Prompt #1310 Perfectionism and Suicide
More than one million people worldwide, including over 40,000 North Americans commit suicide on an annual basis, according to the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention’s 2012 estimation. . In a...
View ArticlePrompt #1339 Ashamed
If I found a magic lamp and I could have one wish, I would wish that I had a normal face that no one ever noticed at all. I would wish that I could walk down the street without people seeing me and...
View ArticlePrompt #1609 Painful Memories
Memory was a terrible and intensely physical thing. Unlike guilt, it lost none of its power over time. –A Darker Place by Laurie R. King Fiction Writing Prompt: Write the internal monologue of your...
View ArticlePrompt #1794 Word of the Week – Maudlin
Maudlin adj tearfully or weakly emotional; foolishly sentimental: a maudlin story of a little orphan and her lost dog. foolishly or mawkishly sentimental because of drunkenness. Fiction Writing...
View ArticlePrompt #1832 Self-Harm
Many people who cut or otherwise injure themselves report that they do so because it provides a sense of relief. Others say they use cutting or other forms of self-injury as a coping mechanism when...
View ArticlePrompt #1894 Fragile Destiny
…destiny permits no one to continue in blissful happiness. Fate could not tolerate it. Something trivial, a glance, a word, a touch, could shatter a friendship. A love deemed deep and lasting was so...
View ArticlePrompt #2064 Partings
She went her unremembering way, She went and left in me The pang of all the partings gone, And partings yet to be. –Daisy by Francis Thompson Fiction Writing Prompt: Write a story, poem, or haiku...
View ArticlePrompt #4052 Lifelong Love
I met Hank on the first day of kindergarten. He was building with the big blue plastic blocks and knocked them over on top of my head. I went to the nurse and got a boo boo sponge and Hank had to sit...
View ArticlePrompt #4061 Word of the Week – Choler
choler Irritation of the passions; anger; wrath. Fiction Writing Prompt: Use the word of the week in whatever you write today. Journaling Prompt: What irritates you and makes you angry? Art Prompt:...
View ArticlePrompt #5126 Word of the Week – Hangdog
hangdog adjective [hang-dawg, -dog] browbeaten; defeated; intimidated; abject: He always went about with a hangdog look. Let’s get your juices flowing. Post some #flashfiction based on this...
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