Writing Prompts 2016
- Prompt Thirty-Eight: "You're human? Right? We don't see many of those these days."
- Prompt Thirty-Seven: You receive a USB from the mail that says "Please don't open." You decide to open it at the library's public computer. Worst decision of your life.
- Prompt Thirty-Six: Pharmaceutic - From Latin pharmaceuticus (“of drugs”), from Ancient Greek (pharmakeutikós, “drug maker”)
- Prompt Thirty-Five: Failed SAT. Lost scholarship. Invented rocket.
- Prompt Thirty-Four: Gabriella awoke one morning to find that she was somehow transported to life inside her favorite soap opera -- just in time for the big wedding.
- Prompt Thirty-Three: You have died and arrived in Heaven. Upon opening your eyes you see two items on a screen in front of you. One is titled 'Heaven.zip' and the other 'READMEFIRST.dox'. You decide not to bother and open heaven.
- Prompt Thirty-Two: In the soft firelight she turned the next page of the book and was astonished when the letters began to fall out -- sliding down the page into her lap like flecks of string.
- Prompt Thirty-One: Signalman - 1. Somebody employed to operate the signals and points of a railway 2. A member of the armed forces responsible for signalling
- Prompt Thirty: whorl. Help! I’m caught in a time
- Prompt Twenty-Nine: I died eight years ago. I remind myself of that every morning when I look in the mirror.
- Prompt Twenty-Eight: Your computer can connect to the internet of one year in the future. This time you can't connect.
- Prompt Twenty-Seven: I could finally feel the wind against my head as I removed my helmet and look around at the remnants of the battle.
- Prompt Twenty-Six: Vertigo - A disordered or imbalanced state of mind or things analogous to physical vertigo; mental giddiness or dizziness.
- Prompt Twenty-Five: In 2025 the first mission to Mars is a success. Upon arrival to the red planet the astronauts notice a cave. Inside they find a human skeleton and four words carved into the wall.
- Prompt Twenty-Four: Your fortune cookie says "404: Future not found". After you read it -- everything around you stops.
- Prompt Twenty-Three: She knew the words of the song or at least the lines' endings: crest blessed chime and rest.
- Prompt Twenty-Two: Automobile warranty expires. So does engine.
- Prompt Twenty-One: I watch the ripples change their size but never leave the stream...
- Prompt Twenty: Stellar - Of (pertaining to) or characteristic of stars.
- Prompt Nineteen: In all the years since going blind -- the worst of it was the first 24 hours.
- Prompt Eighteen: For sale: baby shoes -- never worn.
- Prompt Seventeen: "Two wishes have been granted and only one remains... What will it be?" asked the magic genie.
- Prompt Sixteen: Your cat is literally Satan. You've learned to live with him -- but this Friday you've got a date coming over...
- Prompt Fifteen: Similitude - Similarity or resemblance to something else.
- Prompt Fourteen: There was no way to know which number was right. Closing my eyes I said a quick prayer and chose.
- Prompt Thirteen: The morning was still and pristine until the silence was shattered by the report of a single shot.
Writing Prompts 2015
- Prompt Twelve: All good stories really start in the middle. So I'll start at the end. Or what I thought was the end -- the day my glimmer came to life.
- Prompt Eleven: As I rubbed the chalky dirt between my fingers into the breeze I stood proudly atop the cliff edge and watched the --
- Prompt Ten: No place like home. But things sure have changed a lot since I got back from --
- Prompt Nine: To her blue may have just been any other color -- but the symbolism of it wasn't lost on me.
- Prompt Eight: It had been his/her favorite childhood memory... But time and betrayal now darkened it.
- Prompt Seven: As my fire continued to die it ceased to protect me from the shapes that had taken form within the surrounding fog.
- Prompt Six: The house was empty. Of that he was sure. So the alarm in his brain was hellish and most prevalent when he heard the words "Sweet dreams" muttered behind him...
- Prompt Five: The alarmists were right. The Earth is --
- Prompt Four: The blank sheet of paper seemed to stare back at me. This was without doubt the worst homework I'd ever gotten.
- Prompt Three: I turned my hand over to find blood slowly but steadily pooling in my palm.
- Prompt Two: The engraved wooden box had been in my family for generations and now it was mine.
- Prompt One: Addison's karma meter is full. Instant karma (good or bad) is coming his/her way...
