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Category: Odd Prompts
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Odd Prompts: Returns
This is a chunk of something from a WIP. I may not include it when the actual thing comes together (everything else is in first person) so this was just what the prompt popped into my head. *** Mac leaned over Chimwemwe’s shoulder, resting his hand on the shock chair rather than the alien’s rubbery…
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Odd Prompts: Having Adventures
Another section of a work in progress, which I will not be posting wholly here, sorry. *** The next morning, they all gathered on the porch as the sun was just coming up. Corvina was yawning and heavy-eyed. She might have slept longer, had she not been curled up on the floor in the living…
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Odd Prompts: Corn Palace
Ok, this was an odd one this week, and I think I folded, spindled, and mutilated the prompt to make it fit in what I needed to write. Enjoy! **** The coven’s reach isn’t as long as they would like, but it’s pretty wide in a radius around Eugene.” “That’s why you routed us around…
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Odd Prompts: Corvina’s Introduction
This is the opening of a short story I’m working on. Set in the Witchward series, it follows on from Child of Crows, which can be found in the anthology Supernatural Streets (and later this year, likely in a standalone setting). *** Amaya walked into the big kitchen and paused. Her hostess was nowhere in…
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Odd Prompts: It’s Never Espionage
A little something fun from today’s prompt, which I decided to play straight. *** “It was a normal day until the penguins attacked.” This was delivered in such a lugubrious tone that I turned to fully look at the speaker. “Is that the beginning of a wild story, or the world’s lamest passphrase?” He looked…
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Odd Prompts: Commonly Believed to be Ming
Today’s prompt is a bit of something longer, which I won’t put entirely in public… I have plans for this story! **** She propped her elbows on the kitchen island, her eyes sleepy. Joe pushed a mug of coffee closer to her, and she blinked. “What did I do last night?” She asked, pulling the…
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Odd Prompts: Jack the Golden
So it took about twenty-four hours for me to get the writing brain online. Which really, isn’t bad all things considering. Also, I created a new writing spot in the apartment and tried it out… Ok, I didn’t need a spot. I found a chair and couldn’t pass it up, so it came home with…
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Odd Prompts: Nursery
I give you a scene. I’m really tired now. It was a sedate adventure. And then I added more adventures on after it, until my weekend was all gone and I’m happy but exhausted! ***** Her fingertips brushed down over the light panel, and the room dimmed into darkness. Before her eyes had a chance…
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When the rulebook for the first ever Interplanetary Games was announced there was an outcry from the Martian and Lunar Colonies. All the competitions had to be held at Earth-standard gravity – in the eyes of non-Earth-based competitors this biased the Games in favour of the Earth-based countries. –UniverWiki entry date 3456 21:67 Everyone knew…
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Odd Prompts: Caterpillar
I have no idea where this came from, or where it’s going. *** Jeff looked into the rearview mirror, then averted his eyes quickly. Staring fixedly out the windshield, his knuckles white from his grip on the wheel, he spoke without moving his lips. “What did you slip into my coffee?” The other man in…
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Jack’s Wood: Odd Prompts
I am picking up the thread of something I was working on last year. You will want to read Jack’s Stick, and Jack’s Quest, if you don’t recall them. *** Jack was snuffling along the garden wall again. Right along the back, where he always spent the longest time. I’d decided very quickly after he’d…
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Odd Prompts: Odder than Usual
With apologies, as I am quite tired… but I’m going to get it done. *** Granny Mathilde straightened up from her weeding. Every year the flowerbeds seemed to grow larger, no matter how many plants she gave away, or how much she sublet the yard. She rubbed her back, staring off into the distance,…