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Category: Odd Prompts
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Odd Prompts: Chloe Snip
Another snippet of the work in progress, as I revisit Belleview and it’s highly unusual inhabitants. *** Several hours later, Chloe stepped out of the last bus, and walked up the sidewalk alongside the high wall of Belleview. She stopped and looked up at it, painted in the warm orange of the setting sun behind…
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Odd Prompts: Shortly
This is going to be an exercise in writing very short. I have a deadline coming, and this won’t fit. *** “Cor blimey.” The grimy little face wasn’t visible, but she could picture it streaked with mud already, despite the early hour. Under the layer of mud would be the too-pale skin of her young…
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Odd Prompts: Warmup
“Tell me about spring.” He nestled close to her, his eyes heavy, his body too warm. She tucked the blanket around him and accepted the snuggle. It was hard for the littles. They didn’t understand so many things. Sick was one of them. Spring was another. “Once upon a time…” She began. He looked up…
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Odd Prompts: Magnetic Repulsion
A little snippet of a SF romance. Written my way. *** The first time they met could best be described as a case of magnetic repulsion. Their eyes met across the void between them, and the force of their attraction flipped them violently around. “It sounds better when you put it that way.” She was…
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Odd Prompts: To Arms
No one expected there to be red pandas in the Sussex Arms. Which was, of course, why they were there. Dan peered over his half-moon readers at them, his gray fringed head gleaming under the new LED lights everyone hated in the ancient pub. There were two of them, and they were Shelby’s fault. She…
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Odd Prompts: Zombie Nature
The characters will be familiar to those of you who have read Lab Gremlins. *** “Hard hat, safety toes, and lab goggles,” Steven muttered to himself. “That’s all I ever wanted in a job.” “Huh?” Bob twisted around and looked at him. At least the big cephalapoid kept his weapon pointed away from his…
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Odd Prompts: The Cat’s Miaow
Just a little something. *** The problem was, of course, that no one could decide how to spell it. The cat hefted her hammer and let out a breath that perturbed her whiskers. She had a feeling her fur was standing out at all angles, and she knew she’d split a claw with a misdirected…
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Odd Prompts: What Train?
A snippet from the ongoing WIP. I’m only putting the bits with the prompt responses up here, as I am not entirely sure what this thing is going to be, or where it will be published when complete. *** “I don’t know what you have against Dmitri.” Branch didn’t speak until we were in the…
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Odd Prompts: Gothic Penguins
This is a snippet from a work in progress. *** We both looked at her. She blushed, a faint bloom of rose that ebbed after a moment. “I’m sorry to be so mysterious, but I really don’t know. I just know that the manuscript describes… a machine. In detail. However, we do not have the…
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Odd Prompts: Belladonna
A piece of flash fiction, or a vignette, as you please. *** The mirror reflected her own face, and the dark room behind here. She’d drawn all the drapes herself, long before she’d fallen into bed… somewhere in the early hours of the morning. Now, it would be broad daylight outside, yet it was dark…
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Odd Prompts: Missing Lynx Snip
You’ll find the beginning here. The characters were introduced in The Case of the Perambulating Hatrack. *** After a long silence, I focused on her again. She’d been sitting apparently motionlessly while I thought. “How is it that you think I’m willing to commit common burglary?” I put my hands on the desk, quietly. They…
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Odd Prompts: Leggy Blonde
This week’s prompt sees the Hatrack ambling casually back into my life… *** When the leggy blonde walked into my office, I looked up with appreciation. Started counting legs. Quit after six, because I changed my mind about them. No blonde should have that many legs. She got all the way through the door, then…