Tag: Writing

• Paranormal Inactivity Bureau, part 1

  April 8, 2026

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  “Your advert said I might be entitled to compensation!” “Yes, sir, but not if you exorcise the ghost yourself.” “Is that in the fine print, is it?” “It’s in the very rapid speech right at the end.” “Well, I’ll be taking my business elsewhere.” “We’re a bit of a monopoly,…

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• Three word prompt: built, lead, hidden

  February 12, 2026

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  “The main house was built in 1774 and has four hidden rooms. We use them to rest after haunting humans. And to hide from the cats.” Cats could see ghosts. More to the point, cats judged ghosts. Only one life, and then carry on working after that? Cats had loftier…

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• Three word prompt: table, pull, stone

  February 1, 2026

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  There was a trick to it. There had to be. He circles the base stone, making sure to put a “deep in thought” look on his face in case anyone was watching. In all fairness he is thinking, just not very deeply or well. Those types of thoughts tended to…

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• Letters of John

  January 16, 2026

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  Third of JuneBygone Manor My dear Louise, I’ve obtained one core and three spawns. Immediately, I was able to establish that they are not a hive mind – none of them knew we’d captured the others! To reabsorb a spawn, it seems the core – he calls himself John –…

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• Three word prompt: bacon, girl, sticks

  January 11, 2026

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  At fourteen, she had exactly two options: she could stay at the orphanage – she’d read enough Dickens to know it wasn’t a bad one – or she could go to a military academy. That would have been fine up until the attacks of 2093, when the academies all upped…

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