Tag: prompted writing
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Odd Prompts: Reed Dragons
A bit of something, with more planned, perhaps. **** ‘The reed dragon is one of the smallest species of dragon. Its natural habitat is reed beds. It is flightless and wingless, and very rarely breathes fire. It has excellent camouflage, is extremely stealthy and has excellent acceleration from rest, making it a highly-skilled stealth…
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Odd Prompts: Wonderland Snip
A little bit, out of order. This is backfill, since the scene following it appeared on the blog a few weeks ago. Working this prompt in was a huge challenge! *** Johns climbed in the passenger side, and buckled in. Shelby shot an exasperated glance at him, then looked back up at Elzbet, who…
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Odd Prompts: Glass and Grape
This week’s prompt led to a short story, science fiction, and is a play on some science that actually exists, although not yet this mature… Glass and Grape The blackberry note was nice, but the green… Adriana gently spat the wine back out into her waste cup and shook her head faintly, regretfully. Her…
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Odd Prompts: A Ghast
This is a bit of what will eventually be “The Groundskeeper: Hoodoo You Do” when I’m finished with it. The joke is all on the First Reader! **** Chloe put her hands on her hips. Her purple hair, now with blue tips, was slipping out of her messy bun and tickling her forehead, where…
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Odd Prompts: Wonderland
I will sometimes get little flashes of fiction, scenes without any real setting or place. This one, I know belongs to Wonderland. But I don’t know where it goes in the story. My muse is being shockingly reticent these last couple of months. *** “Hey, Carroll…” The captain had opened the door to…
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Odd Prompts: Cloudless Sky
This is a snippet from a potential work in progress. *** Rain fell from a cloudless sky. Sadie flicked an annoyed glanced upward, and then back at her brother. “Are you sure this is going to work?” She demanded. “No.” He didn’t look up from the loose assemblage of pipes his hands were busy…
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Odd Prompt: Elvish
“There’s a squatter.” She looked up from the plans spread out on the living room floor. “What?” Serena asked in confusion. Her father loomed over her, and she tipped her head way back, laughing. “I feel like a kid again.” He grinned down at her. “You look like a kid. Playing building blocks.” “I’m…
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Odd Prompts: Wonderland Snip
This is the last of this year’s prompted writing. I’m going to have a heck of a time going back and stitching this story together. Like a patchwork quilt, or maybe Frankenstein’s Monster when it is done. Snip “Baby girl, come look at this.” The old woman stood slowly, shedding her blanket onto the…
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Odd Prompts: Wonderland
A snippet of an ongoing project worked nicely for this week’s prompt! Special Delivery “We’re taking an unmarked?” Shelby grumbled as she followed Johns out into the parking lot. “Captain said not to take personals on this run.” He shrugged. “And I will be damned if I plant my flat old ass in a…
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Odd Prompts: Dragon Infestation
This is actually a snippet of a much longer WIP, and roughly from the middle. So if it seems like you’re missing context, I’m afraid that is because you are! Suffice it to say that a bunch of soldiers wind up with small dragons in the local ecology where there would be housecats elsewhere. …
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Odd Prompts: Turkey Soup
A fitting relic of Thanksgiving, and sight of yet to come… this is a piece of flash fiction. Enjoy! Turkey Soup The first game after Thanksgiving was always a slow one. Too much turkey, too much pie, after nearly 40 years of playing together, they all had it down to a routine. This time…
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Odd Prompts: A Gremlin Thanksgiving
This week’s prompt response is set in the same world as Lab Gremlins, with some familiar characters! Gremlin Thanksgiving “You want me to do what?” Steven remained sitting so he was looking straight into the eyes of his boss who was standing across the desk from him. He’d been bored out of his…