Prompt: You just bought a new metal detector. Before you go use it, you jokingly point it at your arm. It starts to beep rapidly.
Writing Prompt #80 — The Gray Underneath
CultureCult Magazine: Monsoon Out Now!
CultureCult Magazine: Monsoon is out now! It includes my science fiction novelette, “Three White Demons” (originally self-published in The Abyss Beyond the Reflection)!
It also includes stories by Jared Morningstar, Patricia Evans, and Victor Andres Parra Avellaneda, poetry by a widespread of authors, and non-fiction articles from Elliot Newbold, Shraddha Madhogaria, and Parvathy Menon.
Purchase Monsoon on Amazon now: Kindle / Paperback / Paperback (UK)
Writing Prompt #68 — Like Everyone Else
Prompt: You live in a small isolated commune, where everybody’s face looks the same, except for those of the children around you. You’ve reached the age of 12, and are brought into an operating room.
Writing Prompt #57 — The Gas Station on SH-193
Prompt: Man has finally made it to another star! They land on a planet supposedly filled with life! Unfortunately, the only thing they find is a tiny gas station, with a clerk who looks oddly human… and he says the ice cream maker is broken
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Writing Prompt #56 — Waking From One World to Another
Prompt: After recovery from a freak car accident, you wake up to swirling purple skies, looming blackened trees, and the ground seems to be breathing.
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Writing Prompt #55 — A New Opening in Town
Prompt: You wake up one day to find no one home, you call for your family and get no response, but a whisper of voices suddenly come from outside. You step out and see the entire town huddled around your house holding hands and chanting something.
Writing Prompt #53 — Santa’s Life Cycle
Prompt: Santa Claus is real, but is a different person every year. He is a human sacrifice who dies/is killed after delivering all the presents.
Writing Prompt #51 — He Was me, and I Was Him
Prompt: Body-swapping technology develops to allow rich to buy poor people’s bodies that are in better shape. You make a living by flipping bodies, getting them in shape to sell onto the next rich person. It ends when you are tricked into transferring into a body that you can’t flip.
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Writing Prompt #45 — Hidden in Human Shells
Prompt: Cashiers are actually an advanced alien civilization hiding in plain sight.
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The Space Beyond the Stars Published through The Weird Reader!
My story, “The Space Beyond the Stars” (taken from my third collection The Abyss Beyond the Reflection), was published in The Weird Reader’s third issue alongside a dozen of talented authors.
It can read for free (page 119), through their website now!
