Hope everyone has had a great week so far and is looking forward to the weekend. What better way to start it off than with brand new prompts! If you've been feeling stuck, or maybe just want to do something a little different, maybe one of these prompts will jumpstart a new idea. A couple of things to remember: Prompt responses under 1,000 words must be posted as part of a collection. Do to the high number of collections containing only a few "chapters" we have set a limit of five collections per author, any more than this requires prior Admin approval.

Prompt 422 – Creative
Tag – The Gift
Many years ago you were asked to send a gift to a student as part of letter exchange. While the rest of your class got a letter and package back you never did. Now, nearly a decade or more later, your mother has called to say you have a package waiting for you at home. It takes a while but you finally head back to your parent’s home for a visit and are given your gift. What is it and why did it take so long?

Prompt 423 – Creative
Tag – List of Words
Use the following in a story – bird bath, loaf of bread, Chinese checkers, a daffodil, and a painting.

We also have the next Poetry prompt!

Poetry Prompt #10
Write one Italian Sonnet about a recent dream. Use the quatrains to paint the sights, sounds, and other senses of the dream in an unsentimental way. With the sestet, introduce the emotions of how the dream made you feel. Keep consistent 10-syllable lines, and use the rhyme pattern of: a-b-b-a; a-b-b-a; c-d-c-d-c-d. For more information on this type of poetry, visit the thread!

Now for the featured prompt responses, this week we'll feature a past poetry response, plus a response from last week's prompts!

This week I decided to feature Valkyrie's response to Prompt #420:

 

“He put his hand where?” asked Stan incredulously.

 

I rolled my eyes. This was embarrassing enough without having to repeat myself. “You heard me…right on my crotch! He,” I made air quotes with my fingers, “accidentally tripped and just happened to fall right into my lap, hands first.”

 

Stan snickered. “So did he cop a good feel of your goodies?”

 

I raised an eyebrow. “My ‘goodies’? What are you, ten?”

Want to find out what happens next? Read the full response here!

And for the poetry prompt, here's jamessavik's response to Poetry Prompt #9

 

I Want to Believe

 

I'm keeping it cool,
doing what we're told,
Not making waves,
buying what we're sold.

Read the rest of James' poem, here.