[For some background on these stories, please see this post [link] over at my blog.] Prompt: Open up iTunes, set it to Random (“shuffle”), and write a story that could share the title with the ninth song (the story doesn’t need to have anything in common with the song except for the title). My ninth …
[For some background on these stories, please see this post [link] over at my blog.] Prompt write a story about the power of education. (Word count: 251) * * * * * “That’ll be $241.27,” Rosy, the Student Bookstore clerk, said. Fred Thomas stood, flabbergasted. “For books?” “Been out of school awhile?” Fifty-eight years old …
[For some background on these stories, please see this post [link] over at my blog.] Prompt: Write a short story set on a boat. (Word count: 259) * * * * * Rusty Mayer shipped his oars and sidled his canoe beside Janey Bristol’s. “Pardon me, have you any Grey Poupon?” Janey emptied the bucket …
[For some background on these stories, please see this post [link] over at my blog.] Prompt: Write a short story that could have the title “The Obelisk.” (Word count: 257) * * * * * “What is that thing?” “Where’s it from?” “I never seen nothing like it.” “Is it safe?” The neighbors of Laramie …
[For some background on these stories, please see this post [link] over at my blog.] Prompt: Write a short story set in a restaurant. (Word count: 258) * * * * * Fifteen-foot red neon proclaimed from the highway: RESTAURANT, which is why Benny asked Joan, “Wanna stop at the restaurant ahead?” As they pulled …
[For some background on these stories, please see this post [link] over at my blog.] Prompt: Write a story without using the verb to be. (Word count: 257) * * * * * Detective Hamish Letterman knocked on the door of apartment 2B. “Anybody home?” No reply. Letterman nodded to the officer beside him. “Break it …
[For some background on these stories, please see this post [link] over at my blog.] Brainstormer prompt: Self-Preservation / Downtown / Pool Hall (Word count: 259) * * * * * Swift Teddy’s Billiard Emporium was a holdover from a more elegant age. Theodore Felton III took as much pride in polishing the brass fixtures and …
[For some background on these stories, please see this post [link] over at my blog.] Prompt: Write a short story that could be entitled “Oops!” (Word count: 252) * * * * * “Oops!” The balloon-animal elephant squealed and plllllbbbbtttttt’d and flew around the room. It landed in Mr. Bobo’s rainbow-colored hair. All the guests at …
[For some background on these stories, please see this post [link] over at my blog.] Prompt: Write a short story illustrating a scientific principle. (Word count: 259) (A revised (100-word) version of this story appears in the anthology 100 Worlds. ) * * * * * “Probe AR-50 not responding, sir.” Operations engineer Maxwell pulled up …
[For some background on these stories, please see this post [link] over at my blog.] Prompt: Rewrite a classic fairy tale in an updated/modern setting. (Word count: 259) * * * * * Bluebeard’s wife, Margaret, stood outside the door, wondering if she dare defy her husband. “Well,” she said, “if God hadn’t wanted locks …
