Had a hard time getting started on my Story A Day story today, for some reason. But the result was a 100-ish-word story about an adult damaged in childhood, displaying the damage with no explanation of it. Smile Matthew crept toward the boy, exaggerating his…
I generally choose my own prompts for Story A Day May. This year, I chose to use prompts strewn about my blog by Pete Laberge, who has the kind of wild and woolly mind I enjoy. Since they’re all at my discretion and only to…
This week, I drew spades from my well-shuffled deck of cards. That’s how we roll in the Deal Me In Short Story Reading Challenge. Some people assign specific stories to specific cards. I just assigned sources of stories to suits. Spades mean Daily Science Fiction.…
