Even though we paused our news blog last week, the prompts continued on schedule. So *that* means - we have FOUR prompts to showcase today. As usual, ComicFan is our source of all of this wonderful promptyness...

Prompt 130 – Creative
Cue – The Call
You have lived your whole life in the same town, however with each passing year you have felt a desire to move. Always you head in the same direction. Now you are legally an adult and the money you have saved manically for the past few years is going to get you to the place that has haunted your dreams and called to you like a siren’s call. Where is this call taking you?

Prompt 131 – Creative
Cue – The Pet
Science has been tinkering with pets for years now. You can get an animal in nearly any color, length of fur, and intelligence. Today you went down and specially ordered your own pet. Only after it was delivered to your home you find it isn’t the simple creature they claimed it would be. What is your pet like?

Prompt 132 – Creative
Cue – The Aftermath
War is never pretty. Who expected a war like this though. Over half the world’s populace is gone. Things are going to have to start over. What is your job in the aftermath of war? What was it fought about?

Prompt 133 – Challenge
Cue – First Love
First loves are messy, wonderful, disastrous, and unforgettable. They teach you, they wreck you, and they make you stronger. Choose any form you of writing you like- poetry, the short story, a journal entry, or even a news article and put down all the things you went through or a character you wrote went through in their first love.

How many of them will YOU try? Even if it is just one, share your take on any of these with the rest of the community - post them in the Writing Prompts forum!

For previous prompt 126, Renee Stevens gave her take on the prompt of "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?"

Here is her The Only One

Jesse stared at his reflection in the mirror. Today should be the happiest day of his life and it would be if it wasn’t for the cloud of deceit hanging over his head. He should have told Mike his biggest secret a long time ago, and now was definitely not the time to be thinking about it, but he couldn’t help it. He was supposed to marry Mike in less than an hour and now he wasn’t sure he was going to be able to go through with it.

 

How could he when Mike didn’t even know the type of man he was planning to marry. Sure, many couples had secrets, but he doubted that many of them carried around a secret of the magnitude that he had been hiding from Mike during their three year courtship. A knock sounded on the door and he was almost grateful for the interruption of his thoughts.

 

“Come in.” Jesse glanced briefly at the door before turning his attention back to his reflection. He straightened his tie and simply just fidgeted as he struggled with the weight on his broad shoulders. A hand fell on his shoulder and he met the blue gaze staring back at him with his own green one.

 

“You doing okay?” Thomas squeezed his shoulder and then turned Jesse to face him. “I just saw Mike, he’s probably almost as nervous as you are.”

 

Jesse smiled at the mention of his fiancé’s name, but his expression quickly sobered as he remembered the secret still festering inside him. After that, chances were that Mike would no longer be nervous, but that was only because he would probably be running for the hills.

 

“He’s taking it a lot better than I thought he would. I had really thought he might at least postpone the wedding after you told him.”

 

“I haven’t told him yet.” Jesse swallowed and forced himself to continue. “I’ve been trying to, I just haven’t been able to find the right time.”

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