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THE MORGUE
Every prompt since June, newest on top. Take any one you like, any day you like. The timer doesn't know what day it is. Back to this week's prompt.

WED. THE PROMPT
Sept. 22 A door in your family that nobody opened. 300 words, no ghosts.
Sept. 15 You find a grocery list in a shopping cart. It isn't yours. Write the list, then the person.
Sept. 8 First line, and you have to use it: "The power went out at 9:14, and by 9:15 the whole street was standing in the yard."
Sept. 1 Describe your kitchen table without one adjective. Not one. I'll know.
Aug. 25 Write a letter to whoever lived in your house before you did.
Aug. 18 Two people waiting at the same bus stop. Only one of them is getting on. Dialogue only, no "he said."
Aug. 11 Somebody is lying about the weather. Find out why.
Aug. 4 Write the obituary of an object: a first car, a winter coat, a toaster. Survived by whom?
July 28 Last line, and you have to end on it: "And that's why we don't go to Aunt Ruth's for the Fourth anymore."
July 21 Thirty years ago yesterday, two men walked on the Moon. Where were you? If you weren't born yet, where was somebody you love?
July 14 A job you quit. The last hour of it.
July 7 The Fourth of July fireworks, from the point of view of the dog under the bed.
June 30 A smell from when you were nine. Don't name the smell until the last sentence.
June 23 Somebody keeps a secret for fifty years and tells it to the wrong person.
June 16 Write a scene at a wedding from the point of view of the caterer.
June 9 Your character is given a key and no explanation. 250 words.
June 2 Tell a story in the form of a list of things in somebody's pockets.

The 1998 prompts are on floppies in my desk drawer. When I figure out how to get sixty of them on here without it taking all night to load on my granddaughter's modem, I'll put them up. floppy disk

The favorite so far, by the mail: the obituary of an object (Aug. 4). Fifty-three of you wrote in. Nine of you wrote obituaries for a car, four for a recliner, and one gentleman in Maine wrote a very moving tribute to a snowblower.
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