Welcome to the Spot Writers. This week the prompt is the following required opening sentence Every day of the week I toe the mark, but Sundays are different. On Sundays, I throw the book away and do my thing. Today’s contribution comes from RC Bonitz, author of A LITTLE BIT OF BLACKMAIL, A LITTLE […]
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This week’s post comes to us from Cathy MacKenzie, who writes short stories and poems. The current theme for The Spot Writers is to begin a short story with these four sentences: “This is it. So very simple actually. Just the end. And no one can prevent it.” Her new book, Between These Pages (over […]
Today’s post comes to us from Val Muller, author of the Corgi Capers mystery series and the supernatural chiller Faulkner’s Apprentice—just $2.99. Watch for the upcoming anthology Forging Freedom, which Val is editing. * * * The Beginning This was it. So very simple actually. Just the end. And no one could prevent it. Even […]
Today’s post comes from RC Bonitz, author of A Blanket for Her Heart. Each post for the next few weeks will begin with the following words- “This is it. So very simple actually. Just the end. And no one can prevent it.” See what you can do with them! Here’s RC’s version. The Transient […]
This week’s post comes to us, for the second time in a row, from Cathy MacKenzie, who writes mainly short stories and poems. The theme for this month is “water.” Cathy hopes you enjoy part two of her story! Cathy’s new book, compiling 18 of her best and most recent short stories, titled Between These […]
The following poem, modeled after Poe’s “The Raven,” is based on an event that happened to me one cold, rainy night in January, when my (third-floor) washing machine decided to break and leak during the most rainy storm of the year. If you like creepy things like water demons, be sure to check out my […]
Today’s post is by RC Bonitz, author of A Blanket for Her Heart and the A Little Bit of … series. This story isn’t his usual style. Enjoy. Revenge is sweet- and sometimes soggy. “Is that who I think it is?” I hissed. “Bill Jackson? Yup, he’s the jerk who ran into us,” Brenna […]
This week’s story comes from Deborah Dera. Deborah traditionally ghostwrites articles and stories but it in the process of working on her first eBook to be released on the Kindle platform later this year. *** No One Will Ever Love Her More I feel betrayed. I often wonder how the woman who once called herself […]
This week’s post comes to us from Cathy MacKenzie, who writes mainly short stories and poems. The prompt this month for the Spot Writers is to write a short story including three of the following words: courage, car, obvious, sashay, checked, twitched. Cathy used the following words: courage, car, obvious. She hopes you enjoy her […]
This week’s post comes to us from Val Muller, author of the children’s mystery series Corgi Capers. Val tells us, “To celebrate the release of my horror novel Faulkner’s Apprentice, I thought I’d go dark with my next flash fiction story. Hope you enjoy!” Faulkner’s Apprentice is a supernatural chiller about a young woman who […]
