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
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.
Inventrix | July 12, 2011
30 days of fiction list Day 17: Write a scene with a character in a foreign land, unable to speak the local language The young man sat on the library steps, looking mournfully at a crack in the sidewalk. His long black hair was tied back in a ponytail and his tunic, trousers and cloak [...]
Inventrix | July 12, 2011
30 days of fiction list Day 16: Write a scene on horseback I was sore. Sore, grumpy, and really damn sick of looking at the back of a horse’s head. I didn’t even know I could be this sore. We’d been on the trail for over week, now. I heard it stops being a miserable [...]
Inventrix | July 12, 2011
30 Days of Fiction list Day 15: Prompt: shots fired A loud crack echoed through the woods, like lake-ice breaking during a thaw. Torrin froze, reflexively dropping into a crouch. Moments passed, stretching out as he gradually began to relax. A second loud crack and he was off, darting and weaving between the trees as [...]
