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Welcome to The Spot Writers. The prompt for this month: As the year ends, we’ll focus on the topic of Endings and New Beginnings. Keeping with the December theme, a fruitcake must also appear somewhere in your story. This week’s story comes from Dorothy Colinco. Check out her blog for fiction, books reviews, and book […]

Welcome to the Spot Writers. As the year ends, we’ll focus on the topic of “Endings and New Beginnings.” In keeping with the December theme, a FRUITCAKE must also appear. Today’s post comes from Cathy MacKenzie. Check out her anthology, OUT OF THE CAVE, horror stories for 13+. Great for youth AND adults. Twenty-one stories […]

Welcome to The Spot Writers. The prompt for this month: As the year ends, we’ll focus on the topic of Endings and New Beginnings. Keeping with the December theme, a fruitcake must also appear somewhere in your story. Today’s tale comes to us from Val Muller, author of the YA reboot The Scarred Letter. Also […]

Welcome to the Spot Writers. This month’s prompt is to use the following five words in a writing: marble, TV, evil, butcher, couch. This week’s post comes from CaraMarie Christy, the young-un of Spot Writers. Visit her blog on Word Press at Calamariwriting and check out her book from when she was twelve, Fairies Fly. […]

Welcome to the Spot Writers. This month’s prompt is to use the following five words in a writing: marble, TV, evil, butcher, couch. This week’s post comes from Dorothy Colinco, a new member of the Spot Writers. Visit her new blog for flash fiction, short stories, and book-related news. Stay tuned for a Holiday Gift […]

Welcome to the Spot Writers. This month’s prompt is to use the following five words in a writing: marble, TV, evil, butcher, couch. Today’s post comes from Cathy MacKenzie. Check out her anthology, OUT OF THE CAVE, horror stories for 13+. Twenty-one stories by twenty-one authors. Available on Amazon and Smashwords. Makes a GREAT Christmas […]

Welcome to the Spot Writers. This week’s post comes to us from Val Muller, author of The Scarred Letter, a young adult reboot of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic. The prompt is to write a story using the words “marble,” “TV,” “evil,” “couch,” and “butcher.” The Butcher By Val Muller Mel Buccarelli sipped her tea and eyed […]

Welcome to the Spot Writers. The prompt for this month is to write a story based on these two pictures, shoes found one day by our own Cathy MacKenzie. In our stories, our character must encounter these two “sightings”—integrated into the story as we see fit! Today’s post comes to us from Cathy MacKenzie. Check […]

Welcome to the Spot Writers. The prompt for this month is to write a story based on two pictures, found one day by our own Cathy MacKenzie. In the story, a character must encounter these two “sightings”—integrate into the story as you see fit! Today’s post comes to you from Val Muller, author of the […]

Welcome to the Spot Writers’ weekly flash fiction post. This month’s prompt is “trolley car,” and today’s post comes from Tom Robson. Check out his book, Written While I Still Remember, available on Amazon  and   Smashwords *** No Trolleys, Just Tramcars by Tom Robson I spent my early years in the English industrial city where […]