It’s time for this month’s writing prompt. The prompt will appear in bolded text in the story. You need this job. You need this job, You need this job, I chanted silently to myself. Keep your mouth shut. You need this job. When Aubrey had described her Aunt Beatrix as whimsical and a little eccentric, […]
Prompt: You’ve been able to read people’s thoughts since you were a child. But no one has ever talked back. Until now. I hated the F train at night. Well, I hated the F train anytime of day, but it was easier to tune out the voices on the early morning commute. Most […]
The prompt will be in bold in the story. Head pounding, Kat slowly blinked open her eyes and squinted, trying to make out her surroundings. It smelled a little like wet earth and moldering leaves. There was a bare lightbulb in a table lamp across the room–the wire of the bent harp cast odd, […]
Prompt: “No, I said we were safer, not safe.” “We should be safer up here. Did you make sure all the doors and windows are locked?” Mark nodded. “I covered all of the windows, too.” “Good.” Rowan pushed her hair off her face and wiped the sweat from her forehead with her forearm as she […]