"Summertime" is one of my favorite songs. Originally heard in the 1935 Opera Porgy and Bess, it is now one of the most well-known Jazz pieces. Your Friday Prose mission, should you choose to accept it, is to take a line from the song and use it to open a short story, poem or prose piece.

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Today is Black Friday, and this morning my Grandmother and I were up at 4 a.m. to join the hordes of shoppers at the mall. So with the joys of retail in mind, your prompt is to take a look at customers_suck or bad_service and write a short scene inspired by any entry posted today (November 23). You have 500 words and no time limit ( Read more... )

This week's Friday Prose Prompt is brought to you by the lovely lindskaba.

Imagine yourself in freefall. You have 500 words to write about what you feel as you are tumbling downward. Why are you falling? What will happen when you hit the bottom? Is there a bottom?

As always, feel free to post your responses here or in a new entry to the community.

The weather is changing in my New England city, and the fall leaves we're famous for are changing to gold and red. With that in mind, your Friday Prose Prompt this week is to write a story about nature. You have 500 words to write a scene that takes place outside.

Remember, Friday Prose Prompts never expire. If you don't like the prompt this ( Read more... )

Today is the Day of the Dead in Mexico, but rather than write about death in this week's Friday Prose Prompt, your assignment is to write about a birth. You have up one hour to write, and bonus points if you can incorporate a sugar skull into the story. When you're done, you can post your story as a response to this entry or create a new thread ( Read more... )

Absynthe Muse has relaunched just in time for Halloween ( Read more... )

First, a community announcement: beginnings has returned just in time for Halloween. chainedinbeads plans to update Thursdays, so with the Friday Prose Prompt and a Thursday beginnings prompt, you'll now have two exciting challenges every week. beginnings works very much like the Friday Prose Prompt and it is tons of fun.
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Halloween is only days away, and so this week's Friday ( Read more... )

Eddie Bernays was a PR pioneer, and in 1923 he helped launch a campaign that made Ivory Soap a household name. The idea was to introduce children--and indirectly their parents--to the idea of cleanliness through a fun soap-sculpting contest. The National Soap Sculpture Competition in White Soap was hugely successful, and it continues on today ( Read more... )

Somehow, I have gone four years in complete ignorance of the Free Skate Night at my college's rink. Tonight, my friend Pete is taking me skating, so your Friday Prose Prompt is to write about your friend Pete and a skating rink. You have one hour to write and no word cap. When you're done, post your response here or create a new thread in the ( Read more... )

I am off to attend my best friend's wedding this weekend, so your Friday Prose Prompt is to write about a marriage. You have 500 words to describe a scene in which two parties come together. For an added challenge, express the words of the parties without using dialogue ( Read more... )