Horror, Mini Story, Phrase Prompt, Scary Story, Theme Prompt, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

Suburbia

Our gracious host, Rochelle, is asking us to get
creative in 100 words or less using the photo
seen below. This is Friday Fictioneers.

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Free Verse, Poetry, Quadrille, Scary Story, Theme Prompt, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

Frightfully Fanged: A Quadrille

Written for dVerse Poets Pub – Q25-
β€œI Screen You Screen, We All Screen….”
where Lisa, invites us to write a
quadrille using the word β€œscreen”.
Also for Sammi’s “13 Days of Samhain”
and the words β€œfrightfully” & β€œfanged”.

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Scary Story, Short Story, Theme Prompt, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Wordle, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

The Letters Beneath

Written for Sunday Whirl Wordle.
Here are Brenda’s prompt words:

letters, urged, exist, pranks, view, incessantly,
west, fools, lunatic, bones, ghastly, vast

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Poetry, Quatrain, Scary Story, Theme Prompt, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

Looking Back: A Quatrain

Written for Wea’ve Written Weekly.
Our PoW, Punam, challenges us to
tell a little story in three stanzas.

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Horror, Mini Story, Photo Prompt, Scary Story, Theme Prompt, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

Under The Bridge

Our gracious host, Rochelle, is asking us to get
creative in 100 words or less using the photo
seen below. This is Friday Fictioneers.

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Horror, Mini Story, Photo Prompt, Scary Story, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

What’s The Buzz?

Our gracious host, Rochelle, is asking us to get
creative in 100 words or less using the photo
seen below. This is Friday Fictioneers.

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Scary Story, Short Story, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Wordle, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

The Rite Of St. Aldric

Written for Sunday Whirl Wordle.
Here are Brenda’s prompt words:

screams ~ desolate ~ temples ~ bone ~ sparks ~ pit
voices ~ follow ~ underworld ~ spiral ~ weave ~ current

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Mystery, Photo Prompt, Scary Story, Short Story, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

The Plank

Written for Thursday Doors Writing Challenge 2026.
This week I am writing a story inspired by a photo
by Katy Trail of an abandoned building that
looks like it holds a lot of dark secrets.
Here’s where the image took me.  

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Mini Story, Mystery, Photo Prompt, Scary Story, Writing Prompts

Uninvited Guest

Written for Crispina’s Crimson’s Creative
Challenge #079
. I chose Pic #4.

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Mystery, Photo Prompt, Scary Story, Short Story, Writing Prompts

Ancient One

Written for Crispina’s Crimson’s Creative
Challenge
#077. I chose Pic #3.
Here’s where the image took me.

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Adventure, Mystery, Scary Story, Short Story, Theme Prompt, Writing Prompts

The Curse Of The Wrappings

Written in response to Friday Faithfuls:
β€œKing Tut”. Here’s my take.

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Mystery, Scary Story, Short Story, Theme Prompt

Street Fight

Written for Fandango’s Story Starter #231.
Here’s my story, using Fandango’s line.

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Scary Story, Short Story

Haunted Woods

Written for Missy’s MAD Challenge
where we’ve been given the opening
sentences to build on. Here’s my take.

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Longer Stories, Scary Story

Caliban O’Doole

Originally written in 2022, this is my take
on a beloved fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm.

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