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Prompt Team Genre Event - *Now Live!*

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Who's ready for some genre fun? For this year's Prompt Team Event, @Aditus and I challenged authors to step outside their comfort zone and write in a randomly-selected genre/subgenre.  @Myr and team have done a lot of work curating a list of genres/subgenres, so there was an extensive list to choose from! Eight authors took up the challenge and sent me stories to include in the event.  We have prompt stories ranging from Historical/Ancient Orient to Fantasy/Arcanepunk.  Without further ado, please enjoy the genre Prompt Team Event! 

 

 

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Topher Lydon

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that was one of the most challenging things I have written in a long time, thank you for taking me out of my comfort zone, and into something new and interesting.

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Jeff Burton

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Yay!

They’re finally live.  I can’t wait too read the entries and I had fun with mine so I hope everyone enjoys it!

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chris191070

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I look forward to reading to all of these.

Thanks to @Valkyrie for organising this event.

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2 minutes ago, chris191070 said:

I look forward to reading to all of these.

Thanks to @Valkyrie for organising this event.

Yeah thanks Val, I’m glad I was able to deliver this time 😂

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Krista

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It was a bit of a challenge. Some rewrites happened.. and I'm still not convinced I like the story. I also see I went full on in my secrecy and didn't think to actually provide the Theme of my prompt, or any sort of description. Go me! :D But yeah, I think my theme is rather straight forward. 

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W_L

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Lot of stuff to read, going to be a busy weekend!

@Krista I know what you mean, I wanted to go unconventional with my theme, too. But it ended being pretty straight forward.

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Overall, it was fun to write and let me practice my starcrossed ideas. 

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chris191070

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Me and @BendtedWreath had great fun with our prompt.

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I too want to add my thanks to Val and Aditus.  I thought I would be way out of my comfort zone - arcane punk fantasy - but rather to my surprise I enjoyed my flight into Aztec rituals, perhaps a bit too much 😱

also thanks to @Cia for sorting out my technical mess (eg adding the prologue of another story to this one etc.) 🙇 

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2 hours ago, Gary L said:

I too want to add my thanks to Val and Aditus.  I thought I would be way out of my comfort zone - arcane punk fantasy - but rather to my surprise I enjoyed my flight into Aztec rituals, perhaps a bit too much 😱

also thanks to @Cia for sorting out my technical mess (eg adding the prologue of another story to this one etc.) 🙇 

It truly is a community effort sometimes. lol

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A fine group of guinea pigs, we are. I had to make mine fun when I saw it was a western genre. All I know about westerns is the title of a few TV shows and John Wayne. I thought it would be a challenge, but I kept it short and whipped the first draft out in a couple hours. Thanks Val and the GA team for coordinating this. You all are great!

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10 minutes ago, Lee Wilson said:

A fine group of guinea pigs, we are. I had to make mine fun when I saw it was a western genre. All I know about westerns is the title of a few TV shows and John Wayne. I thought it would be a challenge, but I kept it short and whipped the first draft out in a couple hours. Thanks Val and the GA team for coordinating this. You all are great!

So agree.  

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5 hours ago, Jeff Burton said:

It truly is a community effort sometimes. lol

Definitely a group effort, @Valkyrie and @Aditus deserve a round of applaus from us, along with @Myr and @Cia for tech support

 

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Aditus

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Thank you all for picking up the gauntlet.

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Finished all the stories yesterday on my phone, I was just too curious :) 

Great stories from everyone! Really enjoyed @BendtedWreath and @chris191070 High School romance, but I am a sucker for gay anime lovers, Raven and Lee reminded me of Hirano and Kagiura manga series, a spinoff of Sasaki to Miyano series. Plus one of the characters was also a high school basketball star.

PS: No problem if my story's reader count was a bit low, I guess the unique perspective romance wasn't that attractive. To be fair, I came up with the story within a weekend of the prompt event announcement, it was a story built on a bit of momentary passion that became a frenzied 10K romance. I'm grateful for the readers that I had and the two reviews.

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56 minutes ago, W_L said:

Finished all the stories yesterday on my phone, I was just too curious :) 

Great stories from everyone! Really enjoyed @BendtedWreath and @chris191070 High School romance, but I am a sucker for gay anime lovers, Raven and Lee reminded me of Hirano and Kagiura manga series, a spinoff of Sasaki to Miyano series. Plus one of the characters was also a high school basketball star.

PS: No problem if my story's reader count was a bit low, I guess the unique perspective romance wasn't that attractive. To be fair, I came up with the story within a weekend of the prompt event announcement, it was a story built on a bit of momentary passion that became a frenzied 10K romance. I'm grateful for the readers that I had and the two reviews.

I still intend to read the rest. My excuse is not a lot of time to spend here and like 3 or 4 of the other stories I follow all dropped chapters at nearly the same time. I started reading the second one I was tagged in last night, but it’s long and not easy reading for me. But the action started picking up. Anyway, @W_L, yours will be next for me!

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14 hours ago, W_L said:

PS: No problem if my story's reader count was a bit low, I guess the unique perspective romance wasn't that attractive. To be fair, I came up with the story within a weekend of the prompt event announcement, it was a story built on a bit of momentary passion that became a frenzied 10K romance. I'm grateful for the readers that I had and the two reviews.

Three reviews now. Regardless of when and how quickly you put the story together, it was beautiful. Hopefully this comment entices more folks to read it. 

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W_L

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Three reviews now. Regardless of when and how quickly you put the story together, it was beautiful. Hopefully this comment entices more folks to read it. 

Now four reviews with Chris joining in, thanks guys for reviewing and loving the story.

Grateful you guys enjoyed it, like I said, I don't mind it being a low reader count story. For folks who gave it a chance and liked it, it's already worthwhile.

Cold war subgenre has been cold in terms of interest by authors for a while, @Altimexis A Summer in Iowa was the only other story in the subgenre within 2 years, but "cold war" was more the era framing for his story than the subject so I tried to craft mine around an actual event. I tried to make it a bit more interesting by changing the framing and perspectives outside US and western contexts.

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On 12/20/2025 at 8:10 AM, W_L said:

PS: No problem if my story's reader count was a bit low, I guess the unique perspective romance wasn't that attractive. To be fair, I came up with the story within a weekend of the prompt event announcement, it was a story built on a bit of momentary passion that became a frenzied 10K romance. I'm grateful for the readers that I had and the two reviews.

I thought it was brilliant and heartfelt! 

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