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Category: Odd Prompts

  • Wonderland: Part 2

    Wonderland: Part 2

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      Following up with last week’s prompt response, I have another part of that story, which now has a title. This one is going to be a bit darker and grittier than my usual.  Part 2 “What’s the matter, Shelb?” John’s plopped the file down on her desk. “You know, for a paperless office, we…

  • Prompt Challenge Week 41

    Prompt Challenge Week 41

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      The Case of the Perambulating Hatrack may have come to a close, but I still have the rest of the year… holy heck, is that only eleven more weeks? We can do this! We’re so close!  Anyway, I have still got weekly prompt challenges to respond to. Maybe not with another novel (no, not…

  • Too Familiar: Odd Prompted

    Too Familiar: Odd Prompted

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      Kitten pulled the scarf tighter around her head and ducked out of the door, pulling it tightly shut behind her. The scarf wasn’t just to keep the biting cold wind out. The door nearly-slammed wasn’t just to keep that wind from snatching it open and banging. Although that would make her master yell louder,…

  • Metronome

    Metronome

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      Life rarely follows the steady, even beat you think you wish it would. Life changes relentlessly, and with each little change, the future shifts like a kaleidoscope turning. There’s no going back to that past pattern, no way to reset life into a previous schema you have already passed by. Time flows onward, and…

  • Jack’s Quest: Odd Prompts

    Jack’s Quest: Odd Prompts

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      “Jack!” I shouted, sprinting after him. His leash flapping, he was bounding across the field ahead of me. I knew I’d never catch him unless he stopped for some reason. I also knew it was unlikely he’d stop before he made it to the woods and there was that deer… no, I corrected myself…

  • Odd Prompts: The White Stag

    Odd Prompts: The White Stag

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      This is my weekly prompt submission for Odd Prompts. I was challenged by Kat Ross with an image of a peek-a-boo deer. I challenged Cal Primer with ‘Living in a mossy forest, there is…’  This is sort of a continuation of Jack’s Stick.  “Silly widgeon.”  Jack’s ears perked up a little at his mistress’s…

  • Snapshot

    Snapshot

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      Jim knew he was somewhere beyond tired, ranging into exhaustion and the peculiar drunken twilight of sleep psychosis, but he was certain he would have remembered the camera. He stared down at it, right there in the center of his desk, for a long moment before turning carefully away, looking at the coffeepot instead.…

  • Odd Prompts: Jack’s Stick

    Odd Prompts: Jack’s Stick

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      So I started a weekly writing (or art!) prompt for the year. The writing group More Odds than Ends is taking part, along with other folks, hence the name ‘Odd Prompts.’ It works by people who want to participate submitting a short prompt to oddprompts@gmail.com and then on Wednesdays, the prompts are published as…