Stories on This Week’s Prompt

Today's Stories from the Retrospect Archive

A church door prize quilt from the 1950s gets a new life in the 1990s.

by Laurie Levy

In 1979, six-year-old Etan Patz disappeared on his way to his school bus stop in Lower Manhattan.

I glance up from the piano and listen to his James Taylor-inspired voice sing the lyric we have crafted and feel dizzy with [...]

by Marian

I knew I'd crossed a threshold when I drew my first real blank on a name.

by Laurie Levy

I get why Facebook can be a good thing. Like my mother, I love seeing photos of folks I know (although not so much their [...]

by John Zussman

The sauce was a perfect blend of mayonnaise, summer vacation, Tom Terrific, rainbows, and ambrosia.

by Marian

Seated there was a very elderly, diminutive woman, dressed in black, with wild white hair and a pixie-ish expression, very [...]

by Betsy Pfau

Lanny was SO cute. We were in 10th grade Geometry class together and our lockers were close to each other. I barely spoke to [...]

I kiss my father's smiling face. Such a brilliant mind trapped by dementia

...sometimes there would be fresh snow, sparkling white on the granite steps.

Writer’s Choice

Inspiration for this prompt was to see the list of past prompts, then think back and share forward your Writer’s Choice story!

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