NOVEMBER 23 WORDS: Schedule, shimmy, sunset, sully, sentiment, skip, stupid.

NOVEMBER 17 WORDS: Febrile, corkscrew, fast, sloppy, plant, tractor.   Please submit your story through the comment section below.

NOVEMBER 8 WORDS: Bark, purple, fence, crackling, race, ginger and box.   Please submit your story through the comment box below.

Sharpen your pencil, or keyboard, or iphone or whatever you write with. This month’s project is a creativity stimulator. The object of the project is to take the seven words posted each week and create a short story that includes each of the seven words. The sky’s the limit, as long as the story is less than 250 words. Submit the stories to me and I will post them on this site.       THIS WEEK’S WORDS: Orange, tree, sprinkle, mouse, gun, underwear and tissue   Please submit your story through the comment box below.

She stepped off the train, her stiletto heels clicking on the concrete platform at Union Station. Her slender fingers slid into her coat pocket to make sure the letter was still there. The letter is what brought her to Chicago in the first place.Her editor thought she was crazy when she burst into his office the day before, giving one day notice that she would be gone for two weeks. She could see the veins in his neck quickly enlarge through his dark brown skin, and his eyes narrowed as they always did when he was angry.“You can’t do this…

She stepped off the train, her stiletto heels clicking on the concrete platform at Union Station. Her slender fingers slid into her coat pocket to make sure the letter was still there. The letter is what brought her to Chicago in the first place.Her editor thought she was crazy when she burst into his office the day before, giving one day notice that she would be gone for two weeks. She could see the veins in his neck quickly enlarge through his dark brown skin, and his eyes narrowed as they always did when he was angry.“You can’t do this…