Writing Prompt #5: Two-Part Invention
Type: Prose Length: 350 words Description: Write a dialogue between two or more characters, and include only their dialogue, with no supporting descriptions or non-verbal text, as if this were a transcript of a recorded conversation. The...
Firecracker
I looked out of the window for the tenth time that morning, searching the horizon for the tale tell shimmer of red scales that belonged to my dad. But once more, the windows showed only green hills and a curved earthy road. I let out an annoyed his, my...
Saved
The Pacific Coast, 2044 The only mercy from the pain was the cold he felt as the burnt skin was removed. Inch by inch. He knew he was dying, but he could do nothing but wait as the doctors on the ship tried everything they could...
How to Seer, Part 15
How to Seer, Part 15 "Gods and Monsters" copyright comidacoida 2020 Few people truly understand what it's like being a Seer and, of the few who become Seers themselves most don't really comprehend what's happening to them. Apparently a lot...
Overworked
Daniel looked over his work for the hundredth time that day, the numbers all blurring together in front of his eyes. The big rhino sighed and rubbed his eyes, the beginnings of a head ache were making themselves known after hours of staring at the...
Surviving isn't the same as living
Written for a prompt in a telegram writing group.
Step-Partner Incorporated
Step-Partner Incorporated copyright 2023 comidacomida Although Ice had been seeing Melissa for over three months he still got nervous. The nearly seven foot tall Malamute was hardly an introvert and, in most circumstances his personality...
Writing Prompt #9 - "Left to Die"
The island lay about half a league away, no more than a sandbar in the aquamarine sea that stretched endlessly in all directions. Even at this distance, Lambert could see the green fronds of palm trees stretching up from the shore, as well as the...
Writing Prompt #7: An Ideal Shape
Type: Prose Length: \> 500 words (yes, at least!) Description: Write a self-contained scene centered around physical intimacy. There are no restrictions on the number of characters involved, the gender or species of the characters, the setting or...
Finding Home
Finding Home copyright 2021 comidacomida Alexios was born to a poor family that lived in a small village on the edge of the Feywilds. His father left when he was four, making his mother his sole caretaker. She had never selected an...
writing prompt #2 superestiontion
_All should be warned of where a dangerous beast lives. A beast cursed by god itself. It would tear a man apart with his hands without a second thought._ That was what the man told me when I first moved into this town. Honestly at that time, I thought...
New Start
New Start He didn't remember waking. It was just now a state of waking. Awareness from nothing as far as he could know. Breathing was impossible....