Leeron Heywood

20250418 Prompt from DailyPrompt.com Now, I try not to judge customers on their purchases. Even grocery lists which look worrying almost always have perfectly innocent explanations. Very few people are, like, serial killers. So there I am, brainstorming all the reasons someone would need five litres of concentrated bleach

Anyone who knows me will be going “Of course you do. It’s an arbitrary invented dichotomy, and you hate those with unreasonable fury because you always seem to sit awkwardly between the two poles and you take that personally. I mean, you still haven’t forgiven Marmite.” To which

20250417 Prompt from DailyPrompt.com Whump Whump Thump Ah. Oh dear. Whump Whack Smack Linda’s doing the carpets again. I lean back and peer out the window. I can just make her out in our little paved garden. Hair scraped into a bun and throttled with a tea towel.

20250416 Prompt from DailyPrompt.com They called me soulless because I never had time for tears. Too busy working and planning and looking after my siblings to stop and feel anything. I was fourteen when dad died in the mines. Dropped out of school the next day and started hunting

20250415 Prompt from DailyPrompt.com If desires are a flame, then I am a wildfire. Warm. Destructive. Resplendent in terror-inducing beauty. Good for the ecosystem in controlled amounts. Important for certain trees. Wait, what was I…? Oh yes. The human understanding of succubi is so limited. A product of your

20250414 That whining buzz again. Right by my ear. It’s impossible to sleep through. That’s why HECA does it. Ne’s learned that running the rest pod’s air filter at a specific speed creates that piercing whinge. I swallow a groan. Fumble for the status panel. “Easy,

20250413 Part 3 here. Index here. Sadly, before Caroline scrapes together an explanation the doorbell goes. “Oh!” She pushes the beast to one side, ignoring his indignant meow, and bounds up. “That must be the blood people!” Tsk. Typical. Two minutes ago their arrival would have been a relief; at

20250412 Prompt from DailyPrompt.com Advertising drones were commonplace these days. Alex only noticed this one because its banner was so bad; white background, green text in a bland font reading “We have what you need!”. No logo or business name. No phone number, or address, or even QR code.

20250411 Prompt from DailyPrompt.com Yvonne sighed. Cross-species communication was a struggle at the best of times, and while she and the Containment Officers were trying their best there was a roadblock. Specifically, it seemed Calkans didn’t experience boredom. Apparently when Calkans were being held they just… went to

20250410 Prompt from DailyPrompt.com I thought it was just clutter the first time I visited her place. I mean, a stack of menus, paper coasters, and rumpled napkins? In most apartments it wouldn’t have stood out. And with it being the only messy space I was hardly going