Just when you thought I wouldn't have any more content for you this month, I pop out of the ether like a zombie hand breaking through a grave! All month long I've been taking part in the Writing Community's daily word prompt game #vss365. There are a bunch of different hashtags with prompts of different … Continue reading October Twitter Prompts
Category: Short Stories
Prompt 349-Void
Do you feel like there’s a void in your life and if so what could be causing it? The hearth is cold, the tree unlit. A single, muted gift rests beneath the boughs, its colors hard to recognize in the dim candlelight. Snow blankets the hard ground outside, silencing everything around. My phone sits facedown … Continue reading Prompt 349-Void
Prompt 347-Betrayed
Have you ever been betrayed and if so how? Dear diary, Never before today have I known true suffering. Not when I lost my favorite squeaky toy beneath the couch. Not when I forgot which tree I buried my favorite bone under. Not when the squirrels taunted me from their lofty branches after narrowly escaping … Continue reading Prompt 347-Betrayed
Prompt 346-Music Taste
What does your music taste say about you? I’d seen her around campus before. Her hair was always perfect, her make-up flawless, her clothes fitted and color coordinated. So much color. That much color should have been illegal in an 8am Monday class, but there she was, glaringly pink, three seats back in the first … Continue reading Prompt 346-Music Taste
Prompt 345-Commercialized
Is there anything you feel is too commercialized? “Oh no,” La’vi groaned. S’rai looked up from her holo and glanced around excitedly. “What? What is it?” La’vi gestured with her favorite hand, the topmost left, toward the vendor across the market. “They’ve already started putting up decorations for Universal Awareness Day.” “Oh! Is it almost … Continue reading Prompt 345-Commercialized
Prompt 344-Day’s End
What is your favorite way to end the day? “Finally!” Elise exclaimed with a sigh, dropping her purse to the floor at the door and kicking off her heels in the vestibule. The day had dragged forever. Nothing but endless meetings and phone calls all day long and she was pretty sure the project was … Continue reading Prompt 344-Day’s End
Prompt 342-The Illusion of Peace
Do you think world peace is an illusion? Thomas Hartley sat at a scratched and dented oblong table with the remaining leaders of the world. The bunker conference room was silent except for the scratching of pen on parchment as each of them signed their name to the treaty. Not a one of them were … Continue reading Prompt 342-The Illusion of Peace
Prompt 341-Good Friend
What makes you a good friend? Alaric stared out the port window to the void beyond, but his gaze focused inward. The blackness out there was nothing to the emptiness he felt inside. “Al? You okay?” Matty’s voice sounded softer than usual even with a door between them. He knew she was just trying to … Continue reading Prompt 341-Good Friend
Prompt 340-Color Outside the Lines
If someone told you to color outside the lines, what would that mean to you? My grandfather was an artist. His works line the halls of kings and presidents and galleries, great and small, worldwide. Paintings, sculptures, portraits, you name it. His talent knew no bounds. I used to love sitting in his studio, watching … Continue reading Prompt 340-Color Outside the Lines
Prompt 337-Chocolate Life
If life is like a box of chocolates, then describe your box. There was an old saying about life being like a box of chocolates. The gist being you never knew what you were gonna get. If that was true, Lara’s box had slipped through quality control and been run over by the delivery truck. … Continue reading Prompt 337-Chocolate Life
Closet Full of Notebooks 