Writing Prompt #99:
‘That is your escape plan.’
‘It’s not very subtle.’
‘But it’s effective.’
Writing Prompt #99:
‘That is your escape plan.’
‘It’s not very subtle.’
‘But it’s effective.’
Writing Prompt #468: She wasn’t even sure if she believed the lady even when all her senses were telling her the lady was telling her the truth.
Writing Prompt #98:
‘Look people.’
‘Shhh, we need to hide.’
Writing Prompt #467: His world was not all it seemed to be, it was not ruled by the same laws of science everyone was taught to think it was.
Writing Prompt #97:
‘I’m not coming back.’
‘Like it or not you are.’
Writing Prompt #466: From the noise of the place she could tell they were under a bar and by the smell of the room she knew she was in trouble.
Writing Prompt #96:
‘Come on drink it, it will make you feel better.’
‘No.’
Writing Prompt #465: He would go along with everything they said until he had a real opportunity to escape.
Writing Prompt #95:
‘You want us to follow that?’
‘Yes.’
‘You want us to trust smoke?’
‘Yes, we don’t exactly have another option.’
Writing Prompt 464: The walls of the town came crumbling down as the earth shook, the air was filled with dust and a chasm opened splitting the town down the centre and quickly filling with water.
Writing Prompt #94:
‘This is your idea of the perfect sleeping place?’
‘Yep.’
Writing Prompt #463: He promised to explain it all to the watchman’s son when the boy was older and he could beat him in a sword fight.
Writing Prompt #93:
‘A mother should not outlive her children.’
Writing Prompt #462: Without a mask he felt exposed until he realised that no one recognised him after all the years he’d spent wearing one.
Writing Prompt #92:
‘Hopefully that’s hidden enough.’
‘Don’t worry it will be fine we won’t be long.’
Writing Prompt #461: Unlike the city that nurtured her greed and her pride this new place allowed for neither because it was all she could do to survive.
Writing Prompt #91:
‘I wish I could fly for real.’
Writing Prompt #460: He stretched my arms into the sky and tipped his head back so the weak rays of sun falling between the clouds would touch his face.
Writing Prompt #90:
‘Are you sure they won’t find us out here?’
‘It’s the last place they’d look.’
Writing Prompt #459: She called out asking where they stood as the wind howled around them, driving blinding dust into their eyes and lungs, reducing her to a fit of coughing.
Writing Prompt #89:
‘Will you ever go back?’
‘I can’t.’
I think this is such an interesting character to explore.
I really loved this short story. It’s centred around the villain essentially and the way they think what they are doing is good.
via The Curse
via Dancing Nymphs
A mystical story in response to Image Writing Prompt #50.
Writing Prompt #458: She stood atop the mountain watching everything slip into the cloud that rose quickly around them until it swirled at her feet.
Writing Prompt #88:
‘Now would be a good time to fly away.’
‘You think.’
Writing Prompt #457: When he finally came down from his mountain there was nothing left of the village in the valley, where he’d grown up.
Writing Prompt #87:
‘Just run!’
Writing Prompt #56: Their breath was weak and their bodies thin but they were somehow still alive and as she approached one reached out a hand to her.
Writing Prompt #86:
‘Quiet, we don’t want them to hear us until we have them surrounded.’
‘So stop talking.’
Writing Prompt #455: He was physically weaker from the start than any of the others but his will to live, drove him forward.
Writing Prompt #85:
‘What’s with the old book?’
‘It was my grandmothers.’
‘So it’s a spell book then?’
‘Of course not, keep your voice down.’
Writing Prompt #454: She built her walls knowing he would eventually play his bloody part in bringing war to her small kingdom.
Writing Prompt #84:
‘Stop playing with the leaves.’
‘But everyone else is.’
‘Yes but they can’t levitate them.’
Writing Prompt #453: He was going to tear them down, every last gallows in the land and burn them to the ground.
Writing Prompt #83:
‘What are you doing?’
‘Wake up before someone sees you.’
Writing Prompt #452: He knows his weakness but he also knows his strength and when to ask for help.
Writing Prompt #82:
‘A fence! There must have been people here.’
‘But how long ago?’
Writing Prompt #451: It was in her blood, a curse that could seemingly never be broken so she was determined not to pass it on even if it meant never having children.
Writing Prompt #81:
‘The key should be up there.’
‘Of course it is.’
Writing Prompt #450: She tried to tame him but it was not in his nature to sit by the fire and chase mice, he was a wild beast at heart.
Writing Prompt #80:
‘What is this place? I don’t belong here. Take me back.’
‘I can’t.’
Writing Prompt #449: With a silver crystal hanging at her throat she was protected but she made sure that no one could tell and hid it under her clothes.
Writing Prompt #79:
‘Don’t look at me like that.’
Writing Prompt #448: He could not stay in the place that was safe from harm for fear of putting it in danger.
Writing Prompt #78:
‘He’ll never catch us on foot.’
‘I wouldn’t count on it kids.’
Writing Prompt #447: She could try to drown out the sound of the street below with her music but sometimes there was nothing she could do about it.
Writing Prompt #77:
‘How are we supposed to get to the island we don’t have a boat?’
‘Swim?’
‘I guess we’ll have to.’
Writing Prompt #446: He could call it love if he wanted but she knew that what he felt for her was not truly love but only possessive want.
Writing Prompt #76:
‘I liked it much better when we were taller than the poppies.’
‘So did I.’