Christine is known for her writing prompt challenges on her blog Brave and Reckless. She is now hosting a Tuesday Writing Prompt Challenge at the Go Dog Go Cafe. The prompts are designed to be quick challenges that can be written in 10 to 15 minutes, inspire you creatively, are fun, and get everyone interacting. Please post your response to the prompt in the comments below and show your fellow posters some love and support. All members of the Go Dog Go community, including Baristas, are welcome to participate. Feel free to share this post on your own blogs and/or Facebook.
Christine is always looking for cool, quick writing prompts. If you have a great idea for a future Tuesday prompt challenge, send it to her at christine.e.ray@gmail.com
Today’s prompt: Take a pleasant memory and write it as if it were a horror story without altering any of the details. It can be submitted as poetry or prose.
Example:
Shifting Sands:
high noon sun
baked sand
under their feet
cousins 4 and 8
bright plastic buckets in hand
aching call of the gulls
stranger at the pipe
where water flows clear
salt free
down to ocean’s taboo edge
they are not allowed to go down there alone
dangerous they are told
but adults distracted yards away
by their dime store novels
cryptic conversations
that bore them to tears
parallel digging with strange girl in the deep sand
few words exchanged
something about her eyes
unsettling
building ephemeral castles
before knocking them down
again
and again
tired of this ritual
her 8 years old eyes slide toward shore line
incoming tide hypnotizing
tugging at her navel
so tempting to drop her shovel
walk out where it isn’t allowed
stick her foot into the ice cold
Atlantic water
and just keep walking
no looking back
mermaids
calling her home
Go Dog Go Café 
Love your story, Christine!
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Thank you Vanessa! I brainstormed the elements of the memory and then gradually made it more ominous.
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you’re so creative!
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A child paddling:
Such glee
To paddle in the sea.
And near me
A propeller does slaughter
The clear, blue water.
The waves return to the shore
My future lost
In their unremitting roar.
If I knew the cost …
What the future held in store …
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Nice building of dread!
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Thank you!
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Reblogged this on Brave and Reckless and commented:
The Go Dog Go has a twisty writing prompt for you today!
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Whoops:
He waved she blew a kiss
His pace quickened her heart raced
Overtaken a stranger in her place
Her arms empty his arms full
She screamed skywards dark cloud answered
Bolt of lightning they no more
Be careful what you wish for
Fate doesn’t always get you right
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Wasn’t expecting that…shocking…and sooo good!
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Thank you – and apart from the last three lines – true!
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Excellent!
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Reblogged this on Megha's World and commented:
Head to Godoggo cafe to write a horror story out of a pleasant memory. A twist at its best!
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A child’s gift,
a teddy bear,
so fluffy and soft,
as I held it aloft,
pushed it in mothers face,
her stare, no longer there,
Blinded by the gift her love gave.
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He came on Tuesday to help
with the fencing.
sparkling eyes glowed when he
laughed from his belly.
His hands were rough from baling hay,
my fingers bled stringing tobacco.
Fall came in tan and gold
like skin and teeth.
That night smoke hung heavy.
They found him swaying like
a November leaf.
those calluses on his hands,
they don’t hurt anymore.
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I just re-read this! Great imagery used!
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Thank you!
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damn. . .
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Thank you Christine !
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A creaking boardwalk
Eerie silence all around
Empty nature park
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you got great impact from this haiku!
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Thank you!
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Thanks for this challenge, not sure if I got the idea or not but I enjoyed having a go:
https://swervestrikesback.wordpress.com/2018/03/27/for-better-for-worse/
In Sickness and Health
Summons sent. A celebration; save the date.
Black tie; gentlemen suited and booted.
Pristine dress, carefully selected.
Lily’s picked and plucked, made up in favourite arrangement.
Piano music elected; church choir retained.
Promises written, rewrote, remembered.
Church bell chimes, proclaiming your entrance.
Eulogy given, the day not originally intended.
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well done!
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Reblogged this on Unoriginal (love) noteS and commented:
Another tasty challenge 🙂
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The apple, cinnamon and bit of tobacco.
Breath in deeply. Breath in yearningly.
A childish smile on rosy-pale lips.
A scent of her father, clinging to his shirt.
A secret. Little mischievous secret,
From silly, old superstitious woman.
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I love what people did with this challenge
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