Do it for Her
It all started with her smile, a bit shy and awkward, but it shone with so much innocence and wonder that I couldn't help but forgive her. Our meeting was a weird coincidence, her bike had spiraled out of control and I was unlucky enough to be in her...
Doubt
Ana had imagined many things when she thought of her thirties. She had conjured images of herself as a hotshot executive or an cutting edge researcher. When the mood struck her she had thought of meeting the love of her life and marrying him in his...
Adrift
There was silence on the road, a heavy presence that made itself known bu the lack of something so common, most would take it for granted. The yellowish packed earth didn't set my mind at ease either; long enough to fade in the horizon, wide enough to...
Finding Closure
This is short. It's a 1000 (ish) word story based on the prompt. This week's prompt was "Waiting for the bus." I originally wanted to write this like an editorial, but opted for something like this instead. Excuse my own emo-ness. I started up a...
Snow
Salty absolutely hated the cold. He was not built for it at all. It was days like these that he wished he hadn't had to move away from home. Not that home even existed anymore. Not that he missed the people who birthed him and left him to suffer their...
Desperate Measures
"Are you sure about this?" asked the rhino, his huge body hunched behind a wall of bushes. "Come on Antonio, don't get cold feet now. We'll be in and out before you know it." Replied the lynx, a confident smile shining on her face. "But if we get...
River Blossom Celebrates Midsummer
Challenge Prompt: "Present a holiday celebration (real or world-specific) in an in-world chapter from one of your established story worlds." River Blossom Celebrates MidSummer World: Wolf King This is a vignette that happens later in the story than...
Heavy is the Head
11thApril, 2023 Heavy Is The Head by Freyrfox Heavy Is The Head It was in the 27thyear, the year the drought broke, that Sid assumed the throne. His father, Xizyphus the III, had gone to war with the fierce and savage People of The Lake, had...
That place where we met
It was the first day of school and I was waiting alone for the bus. The day was gray, wet and a cold wind was blowing. Then I saw her, a walking sun, a little deer with two long braids and pale skin, got close to the bus stop, like a silent ghost with...
Guide
**Guide** By Lan the Orc I have heard many stories of first times that were filled with happiness and a sense of accomplishment, I have seen my share of trideos following that trope too, perhaps that's why I thought that was the way it would go with...
False Flags
"Hello, Curtis." Curtis' eyes snapped open, immediately scanning his surroundings. He was on the bow of a boat. No, a ship. It was far too large to be a boat. The sky above was cloudless, the dusk sun casting a reddish gaze upon the world. The...
Loves Destruction
Tag all prompts with: writinggroupchallenge. add all prompts to a separate folder. put the prompt description at the beginning of your story. due date is 01/29/20.