Hi Everyone

Turns out that I'm helping out in a pinch with this weeks Prompt Me! blog entry. Our prompt guru Wayne, aka Comicfan, and Renee are shall we say 'indisposed' for now.

Since I'm not an expert here, I thought I would copy a Prompt Me! that was originally posted on October 17, 2013 by Comicfan. I thought why not give this another go to share your Spooktacular writing skills with all!

Prompt 270 – Creative
Tag – First Line
“Because, I’m leaving you.”

Prompt 271 – Creative
Tag – The Murder
You had been invited for a vacation, and happy to get away from your daily life quickly took it. Once you were dropped off at the island, you found you were one of only four people there. All of you had been invited, but none of you seemed to know the host, and you all seemed to be stuck with no way off. There was the fully stocked house, a pool, and all sorts of luxuries, but no phone service and no way off till the boat came back. That first day was great until the storm hit, knocking out the power. You went in search of everyone else, the group of you all came upon the body of one of the other guests. Who committed the murder and why? Will you survive to get off the island?

And no, I did not murder Renee or Wayne or Cia......yet

Last week there were 3 responses to the two prompts given, lets take a look at all 3.

Prompt 457 Creative: "To say you loath spiders would be a gross understatement. However, you woke this morning and couldn’t see out your window, there were spider webs as thick as a curtain just outside your window. As you make your way around the house you see them everywhere outside. What is going on that you have so many spiders at your house?"

We have this Halloween themed story by albertnothlit called The Pact

 

 

 

“Mommy, why are there so many spiders outside the house?”

 

Meredith Jones yanked the kitchen curtains shut, steeping the room in uneasy twilight. “It’s okay, sweetie. They won’t hurt us.”

 

Six-year-old Mary wasn’t convinced. “But they’re scary. And they look all funny with their eyes like that.”

Prompt 456 Creative: “How did I forget his birthday again?”

First was an entry by JohnAR in his 41st entry in Metaprompts

 

‘If only,’ Colt thought, ‘if only I could be convinced she had that thought at least once.’ The funeral left him bitter. Too many nice words by a Catholic priest, camouflaging drugs, prostitution and child neglect. Given his bright future, he might have forgiven her – surely as ‘God’ would despite the deadly sin of suicide – if, if only, he could be convinced she had that thought at least once in the past years. But he couldn’t convince himself. And so he was bitter. Quiet, but utterly bitter.

Second was an entry by jamesavik which is a continuation of Cadet Cruise

“How did I forget his birthday again?”

 

Allister said, "Jerry, it's your birthday too you know."

 

Jerry sighed and rolled over facing the fire. "Our birthday is a lot more complicated than you think."

 

Troy said, "That's right, you guys are some of the Genies that were freed during the Corporate War."

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