Writing Prompt

Waiting for my date to arrive, I perused the menu trying, to distract myself from my increasing anxiety. I hadn't been on a date in years. My friends thought it was time and set me up with someone they had met at a party. Apparently, she was perfect, which made how I felt even worse, nothing like meeting someone perfect and finding that she isn't interested in you...

I thought about writing a list...

The sound of employees shuffling around the restaurant was beginning to annoy me. I could feel my patience wearing thin, as if it were the strands of string cheese being slowly pulled away, bit by bit.

“The menu, sir.”

I glared up at the waiter to match their voice with a face. A face that happened to have freakishly blue eyes and an amazingly bold jawline.

“Thank you…” I searched for the...

“Mr. President? Everything alright in here?”

The secret service. It got too quiet in here and they came in. Two of them.

They see me next to the lifeless President and their faces go pale.

I kick the stall door shut and scramble on the ground under the stalls.

“Stop!” One of the men yell.

Just as I reach the last stall, a shot rings out. The bullet doesn’t hit me, but its so close I feel t...

So there I was, walking in the dark again, all the while hearing the booming reverberations of what sounds like music. It sounds like I’m approaching a club of some kind; strip club,night club, if it was a chess club it was the coolest sounding chess club ever.

I get to a flat wall that has an outline of a door. There’s a switch on it just like the one back in the bathroom stall I came from. I fl...

You stare into the darkness. You can feel a draft of air coming from the tunnel, so it’s a safe bet it leads somewhere. So you figure you’ve come this far, might as well see it through so you have a story to tell Freddy. You step into the tunnel.

Pulling out your phone and turning on the flash light, you make your way down a steep makeshift path; mostly dirt and mud, with occasional pieces of pl...

The note is damp from the sauce but the words are still legible:

men’s restroom

Third stall from door

Switch behind toilet

You read the note about 16 more times. In between each time you look over in the direction of the restrooms, as if they personally sent you this note. But the toilets didn’t send you the note. Th...

Socks-n-Sandals Brew Pub was always busy, but especially so on Game Night. Neither the game, nor the sport, were all that important. What mattered was that a game was on, or that talking heads were talking about a game about to be on, or a game that had just finished. Tonight, it was Raiders/Chargers, which was interesting enough to fill the place.

Gary wasn’t much of a sports guy. “I’ll play sp...

So, I am a bit of a prankster. I remember the day that I accidentally took a joke too far. I only did it once. Never again.

The sun was shining, it was a Saturday night, and my friends and I were watching TV. After the game, we went to get burgers to celebrate. I ordered buffalo wings with very crazy, very spicy sauces. That day when the order was taken, the police showed up. Everyone panicked. Th...

“How about truth or dare?” I suggested to my very bored best friend.

“Fine, I dare you to order a pine tree” Mia said and I rolled my eyes.

“What kind of dare is that?”

“Just do it,” She snapped and I sighed. She had been on edge all night after her grandmother had disappeared. Nobody had seen her in a month and Mia had always been very close with her. They bonded over their shared love of cook...

I’m not a bad person. Did I assassinate the President of the United States? Yes. And that’s not great. I’ll admit that. I’m probably going to keep “President assassinator” off my future job applications, even though I was actually really good at it and it was my first time.

If you were in my shoes, you would have done the same thing. Hear me out.

Imagine you’re a 38 year old single man with abo...