Writing Prompt

“Are you excited, honey? It’s Christmas morning!”

The voice of my mother calls from down the hall. She walks towards my room, but I’ve been up for hours, waiting for this moment. Childish excitement running through me, my patience could barely last another second as she throws the door open and greets me with a hug and a smile.

“Good boy, leaving your pajamas on all night!” She tells me, and I...

Three strings left. Three. Dad played it out in the cold near the fire all on his own. He was so bad that no one could stand to be around him playing that damned thing but now it sits in my dorm. Pops isnt long gone just- gone ya know? I couldn’t cry at his funeral I don’t know why. I miss him one hell of a lot but we argued too much and I guess I don’t miss him the right way....

I was currently staring at the biggest star we had ever seen.

My crew of eight had been looking for thousands of years.

Eight different creatures from eight different world.

Two things in common: all adventurous and all female.

This star was the last thing we were sworn to find, and we said we would return to our worlds once we were done.

But now that we were, I don’t want to be done. I wanted to ...

Chicory root and fresh ground coffee, Susan gave the hot bitter drink a cautious sniff. Her stomach protested with a truculuent rumble. At the massive farmer’s sink, Tabitha sucked her teeth dismissively. Susan willed her stomach to mind and set her china cup on the kitchen table. Her back twinged painfully.

“Told you,” Tabitha said without turning around.

Susan feigned confusion.

“What’s that...

Working until dusk. On Christmas Eve

Do these people not have lives? My biggest pet peeve

But wait a second, I have something up my sleeve

But I’d rather get through it, rather grieve...

Mr. Pemensmith corners Miss. Wiltshire in the library. Dozens of books serve as an illiterative backdrop for what would be a most disastrous conversation.

“Mr. Pemensmith you must let me go, I will not marry you sir for love nor money.”

“Miss. Wiltshire it is not your decision to make, I have settled the dowry with your father and we are to be wed before Christmas. You are a woman and more impor...

Blood sprayed across the field, hitting my cheek as I ducked behind a mound of dirt. I gasped and whipped it from my cheek. Who it came from was unknown. I just knew that it was sticky ans wet blood.

There were more shouts and screams as more shots were fired. I could see women and children running for safety in the king’s fort. Only time would tell if the man would actually provide them with wha...

“No! Please don’t take her away!” I screamed out as the robots were taking my little sister Mina away. “What’s going to happen?” Mina said with despair and confusion in her little voice. “I-I don’t know” I said sadly.

I impulsively lunge toward the robot to try and get my sister back. But I’m flung to the ground and squashed like a fruit fly. The taste of blood on my lips makes me fully aware of ...

“YOU’RE DODGING MY DAMN QUESTION!” Officer Gabe shouted, slamming his shaking fists onto the already uneven table; the man’s expression was scowling and a vein was popping out from his forehead. “Where the hell were you on the night Lona was murdered?!”

The case was close to becoming cold, and because the agency didn’t want that to happen, they were frantically trying to get a lead. Gabe was oddl...

I watch the car drive away.

The driver speeds up, as if trying to get away faster.

It will never be enough to escape, however.

I should know.

My eyes latch onto a figure hiding behind a tree, as my heart picks up.

“You’re not sneaky,” I whisper, but I know he can hear me. “I could see you a mile away.”

The boy peeks around the tree, showing his 6’2” height on display. “How did you know?”

“O...