SciFi/Fantasy – September 22

Oceanic Airlines flight 815 left Sydney on this date in 2004. Writing prompt: Write a scene in which someone your protagonist thought lost...

Literary – September 22

“I am not cynical. I am just old. I know what is going to happen next.” –Fay Weldon, born this date in 1931. Writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist commits a grievous error...

Romance – September 22

“It was good, and nothing good is truly lost. It stays part of a person, becomes part of their character. So part of you goes everywhere with me. And part of me is yours, forever.”...

Mystery – September 22

On this date in 1975, US President Gerald Ford survived a second assassination attempt, this one by revolutionary Sara Jane Moore after Manson Family member Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme failed to load...

Mystery – September 21

Television premieres on this date included Perry Mason (1957), Adam-12 (1968), and NYPD Blue (1993) featuring Det. Andy Sipowicz, who once told a suspect, “You got a lot of morons in your family?...

Primary – September 21

JRR Tolkien published The Hobbit, or There and Back Again, on this day in 1937. Describe the scariest place you want to...