Category: Prompt://Executed
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“Next”
A story by Sebastian Pearce based on the WordPress Daily Writing Prompt: What are you most excited about for the future? They ask us the same question every time. What are you most excited about for the future? I’ve learned to keep my answer simple. “The return of colour,” I say. “And…
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What Bothers You?
A story by Sebastian Pearce based on the WordPress Daily Writing Prompt: You tell people it’s the small things that bother you. The way your coworker clicks her pen during meetings. How your neighbor leaves his garbage cans out two days past pickup. The sound of people chewing with their mouths open.…
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Ten Certainties
A story by Sebastian Pearce based on the WordPress Daily Writing Prompt: You sit at your desk, pen hovering over the blank paper. The assignment seems simple enough: list ten things you know to be absolutely certain. Your therapist insists this exercise will help ground you after the accident, help you separate…
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The Perfect Dinner Party
A story by Sebastian Pearce based on the WordPress Daily Writing Prompt: The Perfect Dinner Party If I could host a dinner and anyone I invited would come, the choice would be obvious. I’d invite myself—every version of myself I’ve ever been. The preparations took weeks. Seven place settings around my grandmother’s…
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Better with Age
A story by Sebastian Pearce based on the WordPress Daily Writing Prompt: People always ask me what gets better with age. I tell them wisdom, wine, cheese—the usual answers. But I know the real truth now. What gets better with age is the hunger. It started when I turned sixty. A gnawing…
Sebastian Pearce - Flash fiction with an Edge 