Writing Prompt #4 - "Albrecht Syndrome"
Max hunched over his keyboard with bated breath, checking each part of his genomic analysis code line by line for what felt like the hundredth time. The pipeline ran just fine, but just because it was syntactically correct didn’t mean that it was free...
Writing Prompt #8 - "The Grove"
Under the weeping branches of the great Phigienohr sat a figure in quiet repose. What they were contemplating, who could say but them. Such was their focus, however, that an observer might have understandably mistaken them for a statue, or perhaps a...
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...
Writing Prompt #3 - "The Howl"
“C’mon, you stupid piece of shit,” I murmur under my breath, staring intently at my phone as the bright blue dot on my GPS app jitters around. I stand still for what feels like the hundredth time and wait for it to find my location. With no umbrella,...
Writing Prompt #11 - "Hunting Game"
As exciting as the sport was to watch in the regular season, the finals of the National Hunt Association—NHA for short—had been dull, one-sided routs for the better part of a decade now. The Supersonics were simply undefeatable. Their team was too...
Writing Prompt #10 - "Textbooks"
A sudden gust of late-November wind buffeted me head on, forcing me to clutch my coat closer to my chest. Leaves—no longer the brilliant reds and oranges of recent months, but dun-colored and dead—splintered into dozens of pieces underfoot. The last...
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 #6 - "Fault Line"
FOR IMMEDIATE DISSEMINATION: We regret to report that at approximately 4 a.m. this morning, Hayth Tower collapsed. Other buildings in the area may have also been affected, although at this time we do not have a full accounting of the damage....
Writing Prompt #1 - "The Library"
You there! Yes, you. Follow me, if you will, and I will show you a place most wondrous and peculiar – a place unlike any in this world, or any other for that matter. It takes a ways to get there, along a path so well trod that banks of dirt...