Tag: prompt challenge

  • Odd Prompts: Everything

    Odd Prompts: Everything

    “I can’t do everything. I want to.” She angled her palms, as though she were pouring out water from them. “I can’t.”  “No one expects you to.” Ella reached for Bonnie’s hands. “John would be unhappy to see you like this.”  “I know. I’ve been cheerful when he’s called, but he said… he said last…

  • Odd Prompts: The Holly and the Ivy

    Odd Prompts: The Holly and the Ivy

    A snippet from Special Delivery *** Bonnie found that walking down the long driveway to check the mail was a good way to get out of the house and stretch her legs every day. Her garden was dormant and peaceful under it’s light blanket of snow, but she was still restless. Six days a week,…

  • Odd Prompts: The Garden

    Odd Prompts: The Garden

    Same characters and timeline as last week, just a bit further along. I don’t know yet what, if anything, I’m doing with this story.  *** “John?” Bonnie paused at the foot of the stairs, looking up into the darkness. Their joy in arriving at their new home, and being on their honeymoon, had been tempered…

  • Odd Prompts: Moonlight

    Odd Prompts: Moonlight

      This is a snippet from the middle of a short story I’m working on.  *** “I have a story to tell you.” Mona sat on the steps to their trailer. Beth looked up at her. She’d plopped down on the ground, crosslegged, as soon as Mona had gestured for her. The stamp collector, looking…

  • Odd Prompts: Magnetic Repulsion

    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…

  • Odd Prompts: To Arms

    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…

  • Odd Prompts: Gothic Penguins

    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…

  • Odd Prompts: Missing Lynx Snip

    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…

  • Odd Prompts: Chloe Snip

    Odd Prompts: Chloe Snip

      A snippet from the next Groundskeeper story, and my prompt challenge for the week. I’m gearing up the writing – frankly, we need the income. It was never supposed to take six months to complete this move, and two households drains even a decent reserve. So there will be publications rolling out from Sanderley…

  • Odd Prompts: Scrape the Bottom

    Odd Prompts: Scrape the Bottom

    “I’ve only got two dollars in credits.” He was lying on his back on her couch, phone held up over his head so he could read it without moving. “You can’t buy much with that.”  “So wait and spend it later when you have more.” She didn’t turn to look at him. She didn’t have…

  • 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…

  • Odd Prompts: Corvina’s Introduction

    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…