The twenty-six short stories found in this book were written as exercises responding to prompt challenges assigned at least twice a month to a group of authors in a writers' club. A creative work based on one or more of five prompts had to be composed and presented within 48 hours to the assembled group for critique. One of the prompts was always a picture of a scene, an event, or a person; the others were typically given as a character, a place, an object, and a beginning scenario, each being quite specific and unrelated. At least one of the prompts had to be included in the composition....
The twenty-six short stories found in this book were written as exercises responding to prompt challenges assigned at least twice a month to a group o...