August Prompted Fiction: The Magi: Cough Medicine: 511 words

Based on the prompt hydrangeas from clare_dragonfly.

This is a fantasy story. Hydrangea flowers are toxic so please don't attempt to make the cough medicine from them.

 

Making a simple cough medicine was something any healer could do. It was one of the first things they were taught to make, when the first hydrangea flowers were harvested in the spring after the trainee healer's sixth birthday. When the trainees turned fifteen they would begin to learn about the other powers that a healer had but until then their time was spent memorising the recipes for hundreds of medicines. A cough medicine could include different ingredients for each type of cough that was known about.

 

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August Prompted Fiction: Afterlife: Friends with Death: 510 words

Based on the prompt making friends with Death from ysabetwordsmith.

The beach was usually deserted. Caitlyn didn't know whether it was because it was always night there or if there was some other reason. In the short time she'd been dead, although she hated thinking of it as death because she still existed and to her death was the end of existence, she'd realised that very few people seemed to explore. They stuck to the towns, the places that seemed familiar because they were like the places they'd been when they were alive. She didn't because that didn't seem the right thing for her to do. It was like they couldn't let go of the life they'd had while she could.

 

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August Prompted Fiction: Donor House: The Beginning of the House: 512 words

Based in the prompt symbiosis from

ysabetwordsmith.

“We're evil to them,” Issac growled, curling his hands around a glass of whiskey that he wasn't drinking. “Just because we need blood to survive we're evil.” He tightened his hands. “They don't think that leeches or ticks are evil just because they need blood to survive.”

 

 

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August Prompted Fiction: The Magi: Energy Healing: 525 words

Based on the prompt what happens if someone is allergic to the energy of the Magi? from ysabetwordsmith.

It was the only thing Terrence could do to help the girl in his care. He knew, after many lectures from his older sister Marnie and several mentors, that using his energy to heal someone was a last resort. Everything else had to be tried first. It was too easy for energy healing to go wrong. That was why they had turned to making medicines rather than using energy to heal. Sighing he tried not to listen to the voices in his head, repeating the same things over and over again. If he didn't try energy healing then the girl in his care was going to die the same way all the others had.

 

 

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August Prompted Fiction: Thear: Moon Dance: 508 words

Based on the prompt peaceful from ellenmillion.

It was just after sunset and Aisling was kneeling comfortably in the moon garden she'd spent months creating in North Square. The trees were very short compared to the ones in the moon garden at the Residence but they would grow in time. Being alone in such a beautiful place made her feel more at peace than she had for months, which was the whole point of the moon garden. Gently she stroked the petals of one of the moon flowers that was beginning to open. The flower itself was silver and it made her feel very lucky because it was rare for them to be properly silver.

 

 

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August Prompted Fiction: Deities World: Waterfalls in Early Autumn: 510 words

Based on the prompt waterfalls in the early autumn from aldersprig.

Autumn was Callie's favourite season. She'd spent a year travelling so she could see the season in different worlds, trying to understand it. Since then she'd made sure to visit the waterfalls of Failen in the early autumn every year. It had to be early autumn, before the leaves had started falling, because it wasn't the same at any other time during that season. There were three waterfalls, all of the relatively small, each one starting from a different place in the rock, that had created a deep lake. The first came from the top of the rock and was the end of the river that travelled through the entire country; the second from midway, slightly to the left of the first, because it was a part of the underground river system that made building houses on Failen so difficult; and the third, to the right of the first, was almost not a waterfall at it but she felt it was just high enough to be called a waterfall.
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August Prompted Fiction: Donor House: A Conversation with Morgan: 500 words

Based on the prompt eternity from

ariestess.

This was a very difficult prompt to work from because it's very open but at the same time I had trouble thinking of something I could write. I started it about three times with three different stories so I might go back and do them at some point.



“Would you want to live for eternity, if you had a choice?” Morgan asked, looking at her best friend as she folded another pair of jeans.

 

 

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August Prompted Fiction: Aurora's World: Trust: 503 words

Based on the prompt the greatest gift of all from ariestess.

This was another difficult one because I couldn't decide what it was to begin with and kind of wanted to go for irony, but then I chose to work with something that I think is a real gift.


“I trust you,” Aurora said, her eyes locking with Harrison's.

 

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Prompts Day Is Over

Eight stories of five hundred words (or just over) have been written. Thank you to all those who prompted. :) I think they all end, but at the same time I wanted to make it possible for me to continue the story. Is it possible to have everything that I have written today continued whether you were the original prompter or not. All PDFs should be done by Monday at the lastest so if all my prompters would like to send me an email address that they'd like them to go to via PM then I can email them as soon as they're ready.

Prompts are permanently open if anyone wants to prompt a story and I might change it so that all prompters receive a copy of their story if it's written that is for their eyes only. Would this be better for those who would be interested in prompting me? Then I can put it up for sponsorship so it can be opened up for everyone.

The next day I think I'm going to spend working on prompts is going to be the 1st of September and then I have a week when I need as much work to do as possible because James will be in Russia and Nan is in Croatia. I'll find out when that is and give a date soon.

Then, hopefully, I'm thinking of doing an Autumn Equinox special prompts time (three days long), with special donor perks, that I may do on a time basis rather than a words basis. So for half an hour I will work on a story and donations will lead to me working longer. The donor perks make me smiley too, although I think it's making a lot of work for me. It will be worth the donation though so I think it might be better for donors.