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The Creeper of Dirt Alley – Writing Prompt
Everyone knows to avoid Dirt Alley after dark. A couple of years ago they put CCTV up at both ends in the hope that it might deter the incidents. Nothing changed. The problem with Dirt Alley is that it isn’t straight, even though it looks that way on a map. You can’t see the opposite…
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Mathew’s Box – Writing Prompt
It was the driest summer since records began. The earth was scorched and barren, stripped of every last drop of moisture from the devilish heat of the sun. The sky was a deep, unrelenting, cloudless blue that beat down like the very gates of hell. Global warming, some said. The new normal, said others. River…
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Merely Mortal, Chapter Four
Luke was still nowhere to be found. Harriet paid for a taxi back to Gran’s flat and Alli gave the address to the driver. The journey took thirty minutes and Harriet sat in silence for the entire time, her gaze cast out and watching the streets as they rolled by. Alli studied her aunt’s countenance…
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Writing Prompt – you wake up and are surrounded by aliens. Max 500 words.
I knew instantly that they were there, I didn’t need to open my eyes. “Go away…” I grumbled. There was a sharp intake of breath, followed by the flurry and fluster of narrow feet on the wood floor as they scuttled out of the room. I tried to go back to sleep, but my brain…
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Judgement Day
I know where I was; sitting on my parent’s couch and watching my good-for-nothing brother manhandle a girl, so intoxicated that she was barely even conscious, towards the staircase. I watched him with wide eyes and my lips pursed tightly, knowing that I should say something and knowing that I should put a stop to…
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