Category Archives: flash fiction

Welcome to the Spot Writers. This week’s prompt is to use the following words in a poem or a story: besides, fishes, inn, owing, born. Today’s tale comes to us from Val Muller, author of the Corgi Capers mystery series. … Continue reading →

Welcome to the Spot Writers. This month’s prompt is a story about a tree of (any type of) significance that is cut or falls down. Today’s post comes from Phil Yeats. Last December, Phil (using his Alan Kemister pen name) … Continue reading →

Welcome to The Spot Writers. This month’s prompt: a cat stares at something behind its owner’s back. What does it see? (You can write the story from the cat’s perspective, if you wish!) This week’s story comes from Chiara De … Continue reading →

Welcome to the Spot Writers. This month’s prompt: “A cat always stares at something behind it’s owners back.” Today’s post comes from Phil Yeats. Last December, Phil (using his Alan Kemister pen name) published his most recent novel. Tilting at … Continue reading →

Welcome to The Spot Writers. This month’s prompt: a cat stares at something behind its owner’s back. What does it see? (You can write the story from the cat’s perspective, if you wish!) This week’s story comes from Cathy MacKenzie. … Continue reading →

Welcome to the Spot Writers. This month’s prompt: “A story that involves someone, not a stranger, standing on the edge of a precipice.” This week’s story comes from Chiara De Giorgi. Chiara dreams, reads, edits texts, translates, and occasionally writes … Continue reading →

Welcome to the Spot Writers. This month’s theme: awakening from a bad dream or, even worse, a nightmare. This week’s story comes from Chiara De Giorgi. Chiara dreams, reads, edits texts, translates, and occasionally writes in two languages. She also … Continue reading →