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In response to Fandango’s story Starter #249 https://wp.me/pfZzxd-uD1 This week’s Story Starter teaser is:As Vincent took in the view from the seventeenth floor of the hotel, the lights suddenly went out all over the city. As Vincent took in the view from the seventeenth floor of the hotel, the lights suddenly went out all over the city.For a moment, Vincent thought he had gone blind. Then he…

In response to Esther’s writing prompt https://wp.me/p3vsTb-977 Your new writing prompt on this lovely Christmas Eve is…FAMILYMany of us are lucky to be surrounded by family at Christmas. But what about those members sadly missing/no longer with us? Maybe family means more to you than blood relatives. What about friends? Pets? What does the prompt word mean to you? Image Credits:…

Readers love surprises. Writers love secrets. And there is a particular kind of story that allows us to enjoy both. You begin reading, quite happily believing you know what sort of story you are in. Perhaps it is a romance. Perhaps it is a comedy. Perhaps it is a mystery, an adventure, a ghost story, […]Great Minds Think – The Literary Rug-Pull Challenge

What’s a promise you made to yourself that you’ve actually kept? I promised myselfthat no matter how many stormslearned my name,I would not become one.That disappointmentwould never be the languageI spoke to strangers.That grief,though welcome to stay awhile,would never be handedto someone else as an inheritance.I promised myselfto keep a small room inside my heartwhere wonder could survive,…

In response to Violet’s Literary Quotes Challenge Prompt: “I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.”— William Golding https://wp.me/paraa7-3xC Few quotations are as deceptively dangerous as this one. Not because it insults women. Quite the opposite. It flatters them. History has taught us to recognize misogyny when it arrives…

In response to John Holton’s Weekly Writer’s Workshop Prompts Prompt: 5. What doesn’t exist, but should?6. What does exist, and shouldn’t? https://wp.me/p18YYd-hM7 Every so often, usually while searching for my car keys with the television remote in my hand, I am struck by the unsettling realization that humanity has been solving the wrong problems. We congratulate ourselves for decoding…

In response to Esther’s Can you tell a story in 77 words using the following words in it somewhere:COYOTELEMONADETHERAPISTBUBBLEWRAPMISSPELLVACUUMLYCRABACKSTROKE https://wp.me/p3vsTb-9ZJ My therapist prescribed bubblewrap instead of meditation. I misspell prescriptions anyway, so I obeyed enthusiastically. Wearing Lycra, clutching lemonade, I practiced backstroke across the living-room floor,…

In response to Esther’s Weekly Writing Prompt Prompt: Label https://wp.me/p3vsTb-9Zo Every household has one. Not a room, though some houses are ambitious enough to dedicate an entire attic to the concept, but a drawer. It slides open with mild resistance, as though embarrassed to reveal its contents: expired batteries that may yet have a future, three mysterious keys, half a roll of…