Welcome back to week 38 of More Odds Than Ends! Whether you’re joining us for the 38th time or the first, hopefully the eclectic collection of prompts will inspire your creativity. The work we’ve seen has been amazing so far, and as we head toward the end of the year, I can’t wait to see how much better it can get.
Here’s how it works. Submit a prompt by Tuesday night to oddprompts@gmail.com. You can trade submissions directly, or put “spare” in the subject line and we’ll know to keep it up for open grabs. Post your inspired work in the comments, as a link or full copy/paste. Art in any form is welcome – but a heads up that WordPress doesn’t allow graphics directly in comments. Non-social media to keep it open to all, please!
And away we go!
| Prompter | Prompt | Prompted |
| Becky Jones | The metal rose sculpture on the end table turned into a real rose. | nother Mike |
| Fiona Grey | The sunrise happened in black and white that day. |
Cedar Sanderson
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| nother Mike | In the box was a plastic butterfly, large colorful dots spreading across its wings as it started to move… | Fiona Grey |
| Anne Guglik | You wake from a dream about the white rabbit from “Through the Looking Glass” and realize that you have five minutes to do five hours of work. | Leigh Kimmel |
| Leigh Kimmel | Appearance of an ancient god in a lonely and archaic place—prob. temple ruin. Atmosphere of beauty rather than horror. Subtle handling—presence revealed by faint sound or shadow. Landscape changes? Seen by child? Impossible to reach or identify locale again? | Becky Jones |
| Cedar Sanderson | As you drive down a small country road, you see a semi-circle of cows in a field, all of them looking at something. What is it? | Anne Guglik |
Grab a spare, or two, and make something out of spare parts. You know you want to!
| Spare | The moon is rusting |
| Spare | When they pulled up the cushions in the sofa in Dr. Frankenstein’s living room, they were surprised to find… (suggested by https://www.thefarside.com/2020/09/10/3 ) |
| Spare | That Halloween was different, with households firing bags of candy with homemade trebuchets out to the children standing with waiting nets to catch their favorites… |
| Spare | The blind man was carrying a bloody knife in a purse… |
| Spare | When you started talking to the monster hiding under your bed, you never expected it to tell you what it was hiding from… |
See you in the comments!
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Oh, now that last (spare) one is interesting – as in, I am interested is hear/reading what someone might come up with.
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“There’s Something There!” Three Bedtime Classics by Mercer Mayer
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I was eyeing that prompt already, so Challenge accepted. 🙂
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Wyldkat and I always seem to like the same prompts. Not really surprising, considering the other congruences in our lives, although I suspect that we come across as very different in person.
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I look forward to seeing your take. 🙂
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I won’t re ad yours until we’re done.
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We’re finally working on catching up. Our story from week 36 just went up, and we’re going to do the other two in the next day or so.
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And our Week 37 story is posted. This one is mostly Jim’s. https://scorchedimagination.com/2020/09/23/week-37-of-odd-prompts/
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[…] week I spotted a fun looking spare on More Odds Than Ends When you started talking to the monster hiding under your bed, you never expected it to tell you […]
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This week I spotted a fun looking spare : “When you started talking to the monster hiding under your bed, you never expected it to tell you what it was hiding from.”
While I was working on it I happen to spy this weekly word prompt on Sarah Hoyt’s page: Your writing prompt this week is: Wide-eyed. It fit in perfectly with finding a monster under your bed.
https://undomesticatedfeline.wordpress.com/2020/09/21/odd-prompts-week-38/
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[…] almost forgot to write this! Phew! For the second week in a row, I got my More Odds than Ends Week 38 prompt from Leigh Kimmel. Her prompts are sometimes difficult to weave into an ongoing story, but they […]
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Leigh’s prompt fit in perfectly with the Cursebreaker saga.
https://profornery.wordpress.com/2020/09/22/cursebreaker-part-17/
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[…] week’s More Odds Than Ends challenge was odder than usual. I knew what I wanted to write straight away, but kept putting it […]
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This one was a struggle for absolutely no good reason. The idea popped into my head straightaway, but didn’t want to be wrangled onto virtual paper. https://fionagreywrites.com/no-one-ever-suspects-the-butterfly/
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[…] What is it?” If you’d like to learn more about the Odd Prompts challenge, check it out at More Odds Than Ends, and you can even join in on the fun! Or read prompt responses, which are pretty excellent, I […]
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In the nick of time, the Hatrack is up. This prompt was not too bad, actually. Stumped me for a bit, then the answer was obvious. https://www.cedarwrites.com/2020/09/22/the-case-of-the-perambulating-hatrack-part-32/
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Becky Jones prompted
The metal rose sculpture on the end table turned into a real rose.
WIth a bit of playing, this is where I ended up…
The Artist’s Eye (320 words)
By Mike Barker
Helverson shook his head, and stared at the sculpture. It was so close to his imagination, but not quite right…
Mandel, his agent, looked at the sculpture, and smiled. “Yet another masterpiece! I’m sure it will win awards, and sell for more than your other works.”
Helverson grimaced. No doubt it would, but…
“Okay, what does it look like to you?”
Mandel grinned. He knew Helverson would ask this question. Mandel looked over at the sculpture, then walked around it, looking at various sides and distances. Finally he shook his head and looked at Helverson.
“A horse’s head.”
You can read the rest at https://mbarker.dreamwidth.org/236650.html
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Ah, the anguish of an artist. No one ever seems to see it exactly the same way the artist does. Never mind that an artist is their own worst critic.
Nice. 🙂
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Mine’s up at my LiveJournal, https://starshipcat.livejournal.com/819244.html. I was going to write more, but we had some unwelcome drama in the form of a bad single-vehicle accident right behind our house.
Please, everyone, stay safe.
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