Happy New Year to all and welcome to 2023, may it treat us well. This was the final prompt for 2022. Inspiration: Dicken’s A Christmas Carol and other Victorian error Christmas ghost stories. Prompt: Write a ghost story with a moral. The response to this were great in our writing group. The writer that won
Category: Fiction & Poetry
Time for some yuletide tales! For this prompt we selected a creature from a winter holiday belief system from around the world with a very brief description. I selected the Mari Lwyd. This is a bit of Welsh mythos-tradition, the only description I was given was a horse skull draped in a cloth that requests
The prompt for this story was to bring a Greco-Roman god or goddess into 2022. I had a lot of fun with this one, I’ve always enjoyed Greek mythology. My only edits are for spelling and a few little organization changes for readability. “If you enjoyed my music please make sure to like and subscribe!”
The prompt this last week was to select an image from a selection of interesting medieval manuscript art and write anything about it. I selected two separate images. The story for the second image is below. Normally I only do edits for spelling but I also did I a bit of reorganization as far as
The prompt this last week was to select an image from a selection of interesting medieval manuscript art and write anything about it. I selected two separate images. The story for the first image is below. As always the only edits I have made are for spelling. Snails The original text said snakes but the
This was a fun prompt. Everyone selected a book and then rolled 3 10-sided die. Based on the number from the die, we flipped to that page number and after reading either the first line or the whole page we were to continue what we thought might happen. I selected the Necronomicon by H.P. Lovecraft
We are a little past spooky season but I am a bit behind on my stories and I do love how this one turned out. Prompt: Cryptids and mythological creatures are now out in society and know to the humans. What are they doing now. If possible, try for a bit of rom-com. Crypid: [noun]
The writing prompt for this story was an unsolved mystery. We all drew mysteries from a hat and I got the Flannan Lighthouse Mystery. Here is the short blurb: In 1900, thre lighthouse keepers disappeared from their post at the Flannan Island Lighthouse. The ship sent to relieve the men could tell something was very
For this prompt we all drew old movie titles from a hat and wrote either news stories or movie trailer based on the title. This was a ton of fun and we all laughed a lot at how ridiculous these got. As always, these short stories are unedited besides spelling. The Crater Lake Monster (1977)
My apologies for the lack of creative writing the past couple of weeks, I have been busy but never fear as I have stories to tell. This prompt was a bit of technical writing combined with something that would give the reader goosebumps, we were asked to write in second-person. As always, this story has
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