Describe your current setting in deep, poetic detail.
#11
Write a poem about an empty mailbox.
#10
Flash fiction. Setting: your happy place. Character: an evil villain.
#9
Stream of consciousness. What are you thinking right now?
#8
Channel Ernest Hemingway and “write the truest sentence you know.”
It’s been a long time coming.
Well, here I am, losing a staring contest with the blank page.
Continue reading “It’s been a long time coming.”#7
Describe yourself as if you’re a side character in a book.
#6
Write a poem about your favorite color.
Strangers
The subway car hasn’t moved in a long time, and things are starting to get awkward.
Maybe the announcement system isn’t working or something. The lights are still on, so the power can’t be down completely. There are five people in the car. Six, if you count The Baby. It’s late. Everyone’s tired. Nobody feels like breaking the silence that has stretched into an eternity.
But somebody has to.
The Baby decides it’s up to him.
Continue reading “Strangers”#5
Complete this sentence: “Trouble smells like ___ .” Use it as the first line of a story.