Your task this week is woefully simple. Go to the comments, and deposit into these comments a title for a short story — not the story itself, and nothing in fact beyond the title.
Then, next week, I’ll pick a handful of the best, and we’ll use those as springboards for the next round of stories. Dig it? Good.
You.
Comments section.
A title.
GO.
Due by next Friday, April 29th, noon EST.
[EDIT: Only ONE title per person, please.]
yogibeaty says:
Auction
April 23, 2016 — 9:26 PM
TygrAnn says:
The Gateway
April 23, 2016 — 10:40 PM
Christopher says:
The Girl who Surfed Tsunamis.
April 23, 2016 — 11:23 PM
Phill Woods says:
Outside the spectrum
April 23, 2016 — 11:47 PM
Khali says:
Alternate uses for Household items
April 24, 2016 — 12:14 AM
deborahleighwrites says:
Sundays in Prison
April 24, 2016 — 12:21 AM
glenavailable says:
Don’t dare ask me how I know this, but in prison, one day is pretty much like the next. Unless, that is, you’re planning an escape.
April 24, 2016 — 1:45 AM
Liz says:
Unless you’re in a prison in El Salvador, run by the MS-13 gang, no guards around, you’ve been locked up for reasons no once can explain to you, and today, Sunday 24 April, you will escape… dum dum duuuuuuum! 🙂
April 24, 2016 — 3:01 AM
glenavailable says:
Does that scenario apply just today or on ANY GIVEN SUNDAY ?
April 24, 2016 — 3:21 AM
Nikkiwi says:
Claret and chainsaw
April 24, 2016 — 12:32 AM
kirizar says:
I read that as Clarinet and Chainsaws. Not sure which I like better, really.
April 24, 2016 — 9:58 AM
quiwibird says:
The Last Cup
April 24, 2016 — 1:03 AM
Anna says:
Clockworkgirl Chronicles: The Case of the Curious Cotton Candy
April 24, 2016 — 2:01 AM
13clovers says:
Destruction Symphonies
April 24, 2016 — 2:26 AM
glenavailable says:
This one hits the right notes. Sorry.
April 24, 2016 — 3:14 AM
Liz says:
Dinner with the 7 Deadly Sins
April 24, 2016 — 2:59 AM
glenavailable says:
Gluttony for entree, mains and desert.
April 24, 2016 — 3:17 AM
Lilla Miro says:
I like this one…
April 29, 2016 — 4:36 AM
Jamie says:
Why Cryptic Deities Should Stop Being Cryptic, 1: Accidentally Committing Genocide
(I couldn’t come up with a smaller title. Or, rather, I might be able to, but I’m sleepy and lazy and a bad person most likely.)
April 24, 2016 — 3:23 AM
waywardpioneer.wordpress.com says:
And Then The World Change
April 24, 2016 — 6:51 AM
Mozette says:
My Dragon Ate My Homework
April 24, 2016 — 7:54 AM
Liz says:
I like this one!
April 24, 2016 — 11:21 AM
kirizar says:
Bed, Bath and Beyond Reason.
April 24, 2016 — 10:04 AM
StarNinja says:
The War for More War
April 24, 2016 — 10:16 AM
MsShonnerz says:
The Skin Wars
April 24, 2016 — 10:53 AM
stormtrooperbob says:
The Black Cat and the White Tree
April 24, 2016 — 11:17 AM
Brett F says:
Force Feed
April 24, 2016 — 2:23 PM
Martin says:
Abandoned By The Fog
April 24, 2016 — 2:47 PM
glenavailable says:
And the winner is..
April 24, 2016 — 6:52 PM
Janice says:
Storm of Sapphire
April 24, 2016 — 4:23 PM
Sacha Black says:
The Diary of an Amused Psychopath
April 24, 2016 — 4:34 PM
Austin Ruh says:
Death by Easter
April 24, 2016 — 5:07 PM
Brian Lehman says:
It Tasted Like Chicken
April 24, 2016 — 5:56 PM
Echoe Jones says:
Initially misread this as “It Tasted Like Children”
April 27, 2016 — 2:19 PM
Nicholas Conte says:
It tasted like children – book one in the gingerbread chronicles
April 27, 2016 — 2:45 PM
glenavailable says:
Cookbook or YA fantasy?
April 27, 2016 — 3:14 PM
Josh Neff says:
Why not both?
April 27, 2016 — 3:15 PM
glenavailable says:
With you.
Like a fresh new recipe, throw together a couple of diverse genres in a blender and see what happens..
April 27, 2016 — 3:28 PM
glenavailable says:
Like penicillin, a brilliant discovery by accident!
April 27, 2016 — 3:12 PM
Martha Bechtel says:
Ask Me Yesterday
April 24, 2016 — 7:18 PM
crispyn64 says:
Dad Jokes Killed My Mother
April 24, 2016 — 8:56 PM
Elizabeth Rose says:
Crown of Tars
April 24, 2016 — 9:01 PM
Elizabeth Rose says:
I meant Crown of Stars. Sorry.
April 24, 2016 — 9:02 PM
moteridgerider says:
Actually, I was intrigued by ‘Tars’. It didn’t sound like a mistake. Perhaps a fantasy book concept?
April 25, 2016 — 2:06 AM
Carl says:
Crown of Tsars might be another interesting variation.
April 25, 2016 — 8:35 AM
Nicholas Conte says:
But a tar king sounds a lot more interesting
April 25, 2016 — 8:57 AM
Georgia says:
How Not To Steal The Eiffel Tower
April 24, 2016 — 10:32 PM
Shay says:
A Night of Silence
April 24, 2016 — 11:05 PM
mdflyn says:
The squishy squashy of little feet.
April 25, 2016 — 1:41 AM
Migo says:
Murder and Wine and the Oblong Door
April 25, 2016 — 2:05 AM
addy says:
Shotgun Monday: the quest for coffee.
April 25, 2016 — 3:55 AM
The Penultimate Universe says:
The Day The Stars Fell
April 25, 2016 — 4:24 AM
scribblejotteramy says:
Love, Death and Shopping
April 25, 2016 — 4:47 AM
Rick Cook Jr says:
Totally read this as a farewell.
“Love,
Death and Shopping”
April 29, 2016 — 3:23 PM
AC Cath says:
The Shoelace Saved Her
April 25, 2016 — 6:59 AM
Tim R. says:
The Court of Ancient Ra
April 25, 2016 — 8:17 AM
selinabellblog says:
Guided Tours through Seventh Heaven
April 25, 2016 — 10:48 AM
dhippensteel says:
The Infernal Bell
April 25, 2016 — 11:28 AM
Lisa says:
Unfurled
April 25, 2016 — 11:46 AM
Pip says:
Selling The Ashes
April 25, 2016 — 12:52 PM
Pavowski says:
The Hatching
April 25, 2016 — 3:40 PM
Marjorie King says:
The Empty Puzzle Box
April 25, 2016 — 4:58 PM
Alice E Keyes says:
Pith and Cog
April 25, 2016 — 7:15 PM
crystal sarakas says:
Somewhere Trouble Don’t Go
April 25, 2016 — 11:18 PM
K. Cox says:
The Bro’s of Kilimanjaro
April 26, 2016 — 1:04 AM
Tim R. says:
Ashes, ashes; we all fall down
April 26, 2016 — 7:45 AM
Catkins says:
All my friends are dead
(A ghost story)
April 26, 2016 — 10:19 AM
Marion says:
The Blood Lottery.
April 26, 2016 — 1:19 PM
jbwiseauthor says:
When the World Dies
April 26, 2016 — 1:50 PM
Melissa Clare says:
My Twin Sister’s Birthday
April 26, 2016 — 4:42 PM
Lilla Miro says:
I like this one!
April 29, 2016 — 4:39 AM