That fiction you won't need

(Reverse chronological order)

(2021-02-14) The Day
(~1202 words) Writing Prompt + postmortem: After years of preparation, the day had finally come.

(2021-02-13) Assassin
(~1750 words) Writing Prompt: You're an assassin who gets, secret, encoded orders from coffee cups at the cafe. Today, the orders got mixed up.

(2021-01-28) Every Body
(~1135 words) Writing Prompt: Everybody's looking for something

(2021-01-10) For Want of a Wish
(~650 words) Writing Prompt: When you first encounter the genie that says you have 3 wishes you expected a literal or twisted wish granting. Turns out this genie is so genuine and keep asking questions after questions in order to grant the wish perfectly. You're glad you didn't ask for something big like world peace.

(2020-12-04) A shovel is a multipurpose tool
(~265 words) A response to a writing competition that I lost.

(2020-11-28) That Obelisk Thing
(~1113 words) Writing prompt: Wildlife officials discover mysterious 12-foot-tall metal monolith in the middle of a Utah desert - Yet, strange happenings starts when the crew approaches the structure...

(2020-11-15) Raveyard
(~900 words) Writing prompt: You finally did it, you removed the G from the sign of your towns graveyard. Unfortunately, you didn’t expect any of the corpses to break out of their coffins and start throwing a party.

(2020-08-19) The Road Less Traveled
(~822 words) Writing Prompt: You find yourself at a fork in the wood and remember the poem that said Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. Except you see three identically-worn paths, and the road that looks less traveled is the one you just arrived by.

(2020-07-26) Stupid Prompt
(~920 words) A friend gave me a stupid writing prompt, and I just had to make something out of it.

(2020-04-28) Dan Times Dan
(~825 words) Writing Prompt: Everything made sense now. The weird hat. The gun that fired ice bullets. The cat that only spoke in nouns. The doorway that led to nowhere and back. Your partner was a time traveling assassin sent back to stop you from singing the song that ends the world.

(2020-04-20) Weird Sportball Thing
(~991 words) Writing prompt: You're rewatching your team's greatest win. You've watched this game so many times before, but suddenly this time the game is playing out differently...

(2020-04-18) The Fucking Exploding Ham Phone
(~666 words) Now only $199.99!

(2020-03-24) Brevity
(2 words)

(2020-03-18) ALL CAPS WORLD
(~159 words) AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

(2020-02-15) Synonym
(~461 words) Each lexeme becomes modified to one equivalent expression

(2020-02-07) r/genrebomb
(~780 words) A group of friends find a weird subreddit.

(2020-02-03) The First Short Story
(~1249 words) A guy writes the first short story on his website.