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Fairy Tales for Short Attention Spans

February 4, 2010

One day a great wiz­ard cast an enchant­ment upon a princess hop­ing to lure her to his realm. Finally, she arrived. The wiz­ard came down from his tower to greet her with his very best pick up line. Sadly, it was some­thing obnox­ious he had picked up from the guy who cleaned the dun­geon. So […]

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The Character Project Writing Exercise

January 29, 2010

Writ­ing prompt from The Char­ac­ter Project:
That guy. The one over there in the red shirt. He’s been in here every day this week.
“That guy. The one over there in the red shirt. He’s been in here every day this week. He bought the break­fast plat­ter and then two cof­fee refills after that. He read the newspaper, […]

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Horror Show and Tell

October 15, 2009

I got the idea for this when I read a title “Hor­ror Hotel Show and Tell” at Nip­ple­icious.
It’s almost Hal­loween so when you notice an odd lit­tle Gothic-looking bou­tique on the main street of town You decide to go in, just for a quick look. On the out­side it was tidy, white­washed with wood trim […]

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Hiding Who you Really Are

October 11, 2009

You’re part of a team explor­ing an under­ground world, the domain of some mys­te­ri­ous aliens that failed in a plot to take over the Earth. The space aliens were on Earth for a few gen­er­a­tions in human time. But, finally some­one came up with a bril­liant idea and won the day, for the humans.
What no […]

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More Women Should be Horror Writers

October 2, 2009

It’s been a tough, frus­trat­ing day at work. You get home feel­ing you just man­aged to drag your­self through the door. On the fridge, a note, one of those “gone fish­ing” type of notes from your sig­nif­i­cant other. In fact, every­one has gone out for the night. You will have the whole place to yourself […]

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You Kissed the Frog and You Liked It

September 22, 2009

In a sur­pris­ing twist of fate, when you finally do buckle down and kiss that frog he really does turn into a Prince, from another planet.
Now here you are, reclin­ing in very com­fort­able seats in his space­ship. It’s not quite how you saw this day turn­ing out. Decid­ing to leave wasn’t easy. But you were […]

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Life in a Small House

September 19, 2009

You’ve just won a free house! Of course you are very excited, feel­ing like you just won the lot­tery. It comes with the land it is built on and a free trailer hitch (which is kind of odd but you don’t put much thought into it at the time). When you arrive to claim the […]

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Finding Food and Water in the Laboratory

September 18, 2009

“Any fool can make things big­ger, more com­plex, or more vio­lent. It takes a touch of genius– and a lot of courage– to move in the oppo­site direc­tion.” — Albert Ein­stein
This is just what your soon-to-be ex mad inven­tor hus­band says right before he shrinks you down to the size of a split pea with […]

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The Abandoned Shopping Mall Plants

August 22, 2009

In an aban­doned shop­ping mall there are hun­dreds of plants slow­ing dying from lack of water. They can get sun­light (most of them) from sky­lights in the mall. But, no one comes in to bring them water. The whole mall closed down weeks ago when there just weren’t enough shop­pers, the last shop closed it’s […]

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You’ve Got Fly Cooties

August 21, 2009

A fly buzzes around your cof­fee mug. You’ve just made fresh cof­fee and only had that first sip of it. You swat the fly away, instead it flies right into your mug and begins to drown/ swim in your cof­fee. You scoop out the fly and drink the cof­fee any­way. It was really good cof­fee!
Later […]

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What If… Paper Were Priceless?

August 20, 2009

The bank machines and com­put­ers have been hacked. No one can use credit or debit cards. Every­one has had to go to the bank and use cash again. Oh hor­rors! To have to make change again. To have to carry a change purse along. To have to actu­ally think about what you are spend­ing versus […]

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Dust Bunnies on the High Bath Water

August 11, 2009

You make a paper ship and leave it on the kitchen table overnight. In the morn­ing the dust bun­nies have taken it, dragged it to the kitchen sink and are sail­ing around the world, they claim. You explain the world is much big­ger than the kitchen sink and the oceans are dan­ger­ous. All your explanations […]

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Shrinking Woman and the Pirate King

August 9, 2009

You shrink your­self acci­den­tally, sort of. You did invent a great shrink­ing ray which will make so much change for the mov­ing indus­try for one. Just think how much eas­ier it will be to move all your stuff if you can shrink it to fit into your purse.
Any­way, you were tin­ker­ing around with the shrink­ing ray […]

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The Space Seed Adventure

June 25, 2009

A lit­tle seed fell down from outer space. Of course, it wasn’t an ordi­nary seed, oth­er­wise it would have just burnt up in Earth’s atmos­phere. Instead, it fell into an ordi­nary gar­den in an ordi­nary back­yard in Ontario. The seed landed on a gar­den bed and luck­ily the gar­dener was water­ing that day. The seed […]

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The Bug Who Would Not be Flushed

June 13, 2009

There once was a large, black fly­ing bee­tle who had great pride in his wings and the speed and agility he prac­ticed every day of his bewinged life. One day, as hap­pens in a bug’s life now and then, he was swat­ted by a human. While still dazed he was caught in tis­sue then (without […]

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