Sobbing | Prompt #1

Sobbing | Prompt #1

PROMPT : SOBBING Quiet, muffled sobs, as if he wasn’t supposed to hear them at all. Wizard Clayburn slowed his steps by a slight fraction. He didn’t dare appear to be dallying outside the hallway of the youngest princess, but thinking of his own two daughters at...
Sobbing | Prompt #1

Choir | Prompt #28

PROMPT : CHOIR “Hurry up, Dana! If we’re late for Choir practice, I am SO blaming you!” Yuki stood by the front door, hopping from one foot to the other. Her shiny black hair swished in time with her graceful, if hurried movements. Dana rolled her eyes. “I’m coming,...
Sobbing | Prompt #1

Monster | Prompt #27

PROMPT : MONSTER “But I don’t know how to control it, see?” I explained to my Cousin Mara, clambering up behind her on the rocky outcropping close to the cliff’s edge. “It’s like—I don’t know—like there’s something inside of me.” “A monster,” Mara said, softly. “We...
Sobbing | Prompt #1

Hazy | Prompt #26

PROMPT : HAZY  I feel so hazy. Like everything’s in muted shades of blue, white and grey. Everything smells—salty. I feel parched. The ground is rough everywhere that my feet touch and this so not the way I thought I was spending my sixteenth birthday! There was...
Sobbing | Prompt #1

Drop | Prompt #25

PROMPT : DROP  “Drop and give me twenty!” The Substitute Teacher barked. Joey Johnson turned several shades of pale in the span of thirty seconds. May Melrose, the one he’d been tormenting, gawked at the teacher, her eyes wide behind her fat, round glasses. It was a...