Poking our nascent creativity
By William Cohen-Kiraly, December 2016 Prompt: A writer loses the ability to distinguish reality from the fantastical worlds of his or her stories. Jeffrey Tripplethorn woke up aching. His neck hurt, his back ached, when he tried to pull his feet from under the covers, they got tangled up in the sheets. He had felt …
Read More A Day in the Life of the Great Space ExplorerCurved Space By William Kiraly December 18, 2014 Prompt: A Pizza delivery guy proposing to a spaceship captain “Earth Ship Neil Armstrong, Captain’s Log: September 9, 2437: If the chronometers can be believed, it is now 2637 Earth time, 2394 in our ship time. That means we’ve been asleep for over 120 years our time …
Read More Curved SpaceQueen of the Mallows by William Cohen-Kiraly, Oct. 25,2014 Prompt: A master of disguise roasting marshmallows over a campfire with a British queen Lady Jane Grey sat on her stool by the small campfire, watching the smoke and sparks rise lazily around the full moon into the star-studded sky above the trees. She hated hunting …
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The Prompt: An astronaut spends some quality bonding time with a robot Share This:
Read More Bonding with a RobotA Sticky End By William Cohen-Kiraly The Prompt: An astronaut spends some quality bonding time with a robot “Spider, turn on your recorder please.” said the astronaut. “Yes, Boss,” replied the robot. The slender human and the multi-armed machine floated gracefully in the center of the airlock with just enough room so they could rotate …
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