly had a “watch it all burn vibe” to it near the end. I honestly believe he wanted it to end with the finality of Gon’s suicide as a capstone statement, but was probably convinced to go a different route, which kinda of left a jarring feel in the narrative and culminated in a rather unsatisfying end to Gon and Killua’s journey. Despite that, I am very reluctant to read fics where the events of CA are erased or grossly modified and honestly yours is really the first long AU/alternate timeline I’ve enjoyed"

okay first of all, I love the CA arc. but I had to split a point off where Kite was going to survive. why do you have to leave this whole paragraph about how you think Togashi was or wasn't going to go with the CA on my fanfic? I didn't even write this as 'oh look at my alternative to CA bc I hated CA' I don't really look forward to hearing comments about how random people didn't like so and so aspect of the story that I'm basing my story off of. I've never written fanfic for a story that I didn't like (except for some things that I don't have published I wrote at a request for friends for a fandom they were into that I wasn't really) and yeah I've wanted to 'fix' aspects (like tolkien's treatment of women for example) but I am not looking for your 'this is what I hated about the source material' comments on my stories

tired of getting comments with little 'oh I didn't like your style at first but now I do' or 'here's how to fix your story!' unsolicited advice from people who aren't better writers than me (I don't even want it from people who would be better writers than me on stuff I'm just doing for fun and for free)

when did stuff like this become normal? at least don't be a coward and be not logged in so you can't even get a response notification. like girl they aren't cool with it! why do you think everyone is on guard standing around like they're in a fucking hostage situation? how do you see such wildly different interpretations from different character's POVs and think it's not intentional? what part about Kite watching Killua like a fucking hawk makes you think he's going to let Illumi take him after this?

like if you've never had to smile and pretend to be cool with your abuser (pretend to love them) or someone who was threatening you to keep someone else safe then good for you! it fucking sucks! also don't know how to explain to you what a child who is growing up in an extremely isolated abusive situation goes through (though I keep writing about it in this story you should catch on...) but it's a million back and forths with emotion and feelings--especially if their abuser does (to in some way or to some degree) love them. and it is often blaming themselves. I'm not letting my years of studying human psychology and child development go to waste here**

is this story perfect? no but I'm not gonna hire an editor for a fanfic. and everyone's interpretations of characters will be different. especially with child characters who are going through huge changes in the world around them and their personal lives. part of the appeal of fanfiction is 'who would they become if this happened instead?' *sorry I keep writing about starving and not having clean drinking water but I will never stop because that's what I grew up with and it's hell. also phinks drinking water would be compelling since I assume he'd have harder access to clean drinking water

**hunter x hunter is also one of the only stories I have encountered with characters who have backgrounds as fucked up as mine and Togashi's interest in human psychology really stands out.

***like good for you but that was most of my life and you sometimes just have to shut up and get through it. and no I will not put my notes in the right order bc I'm not being paid enough****

****I'm being paid nothing

#sorry i got one too many comments that irritated me #feel free to chime in if you're getting comments like this too #it's been really getting on my nerves lately #and making me not want to post anything #you're not my teacher or editor #and i don't use a beta reader bc i'd never post anything #if i had to think of it as work and not just for me #i already do writing for work where i have to really consider the reader #i also didn't like one commenter pointing out typos #i'll catch them at some point #they were like great chapter! here's all the mistakes i saw #so download the story and fix them yourself if they bother you so much you have to run through and do line edits #if you don't want typos i'd have to wait two to three months so the story looked fresh #to catch them before posting and i'm not doing that #you can think this sounds bitchy but writing is hours and hours of work #i could jot down five sentences just for myself and have a story for years just remembering what i was thinking when i wrote those #you want a perfectly edited story? then go read a professionally published book #oh i guess that's not good enough for you either #okay now i am being bitchy but in my defense #i'm not forcing them to read it