Stories on This Week's Writing Prompt
Readers’ Choice
Op Tails
I went to work for Management Decision Systems in May of 1981. It was a young, vibrant company founded by John D. C. Little [...]
Aftermath
I walk out in a daze, music ringing in my ears, the girls in their party dresses still twirling across my eyes.
The Party That Rocked my Block
My first two kids were pretty tame as teens, so when I learned about the ambulance in front of our house and every neighbor [...]
Stories from the Previous Prompt
What We Ate
A culinary endurance story
Being from an Italian Family was well…… a culinary journey and a eating endurance contest. I grew up in a what [...]
Grazing Through the Day
You always see stories and comic strips about teenage boys eating refrigerators. I was a skinny teenage girl, and this is [...]
Other Recent Stories
Another Pair of Dice by the Dashboard Light
“Twenty-eight dollars!” I screamed. “We put in 100 hours between us and we split twenty-eight dollars?”
Prompted By My First Paycheck
My Summer Job – Hard Work for a Very Small Paycheck
My first paycheck, and many meager ones that followed, taught me to respect people who work hard but earn little -- something [...]
Prompted By My First Paycheck
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