short-fiction
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Writers’ Games
Sometimes, when words are hard to find, my writing group plays a little game. We spin for prompts, which are just words or phrases that have been plucked from various sources and added to a numbered list, and then see what we can write that includes one or all of the prompts. Occasionally, the resulting…
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House Parties… and promises
Harold and Rose have been time-traveling. They just returned from a trip aboard the Titanic, the latest of House Party settings at the writers’ forum I frequent. House Parties are an interesting phenomenon. Multiple writers throw characters from their many WIPs into a particular setting and, while characters of different backgrounds, time periods, and genres…