Description: #Audio. #Monologue Use an idiom or cliche as a literal impetus for a play. Excerpt: I look in the mirror and I see myself reflected back, and if I look more closely, look into my own eyes, I see my own reflected reflection.

Description: #Audio. #Flashfic.  Incorporate and anecdote into a story. #BasilandZoe #origin Excerpt: “Thank you, Zoe, I accept your invitation.” He joined me on the bench and we were quiet for several minutes but then he broke the silence.

Description: #Audio. #shortshort #Experiment with writing in second person. Excerpt: You’re kind of reeling because a few hours before, while you were eating burgers and drinking beer at a really great diner near the arena, she came out to you,

Description: #Audio. #Flashfic.  #Use the first line of an existing work to inspire a story, but go in a completely different direction. Excerpt: “The princess from Betelgeuse and the prince from Hattaras Six?

Description: #Audio. #Flashfic.  The assignment was to use an obituary to inspire a story. Excerpt: The kissing part had been amazing. Forty-seven years of her kisses. Slightly fewer years of weekly trips to the Ocean View Lanes for bowling with their ...

Description: #Audio. #Flashfic.  Just a piece of fluff and nonsense. Excerpt: Coffee won’t listen and understand but it will make the morning feel less like razor blades and more like something merely annoying,

Description: #Audio. #Flashfic.  #Thriller Inspired by an image. Sometimes a picture really is worth more than a thousand words. Excerpt: Mother and daughter walked hand-in-hand down the dim hallway. The nightlight in the bathroom cast weird shadows th...

Description: #Audio. #Flashfic.  #YA  Inspired by a recent visit with my mother. Excerpt: My mother rolled her eyes at me. “Fine. What else are you going to restrict? Am I allowed to speak? Should I walk three paces behind you?

Description: #Audio. #Flashfic.  #Horror.  What if a baseball game didn’t just seem endless; what if it actually was? Excerpt: Sure, Game Three of the 2018 World Series went to 18 innings before the Dodgers finally won, but what if it hadn’t?

Description: #Audio. #Flashfic.  Write a story using a metaphor to describe a mental health condition without naming it. Excerpt: But you come out of the white, at the end, and you realize that you’ve amassed this collection of art – writing,