Daily prompts

List 30 things that make you happy. The letter had arrived with the morning post, its formal seal and academic parchment marking it as correspondence from the Lumenvale Institute of Philosophical Studies. Master Cornelius Brightquill had requested—with the polite insistence that scholarly institutions wielded like finely crafted weapons—that I contribute to their upcoming symposium on… Continue reading

Write about a random act of kindness you’ve done for someone. The storm had passed through the borderlands like a living thing, clawing at the earth with rain-lashed fingers that turned the trade routes into rivers of red mud. Gareth Stonewhisper urged his draft horse, Ironheart, along the ridge path that overlooked the main highway… Continue reading

How would you describe yourself to someone who can’t see you? The sandstone walls pressed close around us in this forgotten catacomb beneath the Spice Merchants’ Guild, and I could hear your breathing change when the last torch guttered out. The darkness here is absolute—the kind that swallows light so completely that even my forge-fire… Continue reading