Writing Prompt

News

Just news

Nothing special

Words

Across

Down

4 letters

2 letters

One filled in spelling “me”

One barely halfway done

4 across

2 down

an ‘e’ filled in from the me

A ‘p’ at the end from a word already formed

A letter

An E

A letter

And a P

The hint seems simple enough

“Something everybody needs”

Reap?

Peep?

Beep?

No.

Those don’t make sense.

What does everybody need?

Love?

Heart?

Life?

Foo...

I’m going to call Kalle and see when she’ll

drop off the newspaper, thought Aliza. She

picked up the phone and was about to call

her friend when the dorr bell rang. Aliza

opened the door to find her friend Kalle

standing there with the newspaper.

“Here’s the newspaper Aliza.” Said

Kalle. “Thanks Kalle I was just about to call

you and ask when you can drop it off!”

Exclai...

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“Good morning Jo” I said, with a smile plastered across my face.

“Good day Marry Joans.” The mail boy responded before peddling away.

I closed the front door, before taking the newspaper to the sun room.

I skimmed the paper but nothing peaked my interest. Missing dog, local school wins football match, Jannie Wo wins three times the holiday pie contest. Everything I had already heard from my gos...

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Emilie gazed out of the window at the dull landscape. Thunder rolled in the distance, and the sky was a depressing gray. People walked cautiously through the cobblestoned street, and German Soldiers patrolled every street corner. She pulled the curtain back over the window with a swift motion, and strode back to the kitchen with a sigh.

"What's wrong, mama?"

Emilie jumped slightly as s...

It was a dark and stormy night and I was sitting at home working on a crossword puzzle that my friend had created for the local newspaper. My friend had always been into puzzles and had recently landed a job creating clues for the papers crossword section.

As I was working through the puzzle I noticed something strange. The clues seemed to be pointing to a specific location in town - and abandone...

My friend and I have been having a great conversation about God and faith. Lately every two week she will hand me a newspaper. I honestly thought nothing about it. Every time she will hand me a newspaper I will barely read the headlines and just toss them to the side in a neat pile. One day she looked with anticipation. She quickly asked me about the newspaper and I will just shrug her off.

Until...

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