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I recently chatted with someone who said they couldn't write - they thought they did well on email and documents for work, but trying to write a story was something they thought beyond their skill. I have to say, ESPECIALLY for that type of person, these writing prompts are the perfect way to just experiment and try seeing what you are capable of.

ComicFan has given us two great new prompts - I really hope you try one of them, especially if this would be your first time "writing". What better way to start? And please, when you do - consider sharing them with the community in the Writing Prompts forum.

Prompt 126 - Creative
Cue – The Wedding Secret
Today is your wedding day and it should be the happiest day of your life. However, you have been keeping a secret and know if you get married without disclosing it first your marriage will be doomed. What is your secret?

Prompt 127 – Creative
Cue – First Line
“Just how many more times can you do that?”

But before you head over and post your prompt, check out this response we have to one of last week's prompts. JamesSavik saw Prompt 125:

You remember reading as child the horror stories of transforming from man to wolf and those who were blood thirsty killers during the full moon. You laugh now that you are cursed, but unfortunately you didn’t get something cool like a wolf or a tiger. Now you are cursed to transform as well ,only you become what?

and came up with:

The War Inside

 

Stardate 43887.3
Dr. Walter Ingalls, Starfleet Medical
Personal log.

 

At the request of the Angosian government, Star Fleet has dispatched a team of doctors and other specialist to help rehabilitate veteran's of the Tarsian War.

 

When I first got this assignment, I thought that we would make quick and easy progress. Nothing could be further from the truth. What I first thought were symptoms of severe Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is a much more complicated condition created by conditioning, drugs, genetic engineering and nano-technology.

 

This may well be a case where we can not think in terms of a cure per see but manage the condition to improve the patients quality of life.

 

This interview is typical of the patients that we have seen at the Luna V facility.

 

Subject 378- Rayner Zale

 

Ingalls- I specifically asked to speak with you because you have had nothing to do with Roga Danar's insurrection and have expressed no interest in therapy or to live anywhere but the Luna V facility. I wanted to understand your reasoning.

 

Zale- There's simply no point in it. What I have become, what we are, we're not Angosians anymore. We're something else. Something horrible that frightens those of us who were conditioned to be soldiers most of all.

 

Ingalls- So you consider the conditioning program irreversible?

 

Zale- They can remove the drugs, disable the implants, reverse the genetic alterations but... how do you get rid of the faces? I personally have killed over three hundred Tarsians. My enhanced memory allows me to remember each and every face in exacting detail. Can we get rid of that?

 

You can take the soldier out of the war doctor. It's much more difficult to take the war out of the soldier.

 

Ingalls- Perhaps we can help. We have treated many Federation veterans of the Dominion War. I'm certain that we can help.

 

Zale- Maybe you can. I will see how it goes with the others before I commit.

 

Ingalls- No good soldier commits to action without intelligence or reconnaissance.

 

Zale- (laughs) You sound like a soldier yourself.

 

Ingalls- I fought in the Cardassian War and the Dominion War.

 

Zale- It's good to talk to a fellow soldier. Most of the Doctor's are nice young people who have no idea...

 

Ingalls- Yes. Tell me your story.

 

Zale- (sighs) It's fairly typical tale. I will tell it in trade. Your story for mine.

 

Ingalls- That's only fair.

 

Zale- I was young when the war started. I was in my first year at university studying architecture. The war was going very badly at first. Angosians aren't naturally a warlike people. Many of our first generation soldiers hesitated. We suffered defeat after defeat. The Tarsians were... brutal, almost animalistic. We soon discovered that the Breen were backing the Tarsians in a bid to destabilize the area around Romulan space. Both sides were pawns in a much bigger game. I volunteered when our home world was bombarded and several of our cities were leveled.

Check out the rest of James's response!