“Yes, you are nosy. You're a dreadfully nosy, horribly bossy, appallingly clean old woman. Control yourself. You're victimizing us all.”― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl's Moving Castle How does a witch clean up her messes? Describe a magical being tidying up after a day of potion making (or magic making, spell casting, whatever). What kind of ingredients did …
Tag: fantasy
Prompt: The Puzzle Maker
“Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.”― Frank Herbert, Dune Germaine makes sense of their universe by designing puzzles. Outside their window, there are monsters and cults, sorcerers and chaos; but inside their little house, there is order …
Prompt: Exploring Portals
“We have no need of other worlds. We need mirrors. We don't know what to do with other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices us; but we can't accept it for what it is.”― Stanisław Lem, Solaris She had been a part of the program for about a year now. When she first joined, they said …
Prompt: Creation Story
“Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud...”― Yann Martel, Life of Pi Creation stories explain why and …
Prompt: Stealing Memories
“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.”― Lois Lowry, The Giver Nathaniel could not only read minds, but read someone's past. Their whole history, all of their memories would swarm him like a pack of angry hornets. He couldn't control it either, it …
Prompt: Candle Magic
“My mother/ lights the first shaky candle, and sets it in my hands./ She turns to leave, and I am on my own./ I spend my whole life searching for candles./ Their flames burn bright, a million colors, shades of blues and yellows and fiery reds,/ and it is as though I am within the …
Prompt: The Flower Ceremony
“Never take the first plant you find, as it might be the last—and you want that first one to speak well of you to the others of her kind.”― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants On their 18th birthday, kids became adults. They each ceremonious wandered into …
Prompt: The Forest’s Revenge
“Action on behalf of life transforms. Because the relationship between self and the world is reciprocal, it is not a question of first getting enlightened or saved and then acting. As we work to heal the earth, the earth heals us.”― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants She was …
Prompt: The Prophecy
“People will believe anything if it means they can go on with their lives and not have to think too hard about it.”― Libba Bray, The Diviners Jared was a fan of the path of least resistance. He didn't go out of his way to make friends, argue, or deal with other people if he didn't have …
Prompt: Smiling Faces
“That ain't me, that ain't my face. It wasn't even me when I was trying to be that face. I wasn't even really me them; I was just being the way I looked, the way people wanted.”― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest When he looked into the mirror and didn't recognize his face, he …
LAMP 