Daily Writing Exercise: Historical Fantasy. Oh, Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling… Another r/WritingPrompts reply. 384 words.
Tag: Story: 500 Words
Sin Eaters
Daily Writing Exercise: Superhero/Urban Fantasy. Crime has always been about paying your debts, one way or another. Yet another r/WritingPrompts reply. 867 words. They’d been trying to kill Shadow for far longer than I’d been alive. Guns, knives, poisons, radiation, drowning, lava, vacuums– there’s little that villains, super and otherwise, hadn’t tried. He’s taken down corrupt…
Folk Tales and Family Legends
Daily Writing Exercise: Science Fiction. History’s rewritten by the victors. Yet another r/WritingPrompts reply. 895 words. “You’re old enough now to know the truth,” his grandfather said as they sat on the back porch watching the starflies blink in the growing dusk, “not just the smooth-edged lies they teach in school. I’m not the best…
Mementos
Daily Writing Exercise: Science Fiction. Old memories and misplaced dreams. Another r/WritingPrompts reply, these are actually pretty fun! 403 words. I was only in the museum because it was raining– only in town because my niece was trying to overwrite the family’s memory of the crash with something softer, kinder. My dress was meant to…
Bargains
Daily Writing Exercise: Science Fiction. Beware of Fae bearing gifts. A sort of sideways reply to a r/WritingPrompts post, but the plot bunny bit and I had to follow! 519 words. The planet is perfect in a way that twitches my ruff and slicks the poison in my fangs, but we’re out of choices. Ship’s…