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  • Mors Praetor – part 2

    The basement of the 8th street building where Frankie’s kiss was located was dark and damp and I shivered at the memories it tried to pull out of my head. Ant put his hand on my shoulder then passed me – he was going first. I resented the protection a little, but that was just…

  • Mors Praetor – part 1

    The city was still bright with street lights even though it was closer to midnight than not. The Night Life building was a bright beacon in the ever-changing skyline of New York. Every light was on it was busier now than it was during the day. The lobby was a mall full of all types…

  • No Outline to Cannon Fodder

    So yesterday I said AJ had no outline. Her and her Alpha Reader were discussing a possible story idea. They’ve been throwing around ideas all week as a matter of fact and the one that really stuck with AJ was: What if the kids were playing some sort of soul sucking game and Alex commented…

  • No Outline

    This short story coming up isn’t going to have an outline. AJ’s gonna just play it by ear and write whatever comes to mind. We have a funny idea we’ll see how it goes. But AJ got around to writing last weeks short story. So we’ll start with that here soon. I wanted to let…

  • Not me but maybe

    This prompt doesn’t really fit into my world. The devil takes your soul and gives it back needing a favor. I can’t see turning that into anything useful in my world. But it could be fun little story to tell. AJ hasn’t thought about it. The world is getting back to the usual and it’s…

  • Week 3: Your Soul

  • Question of the Day

    KM Weiland posed a question on facebook. “What is the inciting incident of your WIP” AJ of course answered it. It depends on which one you want as I have the book plot, the multi-book arc story, or the multi-book multi-arc overall story. The inciting incident of the book is when my MC is first…

  • Dreaming of You

    This is the aftermath of Falling Lying next to Alex in our bed in our new home was priceless. It was ours. Not mine, not his, ours. Our family. And even with all that I’d remembered I still dug each night into the memories of the dreams I had suppressed to keep Alex safe. They…

  • Falling

    This is not related to any short story prompt but AJ felt compelled to write it. The color of the leaves changed from their lush greens of summer to the reds, yellows, and oranges of autumn. The crunch of leaves sounded like snapping of bones with each step as I ran through the middle of…

  • Not written

    Tomorrow y’all are getting a short story but not the one advertised. One that AJ’s life inspired though it happened to me before this.

  • AJ’s Notes

    Nox is sent after a vampire who is eating kids where he meets Il Cane for the first time. Nox’s current job is to track down a vampire who is draining children. This is the third time Nox has had to deal with this particular problem and he confronts Ant about it. They track the…

  • Only one thing

    There is only one thing that this story can possibly be about. At least according to me. And AJ. There is a defining element in all the stories except maybe Taking back Erebus and that is most supernaturals are ‘afraid’ of me. I mean when you are told Il Cane fears you there had better…

  • Week 2: Anger

  • Helpless – part 3

    I fell to my knees when my teacher disappeared around the corner. I didn’t have to worry about someone seeing me, the nature of our existence was clad in the shadows, and the night was our time to thrive. It had been this way since the dawning of time. Tears slide down my cheeks. The…

  • Helpless – part 2

    Before we left, Mr. Hall took me to the armory. A whole room dedicated to killing things. I had been here once before when I was issued a survival knife for my survival training. Today, I would get a gun. A simple Beretta that would carry me through my life. Or until the weight of…

  • Helpless – part 1

    “The final exam will test all the skills you’ve learned here and your training to this point. You will find a rogue creature in your packets, and you will eliminate them.” Mr. Hall said to the whole class. I tapped the white envelope with a number 8 scrawled across the front against my desk, waiting.…

  • Me? A Villain?

    I guess every character who is the bad guy should think they aren’t right? I mean that’s what makes a good villain. Someone you can sympathize with, someone who thinks they are doing the right thing. As I mentioned earlier AJ’s planning a whole book where I’m perceived as the bad guy of the story.…

  • How it all starts

    A young class of Venatori are each tasked with finding and killing a rouge supernatural as their class final exam. Nox Sétanta is tasked with hunting down a werewolf who has been terrorizing Central Park. Nox uses his unique ability to track down a werewolf and corners it in an alley. Nox’s teacher is proctoring…

  • I am the villain

    AJ’s been excited about this prompt. It’s a canon story so that’s good. Not all weekly challenges will be canon but some will. I don’t want to share what it’s about tomorrow you’ll get AJ’s notes. Today it’s my thoughts on the prompt. I’m the bad guy. AJ intends to write a whole arc on…

  • Week 1:Villain

  • No Story Yet

    The story is great and all, but AJ has a new house to play with this week. And tomorrow her daughter is going in for an outpatient proceedure so might not get much done. Though I think while she waits she’ll be writing. Or editing. Probably writing though since it’s easier that way. But she…