Prompts
No More Pixie Dust. Top Story - July 2026.
Fuck you, Peter!! I am tired of living in your shadow so you can be the “brave” man-child for the Lost Boys. I probably wouldn’t mind so much if the loyalty I have shown you were ever reciprocated, but it’s not. You spend days at Mermaid Lagoon with those sexy sirens in their skimpy bikini tops. And though you say you have no romantic feelings for Tiger Lily, you never distance yourself when she’s flirting with you.
By Tina D. Lopez3 months ago in Writers
Free Friday Writing Prompt
The Prompts songbird, thread, citadel, eclipse, captain, charity, persistent kelp, glass, marketplace, gambit, elder, caravan, pivotal gargoyle, honey, repository, betrayal, refugee, league, avian spider, ceramic, armoury, proclamation, joker, camp, soothing ape, felt, mine, shakedown, manufacturer, monarchy, irredeemable whale, vinegar, safe house, blasphemy, record keeper, cohort, bubbly
By Katherine Arcus3 months ago in Writers
The Account Remains
The opening line, “It’s not my job or my commission to make you feel at ease when you turn the page in my ledger,” carries an implied message beneath the literal wording. If the person behind the ledger likely carried an attitude of “fuck you,” that meaning would exist as a hidden emotional layer rather than a spoken phrase. The poem begins with distance, refusal, and a rejection of responsibility for another person’s comfort.
By Tim Carmichael3 months ago in Writers
A toast - sharp as firework’s hiss, bitter as the smoke that follows.
It's Independence day - Raise a Glass to America A toast - sharp as a firework’s hiss, bitter as the smoke that follows. To America , that grand, chaotic experiment still insisting it’s the main character in everyone's play. To the nation that can’t decide if it’s a meme or a miracle, so it chooses both and demands applause.
By Novel Allen3 months ago in Writers
A Woman Built From Words
Megan Janousek has been dead for nearly forty years, which means we have had plenty of time to decide who she was. We have called her a prairie writer, a feminist writer, a working-class writer and, for a particularly popular stretch of literary criticism, an angry rural housewife. Her marriage has been examined, her motherhood discussed, and the roads appearing throughout her work mapped across western Kansas. Scholars have counted how often her female characters look out windows and searched her fictional men for traces of her husband.
By Megan Janousek3 months ago in Writers
Nolan Reed: And The Voice Beyond His Lifetime
Years after Nolan Reed’s death, critics began constructing a larger narrative around a figure who spent his career speaking to people rather than chasing traditional literary fame, creating a legacy built from personal transformation, psychological insight, and fictional storytelling that many later scholars viewed as an unusual bridge between public encouragement and imaginative literature. Reed entered public attention as a motivational speaker whose discussions centered on resilience, emotional growth, self-awareness, and the complicated patterns that shape human choices, and later generations examined those speeches alongside his fiction as evidence of a lifelong effort to understand the inner struggles of ordinary people.
By Nolan Reed3 months ago in Writers
