by D. N. Ashwell
The dust is settling finally and we wanted to start a hobby together. My husband – T – and I both like to write, but he is not a native English speaker. He wants to improve his English skills and I want to improve my general writing skills – not to mention make it a habit. And what better way to get to know the innermost thoughts of another than to explore the stories our minds weave?
Every two weeks, one of us will come up with a prompt, alternating the chooser. It can be just about anything – a place from a dream, a theme that is close to our hearts, a piece of news that got us thinking. Then, we individually write a short story (limit of 25 standard typed pages, but truthfully usually much shorter) and in two weeks we reconvene to share what brilliant imaginations we dreamt, spread out on the pages.
Perhaps we'll learn a thing or two about ourselves. Perhaps we'll plant the seed for a longer, deeper project. Perhaps we'll inspire you to join us.
YOU ARE READING
The Ashwell Challenge: An Anthology
Historia CortaRoutine exoplanet surveys gone awry. Desperate bids to save a home from an encroaching ice age. Art birthed from catastrophe. The Ashwell Challenge is a collection of short stories written on shared prompts from fantasy to science fiction, contempor...
