I hope everybody had a wonderful holiday and maybe you even got to read a few of the stories on the Christmas Reading List that was posted for the last couple of days. I've already got some ideas for things to do for next Christmas, but you'll have to wait to see what I've got in store. What you don't have to wait for is two new prompts to help get those fingers moving on the keys! Let's see what's in store for us today!

Prompt 380 – Creative
Tag – First Line
“Sure, now you want me to make the decisions.”

Prompt 381 – Challenge
Tag – Uncomfortable situation
Every writer has a time where they need to create a scene around something uncomfortable. This can be someone being fired, a death in the family, or breakup. Your challenge is to create such a scene and include as much detail as you can. What is the setting? What can we see or hear? Is the person sweating or can we smell antiseptic? Involve as many of the senses as you can in your scene and bring it to life.

Now, let's see what story we should feature this week! I remembered reading one, I just had to find it, this week I'm featuring Jason Rimbaud's response to prompt #378:

ANNIVERSARY

 

“It’s not that I didn’t like the gift…”

 

“You don’t,” Ron interrupted while flipping through a magazine.

 

“Right, but he doesn’t have to know that.”

 

“He will figure it out when you never wear it and it goes the way the rest of his gifts have gone, “Ron said gesturing towards the closet.

 

“It’s our fifth year anniversary, that deserves something more romantic than a brown coat and an even plainer brown scarf,” Daniel exclaimed, pushing his hair off his forehead.

 

“It could have been worse you know.”

 

“Really. How?”

 

“Remember the animal print top he bought you two years ago,” Ron said, putting the magazine down on his lap. “What kind of animal was that again?”

Want to read the rest? You can do so, here.