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  • Fiction Discussion Re: Show Us Your (Shorts) Prompts!

    May 2 Your main character is on a mission or journey of some sort but get interrupted by every possible thing. No matter how hard they try to make it ...

    May 2, 2017
  • Fiction Discussion Re: Show Us Your (Shorts) Prompts!

    May 1st Your main character talks to a ghost about anything you like. Return to Prompt Log

    May 1, 2017
  • Fiction Discussion Re: Show Us Your Shorts Month

    Show Us Your Shorts! Join us for the first annual Short Story Month on YWS! Throughout the month of May, we'll be celebrating the art of writing short stories, with ...

    Apr 30, 2017
  • Fiction Discussion Re: Show Us Your Shorts Achievement Log

    Show Us Your Shorts! Achievement Log This is a thread for linking your short stories during Show Us Your Shorts month. You have to post links to your stories (published ...

    Apr 30, 2017
  • Fiction Discussion Re: Show Us Your (Shorts) Prompts!

    Need some inspiration to help get you through the month? Check this thread for a new writing prompt every day during May! Daily Prompt Log: May 1 May 2 May ...

    Apr 30, 2017
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: I'd hate to think I'm missing out

    30 I don't think enough about the bones beneath my skin wrapped in tendons and ligaments; they move so tenderly yet how little it asks of me to think.

    Apr 29, 2017
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: I'd hate to think I'm missing out

    29 What sweet cosmic irony to put the girls with a death wish on the porch by the train tracks; their arms are clean it's pills they popped, prescribed by ...

    Apr 29, 2017
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: I'd hate to think I'm missing out

    28 It's cold for the season today and I did not dress for the weather.

    Apr 29, 2017
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: I'd hate to think I'm missing out

    27 On the front porch of the guy you never dated but who kissed you on your birthday when your boyfriend lived in Japan, and told his friends he wished ...

    Apr 29, 2017
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: I'd hate to think I'm missing out

    26 There are skeletons in your underwear drawer, you have a closet but the folding doors fell off the track six years ago and you can't bother to move out ...

    Apr 29, 2017
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: I'd hate to think I'm missing out

    25 I'd be lying if I said I don't think about your pickup truck parked by the lake or the way you'd push me into the seat when headlights crawled ...

    Apr 28, 2017
  • Lounge, The Re: Summer Reading Donations

    I would LOVE to be a reader! Please keep me in the loop

    Apr 25, 2017
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: I'd hate to think I'm missing out

    24 Homesick does not account for the way I remember cool grass on a summer day or the crack of soybean pods in sunburnt hands or hills rolling under highways ...

    Apr 25, 2017
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: I'd hate to think I'm missing out

    23 To season your cast-iron skillet, scrub the rust and burnt-on breakfasts or late night drunken quesadillas with coarse salt and a potato if you have it, or a dry ...

    Apr 25, 2017
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: I'd hate to think I'm missing out

    22 I wonder if my daughters will know the smell of sun on grass. I wonder if my daughters will wear crowns of wildflowers beneath a stone-blue sky.

    Apr 25, 2017


A person is more than their experiences, stacked up like stones... Our best moments are the foundations we use to reach for the sky.
— Yumi and the Nightmare Painter by Brandon Sanderson