Stories on This Week’s Prompt

Stories from the Retrospect Archive

Then the paramedics began running up the hill with stretchers and backboards. Still, no Cindy.

My parents choreograph this family tableau to imbue my brothers and me with the holiday spirit -- to allow the aluminum [...]

The movie Marathon Man was released in 1976 and Laurence Olivier played the part of Szell a former WWII Nazi German enroute [...]

Rosie and Milt, the Literary Lady and the Second Story Man My uncle Milton wasn’t exactly a hardened criminal, but the [...]

by Betsy Pfau

There is a certain time in one’s life when she knows she is ready; she is in her prime. That happened for me the summer [...]

Good Causes When we moved to Manhattan’s Yorkville neighborhood in the mid-1970s I was a young mother on maternity leave at [...]

Ah, the RMV. A mystical land where fluorescent lighting casts a pale pallor on dreams and paperwork morphs into origami [...]

by Khati Hendry

At last I was successfully disentangling from a bad relationship with an incipiently psychotic partner and needed to move [...]

by Risa Nye

Last year, the year of lockdown and confinement, I was finally able to achieve a longtime goal: to walk the entire Camino de [...]

by melv

Our differences are what we share -- the fact that we are different, all of us from one another, is how we are the same.

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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