“Culling Numbers” by Tony Southcotte vs “The Luck of the Draw” by Christina Durner Greetings, short story lovers, and welcome to this week’s prompt. Like many of our prompts, this one is simple at first glance: we asked our authors to write a story involving a lottery. But before they went running … Continue reading
“The Spire” by Albert Berg vs “The Climb” by G.M. Neary Greetings, short story lovers, and welcome to our mystery prompt. This week the arena has a hankering for some good old-fashioned terror. We want to be dizzy with fear. We want to faint from fright. Or at least we … Continue reading
“First Lessons” by Joseph Devon vs “A Wonderful Guy” by Andrea Obaez Greetings, short story lovers, and welcome to this week’s mystery prompt. In 1970 a curiosity appeared, a game that resembled Tennis called Pong, which was generated by a computer and projected onto a video screen. It was the … Continue reading
“The Ghoul on the Moon” by Danny Brophy vs “Robot and T-Rex at the End of the World” by Albert Berg Greetings, short story lovers. The topic for this week will be mere children’s playthings: toys. Miniature, colorful versions of cars, trains, people, boats, birds and anything else that can … Continue reading
“The Complex” by Tony Southcotte vs “House Rules” by Kevin Veldman Greetings, short story lovers, and welcome to this week’s mystery prompt. Here we have one of those prompts that is easily summed up. The title of this post probably told you everything you need to know: we’ll be dealing with … Continue reading
“Flank” by Albert Berg vs “Pharaoh” by Ryan Dalton Greetings, short story lovers, and welcome to this week’s mystery prompt. Humanity thought it had a grip on things. We generally felt we knew where we stood. Elephants were big, whales were in the water, and maybe bears were kind … Continue reading
“Procedure” by Joseph Devon “Fish Out of Water” by David Webb Greetings, short story lovers, and welcome to this week’s mystery prompt. A bright light beams through the blinds, casting strange shadows on the bed of the sleeping human. The beam intensifies and pulls the sleeping person from their … Continue reading
“I’ll Call You Later” by Danny Brophy vs “Outgoing Connections” by Teresa Edmond-Sargeant Greetings, short story lovers, and welcome to our sixty-eighth battle. This week we have one of those prompts that seems simple, but has near-endless meaning: the telephone. While obviously this device is absent from much of … Continue reading
“Arlovski’s Maze” by Tony Southcotte vs “The Mirror Maze” by Jemma Beggs Greetings, short story lovers, and welcome to this week’s mystery prompt. Narcissus fell in love with one, Lewis Carroll took us through one, Dracula doesn’t show up in them, and the Candyman is called via one. What are … Continue reading
“Tree Stand” by Albert Berg vs “Throw an Orange” by D.M. Slate Greetings, short story lovers, and welcome to this week’s prompt. Ever since there have been heroes, there have been wiser, older, characters teaching them. Beowulf had Hrothgar, Arthur had Merlin, Luke had Yoda and Obi-Wan, and the annals … Continue reading
