(From the Writer’s Digest creative writing prompt Creating the Character.) I feel the summon beckoning to me, pulling me to the surface as I haven’t felt in hundreds of years. I stretch my wings and eagerly answer the call. For all the power I have, that’s still the only way for me to travel between … More The Demon’s in the Details
(From the Writer’s Digest creative writing prompt It’s My Story and I’ll Pitch if I Want To) “Mr. Lubo will see you now.” The teenage girl nods to the receptionist before stepping toward the office door. “It’s what Grandmother would have wanted,” she whispers to herself as she pushes the oak door inward. The office … More Red Writing Hood
(From the Writer’s Digest Wednesday Poetry Prompt 486, to write a waste poem) In Loving Memory of Aunt Patty. We Miss You. I see her lay there A shadow of the spark she was. Her mind still there Still aware …at times. I hold her hand Gently, her bones frail. DNR, DNI Her living will … More Living Will to Die
(From the Writer’s Digest creative writing prompt No One Can See Me) I wait for them to come. They always do. The anniversary of when they discovered that the woman who lived here was not what she claimed. Nearly two hundred years since she was found out and they still come. I see their flashlights … More If Walls Could Talk
(Based on the Writer’s Digest creative writing prompt If You Look Back Far Enough, You Can See…) “But what do you see?” I stare into the darkness in the orb, a black so deep that it confuses the senses. There’s no reflection. No perceived depth within. It’s just…nothing. Nothing that has been trapped into a … More Looking Through the Void
It’s December, which means that the madness that is NaNo has come to a close. This was my second year participating and it served as quite a learning experience. The biggest of which being that I can do things I didn’t think I could. It was the middle of October when I went to the … More NaNoWriMo is Over!
It’s that time of year again. The time when writers sit around the table at the writing implements of their choice and try to hammer out fifty thousand [coherent] words in thirty days. That’s right, it’s National Novel Writing Month. I participated in NaNo last year, and “won” with something like 52,200 words (or something … More Annual Insanity
All my life I spent in the Dark. Never Seeing Feeling Knowing For myself. I always listened to the Truths of others, Trusting them to guide me, Keep me from going astray Protect me in my naivete Lest I stumble. A sliver of Light, so far away. I run in the Dark stumble fall but … More The Shadowy Line
(From the Writer’s Digest Creative Writing Prompt First Day of School and continuation of the stories Rat in a Maze and Mouse Trapped) They never said I would dream, but the only time I remember that is during those unconscious times. That’s the only time I remember anything beyond the current missions they wake me … More Into the Trap
(From the Writer’s Digest Creative Writing Prompt Lunch Gone Wrong and a continuation of a previous story, Rat in a Maze) I’ll never get used to this…the waking up without knowledge of where I am or how I got here. While I don’t remember anything, the feeling is so familiar I know that I have … More Mouse Trapped
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