Write a story using future tense. He will wake up alone and remember he didn’t pick up his wife last night. He will call her repeatedly. She will not answer. He will call her mother to ask her where his wife is. His mother-in-law will not know and after a grueling 15-minutes of question from […]

Ex 245: “Now that it’s just us, and everything’s out in the open, there’s just one thing I want to know.” I had never in my life wished for a battle more than I did right now. But Jack and I had destroyed the enemy. We had won. I should be celebrating, not sitting here […]

Ex 202 Write an ending using: “I love the cold…” It was a dark night.Clouds covered up the moon, leaving everyone in the park to rely on overhead artificial lights for guidance.I walked down between crowds of seated friends and family, carrying my exorbitantly overpriced bouquet of roses and tulips, and smiled.I smiled at Victor […]

You are standing in front of a flight of stairs. Where do they lead? I was standing in front of a flight of stairs drenched in complete darkness. I don’t know where they lead, all I know is that I can’t go back to where I was. Life back there was just too much, too […]

Five-Minute Monday turned into Migraine Monday. Ergo, I could not possibly type my short yesterday. But I’m feeling better today, so today here it is. Enjoy. Ex 500. Write a story using future tense. Tomorrow, you will wake up in pain as you have the last seven months. And you’ll ignore it, as always. After […]

Ex 134. Write an opening using: “Here. Take this.” “Here. Take these,” Judith said, handing her twin sister, Judian, a pair of fins. Bewildered, Judian asked, “What am I supposed to do with these?” “Um, use them. They’ll help you swim.” “I can’t swim, Jude. These aren’t going to help me.” “Well, it’s better than […]

So yeah, I got engrossed in grading and reading my students’ drafts of the paper they have coming up that I completely forgot to do the 5-Minute story for yesterday. Well, I wrote it. I just forgot to upload it. I wrote it last week. So I’m uploading it now. Ex 17. Must be easy […]

Ex 365. “And I think the crib should go there.” “And I think the crib should go there,” Adriana said as she walked through the extra bedroom with Matt, her husband of five years. Matt looked at her and was completely dumbfounded. Granted he loved the smile she was giving him; he loved when she […]

Ex 278:Write an opening using a quote from your favorite song or movie. “In pitch dark/ I go walking through your landscape…” Ember looked at the radio as Thom Yorke crooned his way through the first lines of “There There.” “Huh.Interesting,” she said to herself. “What’s interesting,” Asher said as he kept his eyes on […]