I'm back with another long story. Or at least, a story that would have felt long before I wrote 'Dragonslumber.' This story is called Compassion. My husband wanted me to write something nice this month and I mostly succeeded. Just ignore all the horror elements that have crept in. This is an old school space …
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Well, September has almost ended, so now we need to wake up Empress Maake. No, I didn't delay this post so long just to make a Green Day reference. Dragonslumber just kept getting bigger. 'Slumber' was the prompt for the August story, and when my husband and prompt-giver saw I had come up with a …
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So, my Monthly Writing Prompt Challenge Story for September is now 12 days late. The reason for that is because it has ended up being over 20,000 words on it's own, and since its the conclusion of last month's story, this is actually a full on novel I am working with here. It's taking a …
Okay, things are different this month. The prompt was 'Slumber', but as I got into this story I realised that 'Dragonslumber' was a much better title, so for the first time in this challenge, I changed the title. Except the Slumber title did come back in a way. It came back because by the end …
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This year, I set myself the goal of writing twelve short stories in twelve months. Similar to what the band Toehider occasionally do with their XII in XII, making twelve EPs in a year (check out their music here). I did this because I wanted more short stories to live on this site, and I've …
We've made it to the midpoint of my 12 in 12 Monthly Writing Prompt Challenge, with Story #6, Collective. I have a lot of thoughts on how the project is going so far and what comes next, but that can be an entire post on its own. I will point out though that a common …
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I'm so happy to share the May monthly story with the world. Which considering what is revealed in it might be a worry. This is a horror short. I don't usually do horror, so this was quiet fun, even though it got quite brutal. The prompt for this was 'Allure', which initially didn't seem like …
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I wasn't too happy with how my monthly story for March, Vault, turned out. I went into that month planning to do a flash piece based on a list of what was in an ancient vault. I was writing this in February, already a short month, and I knew I wouldn't be able to work …
After dropping the ball last month, I'm back with a story I'm happy with for Monthly Story #4. This is Liberate, my latest shot at a dystopia. Lately, I've been feeling quite helpless, especially in the face of everything going wrong in the world. I've also found myself quite frustrated with people. People in general …
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Time for my next monthly story. This one is called Interface, and the prompt for it was of course, "interface." My goal this year is to write a short story a month, and so far I'm two for two. Though it was looking a bit dicey with this one. When I came up with this …
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