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I’ve noticed that I’ve gotten a lot of new followers lately. Not sure why, but thanks! FYI, Gillian and I are no longer adding to this 52…
Kevin Rhodes
Dec 5, 2019
Week 52: The End (A story entitled “The End”)
The End was a little old man who lived by the sea. He had lived there as long as anyone could remember, and though the more inquiring young…
Gillian Rhodes
Dec 25, 2016
Week 52: The End (Prompt: A story entitled “The End”)
Everybody called it “The End” — a stub street wrapped by three stories of Georgian brick.
Kevin Rhodes
Dec 23, 2016
Week 51: The Christmas Tree (Prompt: A story set at Christmas)
“Here, this way. Don’t open your eyes!”
Gillian Rhodes
Dec 19, 2016
Week 51: Jul (Prompt: A story set at Christmas)
“Mas.”
Kevin Rhodes
Dec 17, 2016
Week 50: The Professor (Prompt: A creation myth)
The Professor was a mad old coot, for sure. Most of the kids thought he was a joke, and goaded him the entire class. I guess I did too. I…
Gillian Rhodes
Dec 12, 2016
Week 50: The Fort (Prompt: A creation myth)
Greg’s dad said no treehouse in the weeping willow, which left our boxelder, but the V was high and narrow, so the ground it was, next to…
Kevin Rhodes
Dec 10, 2016
Week 49: Unto Your Own Self (Prompt: A story about justice being done)
There’s not many people alive anymore who remember the Shift. Most of us who are, don’t even remember it.
Gillian Rhodes
Dec 5, 2016
Week 49: War (Prompt: A story about justice being done)
Greg’s dad said I did it — broke the .sight on his new plastic toy gun. He even supplied a motive: I was jealous.
Kevin Rhodes
Dec 3, 2016
Week 48: Nothing Strange (Prompt: A story about a strange small town)
What was strange about our town is that it wasn’t strange at all. Nor was anybody in it. The town just was, so were the people in it, and…
Kevin Rhodes
Nov 29, 2016
Week 48: Jore Trouvet (Prompt: A story about a strange small town)
Many people will tell you that Jore Trouvet does not exist, but do not listen to them. Jore Trouvet exists, and I have been there to prove…
Gillian Rhodes
Nov 28, 2016
Week 47: Jore Perdu (Prompt: A Story about a magic spell)
It happens once a year in Jore Perdu, in all other respects a perfectly normal town, in a perfectly normal country, with perfectly normal…
Gillian Rhodes
Nov 21, 2016
Week 47: Hypnotized (Prompt: A story about a magic spell.)
It’s like she’s casting a spell. I know it, and I’m going under willingly. Her ad talked about breakthrough. I can use some of that.
Kevin Rhodes
Nov 20, 2016
Week 46: Trash Talk (Prompt: A story about anger)
His problem, not mine.
Kevin Rhodes
Nov 14, 2016
Week 46: The Edge of the Map (Prompt: A Story about anger)
They said we must not go to the mountain. Anywhere in the valley, they said, they could take us. We could make our maps of each stone and…
Gillian Rhodes
Nov 13, 2016
Week 45: NDEs (Prompt: A Story about a near-death experience)
Some decades previously, a group of extraordinarily talented and crazy scientists and doctors had developed a new, risky procedure with a…
Gillian Rhodes
Nov 7, 2016
Week 45: Blizzard, September 1997 (Prompt: A story about a near-death experience.)
A day of driving snow, dinner with friends, and when we’re done no one should have left, but I had this compulsion to ride out the storm at…
Kevin Rhodes
Nov 5, 2016
Week 44: (Prompt: A story that takes place the year you were born.)
“Last name?”
Kevin Rhodes
Nov 1, 2016
Week 44: Nowhere To Go But Up (Prompt: A story that takes place the year you were born)
“One-nine-nine-zeroooo…boom.” He makes an explosion shape with his fingers, shaped like the fireworks, then grins over at her. “It’s gonna…
Gillian Rhodes
Nov 1, 2016
Week 43: Alice (Prompt: A retelling of a recent Hollywood movie)
They talk about her in whispers.
Gillian Rhodes
Oct 24, 2016
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