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Prompt #1535 The Smell of Fear
I sat there, squeezed in between two guys on the back bench seat, facing a third man across a spacious length of plush black carpeting. In the interest of personal safety, I made a point of looking...
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Prompt #1605 The Problem with Sherlock
One of Sherlock Holmes’s defects–if, indeed, one may call it a defect–was that he was exceedingly loath to communicate his full plans to any other person until the instant of their fulfilment. Partly...
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Prompt #1711 Visual Prompt – On the Phone
Create whatever this visual prompt inspires in you! Photo Credit: Albert Robida on OBI Scrapbook Blog Original article: Prompt #1711 Visual Prompt – On the Phone. Related posts: Prompt #1707 Visual...
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Prompt #1722 Enclaves
An enclave is a territory, or a part of a territory, that is entirely surrounded by the territory of another state. Territorial waters have the same sovereign attributes as land, and enclaves may...
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Prompt #1887 Life Line
It was as though the lifeline on her palm had fallen between the cracks of the impossible and the arbitrary. –“In Search of a Metaphysical Rock Star” by Sheri-D Wilson Fiction Writing Prompt: Write a...
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Prompt #1901 Turn it On
It’s an ancient and honorable term for the final step in any engineering project. Turn it on, see if it smokes. –Falling Free by Louise MacMaster Bujold Fiction Writing Prompt: Write the story of an...
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Prompt #1965 Asset Forfeiture
The basic principle behind asset forfeiture is appealing. It enables authorities to confiscate cash or property obtained through illicit means, and, in many states, funnel the proceeds directly into...
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Prompt #2036 Heading into Disaster
Nearly swamping a French trawler, the White Star Lines flagship RMS Titanic pulled away from its last ever contact with land at Queenstown in Ireland on the afternoon of April 11, 1912. –Caldwell...
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Prompt #3014 Homicidal Ideation
…research shows many people have homicidal thoughts or fantasies (as many as 79 percent of men and 66 percent of women in a 1993 survey of university students), DeLisi said. It becomes a problem when...
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Prompt #3020 Got Myself into a Mess
KNOWING THAT YOU’D GOTTEN your own self into a mess wasn’t all that much consolation when you were about to die. –Anna Elliott, The Witch Queen’s Secret Fiction Writing Prompt: Put your protagonist...
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