Tag: WritingPrompts

A quick tale in the vicinity of Mother’s Light but, I dunno, the multi-verse is a big place. Dearest Arthur, I send you many good wishes and joyous holiday cheer. I remain employed and thriving in that frigid faraway kingdom to the north, the one where I once sought a proper education many years ago.…

Surely, I had been waiting for at least ten minutes. I pulled my phone out of my jacket pocket. Then, I remembered that the battery had died during my elevator ride up to the nineteenth floor, and this sterile lobby. I put my phone back and smoothed out the tailored pocket flap. I hadn’t worn…

I sit in my favorite chair, the one with the giant sapphire Eye of Certainty inlaid at the top of its high mahogany back. I should really get that appraised. An unwelcome draft threatens to extinguish my candelabra, and the shifting light breaks my reverie. The walls of this windowless room have not been so…

A young man ate cold cereal at the kitchen island that barely fit into his basement apartment. Five bar stools from last night’s poker game remained arranged around the island. He stared at his bowl and rubbed his forehead, while a movie played on his phone in his lap, on mute. A familiar face arrived…

Id the Impulsive, 8457th of His Name, entered his main audience chamber. Sidestepping around very short furniture, sized for the majority of his subjects and staff, he approached the Grand Council Table. The other tables were also sized for the nice folk that bordered his kingdom. He hoped to invite them inside soon, though there…

The man named Elder, for that was all that his father and village chieftain had ever called him, sat at the end of a long table. The benches at this table were crowded with men in a disordered array of different garments, no two sets of protective armor the same. Some, like Elder, wore no…

I was starting to get rather peeved, but this person was my guest, the only one to actually show up. Finishing their introduction with a clear warning, he said, “This was a lovely party, but I must be returning now, and I trust you’ll tell the public the right thing come tomorrow.”. He settled back…