picture/word prompt!

Use these words and/or a picture (or all the pictures) and write a story from them.


local, dog, muscle, Egyptian, Houdini, peas,
rental, crazy, glass, cheap, blow dry

Michael Kimball Writes Your Life Story (on a postcard) on NPR!

NPR: All Things Considered: Michael Kimball Writes Your Life Story (on a postcard) for NPR's All Things Considered - airs today!!!!

My Story California Fruit (published in Issue #21, SmokeLong Quarterly)

I am fond of this story - my second story ever published. I hope you like it.

word prompt - try to use them all

breakfast
scared
play
flagstone
floor
army
chant
elderberry pie
phony
goats
sick
dangerous
mood
capture

Video: Meg reading So I Drew Him a Poodle

video of me reading (w/ a mistake in which I curse)

Camping Prompt

Camping can be so many things.


Thread these words into a story about camping. These items should make a special guest star appearance: bug spray, sunscreen, fish net or butterfly net, and antibiotic ointment.

Your main character can be obsessed with someone famous, or with a person they are in love with... or something... that takes them out of the "moment" - the perfect idyllic moment they are supposedly in.


worries
cautious
ladies
unfazed
medal
peek
holistic
lost
tube
shy
flip
grin
salty

Interview with Steven Seighman of Monkeybicycle for SmokeLong Features!

My story "Puries" up at JMWW!

3 poems in Grey Sparrow!

Avoiding Trouble Prompt

Try and use as many as you can. Vary your sentence lengths. Your main character will try and avoid trouble, yet be a magnet for trouble no matter what. Why is it that when we try and avoid something it seems to look for us?


prompt words:

dump
ice-cream
knees
ordinary
mood
spiel
ball
swell
applause
sweetheart
secret
boom-boom-boom

My story "So I Drew Him A Poodle" up at decomP!