Queer writer of weird things
Well, it's nine-thirty on a Monday night, and I'm just now getting around to posting this, which I guess tells you everything you need to know about how my day's gone. Actually, it hasn't been that bad, as Mondays go, but I feel perpetually in a state of trying to catch up and am still …
Continue reading "April Flash Fiction Draw: A Place to Land"
Well, this one's a doozy. (If you want to skip the song and dance, click here to go right to the prompt.) I feel like I might have said that last month, too. But that's the nature of these Flash Fiction Draw writing prompts: they're as random as the categories I picked for them in …
Thanks to everyone who wrote a story based on this month's prompt. And if I somehow missed your response, please let me know! I'll add it posthaste. Lakeside Counsel by Colin Colgrave Tulips by E H Timms The Calm, Quiet Whisper of Graves by Jeff Baker The Keys to His Heart by Iara Warriorfeather Tulips, …
A long time ago, I worked at the Missouri Botanical Garden. you may not know it, but it’s one of the top three botanical research institutions in the world and has the third-largest herbarium on the planet. It’s been around since 1859, when it was opened by a retired English businessman named Henry Shaw. In …
Continue reading "March Flash Fiction Draw: The Haunting of Shaw’s Garden"
(If you want to skip the song and dance, click here to go right to the prompt.) It's the first of the month, which means it's time for another Flash Fiction Draw. If you're new around here (welcome!), I build a prompt based on three cards drawn at random from three different suits: clubs for …
Thanks to everyone who wrote a story inspired by this month's Flash Fiction Draw writing prompt! A Stitch in Tāne by Colin Colgrave (note his CW: it's a wee bit NSFW) The Great Blackout of 1989 by Iarra Warriorfeather The Golden Goose by E.H. Timms Down by the River by Jeff Baker Deceptive Expectations by …
And here we are, right down to the wire yet again with February’s Flash Fiction Draw story. If you’ll recall (or if you don’t recall, you can go back and check the post), this month’s prompt called for a suspense set in a sewer containing a suitcase. Suspense, sewer, suitcase. No, I did not plan …
Continue reading "February Flash Fiction Draw: Out of the Woods"
Okay, where did January go? I mean, I know where it went (into the past, obviously). Is it just me, though, or did it go by at warp speed? At the same time, it seemed like the longest month ever. Now that it's over, I look back and am surprised I remembered to use 2021 …
This is the thing I love about a writing prompt. Give it to a bunch of different writers, and they'll all come up with something completely different. Even poetry. Check them all out below. (And if I missed your story, please let me know. I want to make sure I give everyone recognition.) Balcony Gardening …
So, this month's prompt, if you'll recall, was a fairy tale, set in a studio apartment in a big city, including a potted plant. I'm going to skip any preamble except to say that, as usual, I bent the rules. But! I did manage to clock in under a thousand words, and for me that's …