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1. A week is a long time to wait for anything, but when you're sitting around twiddling your thumbs and waiting for rescue... it seems like forever. (6/8/08)
2. Built by the people of Long Ago, the dolphins were never quite sure what to make of cities.
3. Cold is relative, but that doesn't make it any easier to deal with.
4. Down in the depths of the forest there is no light, just a wide leafy ceiling broken by glimmers of green.
5. Everyone goes mad sooner or later, it's sort of a coming of age party for the recently hermit-ized.
6. Falling and flying were almost the same, and she took to both as easily as she had to water.
7. Going the distance normally involved doing things that were either a) hard or b) dangerous, and at the moment she wasn't really in the mood for either.
8. Highways wound through the abandoned countryside like fractures, carving the land into easily defined territories. (5/12/08)
9. Interestingly, no one seemed at all alarmed that a seven foot tall werewolf armed with sword was wandering through the spaceport.
10. 'Just in the nick of time' works out about as often as 'near misses' and 'skin of his/her teeth' when it comes to rescues.
11. "Kindly put that down and step away from the particle accelerator." (5/11/08)
12. Loss is something you can't escape on the plains. (5/10/08)
13. Money was worthless, scraps of paper that fed fires and padded shoes.
14. No one underestimated the Hoth, they just failed to estimate just how much damaged we'd do to ourselves.
15. Other people might have passed him by, but she was feeling charitable, and that was how her Wednesdays went from 'good' to '@!#%@#!' in roughly forty seconds.
16. "Pardon me, but were you going to eat that sheep?"
17. Quests, as a rule, rarely ended peacefully, but she was determined to make this one an exception.
18. "Rather an-," he searched frantically for a less insulting word than 'uninspired' and finally had to settle on "-unpleasant way to die, don't you think?" (6/9/08)
19. Somewhere in the darkness death was waiting for them. Thankfully, death snored.
20. This would be the deciding moment of her career, unless, of course, it wasn't, and then she really wasn't sure what to do next.
21. Under the mountain was a very bad place to hide, since almost all storytellers everywhere (and everywhen) made reference to it at least once.
22. Very little was left to be said, but she felt like she had to keep trying.
23. 'Why' is never a good question because you'll never get the answer you want to hear.
24. X almost never marks the spot, but it's a handy letter nonetheless.
25. Yes.
26. Zebra stripes really only look good on zebras.
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These story prompts are released into the wild per Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License, so sayth their author Martha McMahon Bechtel.
Technorati tags: writing | fiction | fantasy | science fiction | the unforgotten country | martha bechtel
1. A week is a long time to wait for anything, but when you're sitting around twiddling your thumbs and waiting for rescue... it seems like forever. (6/8/08)
2. Built by the people of Long Ago, the dolphins were never quite sure what to make of cities.
3. Cold is relative, but that doesn't make it any easier to deal with.
4. Down in the depths of the forest there is no light, just a wide leafy ceiling broken by glimmers of green.
5. Everyone goes mad sooner or later, it's sort of a coming of age party for the recently hermit-ized.
6. Falling and flying were almost the same, and she took to both as easily as she had to water.
7. Going the distance normally involved doing things that were either a) hard or b) dangerous, and at the moment she wasn't really in the mood for either.
8. Highways wound through the abandoned countryside like fractures, carving the land into easily defined territories. (5/12/08)
9. Interestingly, no one seemed at all alarmed that a seven foot tall werewolf armed with sword was wandering through the spaceport.
10. 'Just in the nick of time' works out about as often as 'near misses' and 'skin of his/her teeth' when it comes to rescues.
11. "Kindly put that down and step away from the particle accelerator." (5/11/08)
12. Loss is something you can't escape on the plains. (5/10/08)
13. Money was worthless, scraps of paper that fed fires and padded shoes.
14. No one underestimated the Hoth, they just failed to estimate just how much damaged we'd do to ourselves.
15. Other people might have passed him by, but she was feeling charitable, and that was how her Wednesdays went from 'good' to '@!#%@#!' in roughly forty seconds.
16. "Pardon me, but were you going to eat that sheep?"
17. Quests, as a rule, rarely ended peacefully, but she was determined to make this one an exception.
18. "Rather an-," he searched frantically for a less insulting word than 'uninspired' and finally had to settle on "-unpleasant way to die, don't you think?" (6/9/08)
19. Somewhere in the darkness death was waiting for them. Thankfully, death snored.
20. This would be the deciding moment of her career, unless, of course, it wasn't, and then she really wasn't sure what to do next.
21. Under the mountain was a very bad place to hide, since almost all storytellers everywhere (and everywhen) made reference to it at least once.
22. Very little was left to be said, but she felt like she had to keep trying.
23. 'Why' is never a good question because you'll never get the answer you want to hear.
24. X almost never marks the spot, but it's a handy letter nonetheless.
25. Yes.
26. Zebra stripes really only look good on zebras.
These story prompts are released into the wild per Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License, so sayth their author Martha McMahon Bechtel.Technorati tags: writing | fiction | fantasy | science fiction | the unforgotten country | martha bechtel
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