Tag: Prompt response
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Odd Prompts: Deep Dive
A continuation of last week’s story bit. *** Jimmy peered at the screens, his eyes flickering rapidly between them. He was too old to still think that hoping hard enough for something would make it real. He thought this, and then rolled his shoulders, trying to make it true. The tension in his frame was…
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Odd Prompts: Spy Chat
This is a snip from the longer piece I started with ‘It’s Never Espionage’ *** I stowed the gear, and as my wife had not yet rejoined me, stuck my head into the corridor. Branch and Amelie’s compartments were both closed, and there was no one in sight in our car. I debated, momentarily, waiting…
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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 Prompt: Honeymooners
I don’t know where this prompt is going, other than a very odd romance. *** Something borrowed, something blue, Something old, something new…. The something old hanging from the waist of her wedding gown had been her granny’s sewing scissors, the little silver ones shaped like a stork. Now, the long beak-blades bloody, it…
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Odd Prompts: Snippet
This is a snip of something, likely part of the next Amaya Lombard novel, which will be titled Bone Sigh. *** The only sounds in the room were the ticking of the clock and the odd thumps coming from the empty apartment above. Amaya held very still, breathing through an open mouth, and listened.…