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Sometimes you start a book really knowing nothing about it, expecting nothing, just hoping it’ll be a reprieve...

Consider the grace of the second chance.

December’s prompt will help you retell an old classic in honor of the longest night of the year.

I’d enter the game with all the belief that comes naturally to a theatrically inclined child—it takes a good audience to see the truth of a good actor...

This speculative novel explores an alternate future beginning with the election of a new president in 2024.

Choose a person or object that makes you feel warm and share the warmth with us.

November’s prompt looks ahead to gift-giving season and will help you develop a story about an unwanted gift.

It was the beginning that I would only see in hindsight, backwards in time, after learning again and again that such mercy exists—exists, secretly in concrete streets...

Julia Armfield's novel, Our Wives Under the Sea, is a shorter read that stays with you.

Write about your earliest memory, or a time when memory failed you, or a special memory you share with only one other person.