Stories on This Week’s Prompt

by Marian

Starting in 2020, birthdays have been correlated with horrible incidents for no apparent reason.

by Wendy Ng

I am from the TV generation of the 1960s and 1970s. I searched for Asian faces in the actors and actresses of the time [...]

by Kevin Driscoll

I’ve always been a bit of a word nerd. I love the way they sound, the way they feel on my tongue, and the [...]

by Mister Ed

Close calls can be close only because of a chance occurrence, thought, or action. Like the so-called “Butterfly [...]

by Suzy

These are the anniversaries important to me (in no particular order).

by Betsy Pfau

At his mid-afternoon press briefing on Wednesday, February 17, Governor Baker announced that anyone over the age of 65 would [...]

by Charles Degelman

Like matter, gravitational energy can neither be created nor destroyed.

by Khati Hendry

Oh joy! Oh f#ck! Oh crap! Sorry.

by gsbate

I was crying for what isn’t, for the work and feeling that has gone into the Christmas music for as long there has been [...]

by Betsy Pfau

We took Driver’s Ed during a free period in high school. Since I was in choir, took PE for two years, then a semester [...]

by Dana Susan Lehrman

Getting Woke My folks, and my uncles and aunts were always politically active and die-hard liberals , and as children my [...]

by pbaseman

The last time I was at the old deli, it was Christmas time. My brother had wanted to go out to the bank to get some cash to [...]

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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