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TWA #75 – The Lottery

  By Joseph Devon • May 17, 2016 Battle Threads

“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

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TWA # 74 – Acrophobia

  By Joseph Devon • May 10, 2016 Battle Threads

“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

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TWA #73 – Computer Games

  By Joseph Devon • May 3, 2016 Battle Threads

“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

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TWA #72 – Toys

  By Joseph Devon • April 19, 2016 Battle Threads

“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

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TWA #71 – Haunted House

  By Joseph Devon • April 12, 2016 Battle Threads

“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

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TWA #70 – Dinosaurs

  By Joseph Devon • April 5, 2016 Battle Threads

“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

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TWA #69 – Alien Abduction

  By Joseph Devon • March 29, 2016 Battle Threads, Previous Challenges

“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

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TWA #68 – Telephones

  By Joseph Devon • March 15, 2016 Battle Threads, Previous Challenges

“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

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TWA #67 – Mirror, Mirror

  By Joseph Devon • March 8, 2016 Battle Threads, Posts

“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

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TWA #66 – Teachers, Mentors, Trainers

  By Joseph Devon • March 1, 2016 Battle Threads, Previous Challenges

“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

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