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The prompt this time was the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. It made me wonder how such ruins could have been concealed, and why. “The hanging [...]
July 14, 2021
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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 [...]
July 7, 2021
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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 [...]
June 30, 2021
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Inspired by a prompt about summer vacations. This unnamed, teen narrator is writing an essay for school about what they did over summer [...]
June 23, 2021
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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 [...]
June 9, 2021
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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 [...]
June 4, 2021
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Inspired in part by Terry Pratchett, and his wee free men–though just a small part of their legend. “Isn’t the afterlife [...]
September 29, 2020
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Thousands of shards littered the floor, shattered pieces of silver light, marred by a splatter of red. She shouldn’t have hit the mirror. [...]
September 12, 2019
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When she was in her late teens–as soon as she started college and could reinvent herself as she’d planned–Natalie went by Lee, [...]
August 29, 2019
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From a writing group prompt on the seven deadly sins–specifically gluttony. Here be monsters. “How do you plead on the charge of [...]
August 15, 2019
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