Category: Writing Prompt

Writing Prompt #5

Describe your year 2023, or a moment in it, in 23 words exactly.

Gotham Writers sponsors a contest for this every year. Here are samples from 2021:

We stood in the yard smoking cigars while fireworks laced with Tio’s ashes burst over the neighborhood.
    — Amelia Rodriguez, Hamilton, NJ

Guys in the meeting curse, then turn to me and apologize. I’m a flower, not a colleague.
    — Suzanne Mattaboni, Northampton, PA

As the floodwaters rose, I hotfooted it to the supermarket for emergency wine. It was closed. Disaster!
    — Nicola Moses, Limavady, United Kingdom

Writing Prompt #3

Start a story with the sentence: “Wait, isn’t he supposed to be dead?” Feel free to change the pronoun to she, you, I or they. Suggestion: One paragraph, post your work as a comment. Scroll to “Leave a Reply.”

Prompt #3:  “Wait…”

“Wait, isn’t he supposed to be dead? I mean, I know I haven’t seen him in awhile and I’d heard rumors.  Heard a body was found by a highway bridge and they thought it was him.  Hit by a car?  Murdered and dumped?  I don’t know. “ 

“He was always doing something crazy.  Once he attempted a triple somersault off a a quarry cliff and landed on his back.  The stinging redness lasted 2 days. Another time he went hiking by himself and was lost in the woods for 3 days.

“The last time I saw him he said he’d die if I ever left him.”