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Category: Odd Prompts
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Odd Prompts: Cloudless Sky
This is a snippet from a potential work in progress. *** Rain fell from a cloudless sky. Sadie flicked an annoyed glanced upward, and then back at her brother. “Are you sure this is going to work?” She demanded. “No.” He didn’t look up from the loose assemblage of pipes his hands were busy…
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Odd Prompt: Elvish
“There’s a squatter.” She looked up from the plans spread out on the living room floor. “What?” Serena asked in confusion. Her father loomed over her, and she tipped her head way back, laughing. “I feel like a kid again.” He grinned down at her. “You look like a kid. Playing building blocks.” “I’m…
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Odd Prompts: Wonderland Snip
This is the last of this year’s prompted writing. I’m going to have a heck of a time going back and stitching this story together. Like a patchwork quilt, or maybe Frankenstein’s Monster when it is done. Snip “Baby girl, come look at this.” The old woman stood slowly, shedding her blanket onto the…
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Odd Prompts: Wonderland
A snippet of an ongoing project worked nicely for this week’s prompt! Special Delivery “We’re taking an unmarked?” Shelby grumbled as she followed Johns out into the parking lot. “Captain said not to take personals on this run.” He shrugged. “And I will be damned if I plant my flat old ass in a…
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Odd Prompts: Dragon Infestation
This is actually a snippet of a much longer WIP, and roughly from the middle. So if it seems like you’re missing context, I’m afraid that is because you are! Suffice it to say that a bunch of soldiers wind up with small dragons in the local ecology where there would be housecats elsewhere. …
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Odd Prompts: Turkey Soup
A fitting relic of Thanksgiving, and sight of yet to come… this is a piece of flash fiction. Enjoy! Turkey Soup The first game after Thanksgiving was always a slow one. Too much turkey, too much pie, after nearly 40 years of playing together, they all had it down to a routine. This time…
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Odd Prompts: A Gremlin Thanksgiving
This week’s prompt response is set in the same world as Lab Gremlins, with some familiar characters! Gremlin Thanksgiving “You want me to do what?” Steven remained sitting so he was looking straight into the eyes of his boss who was standing across the desk from him. He’d been bored out of his…
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Odd Prompts: Flash Response
For this week’s prompt, I wrote a little bit of flash fiction. Time’s Tractor John Grundler was looking at the very nice Jersey calf when his granddaughter popped up at his elbow. “Granddad, you’ve got to come look at this!” He startled; he hadn’t heard her coming. To his dismay, his hearing was not…
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Odd Prompts: Wonderland Snippet
I’ve given up trying to write this coherently. Flash pieces, and scenes, is the best I can do right now. I’ll come back later and put it all together like stitching up a quilt. Or Frankenstein’s monster. I’m just busy and tired. Mostly tired, and we are entering the Dark Season. I don’t do…
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Odd Prompts: Wonderland Snippet
This story is coming out in dribs and drabs. I’ll continue to put up the bits with prompt responses in them. Unfortunately Indian Summer is also giving me the allergies. So my brain, she is not what she should be. Wonderland Johns was staring at the derelict car. “What is it?” Shelby asked. …
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Odd Prompts: Wonderland Snippet
So! I have about 3000 words written on this story this week. It set up the bit you’re about to read, and wrapped up the scene in the Red Queen’s house. You don’t get to read that just now. The thing is, I’ve been dictating, and the transcription is beyond a hot mess into…
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Wonderland: Part 3
More prompted writing serial, which I started here, and continued here. I may need to go re-read Alice in Wonderland before I write more of this, or I may just massively abridge the conceptual bits I remember into this weird story. And no, it is not a fantasy. At most I’ll do a little…