action needed, feeling soft and gentle. Sometimes the light of outrage is what is needed. sometimes outrage is a light, sometimes outrage demands we find more light. what if outrage outage. what if there was an outage of outrage? if…

Hi Michael - this is off prompt. I am writing a dystopian story/novelette that takes place in the Central Valley of California about four years after a fascist dictator takes over. The people in this story have been resettled into…

Creative Caffeine has a way of perfectly tracking my moods and my deepest questions about life….especially today’s prompt! Just when the depression about Trump and his dreadful plans to destroy the very heart of our country’s soul become ever more…

Peony's were her favorite. Hot coffee with just-so foamed milk went in one certain cup, tea in the afternoon, another. She hated over-head lighting - too glaring. " Kleig lights! " she'd call them, her annoyance rising and unavoidable until…

How many times have I stared at the stars, walked through trash, or sat at the bedside of my dying mom and Thanked God for the mess I am in? I learn the most when things don't go smooth, when…

When she gets to her car, there's a cake in the driver's seat, four layers of white frosting and pink piping, with her name written in cursive on the top. Lily. She doesn't see it until she has the door…

The first man who spoke, a colonel Someone asked everyone to quiet down and promised that what he had to say wouldn’t take long but that the implications were extremely serious. Someone, he said, or some group or someones had…

The red truck was made of metal and with roadster style rims. It was the latest from Matchbox and it was special. The doors opened. I had fifty matchbox cars, and no of them had a door or hood that…

I heard in a writing class and the teacher said don't rush over the places that real hurt, in fact go into them, swallow it, stare at it, and then put the tears into words and not worry making sense,…

I definitely would have censored some books from my children, because the material was inappropriate or because it was stupid or hateful. But I would never have burned a book. Never. But Ally would, and did. And that, although I…