Monsters round one

Have some monster concepts/microfictions. Probably don't read if you're squeamish. It has the ability to morph its own flesh and bone into blades. Not its hands or extremities, the core and main flesh of its arms and legs, sending them out on tendrils as little whirling razor blades of death made of gore and skeletal …

Live and Let Live

"Live and let live" is the words that they criedSeemed good and so weAll cheered and agreedAnd once done we all went back inside.But now that I look how is it… And then the days passed and then turned into weeksThe cry went out onceThen again all those monthsAnd with each shout calls around us …

Atlas’ Weight

I put this thing together a while back, and finally got around to coming back and cleaning it up enough to be posted recently. They called you 'Atlas' long agoFor all the maps you knewFrom sea and stars to ancient talesThey all would come to you And though through time the others learnedThey grew both …

Speak Into The Void

Speak into the void of lightAnd endless, ceaseless speechCast out your words into the depthsWhere eyes will never reach Look out not for requitmentDon't look for word or praiseTo fish within this ocean leaves youWasted all these days For now just hold your thoughts out farFlung out to the abyssFor when the speech is legionYour …

That Old Pain

Here's something simple, but should be a fun exercise. Life scars us. It is an inevitable part of living after all. We get into accidents, do stupid things, or just live experiences that leave a mark. In 300 words or less, tell me why you have that pain. Do you remember your first time being …

The Ice Melted

Prompt: Writers have the ability to play with time. Write a story about dealing with pain. In that story, have at least 3 different-length passages of time. Skip a month for example, slow down time as someone sorts out their thoughts, skip a decade! You decide, but do it within 295 words. The world froze. …

A Bitter Taste

Prompt: In the style of a lymeric, write about something bitter The stupid thing looks like a little treeOn the dinner plate every night given meThough I'm always rebukedIt makes me want to pukeI can't stand the taste of mom's broccoli

Colors, Numbers, and Coldness

Write a scene setting in which you associate a number with a colour. Try for at least 3 colours associated with numbers and write it in less than 200 words. Black, grey, white, and a rainbow of colors in and around them. What glorious vibrance, and what insipid blinding radiance. When your mind is crushed …

In Motion

Something in your story needs to be moving and then it slows down and ultimately stops. You have 300 words and your story must be written in 2nd person! "Wake up." With a flash of light and a cataclysmic sound greater than you will ever hear or be again, you awaken. Around you is both …

Freedom Beneath the Waves

Describe a scene that is either entirely underwater or entirely in the sky without using the word “blue”. You have 250 words and must include the phrase “it feels so good to be free”. Lana looked out the window at the pitch-black surrounding her prison cell. Lit up occasionally only by the brief glimmer of …