Odd Prompts 2021 – Week 3

This week’s prompt at MOTE put me in mind of an old TV show. "The man in the skull mask slowly held up his gun, and his other hand, empty. Then he dropped the gun." Sergeant Bill Preston of the North-West Mounted Police shifted slightly in his saddle and looked around, letting Rex pick his …

Odd Prompts – Week 52

The prompt was "The final exam for the Vampirology Diploma included staking and beheading at least one vampire… Show your work." The comedians from 4 Winds have an answer. “Here’s one,” Star looked over her shoulder and grinned.  “I had Bigfoot’s’ baby.” “Old news,” Gabe barely up from the stack of books he was skimming.  …

Odd Prompts Week 50

I really wanted to work on Murder Chicken again, for reasons, but none of the prompts at MOTE fit the existing story. After looking at the header image I finally decided that could work, with a bit of tweaking. Part 1 & 2 Murder Chicken – Pt3 “Star, can you bring your rescue kit?”  She …

Odd Prompts – Week 39

This week’s prompt from More Odds than Ends is: The woman walked out of the forest with a tree on her shoulder.  Okay, I kinda had an idea, just needed to stretch the prompt a little.  While I was getting started Sarah posted her word of the week: Babble.  It didn’t take too much to …

Odd Prompts – Week 38

This week I spotted a fun looking spare on More Odds Than Ends When you started talking to the monster hiding under your bed, you never expected it to tell you what it was hiding from. While I was working on it I happen to spy this weekly word prompt on Sarah Hoyt's page: Your …

Prompts and whatnot

The fog lifted and writing and job hunting commenced. The job hunt goes pretty much as expected in the current environment. Jobs are being posted but they are either too far away, I lack the degree to qualify, or I'm up against at least 50 other applicants. I dropped the coinage to have my resume …

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge — Victory Girls Blog

A quote: “We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.” ~~ George Santayana via Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge — Victory Girls Blog Robin stared out the window as she wrapped her hands around …

The Real Witches

This week’s Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge  on the Victory Girls Blog almost seems to tie in to a story prompt I received from More Odds Than Ends Weekly Writing Prompt Challenge. But I suspect that I went in a totally different direction that what Clint was thinking of when he said “There were lots …