Aditus

We’re confronted with choices throughout our entire life. Some are important and others are mundane, at least at first. Which line should you choose at the supermarket checkout? Blue or pink shirt? Tie or no tie? Which character to kill in your own story or in a video game? Apply for this job or that? Food, friends, the list is indefinite. I want to explore how people make choices. PT #283 Someone applies for their dream job. What to wear? Are clothes even important? Describe the decision-making process. PT #284 You win the first prize in a raffle. It’s a table decked with boxes in many shapes and sizes wrapped in colorful paper. Pick three without touching them. Please include the prompt number either in your story/chapter description or title to help readers who would like to search for specific prompts. Also, please remember that stories less than one thousand words must be posted as part of a collection. If you check the subgenre ‘prompt’ in your story tags, then people/readers can find everything here: https://gayauthors.org/stories/browse/subgenre/prompt/

Oh, and @Valkyrie.. see you next week on the Seychelles?

Did you know they sell seashell chimes made from all the seafood they serve?

Around here, we’re already feeling summer vibes. On the other side of the globe, winter is closing in. In my opinion, vacationing on a tropical island never sounds wrong wherever you live. Are you ready? PT #281 Use as many tropical tropes as possible to describe the stop of your cruise ship on a tropical island. PT #282 Combine common tropes such as the hero journey, love triangle, lost memory, anti-hero, or enemies to lovers with tropical tropes without (challenge!) becoming too cliché. Please include the prompt number either in your story/chapter description or title to help readers who would like to search for specific prompts. Also, please remember that stories less than one thousand words must be posted as part of a collection. If you check the subgenre ‘prompt’ in your story tags, then people/readers can find everything here: https://gayauthors.org/stories/browse/subgenre/prompt/

It's an all-time favorite. My characters always scoff. Why? Oh why? I might meditate on this.

*smug*

😁 Thank you for your comment, Ben. They're still talking to me sometimes. One never knows what they're up to next.

Cat or dog? Both. I switched from coffee to tea, but it's not me. My mama told me not to point at people with my fingers. I do have an idea. *squints.* Yup. Pretty sure.

Sounds, erm, like a busy year.

April 15 made me smile while my gaze wandered to the Christmas Lights, still decorating our palm tree and the crystall bowl still on the table that held an assortment of old Easter eggs last week, with a heavy plate on trop. Cats steal colorful eggs. I loved 'Hard Tasks', especially the conclusion. For whatever reason April 17 reminded me of a hopscotch game we played on the street. April 18 To put it succinctly. April 19, so familiar and perfectly summarized. April 20 Yes. April 21 I admit, was hard for me to read. Everyone might see something else, I saw my dad. Thank you for these.

Now that the story is complete, I'm going to binge-read it.

Alien Land expresses exactly how I feel lately. we might not mope but elope, gave me a smile, thank you. Loved your worldly recipe. April 12; I have not many words. You had them: expressed our fears, our feelings of powerlessness, our incredulity, and most importantly, our hope. April 13, and against all odds, we plant. They all struck a chord with me. I will read them again, that's a given. I'm not done with them.

You know I'm always happy about comments on my stories, old or new, Bill. Thank you for your insightful comment.❤️ Yes, since Red Running Shoes, one of my old stories, Jonah became wise. @Timothy M., will laugh himself silly if he'll ever read this.

Well done, poets! And @Valkyrie.

First, you paint spring with colorful words and the annual hope. Let there always be hope. Then you describe ridiculous attempts of certain circles to put the genie back into the bottle. Let them try. After that, you make me cry. I wrote something similar once. Let's never forget them. To finish, you bombarded me with, I don't know how to call them, verse bullets? Everyone hit. Thank you? Well done.❤️ Adi

I want to live in that world you described too, Bill. With all my heart, yes.

Why am I different? You told your unique, still very familiar story, beginning with the cardinal question that made us all explore, to find us. Thank you for reminding me.

I'm curious.

I hoped you would partake in this year's Na Po Wri Mo and am delighted you do. I enjoyed them all. Some I might take outside to read on my favorite bench in the garden, and some I might borrow to prove that math can be seen through a poet's eye. Thank you.

A green butterfly to be, absorbs April's rays for the last step. Fly. A few words written on the bus.

looks like I'll need a lot of pencils.

Let me recap the prompt. We provided the ending of a story, and you had to work backward to its beginning using the comments. The result is a 3.5k words long story. Yep, you read right, 3.5k. You hit it out of the park, guys. Since this is a bit long to copy/paste into a blog entry, we’ve invited a new member to GA: The Prompter. We’re counting on future bouts of fantastic creativity, and this will also make it easier to find these wonderful prompt collaborations. We heard there was some confusion about the instructions, which means we will fine-tune them a little next time. But you can always ask questions, and we will try to answer them as soon as possible. Before we come to the story, I tried to fit all your cool ideas into a proper frame. I had to exclude one idea as it didn’t fit into the collab; it was its own story. Check it out in the original prompt blog. As I said, we’ll work on the instructions. Are you ready for a wild ride?

Thank you.

Differences to be celebrated. Introspective Value everybody equally. Embrace variety instead of denying it. R S I T Y