WRITING PROMPTS
By revisiting the traditional Pinocchio story (view here), Maday embraces a pre-existing narrative and its conventions. In doing so, he gains some advantage—readers are likely…
In, “Why I Love of Angelina” (view here), Nin Andrews one-ups our obsession with a popular actress by turning her into a deity. By doing…
Here, Corbin transports the Greek gods into the modern Era, and uses them in a humorous commentary on social media. Though, she balances humor and…
In, “Astronauts under the Sea Dance” (view here), King exposes the strangeness of how people mourn or pay homage to others after times of crisis…
In, “Astronauts under the Sea Dance” (view here), King exposes the strangeness of how people mourn or pay homage to others after times of crisis…
In Sampsell’s “Distress” (view here), we are presented with the scenario of a woman asking a man to call her when he finds himself in…
Here (view piece), Todd Dillard has created a story that uses the foreign language of a country to illustrate the traveler’s ignorance. We can see…
Meagear’s piece (view here) recounts an experience that both characters participated in, using second person as if the speaker were narrating it to the other…
Muratori’s speaker (view here) has almost no authority in his life; his ideas remain largely unacknowledged or ignored. It’s somewhat ironic, then, that he is…
Meyers’s piece (view here) presents a character—Mr. Ragman—who is entirely figment. Readers do not get his actual name, his actual age, or any concrete details…