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The Djinn put his cards on the table with a grin as wide as the Sahara. His eyes burned with satisfaction. Oriax gulped. The filthy lamp...

Another writing exercise. This one was random object, location and situation. I decided to make the object the character. 1000 words,...

Another short one, after I found a half hour to write today. 300 words or under and had to start: The door hadn't been there yesterday. ...

Rules for this one were had to be under 300 words, and be based on the line: "It was February when the angels came"...

“Who’s therapist?” I spat through the mouth of the child. “You think this poor girl needs to talk about her feelings? This isn’t a...

A constrained writing exercise. Had to be under 800 words and use the following: Word List Universal Sublunary Sardonic Doorway Sentence...

A chill washed over me and I was grateful that there was no microphone on my piano for this performance. “What?”, I breathed, trying to...

Conditions for this short story were: Your story must include the pictured setting (it was a red phonebox by a body of water) at some...

Part 3 of the serial I'm writing based on a prompt each week. I don't know what the theme will be, so I have to roll with it a bit! Part...

Part 1 is here In the silence, I could almost hear Vinnie’s brain whirring like an old hard drive. To be fair to the guy he had just...

"Shut the fuck up, Daryl!", yelled the voice. Daryl turned and looked at me, eyebrows so far up his forehead they met his hairline. “Very...

Based on this set up: "I killed you, I know I did, how are you here?" "It's heaven, not a prison, I just left, apparently, no one has...

Part 2 - Emergence There was little Lei could do over the cycles that followed. The docks got busy, as a damaged salvage vessel dropped...

The call came at midnight. I expected that because it had been the same way for 22 long years. I didn’t expect an unfamiliar voice on the...

The start-up sequence ran without a problem. Which was a relief, as the formwork and drone wrangling that would have been involved in...

I wanted to do something a bit different, after not writing much. Aside from the ongoing story that I started from a joke, and is now 50k...

“You don’t really seem that shocked?”, said the demon, with a fairly huffy tone. “Well, no”, said the girl. “I have been meeting Satan on...

“Jesus Christ”, I said. “We have to get you to the hospital. That bite must have got infected or something.” “Dad”, said Frankie. I...

“So that’s it, you’re all set!”, said Jack from the animal shelter. I had the strange impression that he was trying to avoid making eye...

As a member of the royal family, your life was filled with toxic & evil people. You managed to escape, only for your family to send...