The prompts are back! We didn't have any prompts last week because I hijacked Friday to announce the release of the 2014 Spring Anthology: Nature's Wrath. I hope everyone enjoyed the stories and if you haven't already read them, I encourage everyone to go take a look. Lots of good stories to choose from. Guess it's time to see what the prompt guru, Comicfan, has in store for us this week!

Prompt 310 – Creative
Tag – List of Words
Use the following words in a story – tent, a running river, a wolf, a lighter, and a bowl of cereal.

Prompt 311 – Creative
Tag – Parade
You woke up this morning only to hear someone pounding on your front door a moment later. Throwing on a robe you open the door to find your best friend standing there looking at you. “I thought you would be dressed by now. We are going to be late to the parade!” What parade are you supposed to be going to and what happens?

Two weeks ago we had someone share their first-ever prompt response with us, so I decided to use it for the featured prompt. Hope you enjoy JMH's response to prompt #308:

When is a river not a mere stream?

 

In the case of the Barony of Abbott it was the thin borderline between two spiteful brothers. Ever since their father’s death two years ago the family had been divided between which of the two brothers would inherit their father’s land and title. While their father’s will had clearly stated that both sons were to rule over the barony together the former baron left behind no instructions on how the estate was to be divided.

 

Addison, the eldest of the brothers, claimed that as the first born son he should inherit the title and most of the land. His younger brother Olson, however, demanded that the land be divided in equal parts. Olson would “generously” let his brother keep the castle while he would take the lands west of the river. While it seemed to be fair on paper, Addison knew his father’s lands well enough to know that most of the family wealth came from the silver mines that his conniving brother would take for himself.

 

Hoping their mother would settle the dispute, they went to the Baroness and asked her to settle the issue once and for all. The Baroness however refused to divide the barony between her two sons. Instead she pleaded with them to serve as co-rulers of the Barony. By this point, however, the bad blood between brothers made any hope of them working together as equals impossible.

 

During another one of their arguments Addison’s rage brought his hand to the hilt of his sword. He drew his father’s jagged vorpal sword and charged at his shocked brother. Before the sword could hit its mark their mother threw herself between the tip of the sword and her younger son’s heart. The blade, which once slew a dragon, slid through her body like a knife being thrust into a bucket full of sand.

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