Poetry, Theme Prompt, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

Leonard Cohen

The Brevity Challenge – Sarah & Rohini
invite us to borrow a six word story and
expand on it or create one of our own.

I created my own and expanded it.

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Phrase Prompt, Short Story, Theme Prompt, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

No Surprises

At Great Minds Think โ€“ The One Sentence
Explosion Challenge – Sarah & Rohini ask
us to have fun with the following: โ€œPlease
tell me you didnโ€™t open the blue envelope.โ€

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Haibun, Poetry, Theme Prompt, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

The Soundtrack Of My Life

At Great Minds Think โ€“ Highlight Reel,
Sarah & Rohini ask
โ€˜How do you
want to be immortalized?โ€™

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Short Story, Theme Prompt, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

Big Blue

At Great Minds Think, Sarah & Rohini
offer up โ€˜The Object Speaks Challengeโ€™
where we are invited to give a voice to
the objects we usually overlook. This
is a rewrite of a story I wrote in 2023.

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Poetry, Theme Prompt, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

Time Keeps on Slipping

At Great Minds Think Friday Challenge,
Sarah & Rohini ask โ€˜What would you do
with a magical stopwatch?โ€™ It can be
sped up, slowed down, or even paused.
One caveat … it cannot be stopped.

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What the Walls Kept Out: An Impossible Situation

Written for Great Minds Think Friday Challenge
where Rohini presents โ€œAn Impossible Situation:
Everyone hears their ancestors voices for a dayโ€.
My story is about the brother I never got to know.

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Dialogue, Short Story, Theme Prompt, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

When Words Collide: Malone & the Saint

Happy to take part in the first Great Minds
Think Friday Challenge
where Sarah and
Rohini present โ€œWhen Words Collide!โ€.
This week we have two people from very
different worlds having a conversation.

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