Author: Anon Y. Mouse

Mid-evil phantoms of a past gone awry Scepters and schemers just waiting to die We eat and feast for many reasons why No rules, no laws just you and I Medieval stories are our every day Suffer, survive, make them pay We’re all gonna die in our own way Only fate knows how long we’ll…

I was just hiking when I found the little red box sitting at the side of the trail. It was just sitting there in the leaves, looking extremely out of place. I was spending the weekend at a friend’s country house, looking for some time away from my thoughts, my life. I had been obsessing…

Fiction writing prompt: The first result of google search for “Fiction writing prompts” on June 22, 2021: https://blog.reedsy.com/creative-writing-prompts/ Selected entry: The first entry on the page: https://blog.reedsy.com/creative-writing-prompts/general/write-a-story-about-characters-going-on-a-summer-r/ Approximate time writing: 10 minutes It was summer. Heat glared in through the car windows down the highway. The Atlantic Ocean rumbled mutely on our left. John was…

Prompt: Animal fable “The Scorpion and the Frog” Time: approximately 60 minutes. Once upon a time, a young man named Phil wanted desperately to get out of his home town. He had spent his whole life there learning to do what everyone in the town did, work at the mill. The mill provided employment and…

The wedding was like any other, dancing, food, speeches. Except this was a wedding in the Community. When two people marry here, instead of feeding each other cake, they feed each other poison. J and B were my two best friends in the world. We came up together in business, in life. Everyone else we…

Demon slayers aren’t what you think. Shit, demons aren’t what you think. For so long demons were considered supernatural, and even when they weren’t, even after all the metaphors for the human condition became tired and cliché, even then, they were considered myth. But now we know they are real. The clinical evidence of their…

The horrors that exist Are not inventions, mine I wanted you to see The Dark’s as old as time Didn’t mean to make you cry Never wanted you to die I only wanted truth You could only live with lies I only brought the light The Dark’s always inside I only brought the light It…

It was my second chance to make amends with my brother, but this time I was forced to carry his lifeless body up 10 floors. Luckily for him, he wasn’t dead yet. Upstairs in my apartment, I had a complete first-aid kit, the kind you learn to make when you’re an Emergency Medical Technician, i.e.,…