Prompt: An inexperienced hunter is suddenly thrusted on a quest to search and hunt a terrifying beast that’s way above his paycheck. After getting lost, injured, and losing consciousness, he wakes up to find his injuries treated and the beast he was tasked to hunt to sleeping beside him.
Continue reading Writing Prompt #152 — Embracing Beasts
Prompt: Burn the witch, they shouted as they tied her to the stake. She just laughed as fire was her ally, not an enemy.
Continue reading Writing Prompt #146 — Their Weapon, Her Ally
Prompt: An exhausted train passenger nods off and misses their stop. They wake up in the dead of night and notice that they are alone on the train…
Continue reading Writing Prompt #145 — Where He’s Truly Meant to Be
Prompt: You chanced upon a mysterious flute, and, like any reasonable person, decide to blow it. It only emits a hissing sound. You think you’re not playing it correctly until you started noticing cats following you.
Continue reading Writing Prompt #143 — The Black Cats and the Crescent Flute
Prompt: The world is now essentially devoid of nature, making way for strange castle-like civilizations across the entirety of the Earth’s surface. Lately those near the bottom of these structures have been changing into horrific monstrous beings. Working their way up, feasting on those more fortunate.
Continue reading Writing Prompt #142 — Filth From Below
Candy Capers: In Aid of the Brain Tumour Charity, an anthology of family-friendly fantasy and magic, has released! It contains my story, “The Sugar Witch of S’mores Forest.”
Usually my work is a bit darker and mature, but as soon as I read the open call, I quickly imagined a setting and character. Plus, it’s for a great cause, so I thought: Why not?
You can purchase Candy Capers on Amazon!
As of this writing, there have been over 125 writing prompts posted to the website, available for free to anyone who wants to read them. Now, the first hundred stories have been compiled into genre-specific collections, and made so they can be read on your preferred device. Mainly, this was done this for convenience sake.
All the stories have been revised, and most formats (.mobi, .epub, and .pdf) are available for free to anyone who wants them (if there’s a format you prefer that’s not available, please reach out through email and I’ll send it over).
You can find them below, and if you want to throw down a dollar or two for them, feel free to do so through my Ko-Fi.
Thank you to everyone whose read and supported any of my work, and even bigger thank you to anyone who chooses to donate.
Continue reading Writing Prompt (1-100) Collections Out Now — Download For Free!
Exterus: Vol 1. released today, including over a dozen short stories, six novellas/novelettes, and three articles.
Among the short stories is my first published dark fantasy story, “The Gallows”!
Continue reading Exterus Vol. 1: The Journal of the Speculative, the Fantastic & the Bizarre — Out Now!
Here are the books I read to finish out the year, and what I thought about them.
Continue reading Books Read in December
Prompt: You’re glad to see that Death still remembers who you are
Micah Castle 