Writing Prompt

Hans checked his sister’s harness, LED headlamp, and helmet. He gave her orange helmet a pat and then turned. Following the safety guidelines, Gretzi’s fingers inspected his gear. He felt her sharp tug on his strap that meant A-OK. Like always, Gretzi was burbling with excitement.

She had been researching this cave for months. Witch’s Eye had been found by a farmer searching for a lost goat back ...

In an old mill house, there lived a brother and a sister named Hanson and Greta. Their father was laid off from his job as a timber faller, and they were having trouble getting enough food to eat.

One night, Hanson and Greta overheard their father and stepmother arguing.

“I don’t know how we’re going to get through the summer,” their father said. “At least during the school year, the school provid...

I often wondered if our story would have been different somewhere else. If the age of our surroundings caused the tragedy I know know. I looked at them, one dead, the other a glutton, and I question things. In the age of science, would her house have been gone? In this form, probably, but she is adaptive, and the home would have changed.

I suspect we were not the first, the clothes on her body g...

HansUg ag GretGunk ook ugg ug oog ooga boo. HansUg gunk ook ook gunk ahg ugg. Ugg bungo, ag Ugg no bung.

“Ook ook!” GretGunk ugged ag ook guk.

“Gonk gonk, Gretgunk?” HansUg grunk gook ook.

Ook ug ooga Gretgunk bungo HansUg agoo gunk unk, ook, ag ooga.

“Chu!”

Ug oog boogaloo gunk gunk ook ahg ug. Gunk ook gunka dunk agoo goo ook. Ag ag ook guk grunk no boo. Googa goob boogaloo. HansUg ag GretG...

“What’s a smeet?” asks Gretel.

“I’m not sure.” Hansel shrugs. “Let’s find out!”

The children approach the vehicle. Gretel taps on the glass window, tinted so they can’t see inside.

“This person is rich.” Hansel whispers.

The window rolls down creakily. Inside, they see a small, old looking woman at the wheel.

“Hello, dear children. Would you like some cakes and sweets?” The wom...

Historical context: This story is set during the Great Depression, around the mid-1930s. This was a time of economic hardships on many Americans due to the stock market crashing in October 1929. “Hoovervilles” were communities of people living in tents because couldn’t afford their housing. Named after President Herbert Hoover, they were often dirty, violent, and overall not an adequate place to r...

Where to start?

No can’t start there it wouldn’t make sense?

There? No that too wouldn’t make sense.

Ok let’s just start from the beginning so that everything makes sense.

Ok. So. My name is Gretel and I live on the planet of witches called Wicken 3. I didn’t always but when hard times fell upon my father, especially after my mother died, well it was either feed his belly or mine. Can you guess ...

Once upon a time a long time ago, in the year 1314 to be exact, there lived a husband and a wife, Hans and Greta and their two children.

It was the year of the great famine. The crops had died and there was nothing to eat. Nothing. People were starving. Dropping like flies.

How do you explain to someone who has always had a full belly what starvation feels like? When you are so hungry yo...

Henry and Gabby

Mischief you make

Your antics make you happy

But watch what you take.

Mall shopping is fun.

Watching and shopping

You’ll be on the run.

Shoplifting then hopping.

Then comes a calling.

Just when it’s safe.

They think it’s appalling.

Your gall and your pace....

“Hey! Yo, yo…yo!!! It’s ya boy Hansel B’ Hatin! And I’m here with my one and only SissyPoo, the most incredible sister in the whole damn world, Gretel Da Great!!”

“Yo, Yo, Yo Kiddie poos! Y’all ready for the live stream event of the summer!?” asked Gretel with a seductive wink to the camera.

"I'm just going to cut to the chase because that's what yall are here for right?! Tonight, the SissyPo...