Valkyrie

This was a nice, feel-good story. The gift of the pendant was so special, and duplicating it for Tanner was a nice touch. Thank you for sharing this with us.

I hope you have the contact information of the dog's owner. They're responsible for your medical bills

I'm so sorry to hear about Thistle I know how special he was.

I could relate to this and the sense of loss. I like how you portrayed the wind as a living entity.

Wow! Great couple of chapters! I love the world you've built with this story. 🐉

@Myr is the preeminent person on GA 😁

It was pretty similar to this one:

When Wildone asked for us to send in our favorite prompts to be featured, that one immediately came to mind. There were a ton of responses and all were great to read.

Thank you! Yes!!! Same here! I loved those prompts and seeing what craziness everyone came up with

One of the things I loved about GA when I first discovered the site was reading the weekly prompts and the stories authors wrote in response to those prompts. There was camaraderie associated with those blogs, and lots of fun and support from other authors and readers, especially for new authors. I was inspired to start writing, and during the first couple of years after I became a member, I wrote many responses to Wayne’s prompts. My first completed serial was inspired by a short prompt story I wrote. Cole Matthews and Aditus share my love of prompts, and we’ve written several stories inspired by the same prompts. When Cole and I visit each other, we spend a part of each morning choosing a prompt and then each writing a response to it. It’s a fun and cherished part of our friendship. I even had the pleasure of meeting Wayne once, and brought him a prompt book I thought he’d get a kick out of. The idea of taking on the prompt blog is a daunting one, and bittersweet, since I’d much rather have Wayne here to continue posting them. I couldn’t bear to see the prompts end, though, and Cole, Aditus, and I are honored to continue such a treasured part of GA. We will continue to bring the GA membership two prompts per week and will rotate posting responsibilities among the three of us. We hope you enjoy them as much as we enjoy bringing them to you, and we’re looking forward to reading stories that are inspired by our offerings. Halloween is one of our favorite holidays, and with it being right around the corner, we thought it fitting that our first prompts have a Halloween theme. PT Prompt #1 – Technical Halloween Onomatopeias - Write a story or vignette using as many words that sound like they mean like "splat", "plop", or"fizzle". PT Prompt #2 – Creative You wake up in a crypt on All Hallows Eve, your clothes ripped, bloody, definitely yours-- and from the seventeenth century.

Great interview! I read this story before the CSR was announced and highly recommend it. The new story sounds interesting too. I'll be sure to check it out when it starts posting

@Parker Owens helped me tremendously with narrowing down the sub-genres and refining the definitions. There are a ton more that I'm sure could be included, but I hope we hit the major ones.

I'm seriously impressed by all this data, and can only imagine the work involved in compiling it. I have to admit to underutilizing genres and tags, simply because a lot of the time I'm not sure where my stories fit, so they go into the drama category by default. I'm looking forward to the new sub-genres and seeing how they fit into my stories. Thank you for taking the time and effort to gather and report this to us.

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The human-eating and bone-crunching tends to be a turn-off

I really enjoyed this as well, as I do all Myr's stories. I'd love to read more

Anthology stories have been steadily coming in. It's not too late to get one finished and sent to me for proofing!

This was a fantastic short story! Very well-written. I loved the plot as well. Great job!