❖2021 Watty Awards Shortlist❖ He disappeared in a flash of blue light-and woke up inside a living star. Ten-year-old Kevin saw a woman vanish from a grocery store. Ten years later, he found the man who could make it happen again. One touch, and his body was erased from Earth. His mind? Uploaded into the Core-a colossal, star-powered supercomputer where immortal alien citizens live in virtual paradise. Now Kevin is the first human Guest of the Tela race, armed with a handful of digital credits, no way home, and a strange new ability: he can bend reality with his imagination. But in a society of godlike beings, being unique is dangerous. Between corrupt security heads, reality-bending nightmares, and a discovery that threatens to tear the Core apart, Kevin must learn to wield power he doesn't fully understand-before someone decides he's worth more dead than alive. Welcome to the Core. Don't forget to breathe.

I'm always thinking of new story ideas, or finding new ideas on Pinterest and Tumblr, and most of them, as interesting and inspiring as they may be, I'll probably never even attempt to write. So, I've decided to post them here to provide inspiration for your next story! Please credit me for any prompts that don't have (Found on Pinterest) or (Found on Tumblr) at the end because those are mine. Also check out Part Two for more prompts and Daily Writing Prompts for month-by-month, journal-style prompts.

A young boy begins to question the values and beliefs of the society he lives in with devastating consequences. [Written in 2008][#1 in Science Fiction - 07/01/12].

Highest rank- #3 on (8/03/17) Empty pages to be filled with ink By the words that in my heart do sink Longing to tell their untold tale So I take a deep breath and inhale & I start to write what comes in mind Some sad, lovely & mystical sights That I came across and caught my eye Whose silence, left me asking why ? And within the words I drown With passion I write them down Each phrase having million emotions Straight from my heart's deep ocean