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Valkyrie

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I've just returned from spending a little over a week in the sunny southwestern US visiting my good friend and fellow prompt team member @Cole Matthews and his husband.  We had a great time going for walks in the desert, shopping at antique malls (the inspiration for Prompt #121), going to a concert, and of course, writing prompt responses!  Every time we get together, we always spend part of that time choosing prompts and then writing about them.  I've selected my favorite two out of the six we completed, and stay tuned next week for Cole's favorite two. We'll be posting our respective stories/vignettes throughout the week, so keep an eye out for those as well.  One of the fun parts of writing these is seeing the different ways we interpret the same prompt. Let's see your interpretations as well!

 

PT Prompt #121

You enter an antique shop and immediately see something on a shelf that makes your heart pound and hands shake with excitement.  When you pick it up and express interest in it, the shop owner gives it to you for free. What is it and why did they give it to you?

 

PT Prompt #122

An anthropologist is assigned to study a unique culture: a middle school cafeteria.  Write their field notes.  Include observations on eating habits, hierarchies, rituals, speech, and rules.

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Libby Drew

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Make sure that for the second prompt you include which weapons and PPE your anthropologist will bring to their study... cause he/she will need them. Guaranteed. 

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raven1

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I love prompt #121 and would love a new story from this prompt. I would suggest that anyone that wants to write to the prompt reads @Geron Kees's Thrift Shop Nation first.  As for prompt #122, I am not a writer, but have spent a lot of time in middle school and high school cafeterias as a teacher for many decades.  Let me know if you need help. :2thumbs:

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Backwoods Boy

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#122 has great potential as a comedy short story - if one has any familiarity with the environment, which I don't.  I may have to consult with @raven1

#121 I like too - it could either be a thousand-word short story - or, though I haven't read Thrift Shop Nation yet, the start of a new 23-story series by @Geron Kees 😈

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13 hours ago, Backwoods Boy said:

#122 has great potential as a comedy short story - if one has any familiarity with the environment, which I don't.  I may have to consult with @raven1

#121 I like too - it could either be a thousand-word short story - or, though I haven't read Thrift Shop Nation yet, the start of a new 23-story series by @Geron Kees 😈

I'm there if you need me @Backwoods Boy!  I almost pushed the Happy emoji over your comment on #121.  I do love the Charlie Boone stories that Geron is famous for writing.  However, you can find Thrift Shop Nation along with @Geron Kees's many other great novels, novellas, and short stories here on GA.  I have read all of them, and they come in many different genres.  What they all have in common is the great entertainment that comes with reading well written, humorous adventures.  

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raven1

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9 hours ago, Cole Matthews said:

https://gayauthors.org/story/cole-matthews/this-and-that-prompt/2

Prompt #121

We had so much fun with this prompt.  Well, with all the prompts.  Compare our two approaches and think of how we'd both just came from antique shopping.  Hope you enjoy my take.  

What a sweet story.  I hope others will add new stories to this prompt!

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Bill W

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Is this supposed to be desert prompts or dessert prompts? 

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Valkyrie

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1 minute ago, Bill W said:

Is this supposed to be desert prompts or dessert prompts? 

Considering I spent over a week in the sunny southwest, it's desert; although Cole did make me a really yummy cheesecake for dessert ;) 

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