1. He would save the world or die trying– even if the world was already lost.
2. Of all the things I could remember from that day, it’s the scent of crushed grass that burns brightest in my memories.
3. Some days are meant for bowls of warm soup, nestling in a cocoon of blankets, and pouring what’s left of your flu-strangled brain into a good book.
4. Lie to everyone but yourself, it’s those lies that make everything else real…
5. Sleep is the heartbeats between nightmares.
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These story prompts are released into the wild per Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License, so sayth their author Martha McMahon Bechtel. |

