Creative Writing Prompt #4: Doubts
I was most proud of my lovely floppy ears, before. They always set me apart from the other toys, others like big ol' bear. I was a little jealous of big ol' bear, sometimes, because he was always so good at hugs. She would pick...
Creative Writing Prompt #7: Borders
Barbed wire loomed high, grasping towards the sky like the hungry claws of a predator. The cold malice was almost mundane by this point; these serrated coils were omnipresent along roadsides, city buildings, traffic checkpoints. Borders of...
Creative Writing Prompt #3: Second Thoughts
After, the two of you lie there in the clearing. You’re still panting with the effort, and so are they, that heavy fur still strangely soft against your back. Curling down a bit and snuggling up against the werewolf behind, you inhale the...
Creative Writing Prompt #2: Voyager-Type Diasporic Data Emission as a Solution to Great Filter Dynamics
RESEARCH EMBARGO IN EFFECT - CONTENTS RESTRICTED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE Unexplained shifts in Schwabe cycle periodicity from 2012 to the present are a subject of ongoing uncertainty and contentious debate in heliophysical research[1,2,3]. ...
Creative Writing Prompt #1: The Library
See: two floors, or just one floor with a mezzanine, if you count that sort of thing. But anyway, two floors. And the whole place is fancy as you please. There’s the shelves, with all those carved and lacquered and filigreed little...
Creative Writing Prompt #6: Still At Large
A twelve-state manhunt continues for rogue doctor Addisu Nassir, who made international headlines last month by conducting unauthorized human trials of his medical research. Despite no demonstrated health risks in his patients, Nassir tested...
Creative Writing Prompt #5: Not Yet
“Is this Heaven?” “Not yet!” “But I’m definitely dead, though.” “You were dead. We fixed it. Welcome to the year 26,538! It’s a Tuesday.” “Ah.” “I can see that you need to process a little bit. I’m a registered therapist...
Creative Writing Exercise #6: Still At Large
A twelve-state manhunt continues for rogue doctor Addisu Nassir, who made international headlines last month by conducting unauthorized human trials of his medical research. Despite no demonstrated health risks in his patients, Nassir made...