Sunday, February 24, 2013

Week 9, 2013 Writing Prompt

Astrology marching band.

Week 8, 2013 Writing Prompt

The Gravel Road King: a farm girl, taking walks with various people down the long gravel road near her house becomes a prophet as her offhanded comments and pronouncements begin to come true.

Monday, February 11, 2013

Week 7, 2013 Writing Prompt

The Storyteller vs. The Storytaker.

Thursday, February 07, 2013

Week 6, 2013 Writing Prompt

A girl moves into a Manhattan bathroom for $500/mo. Has to resort to drugs to fuel her pontification. OR she moves into a bathroom in her home and pretends she's living in NYC.

Thursday, January 31, 2013

Week 5, 2013 Writing Prompt

A story about The Ringmaster, who is best described as a flamboyant Johnny Depp type character if Willy Wonka and Jack Sparrow had a son who was 80 lbs overweight.

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Week 4, 2013 Writing Prompt

Another story set at the old country resort: never swerve to avoid birds, even on a country road. You could end up in another dimension. For there are beings known as road pookas, entities in the forest that want to kill you but will settle for an offering of bananas and peanuts. Not bad, not good, until one day. One day, when instead of the trickster aura they instead emit a sharpness...spite. Only a wrensbreath from evil.

Week 3, 2013 Writing Prompt

The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe meets Something Wicked This Way Comes: Rokuro Kubi, a snake-necked woman from Japanese mythology (portrayed in my mind by Lady Gaga in a role akin to David Bowie as the Goblin King) haunts an old country resort. Duncan, the asexual possibly immortal long-time resident of the hotel is tasked in dispatching her, but can she do so with two small children tagging along?

Monday, January 07, 2013

Week 2, 2013 Writing Prompt

The little lords of chaos kept mostly out of site, until one of their brothers, Death, went missing, which forced them to make their presence known to a human in hopes of finding him.

Friday, January 04, 2013

Week 1, 2013 Writing Prompt

Please write a story (at least 300 words) to this title and post to the comments:

"Paige and Page and the Talking Dog Puppy"

This is a weekly challenge and was in part inspired by a Gather.com group I use to belong to.