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Writing Prompt: The Moving Mountains

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“Hey, you should get up.” Melody kneeled beside her daughter, touching a hand to her arm and tugging gently. When no response came from the child, she tugged a little harder. “Lizzie, it’s time.”

Lizzie let out a quiet groan, then opened her eyes. She sat up immediately. “Oh no! I fell asleep!”

“It’s all right,” Melody chuckled. “You didn’t miss much. Mostly clouds. But we’re nearing the Moving Mountains and I knew you didn’t want to miss them.”

Standing up carefully, Lizzie looked over the edge of the basket of the hot air …

Writing Prompt: Figures of Speech

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Prompt: You’re on a space ship with a bunch of your crewmates. You’re the only human, and apparently metaphors are a strictly human behavior. You’ve learned to cope with this, but today you’ve decided to speak in only figures of speech as a prank on the others.

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“How’s it hanging, Moe?”

The 7-foot tall, thin dark-skinned man from Klorn stepped out of his quarters and looked over at me. “Hello Sarah. How’s what hanging?”

I laughed and continued down the corridor, coffee mug in hand. This was going to be fun.

“Did you make …

Writing Prompt: Temple

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Prompt (Image): Temple

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Ethan’s mind was in a haze as he trudged up the last steps of the perilous path to the heart of the temple. The stones that made up the stairs were crumbling and he couldn’t trust his footing, but he ascended them mindlessly, making a series of quick educated guesses. He didn’t have the willpower for anything else, having traveled for days over the most perilous terrain that he’d ever encountered as an explorer, and on top of it all, he had lost John in the process. John had fallen off …

Writing Prompt: The Long Road

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The Long RoadPrompt (Image): The Long Road

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“Come on!” my sister yelled. “Let’s go!”

“Just a minute!” I yelled back. I stood on the edge of the broken highway, staring into the distance, hand over my brow to shield the glaring sun. The mountains were so beautiful, I couldn’t help but linger. Their blue silhouettes lined the horizon like the edge of the world, with the long road ahead visible for miles and miles. The city wasn’t too far away, I thought. We could probably make it there by sundown if we kept a good pace.…

Writing Prompt: Killing the Princess

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Prompt: The hero kills the princess and frees the monster.

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She stared at him with cold, unseeing eyes. Her grin showed her sharpened teeth. “Go on, kill me,” she said mockingly. “I’m in such misery.” She cackled. “You can’t do it. You love her too much.”

Angry tears ran down his face, but he pinned her firmly against the ground, his hands on her arms, his legs on either side of hers. The stench of the barn wafted around him. He tried to focus on it, forget that the face in front of him …

Writing Prompt: Imaginary Friend

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I’m trying out the Writing Prompts subreddit and thought I’d share my posts here! Click the link to see other writing based on the same prompt.

Prompt: Children have such interesting and fascinating sounding imaginary friends, because they have a hard time explaining the gods they are seeing and communicating with.

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I buried my face in the pillow, my tears smearing across the fabric. I sobbed into it, muffling my voice as much as possible. Otherwise dad would hear me and yell at me to be quiet. When there were no more tears to …