Writing Prompt #1: La bibliotheque fantasmatique
Type: Prose Length: ~400 words Description: Describe a library. It can be any kind of library you want, but it should have 'A Surprising Element' to it, and should make all of us want to read more. Prompt given: 25 July 2024 La bibliothèque...
Basilisk's Opportunity (Otherwise Untitled)
The basilisk let a stillness linger for a moment while smoke wisped up from the muzzle of the emptied shotgun before letting out a malevolent chuckle and reply with a voice like glass being made to flow, "This is why my wife doesn't answer the door...
Heat of a Moment (Otherwise Untitled)
~ The glimmer of terror in her eyes and hope curled up into her smile kept the badger on his feet and glancing about, though the suit was heavy and the smoke thick. He'd seen the little girl scant seconds earlier, keeping his calm as the minutes of...
Writing Prompt #2 - "The Endless Night"
“We must perform the divination now.” Five hooded solismages standing within as many equally spaced pedestals raised their hands to the sky in supplication, welcoming the warm embrace of the Sun’s rays shining down upon them. On the main dais...
Appeasing Shadow (Otherwise Untitled)
By how eagerly the eagle regarded the silhouette of his fiance in the door frame, it was clear that who to love one of the few lessons he'd declined to learn from his parents.
19 Sling
It was with a heavy sigh that I moved on. All I could do was sling my bag over my shoulder and keep moving along the road. I'd been traveling for nearly two weeks, trying to make it to a city where I might have time to rest in the relative luxury of...
stranded
You're stranded on the bed again. You've been awake for an hour or so, but your titanic partner slumbering next to you won't budge. You've tried to press your little hands against their giant body but all it does is remind you of how small you are...
Small Reply (Otherwise Untitled)
~ The mouse's ears were perked attentively, giving the words all due focus up until they decided upon their reply. ~ "No, I don't believe I will do doing that.", dropping to one knee as they raised the muzzle of their rifle to bear on matters at hand....
24 Dizzy
"What day is it?" I asked nobody in particular as I got out of bed. I stood up too quickly, which rendered me dizzy momentarily as blood struggled to get up to my head. I had to place a hand on the door frame momentarily to steady myself before I...
Piercing Alarm (Otherwise Untitled)
~ The basilisk opened his eyes to take in the night around him with a gurgling sigh. His bedroom had the pale glow of a enchanted slaying weapon, his arm was resting in the spot of his bed where his wife wasn't, and silence from his alarm radio...
Saddle's Watch (Welded Sunset)
~ The lynx gazed into the campfire, and the pair of pots settled in atop the rack over it. The evening was, thus far, a calm one beneath the trees and stars. The saddle assembly rested against the trunk of a tree with its soft croon of some old banjo...
20 Tread
It is one thing to be in a land full of dangerous predators. It is another still to be knee-high to a mouse and needing to fear the tread of creatures chasing prey many times your size. Every trip out of your lair - a small alcove in a towering...