On My Mind…

Prompt Word: Water #wss366 (water) (1/1) The morning sun sparkled on the water of Long Island Sound. The seagull, spotting its prey, left the water behind and swooped into the parking lot, snagging a bacon and egg biscuit with only one bite out of it directly out of Kim’s hand. Kim turned away from the water and walked into her job at the sorting facility, realizing that she was going to be hungry today....

Prompt Word: Buzzard “So that’s the new airframe?” Command Chief Master Sergeant Dint remarked. “Yes, the F2214-C here in front of you, and you can also see another one flying in,” Technical Sergeant Gunther pointed toward the South East. “Those wings have an odd angle, and the flight profile seems a bit erratic,” Dint added. “Yessir, it’s the computer controls, it does snap corrections to keep the bird flying in the right direction, but never straight,” Gunther explained....

Prompt Word: Auto She sighed, “The whole planet is scheduled to be mined for resources, and to be honest, it’s our own fault. “Collectively, we’ve let it go. Not all of us, but enough of us. You’d think the worst thing polling results regularly do is get the predicted losers to stay home, but the actual worst is that it gets the predicted winner side to get complacent, thinking they don’t need to show up....

Prompt Word: New Narrator: Our heroine steps into the vaguely medieval-European village. Ellie: Wait, what? I told you not to call me that. Narrator: Fine, I’ll try again. Liz: No, not that either. I have a given name, and it’s beautiful as it is. I don’t need whatever short version you want to come up with. Narrator: Your full given name is a syllable short of a haiku opener. #wss366 (new) (2/2)...