I hope everyone is having a great week! It's time for this weeks prompts, supplied by our prompt guru, Comicfan. Just a reminder, and for those who haven't worked with the prompts before: prompt responses under 1,000 words must be posted as part of a collection. Hopefully you'll find something in this weeks prompts to spark an idea and get you writing!

Prompt 504 – Creative
Tag – First Line
“You’re giving me a headache! “

Prompt 505 – Challenge
Tag -Sense Denied
Tell a story, but your character is blind. Bring your world to life focusing on the other four senses.

We didn't have any takers on the prompts from last week, so let's look at the responses to Prompt #501:

“Faris, for Pete’s sake, I do not want a party. Why is that so hard for you to understand?”

 

No matter what he said, I wasn’t going to do it. If I had to leave and visit my parents, I wanted no party. Thirty should be celebrated alone at home, preferably with a good romantic zombie film, two dogs, a husband and a giant bowl of popcorn.

 

Only.

 

Faris sat on the sofa while I paced followed closely by Francis, our labradoodle pup who was still too small for his paws. Larry, our chocolate lab lay with his head on Faris’ feet.

 

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It’s evening now. Where did the day go? I’ve heard people saying how sometimes time flies by when you’re thinking about something, but it’s the first time it’s ever happened to me. I look around the small apartment I rent and everything is dark. My laptop is still open where I left it, the battery long dead. I don’t want to turn it on again, because the last thing on the screen were the test results and I can’t bear to look at those again. Instead I look out the window, wishing I had some kind of view to admire. Living in the big city, though, that’s a luxury I certainly can’t afford. My window looks out onto a plain brick wall a few feet away, lit from below by a flickering streetlight.

 

I should call Morty. I just don’t know if I have the guts.

 

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