Prompt: Well, apparently, Rock Bottom has a basement. I looked around the crowded bar. There wasn’t another server free. “Motherfucker,” I muttered under my breath. I’d have to take his table. Sighing in resignation, I pulled the hairtie off my wrist and quickly pulled my hair up into a sloppy bun. I turned toward the bar […]
Prompt: “Just call the police. No one has time for your Nancy Drew shenanigans.” It was only day one of an entire month with my Uncle Joe, Aunt Tami. Hell, I hadn’t even seen my cousins, Joey and Tiffany yet, and I already wanted to scream. I understood that my mom wanted me to have […]
Heads up, guys. This promptly penned is probably going to to be super short. I’m heartsick (and terrified) at the latest (continued?) political shitstorm facing this country. But I’m going to give this a go anyway. Prompt: Magic isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. For example, there are 20 spells for making tea […]
Prompt: “Wow. Can we just pretend, for one second, that you’re not a complete douchebag?” So this prompt fits a story that I’m working on really well, so I’m just going to throw it at these characters and see what happens. Eliza spotted her charge in one of the glass elevators, descending from the twenty-seventh […]
Prompt: Three more days of this. I looked at the calendar. January 17th, 2021. Three more days of this. Just three more days, and the nightmare would be over. That’s it for me this time–short and sweet. Be sure sure read the other bloggers stories. Jess, Deelylah, Jessica, and Kris.
Prompt: “That’s what happens when you don’t have reliable Wi-Fi.” Caleb squinted at the phone then looked up and did the same at our surroundings. He gestured toward a particularly dense area of forest. “It should be right through there.” “We’ve been walking for hours. Are you sure you put in the right coordinates.” […]
Prompt: S/he showed up at his/her door, soaking wet, bruised and covered in glitter. Alex stood in line of the grocery store clutching the last bouquet of slightly wilted roses they had and red plastic shopping basket filled to the brim with all of Izzy’s favorites. He set the flowers and everything else on the […]
It’s the last Promptly Penned of the year – yeah, I don’t know how that’s possible, either. Here’s the prompt, and my story’s down below. It’s odd how life is rarely about those big important choices, but hinges on the small stupid choices you didn’t even realize were choices until it was too late. Pink […]
Prompt: Person A: She smiled a little. “You’re a manipulator.” Person B: “I like to think of myself as an outcome engineer.” This is going to be a short one this week. I’m too far behind with everything I need to finish by the end of the week. Byron sighed and leaned forward, resting his […]
Prompt: Use the first line of a nursery rhyme as the first line of a dark narrative. Side note before I begin this prompt. I was researching nursery rhymes and realized that most of them are plenty dark on their own without my help. Like Goosey, Goosey Gander is apparently about killing Catholic priests who […]