Prompt for November 2024

HOMEWORK for deadline Thursday midnight, 21.11.24.

TASK: ‘Witch-hunt’. Write 500 words or fewer about ‘Witch-hunt’. Your story title isn’t included in the 500 words.

Homework to be in by midnight, Thursday 21st November 2024.

Meeting at 1.30pm, Sunday 24.11.24, Discovery Room, 1st floor, Central library. Finish at 3.30pm.

Please send your homework to Pat.

June 2024 Task

HOMEWORK for deadline Thursday midnight, 20.06.24.

TASK: ‘Retribution’. Write 500 words or fewer about ‘retribution’. Your story title isn’t included in the 500 words.

Homework to be in by midnight, Thursday 20th June 2024. Use the contact form or email Pat O’Connor directly.

Meeting at 1.30pm, Sunday 23.06.24, Discovery Room, 1st floor, Central library. Finish at 3.30pm.

Prompt for May 2024

HOMEWORK for deadline Thursday midnight, 23.05.24.

TASK: ‘Escape’. Write 500 words or fewer about ‘escape’. Your story title isn’t included in the 500 words.

Homework to be in by midnight, Thursday 23rd May 2024.

Meeting at 1.30pm, Sunday 26.05.24, Discovery Room, 1st floor, Central library. Finish at 3.30pm.

Members: send all homework to Pat

Joiners: contact us through the Facebook Group

April Writing Prompt

HOMEWORK for deadline Thursday midnight, 25.04.24.

TASK: ‘Ruin’. Write 500 words or fewer about ‘ruin’. Your story title isn’t included in the 500 words.

Homework to be in by midnight, Thursday 25th April 2024.

Meeting at 1.30pm, Sunday 28.04.24, Discovery Room, 1st floor, Central library. Finish at 3.30pm.

Contact us via the contact page for submissions.

Prompt for February 2024

Prompt for deadline Thursday midnight, 22.02.24.

TASK: ‘Crossroads’. Write 500 words or fewer about ‘crossroads’. Your story title isn’t included in the 500 words.

Homework to be in by midnight, Thursday 22nd February 2024.

Contact us via the Contact Page if you want to submit a story.

Meeting at 1.30pm, Sunday 25.02.24, Discovery Room, 1st floor, Central library. Finish at 3.30pm.

Writing Task for September

music in swansea

HOMEWORK for deadline Thursday midnight, 21.09.23.

TASK: ‘Music’. Write 500 words or fewer about ‘music’. Your story title isn’t included in the 500 words.

Homework to be in by midnight, Thursday 21st September 2023.

Meeting at 1.30pm, Sunday 24.09.23, Discovery Room, 1st floor, Central library. Finish at 3.30pm.

No Words …

It was an extraordinary few weeks to have lived through. The causes have never been fully revealed, although many have subsequently attempted to attribute blame, and no end of conspiracy theories continue to circulate – as though lessons still have not been learned. All I can do is offer an account of the way it seemed to me.

It was in the middle of the Era of Unpleasantness, a time of destruction, disease and self-interest, which had befallen humankind. There were some attempts to mitigate the worst cruelties to people and the natural world but these were often crushed and were never likely to change completely the way things were.

My first inkling was when my books seemed to have turned into blank paper. How very strange, and particularly so when my computer files seemed to be doing the same thing. When I tried to call friends, the phone merely gave out mechanical beeps. Neighbours waved but couldn’t talk. It seemed as though words had gone missing, as though a modern-day Pied Piper had lured them into a mountain-side and trapped them there.

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