Author: David Wiley
Challenger: Kirsten
Prompt: Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.
Response: First Watch

Author: kgwaite
Challenger: David Wiley
Prompt: The rain assaulted her skin with heavy droplets as she crouched in the cover of darkness.
Response: Under Cover

Author: Michael
Challenger: kgwaite
Prompt: Run away home…
Response: What I Heard

Author: Sinistral Scribblings
Challenger: Michael
Prompt: I’m so tired.
Response: The Brown Memorial Library

Author: Bewildered Bug
Challenger: Talia
Prompt: Write someone who is about to jump off a bridge. Why? Who stops them?
Response: The Tragedy

Author: Kurt
Challenger: Bewildered Bug
Prompt: All she had ever wanted was a ruby red kettle.
Response: Kettle Whistle

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The deadline for this week’s challenge is Thursday, May16, at midnight Eastern time.

Here is a list of people who signed up for this week, and the prompts to which they’ve been assigned. If your name isn’t on the list, please visit this page to sign up for next week.

• Kirsten : ‘…frightened pilots at the controls of a vast machine they cannot understand, calling in experts to tell them which buttons to push.’ – William S. Burroughs, “Interzone”
• David Wiley: Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.
• kgwaite: The rain assaulted her skin with heavy droplets as she crouched in the cover of darkness.
• Michael: Run away home…
• Sinistral Scribblings: I’m so tired.
• Talia: ‘There’s a stain on my notebook where your coffee cup was.’ – The Squeeze, “Black Coffee in Bed”
• Bewildered Bug: Write someone who is about to jump off a bridge. Why? Who stops them? [Editor's note: Who says anyone stops them?]
• Kurt: All she had ever wanted was a ruby red kettle.

Author: SAM
Challenger: k~
Prompt: There was just enough light in the darkened room for Kendra to notice…(feel free to change the name)
Response: To Catch a Thief

Author: Steph
Challenger: SAM
Prompt: It happened at a Bingo game.
Response: G-47

Author: Michael
Challenger: Steph
Prompt: A couple has chosen to get married, but they are not marrying for love.
Response: Yes

Author: kgwaite
Challenger: Michael
Prompt: ‘He was experiencing the resentment of those who discover that, despite their own grave condition, the world goes on about its business, heartless, without even so much as a long face.’ -Tom Wolfe
Response: The Fourth Spoon

Author: dailyshorts
Challenger: kgwaite
Prompt: Have someone select one object at random from each of the rooms in your house. Now, write a story using each of those objects.
Response: Tonight is the Night

Author: Sinistral Scribblings
Challenger: Talia
Prompt: I promise I’ll do better next time.
Response: Riding the Ley

Author: k~
Challenger: Sinistral Scribblings
Prompt: Sometimes, things don’t stay dead
Response: Dinner on the Table

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The deadline for this week’s challenge is Thursday, May 9, at midnight Eastern time.

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• SAM: There was just enough light in the darkened room for Kendra to notice…(feel free to change the name)
• Steph: It happened at a Bingo game.
• Michael: A couple has chosen to get married, but they are not marrying for love.
• kgwaite: “He was experiencing the resentment of those who discover that, despite their own grave condition, the world goes on about its business, heartless, without even so much as a long face.” -Tom Wolfe
• dailyshorts: Have someone select one object at random from each of the rooms in your house. Now, write a story using each of those objects.
• Talia: In 100 words or less, describe (in as much detail as possible) the worst vacation you or your character has ever had.
• Sinistral Scribblings: I promise I’ll do better next time.
• k~: Sometimes, things don’t stay dead.

Author: k~
Challenger: kgwaite
Prompt: The surface of all things.
Response: The Surface of All Things

Author: SAM
Challenger: k~
Prompt: A woman in a dress is standing next to the edge of the pier on an overcast day. Why is she there?
Response: Bobbins

Author: Michael
Challenger: Diane
Prompt: It’s Backwards Day!
Response: Backwards Day

Author: kgwaite
Challenger: FlamingNyx
Prompt: You take a deep breath and the crisp air that fills your lungs makes it clear that winter is coming. Play with this: Reminisce about the summer that has passed by too fast, the autumn that never was or the imminent winter. You can take it literally or figuratively.
Response: Mended

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The deadline for this week’s challenge is Thursday, May 2, at midnight Eastern time.

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• k~: The surface of all things.
• SAM: A woman in a dress is standing next to the edge of the pier on an overcast day. Why is she there?
• Diane: where the wind blows
• Michael: It’s Backwards Day!
• FlamingNyx: the girl with the tortoiseshell glasses
• kgwaite: You take a deep breath and the crisp air that fills your lungs makes it clear that winter is coming. Play with this: Reminisce about the summer that has passed by too fast, the autumn that never was or the imminent winter. You can take it literally or figuratively.

Author: Michael
Challenger: Sinistral Scribblings
Prompt: An irregular hiatus
Response: One Shoe

Author: kgwaite
Challenger: Michael
Prompt: “There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast.” -Herman Melville
Response: Good Fortune

Author: Grace O’Malley
Challenger: SAM
Prompt: Summer pleasure, winter sin.
Response: Colonies

Author: FlamingNyx
Challenger: Grace O’Malley
Prompt: Blood under the fingernails and sand on a red velvet skirt.
Response: About This Morning

Author: k~
Challenger: FlamingNyx
Prompt: You’re sitting alone facing the beach on a Sunday morning, struggling to get the words on paper. Just as you admit defeat, you write the name of a past lover, and the first line of a letter: “Only love can break your heart.” Complete the letter.
Response: Letters Better Kept

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The deadline for this week’s challenge is Thursday, April 25, at midnight Eastern time.

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• Sinistral Scribblings: Red roses and rice paper walls.
• Michael: An irregular hiatus
• kgwaite: “There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast.” -Herman Melville
• Cheryl: Life is like chocolate.
• SAM: You just overheard something that you wish you’d never heard.
• Grace O’Malley: Summer pleasure, winter sin.
• FlamingNyx: Blood under the fingernails and sand on a red velvet skirt.
• k~ : You’re sitting alone facing the beach on a Sunday morning, struggling to get the words on paper. Just as you admit defeat, you write the name of a past lover, and the first line of a letter: “Only love can break your heart.” Complete the letter.

Author: SAM
Challenger: Kirsten Piccini
Prompt: it happened on a New York City street.
Response: The Musician

Author: Steph
Challenger: Julia Mae
Prompt: A small town business owner’s frame of mind on a late, slow night while still in his building before returning home for the night.
Response: Electricity

Author: kgwaite
Challenger: Steph
Prompt: She felt disappointed that she had not been “chosen.”
Response: Adventure

Author: Michael
Challenger: kgwaite
Prompt: What would you give up?
Response: An Eye For An Eye

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The deadline for this week’s challenge is Thursday, April 18, at midnight Eastern time.

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• Venusmoon: “The time it takes to get something done is the time it takes.” –Mandy Patinkin
• Kirsten Piccini: “The last thing that I saw as I lay there on the floor was Jesus Saves painted by an atheist nutter…” –The Jam, “Down in the Tube Station at Midnight”
• SAM: It happened on a New York City street.
• Sinistral Scribblings: Armed and ready.
• Julia Mae: I can’t find a can opener anywhere.
• Steph: A small town business owner’s frame of mind on a late, slow night while still in his building before returning home for the night.
• kgwaite: She felt disappointed that she had not been “chosen.”
• Michael: What would you give up?