This week’s prompt was: Write a story with a wolf in it.

The Wolf of Winter

Wódz had brought his pack to the banks of the Neman many times, though there were less conspicuous places to drink.  Traffic on the river, should they see a… Read full post »

This week’s prompt was: Write a story where a character goes back one year in time.

The Time Machine

I’d already showered and tore half of my scalp off brushing the knots out of my hair, and dug my skirt out from behind Sean’s… Read full post »

This week’s prompt was: Write a story that takes place in or involves somewhere you lived or knew well as a kid.  Try to use description to bring the place vividly to life.  REMEMBER, this should be FICTION, not memoir.  Have fun with the idea - maybe imagine what your best… Read full post »

This week’s prompt was: Write a story that begins with the line: "Listen carefully," he said, "this won't be easy for you to hear"....

Implanted Memory

"Listen carefully," he said, "this won't be easy for you to hear", but Dayton had passed out again before… Read full post »

This Week’s Prompt was: Write a story where a character's late arrival sets something in motion.

Assassin, Wife, Cuckolder, Spy

Yvette stood at the window hardly feeling the cool October breeze, nor hearing the little clatter of silverware in the pantry as Mimi finished closin… Read full post »

This week’s prompt was: Write a story centered around something that opens.

The Door to R'lyeh

It was only April but the sweltering heat of summer gripped Louisiana with all the hatred of an angry god.  Another night of thunderstorms had driven the sun from… Read full post »

This week’s prompt was: Write a story in which you commit a petty crime.  Ideally, this would be autofiction (so involving a character who is basically you or your OS persona), but if you prefer to make it about another/other character(s), no problem.

At least things can’t g… Read full post »

This week’s prompt was: Write a story based on Van Gogh’s painting Undergrowth with Two Figures.

Paradise of the Moment

As befitting one of Saphríaca’s great parliamentarians, the mansion of Crafter Otar Somnabuel clung to the city’s north wall, balanc… Read full post »

This week’s prompt was: to write a story inspired by this photo.

Shadow Over Odiome

Driving up the Atlantic coast, the sun had just broken through the March fog out on the ocean but its seeping, candle-colored light brought only the promise of day and… Read full post »

This week’s prompt was: "A couple comes into a restaurant independent from each other and seems a little pre-occupied when they finally meet and sit down;" what is their story?

The Underground Railroad

I’ve always believed you could do this.  But the kids that go… Read full post »

This week’s prompt was: write a story with these words in it: paper, foot, porridge, candle.

The Plains of Gladnik

The clouds overhead writhed like boiling gauze or sickly yellow boils, infesting the sky from the glooming shade that surrounding the plains to the mountains… Read full post »

This week’s prompt was: Two people meet.  One of them wants to be someone else.  Write their story.

A Kiss

“Brent Hudson’s performance as Bobby, my dears,” the Time’s review ran, “took this play to the stratosphere—the sexy stratos… Read full post »

This week’s prompt was: Write a story in which a character gets an award.

The Paper Hero

The Municipal Building on Center Street had seen better days.  In 1977, two years after Gerald Ford had told New York—In a Daily News abbreviated headline—to drop dead,… Read full post »

This week’s prompt was: Write a story in which a character is missing all or part of a limb, or gets all or part of a limb removed.

The ungue brachium rex

The rented Toyota bounced down the well-rutted dirt road with the reckless abandon… Read full post »

This week’s prompt was: Write a story involving an abandoned book in an unexpected place.

Book of Azathoth

Robert Drahow… Read full post »

This week’s prompt was: Write a love story.  This can be a love story of any kind, not necessarily romantic, and not necessarily with a happy ending, etc.

Never Gave Up

The road to Mount Umbra wound through leafless elms and maples, past towering pines… Read full post »

This week’s prompt was: Write a story inspired by this painting.

Daemon ex Parietem Pictum

Paul stumbled down the rickety wooden stairs to the kitchen and nearly fell through the painting he was carrying.  His mother, serving eggs and buttered bread to Paul’s father… Read full post »

This week’s prompt was: Write a story that includes the following words: window, capricious, sweater, tourism.

The Pocket Watch and the Pistol

Terry pulled his hands out of his trouser pockets for what must have been the hundredth time since the ferry dropped him off… Read full post »

This week’s prompt was: Write a story where one character tells another character's fortune.

The Path of Fate

The breeze about Mount Tibidabo would have felt refreshing if not for the strain of climbing.  Even so, after the blazing white soil that crawled to the… Read full post »

This week’s prompt was: Write a story based on something you see in the official video for Lady Gaga's "You and I".

Mine

Molly brought the Corsair XII into level atmospheric flight manually before engaging the autopilot.  Once she uploaded the waypoint series that would… Read full post »

This week’s prompt was: Write a story that begins with this sentence: "The first day of the year was cold and rainy."

Fhtagn Legion

The first day of the year was cold and rainy.  Perfect in a way.  The view from the tower's top was… Read full post »

This week’s prompt was: Write a story that takes place on New Year's Eve.

CompAn

Howard used to love late December in New York.  His mother had told him that once upon a time snow used to fall on Christmas but he didn’t believe her… Read full post »

This week’s prompt was: A person receives a birthday card and a holiday card every year, but from whom? It is never signed and no matter where the receiver moves, these anonymous greetings follow.

Break Down Letters

Sandra felt the long hours at the lab… Read full post »

This week's prompt is: Write a story about a winter holiday celebration gone wrong, and its aftermath.

Nobody Dies on Christmas

Sgt. Castiglione slunk out of Pvt. Cassidy’s foxhole and, in a crouch, padded through the fresh snow toward his 2^nd machinegun position.  As he… Read full post »

This week’s prompt was: At work one day, a character finds something troubling in a coworker’s desk drawer. What is it, and what happens? 

The Mole, the Double-cross, and the Bath.

When he saw the four-by-six holding cell against the left wall, Louie lost it… Read full post »