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  • This prompt was about fire–myths, practical use, and such. I like playing Dungeons & Dragons, so this is where my mind went. ๐Ÿ™‚ [...]

    Ring of Fire

    September 1, 2022
  • This prompt was about order and balance. My mind immediately went on a sinister twist… We knew there was other intelligent life out there. [...]

    No Intelligent Life Here

    August 11, 2022
  • Another prompt–I have a back log!–about finishing the quest. Success looks like something different for different people, but [...]

    Dragonslayer

    August 4, 2022
  • The prompt this time was the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. It made me wonder how such ruins could have been concealed, and why. โ€œThe hanging [...]

    Current of Time

    July 14, 2021
  • The prompt for this one was curses. Sometimes the writing comes slow, other times it goes fast. As soon as I have the spark of an idea, I start [...]

    Love Words Curse

    July 7, 2021
  • This was from a writing prompt about quests. This protagonist is a rather practical sort, but in a post-apocalyptic world, don’t you kind [...]

    Fruits of My Labor

    June 30, 2021
  • Inspired by a prompt about summer vacations. This unnamed, teen narrator is writing an essay for school about what they did over summer [...]

    What I Did This Summer

    June 23, 2021
  • Image from WikiMedia by rahematshah kadri When I first walked in, I was speechless. My best friend and my husband, locked in an embrace in the [...]

    Fast Food

    June 9, 2021
  • Image from Wikimedia by Wolfgang Rieger. I’d been waiting for this day for three years, five months, and one day. That time, plus two [...]

    Karma Check

    June 4, 2021
  • Inspired in part by Terry Pratchett, and his wee free men–though just a small part of their legend. “Isn’t the afterlife [...]

    I Hope They Serve Tacos in Heaven

    September 29, 2020

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