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Tag: prompted writing
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Odd Prompts: A Juicy Big Tomato
A standalone vignette. I promise! I’m not going to turn it into a whole novella like I did with Running Into Time! *** Kerchunk-splat! Devon ducked back behind the relative safety of the auditorium door. There had been a direct hit on the window in it, just moments before. The glass shattered, the metal mesh…
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Odd Prompts: Running Into Time
This is a portion of what I wrote today, which was supposed to be a short vignette to bridge me between two projects and ballooned into over 3000 words of… something. Dunno what it is yet. You tell me! *** “Why did you say Dr. Yeager was wrong?” She asked, after they had circumnavigated the…
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Odd Prompts: Design of Ages
A very short snip of nothing in particular, but I did get something written. *** “Despite being warned, the child continued to stack block on top of block.” She followed the direction of Dr. Brown’s gaze. He was staring up at the alien architecture that crawled up the side of the cliffs. “What?” Jenny…
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Odd Prompts: Coming Home
A snippet of something I wasn’t planning to write, I’m just happy I finally managed to write for a prompt again! *** “I’ll bring it back with me.” The young man patted the dry, peeling siding. It was cool to his touch. A movement in the piled dead leaves covering most of the yard caught…
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Odd Prompts: Crickets
The stridulation of thousands of crickets rose around him in a cacophonous chorus of desire. Not content to sigh of their longing, the racket could wake the dead. In the moment, it was the only sound, and not just because it was drowning out any other. The only thing still working was the crickets’ calls…
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Odd Prompts: A Single Flap
The title refers to chaos theory, the snippet is from a work in progress that is set in the same town as Farmhand. *** The agents looked at one another, then Spurgle huffed a sigh and followed Ilvan to a table. Drema turned her back on them and headed for the kitchen. Gray sat at…
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Odd Prompts: Let the Air In
As I’m typing this, I have a kitten patting and biting at the screen. He’s hunting the ‘bugs’ of the black letters and cursor as they dance across the screen. Here’s hoping I don’t have more typos than the usual, but… well, kitten! *** James closed the door firmly after the letting agent, and then…
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Odd Prompts: Flick
The boy dragged the it of the broken branch laboriously through the damp sand. It made a fine writing surface, with the tide gone out. He could scratch in it to his heart’s content, and then when the waves came back, whatever he’d written would be erased. The same could not be said of paper.…
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Odd Prompts: Monday Morning
The coffee shop was buzzing, as it was every Monday morning. No one knew how the baristas managed to start the work week off with such bubbly, sunny enthusiasm, and no one ever asked. There are things it is best not to know. What you need to know is that the coffee here is good,…
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Odd Prompts: Catch
The cat was doing some slick moves, I had to admit, some kind of soft-shoe dance with his tail adding a shimmy no human would ever be able to match. He ended with that ridiculous top hat rolling down his arm, popping off his paw, and coming right at me. I caught it reflexively, and…
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Odd Prompts: Snip
This isn’t anything just yet. Maybe later it will become more. *** “Who did this?” He gently picked up one of the tiny birds. “I have no idea. I haven’t seen anyone down there.” He put it back in her hand and looked around. The world was washed clean of the summer’s dust by the…
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Odd prompts: Adrift
The ship was not still, but at least it was no longer under power. The relentless drive had been silenced, and the marines hung silently in the cargo bay, bunched up with attention pointed outward. Not weapons, with no signs of life or movement, just aware of their surroundings. The comms woke up. “Engine is…