Inventrix | July 21, 2011
I’ve finally decided in favor of making a new blog specifically to keep my writings on, over at http://scribbles.rustedphoenix.net. Things this means for you All short stories, excerpts, poems, flash fiction et. al. that are on here (except for a few which I think are really awful) will be reposted there, over the course of [...]
Inventrix | July 14, 2011
Author’s Note: If it looks like his language is made of a random jumble of letters, that’s because it is. Literally. They are keyboard-mashings. Everything except his name. If this thing doesn’t die off like most of my projects, I promise I’ll make it better on the edit. Somehow, he managed to eat the whole [...]
Inventrix | July 14, 2011
30 days of fiction list Day 24: Write a scene on a movie set Well, it used to be a movie set. Sandra looked around at the charred wreckage in dismay. They’d been working on this one for three days straight, and it’d been looking really great. Some of their best work yet, she’d thought. [...]
Inventrix | July 13, 2011
Amy flopped onto the bed in her tiny but blessedly private single with a loud sigh. This had been the weirdest day ever, she decided. And she didn’t even get to return her library books. Twisting her head around, she looked back at the books in question. She was starting to feel kind of stupid [...]
Inventrix | July 13, 2011
30 days of fiction list Day 23: Prompt: falling There were a lot of other ways this could have gone. A bullet to the head, a tear-filled reconciliation, a mysterious third party interrupting the confrontation… Falling off the roof of a fifty story building was not really the one I’d have picked. I reviewed the [...]
Inventrix | July 13, 2011
30 days of fiction list Day 22: Write a scene with children “Peppers?” Yoshi looked at the pizza in disappointment. “I don’t like peppers.” “Well I want to be able to tell your mom your dinner had vegetables, so it’s either peppers on your pizza, or…” Leofric’s voice dropped dramatically. “I cook something.” A chorus [...]
Inventrix | July 13, 2011
30 days of fiction list Day 21: Write a scene with a drink(ing) of some sort “Oh come on, like that’s going to work.” The woman folded her arms across her chest and glared at the innocent-looking glass bottle on its unassuming pedestal. A large paper tag was tied around its neck, with the boldly-lettered [...]
Inventrix | July 13, 2011
30 days of fiction list Day 20: Write a scene with the opening line “I hate you; I just want you to know that” I hate you; I just want you to know that. I read the line again, as if hoping it would say something different this time. As if the slowly running ink [...]
Inventrix | July 12, 2011
30 days of fiction list Day 19: Prompt: in the marketplace Daki loved the marketplace. The bright colors, the shiny trinkets, the delicious smells, all the people she could vanish between before the vendors even finished “stop”, let alone “thief”. Not that she really needed to steal anymore, but it was fun. Besides, it was [...]
Inventrix | July 12, 2011
30 days of fiction list Day 18: Prompt: the name “Thomas Daniel” There was a man named Thomas Daniel Who hated his wife’s Cocker Spaniel. He yelled, finally, “It’s that dog or me!” …Tom’s staying with his friend Nathaniel.
