Writing Prompt

You fooled me once, shame on me.

You fooled me twice, shame on me again. Im the fool who believed you. It’s over. Get a real job,Shovel shit for all I care.I feel pity. Certainly,not for you. I feel sorry for all the people you conned .

I left a note on the kitchen table. I’ll be gone, by the time you read this letter. It’s taped on the outside door. You can’t come in. I changed the locks. Divorc...

A woman spends her life persuading girls to join this group even though she was abused her self for money she later accuses her pimp of abuse. The pimp hang’s himself but later she is mysteriously a bus crashes into her which near,y ends her life to silence her...

“The cards read great fortune.” I declared, flipping them over dramatically. A fortune, knight of one’s, and lovers are laid out on the table. A grin crosses my face. “And perhaps true love.”

The two girls laugh excitedly across from me. Both bleach blonde and sun kissed skin. They tip generously before leaving, not noticing the absence of rings on their fingers.

I shuffle the cards, resetting my ...

I won’t lie to you, what I do is considered a scam. But it isn’t like those scams for money or for social security. No, those aren’t valuable, not from my standpoint. Those things can be returned, earned again. What I scam people is something on a larger scale.

Think of a time you ever waited in a long queue, maybe at the dmv or waiting for a roller coaster. That feeling when you walk out feelin...

Banana trick, to ring up the price code for a cheap item, like a banana, instead of a luxury item during self-checkout.

Shopping with Pretty Reckless80 was more than I ever dreamed. I couldn’t wait to shove my smoking hot footage in Emma’s smug little face. Emma said that a dime like Pretty Reckless80 would only be interested in me for my coin. But I had already Venmo Pretty some spending money a...

I’m eating my own sh*t here. I know I tried to force you out of home and out of my heart because it was easier that way, but I just can’t let you go.

Tears streamed down my face.

I wanted you for money, I needed you for a home, but I didn’t expect to actually love you.

Please don’t go.

If you don’t turn around, I will wait, In my car forever until it dies and I’m on the streets. It’s never th...

The scammer was scammed by one of their victims.

Without realizing it, the scammer was baffled when their victim explained how the scam was done unto him.

The scammer was furious, but it was to the victim’s relish and catharsis....

As the clocks went forward and one turned to two, a phone stirs a man awake.

He picks up, but hears nothing, a quiet hum of silence.

He puts down his phone and gets back into his comfy position when it rings again.

He frustratingly clicks decline only to be immediately called again.

Decline.

Ring.

Decline.

Ring.

He groans in frustration as he goes to put his phone on silent. But just as he...

“You’re a grifter!”

“What?” Sam tilted her head and squinted her eye a bit. “A grifter?”

“Oh don’t con a con. I can spot a grifter a mile away. And that pouty look when you asked for bus fair?” Tina smiled. “Masterful. Who could deny you bus fair? Or maybe more?”

Sam shrugged. “I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

“Oh. Okay.” Tina winked. “You see a grifter is a con artist. So...

Boring moments don’t really exist

If you choose to look up at the sky

Listen to the old tune that the birdies hum

Learn the names of the bugs

Open your hands, stick them in the mud

What can you lose?

Stillness beats like a drum...