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Tag: writing prompt
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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: 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,…
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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: 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 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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Prompt Challenge Week 41
The Case of the Perambulating Hatrack may have come to a close, but I still have the rest of the year… holy heck, is that only eleven more weeks? We can do this! We’re so close! Anyway, I have still got weekly prompt challenges to respond to. Maybe not with another novel (no, not…
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Too Familiar: Odd Prompted
Kitten pulled the scarf tighter around her head and ducked out of the door, pulling it tightly shut behind her. The scarf wasn’t just to keep the biting cold wind out. The door nearly-slammed wasn’t just to keep that wind from snatching it open and banging. Although that would make her master yell louder,…
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Odd Prompts: The White Stag
This is my weekly prompt submission for Odd Prompts. I was challenged by Kat Ross with an image of a peek-a-boo deer. I challenged Cal Primer with ‘Living in a mossy forest, there is…’ This is sort of a continuation of Jack’s Stick. “Silly widgeon.” Jack’s ears perked up a little at his mistress’s…
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Odd Prompts: Jack’s Stick
So I started a weekly writing (or art!) prompt for the year. The writing group More Odds than Ends is taking part, along with other folks, hence the name ‘Odd Prompts.’ It works by people who want to participate submitting a short prompt to oddprompts@gmail.com and then on Wednesdays, the prompts are published as…
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Toilet Troubles
“I told you to put the lid down!” He shouted as he reached for the plunger. “I did!” She wailed, standing in the shower as far from the toilet as she could get in the small room. “Back, back damn you,” The plunger swipes were only increasing the magnitude of the problem. Her scream echoed…
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People of the Mushroom Planet
So, the other day (ok, a few weeks back) someone shared a video of tiny people riding bugs. “You should do this!” They told me. Which does sound like a lot of fun, but it takes time, patience, and possibly refrigeration to train insects to carry riders. Beside that, where do you get miniature people?…