horror – Melissa Barker-Simpson

The Flip Side – In response to Esther Newton’s Writing Challenge

I’ve been reading Esther’s blog for a while now, and love the weekly writing challenge she posts. I try to take part when I can, usually in the comments (for the short challenges), but this week I wanted to create a story in response to one of the themes – horror. The Flip Side “Why…
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Featured Fiction Writing Prompts 2015 #6

The prompts are up for this week.
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Featured Fiction #26 – Make sure you get your vote!

There’s still time to vote for your favourite entry this week. You can find the contributions by pressing the link up button below.
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[WR101 Prompt Series] Terrifying Thursdays' – Prompt #11

The theme for this week is a kind of ‘character versus plot’. I have provided two options below, challenging you explore other ways of working. If you enjoy to map out a story before you add characters to the landscape, try using option B. If the opposite is true and you don’t normally stick to…
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[WR101 Prompt Series] Terrifying Thursdays' – Prompt #10

I’m using pictures as the inspiration for this week’s theme. Your terrifying Thursday image is courtesy of Moyan Brenn and can be found on flickr. The piece is entitled Scary doll. Have fun 🙂 Welcome to the WR101 Prompt Series. A daily prompt incorporating our love of fiction in all its forms. I’ve tried not to set…
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[WR101 Prompt Series] Terrifying Thursdays' – Prompt #9

The theme for this week is all about the song and requires you to write a short story based on a song title. You don’t have to base it on the lyrics. As long as it’s linked to the appropriate genre, and includes an interpretation of the song. The song title for Thursday is: Endless Sleep (Jody Reynolds). …
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Don't Close Your Eyes by Mark Morris – [WR101 Daily Prompt] Terrifying Thursday's #8

You won’t want to miss Mark’s contribution to the daily-prompt. Click here to read it. As a reminder, here’s the prompt: The theme for this week is in the form of a story title. The title, which you will find below, must also be used in the opening sentence. The word count should be 500 words or less. So here’s…
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[WR101 Prompt Series] Terrifying Thursdays' – Prompt #8

The theme for this week is in the form of a story title. The title, which you will find below, must also be used in the opening sentence. The word count should be 500 words or less. So here’s your terrifying story title for Thursday: Don’t Close Your Eyes
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[WR101 Prompt Series] Terrifying Thursdays' – Prompt #7

The theme for this week is in the form of a final sentence. All you need to do is weave a ‘terrifying’ tale which concludes with the following sentence: “Though unavoidable, he knew he would regret the decision for the rest of his life.” NB: If would like to suggest a sentence for this week’s…
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Eternal Darkness

J. Sander over at ‘Don’t Delete Me’ shared a sentence starter for his Writing Prompt Wednesday. I couldn’t resist a quick detour, since an image sprang into my head and I had to go with it. I must warn you though, this is darker than anything I’ve ever written, so I apologise in advance at…
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