Your main character’s favourite band/artist is coming to town, and they will do anything to get back stage… Getting past security was easy. That isn’t always the case, some venues are tougher than others but this little lot played along nicely. Of course looking like one of the mothers of the desperate little tweens crowding…
The prompt for A Darker Flame this month is… After twenty years, your main character steps out of the prison and takes in a first breath of free air. As the large iron gates banged shut behind Roma she lay quiet and peaceful in the back of the carriage and allowed herself to be carried…
The prompt for A Darker Flame this month is ‘A story based in the town of Cool’. I will admit that this one didn’t come easy to me. I spent hours pondering possible ideas but none of them really inspired me to start writing. In the end I sat down with a blank screen and…
“Charlie?” “Yeah, what?” “Clara is coming round for dinner, you going to come out from behind that boring computer and join us?” Leaning back in his office chair and looking at the great hulk of a man standing in the doorway Charlie felt a glimmer of irritation buzz through him. Boring computer eh? Or maybe…
* I have written this piece as my contribution to Stranded in Toronto’s new meme A Darker Flame. The prompt was ‘a medieval knight finds a mobile phone’ and the directive was to include a secondary genre such as Sci-fi, Fantasy, Horror, Western etc…. As you can see I went for Sci-fi in the form…
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