by Rob Diaz | Dec 30, 2011 | Edited, Humorous, Prompted, Real Life
written based on the [Fiction] Friday prompt on December 30, 2011: “What are your Anti-Resolutions for the coming year?” I will not petition the USDA to make them add a coffee section to the ChooseMyPlate dietary guidelines, despite the fact that coffee is an...
by Rob Diaz | Jan 5, 2011 | Edited, Humorous, Prompted, Real Life
(written based on the [Fiction] Friday prompt on December 31, 2010: “What are your Anti-Resolutions for the coming year?”) Note: Most people put in 5 or 10 of these… but somehow, 13 seemed more appropriate for me. I will not continue trying to find...
by Rob Diaz | Jul 10, 2010 | Prompted, Sci-fi/Fantasy, Short Stories, Unedited
(written for the [Fiction] Friday prompt on July 9, 2010: “In her right hand a woman holds a loaded gun, in her left, a coin that just came up ‘tails’”.) There wasn’t much more to say, so I stayed quiet. The officer looked at me icily, contempt and...
by Rob Diaz | Aug 29, 2009 | Prompted, Sci-fi/Fantasy, Short Stories, Unedited
(written for the [Fiction] Friday >prompt on August 28, 2009: “A new Government research and development facility is built on a decomissioned prison site”.) “Hey! Watch where you’re putting that picket sign, buddy. Some of us like our faces...
by Rob Diaz | Jul 18, 2009 | General Fiction, Prompted, Short Stories, Unedited
(written for the [Fiction] Friday >prompt on July 17, 2009: “Your character stops on the way home from work and buys an unusual musical instrument — why today?”.) Jenny hummed quietly as she sat on the bus and looked out the window as it rumbled...
by Rob Diaz | Jun 19, 2009 | Prompted, Sci-fi/Fantasy, Short Stories, Unedited
(written for the [Fiction] Friday prompt on June 19, 2009, which was “(your character) closed his/her eyes, took a deep breath and jumped”.) There was chaos. It had started with an explosion – a loud, fiery explosion – that had violently rocked the floors...
