Thanks to our treasured tutor, Desna, for this week's prompt. We asked for one and Desna provided 5 ways with 5 words! Anything can...

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It's Lockdown again and last time we saw so much fabulous writing because people had time to write! So, once again we'll be providing you...

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Zena looked about in wonder. She was still at her grandmother’s house, but it was night, and the trees swayed in a breeze that Zena...

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Paris, June 5th 1832 “La Liberte ou la Mort,” yelled the man in front as he raised a blood red flag. Monsieur Bertrand was pushed aside...

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I bite other people and turn them into werewolves like me.

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