Writing Prompts

In between the stories I write, I like to practice different ways to write by using writing prompts. Sometimes I use pictures, other times I use the first line of any book or magazine to inspire me. What I have been doing lately though, is using idea’s off of the site creativewritingprompts.com to spark ideas. It is a great site that gives you many different ways to start a piece of writing….

Today I will be using one of their prompts to start a short short story. This is writing prompt #309. I have to use their prompt but tell the story in 500 words or less.

“Start your story with this line: Alice tried to remember who had given her the key…“

Alice tried to remember who had given her the key. She searched deeper within her coat pocket, searching for some sort of clue to jog her memory, and found a crumpled up note with only an address scribbled on it, and a name.

This was not a name she knew.

Dominic.

Her first thought was that perhaps she had grabbed the wrong coat from the coat rack in the café, but no…this was her coat; nobody else would have the guts to wear a fire engine red puff coat in the middle of summer.

Alice set the key and the note down, trying not to think too much about it. After all, she probably got some strange guys number from that party she went to last weekend, and had forgot all about it by the time she got home.

Probably.

Alice’s day went on as usual, but Alice’s eyes would wander over to that key and wonder…

Why does that writing look so familiar?

The sun began to set and the key just sat, gathering dust and wayward glances. Alice began to feel agitated about that key, thinking up wild stories of forgotten promises surrounding the key…

Was someone suffering out there, waiting for her to bring the key…waiting in agony to be let in?

She lay in bed that night, staring at the shadows on the wall, seeing her dreams as she lay awake…

Did Dominic need his key, yet?

Alice tossed and turned throughout the night, leaving her sheets wet with guilt, she would return his key to him tomorrow….there was no other way.

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7:30… as the alarm blasted forth rock music; Alice sprang out of bed, ready for her journey. She took her shower, washed her hair and face and prepared her speech…

“Dominic, yes…I remember you…sorry I did not come sooner…”

After the shower, Alice prepared her breakfast and coffee, sipping and chewing as she fed her 2 cats and read through her emails.

She was almost ready now.

Just one more thing, she had to get her keys.

Alice set Dominic’s key down on the table, and went to search for her keys. Alice made her way to her bedroom as the front door opened.

The figure stood in the bedroom doorway, watching Alice scurry around the bed, tossing clothes into the air in a frenzied manner.

“Darling, what on earth are you doing?” said the voice.

Alice turned around to see her husband standing in the bedroom doorway.

“Looking for my keys. Why are you home so early?”

Alice’s husband sighed as he watched her make a mess of their bed.

“Well, I forgot something. I promised Allan that I would feed their dog, Dominic, while they were out of town. I came back to get the key and the address to their place, I stuck it in your jacket pocket so I wouldn’t lose it. Wouldn’t want the poor dog to starve, now would we?”

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