Stories on This Week's Writing Prompt
Featured Story
Witnessing
A few days ago I had one of those experiences – the kind that you feel in your body before you know what it is – the [...]
Readers’ Choice
Born to be Wild (in the snow)
I have always been a city girl. I am not much of a hiker or camper. Oh I have done my share of both, but neither one is [...]
A Story In Ruins
It is cause for pause -- a small foundation, begun but not completed, abandoned, sitting, sinking, slowly being reclaimed by [...]
Revising the Editor
Revising the editor Limits, rules, restrictions, guidelines, walls, trigger my auto-response of arising fierce Kali-spirit [...]
The Middle of Nowhere
Rob says, okay John, you get to lead the way back, and I smile and giggle and I say are you sure, and he says sure.
Stories from the Previous Prompt
Nudity
The Baths at Esalen
No one is self-conscious about the nudity, and from our attitude and bearing you would think we were all decked out in our [...]
Sunnyside Up in Panzano*
This must be the way things are done here, I thought. No turning back now. So I focused on the ceiling fan as it spun in a [...]
Other Recent Stories
You’re So Vain….
And my point is this: men are just as obsessed with their (ideally long, straight) hair as women are, and I am (or was) Exhibit A.
Prompted By Hair
one’s not half two, it’s two are halves of one
I woke up that morning thinking: today I will glow. I always heard that brides get this special glow you can’t fake or [...]
Prompted By Weddings
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