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 …

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. …

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 …

A Winter Morning’s Glory

Prompt word: Resplendence Gleaming golden rays shone down on the surface of the frozen lake. It was beautiful this time of year, so beautiful that it took Alice's breath away, even as she shivered in the cold morning air. Faint wisps of ghostly mist coated the ground as she crunched across the bone-white snow. At …

Party’s Aftermath

200 words. Your story must include a scent of some kind, and the word 'tinsel' and 'resolve'. It could have been the setting of the perfect Christmas party. Tinsel and lights were set up all around the room, the massive tree glimmered with a hundred handmade decorations, an entire banquet table of untouched food of …

Something Sticky

You have 200 words for this challenge, and your first couple of lines must lead with the sound of shoes traversing a sticky floor. What does it sound like? Who is wearing the shoes and where are they going? Squick, Squealch, Pop. Adrian was walking around on the gym floor, pacing as he was often …

A Slight Disagreement

This was written for a writing prompt challenge, and then I missed the challenge because I didn't meet all the criteria. whoops. "Okay, there's eight of us here, we were all there when the fire started, I'm sure we can get our story straight, right?" "I doubt it, Tim was asleep the entire time. We …