This Week’s Prompts*

1. "Your father will take any penny you give him, and then some."

2. My fingers were cold and, not for the first time, I questioned my choice of fingerless gloves.

3. Turning left would have taken Rooster Foster home but he put on his right signal and went in the opposite direction.

4. Write a scene in which someone returning home from the grocery store finds something unusual in their bag.

5. Reba wasn't sure what she was hoping to roll; she took her cue from the craps dealer to see whether she'd done well or poorly.

6. I remember square dancing from elemntary school and, frankly, I'd both expected and hoped to never have to do it agan.

7. Seven mice were lined up along the mantle, each posed with colorful cockails at a precise 1:12 size ratio.

*How to Use These Prompts: The italicized prompts let you create your writing entirely from scratch; the non-italicized prompts are intended as your first line and jumping off point. But, at the same time, there are no rules. Write on!

Book(s) We’re Reading This Week

Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts by Margaret Atwood
Technically, I’m not reading this yet: I just bought it and can’t wait to dig in. But a prolific novelist promising to spill the tea on years and years of her career and all of the people she’s interacted with? Well, this just sounds like something we should all dig into this fall/winter.

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Top (Published) First Line of the Week

The farmer is dead, he is dead and all anyone wants to know is who killed him.

From Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall

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