Leeron Heywood

You Thought You Knew Someone

20250405 Prompt from DailyPrompt.com Patrick stared unseeing at his half-drunk margarita. Perhaps he should be looking past it to the row of empty glasses and wondering if he’d imagined what Josh said, or if the other man had made some “hilarious at the drunken time” joke. But he

She Knew His Name Was Wendell

20250404 Prompt from DailyPrompt.com The Hog And Bailey wasn’t a pub Wendy expected to have a mystical experience in. It was the quintessential rural pub which scraped out a living catering to travellers from the motorway. The locals had their own invisibly roped off areas enforced by piercing

I Wish Reality Had A Tags System

Because personal branding is hard when you're liminal. Apologies in advance; this has a lot of pictures. How do I want people to read me? Not my work, ME. What assumptions are they likely to make? What assumptions do I want them to make? What assumptions do I

Picture Perfect Squeaky Clean

Prompt from DailyPrompt.com Cleansing. That’s what it promised. “A cleansing scrub”. Refreshing foam. Gentle exfoliation. Secret super-modern science drawn from ancient wisdom formulated to revitalise your appearance. She left it unopened by the sink for a few days. The promises were always far sweeter than the reality. Reality

Parakeets And Sheep's Blood

20250402 Prompt from DailyPrompt.com Birds circled overhead. Not just scavengers, either; there were pigeons, starlings, parakeets. (Once remarkable, now naturalised. Symbolic for so much of our changing world.) The flocks swirled and spiralled. Never touching. Leaving no part of the field without a feathering watching canopy. I turn my

Librarian Susan's Whacky Race 2 (End)

20250401 Part 1 here. Susan gulped and floored it. Which didn’t do much; her loyal mini wasn’t built for speed. She cringed and kept as close to the side of the road as possible, the pack roaring past in a jostling charge which to her relief avoided her.

Librarian Susan's Whacky Race 1

20250331 Prompt from DailyPrompt.com Susan had embraced an astounding variety of life experiences while running a public library. Particularly for fundraising. She’d learned to juggle, had a photoshoot with a snake, gone bungee jumping, been an officiant for a three-year-old’s divorce from a previously beloved video game

A Body Of Stone, A Heart Of...

20250330 Prompt from DailyPrompt.com How to give a statue a heart? Riddick paced back and forth across his studio. Wringing his hands behind him. Scratching his chin and smoothing his beard. Fussing with his hair which refused to stay pulled back. The challenge was absurd. The local lord had

A Ratcatching Swizz Gone Awry

20250329 Prompt from DailyPrompt.com This is a disgrace! I, the greatest scammer in the city, swindled by a cat! Now a dozen restaurant owners are after me, my vital anonymity is in tatters, my boots stink of rat shit, and - worst of all! - the wretched beast ran

On Hold In Hold

20250328 Prompt from DailyPrompt.com Whimpers. That was the first thing Gar registered. Whimpers and the weight of shackles around his limbs. The pain only hit when he lifted his head. Throbbing pounding it would be blinding but the space was pitch black. He went limp again and his groan

The Legendless Ghost Of Barron-on-Fens

20250327 Prompt from DailyPrompt.com Barron-on-Fens never got visitors before those ghost hunters showed up dead. Now it was overflowing with hunters and researchers and festering content creators, all clamouring to hear “the legend”. They were all loudly disappointed by how little legend there was. As if that was the

Trust Runs In The Family

20250326 Prompt from DailyPrompt.com “Do you know why my family’s mad?” Not a question Harold expected while interviewing to rent a room from someone. “Ah… why?” Christine didn’t answer. Just continued fussing about with the teacups. It was as if he’d imagined the strange comment. Or

It's not a graveyard. Graveyards have bodies.

20250325 Prompt from DailyPrompt.com Everyone said it wasn’t a graveyard. There were no bodies buried in it. The police had checked. So it wasn’t a graveyard. It was simply a patch of ground that - so far as countless civil servants had been able to find -

Goblins Don't Exist. Trust Me, I'm A Faerie.

20250324 Prompt from DailyPrompt.com Pipkin’s walnutty brow furrowed. “What?” “It’s to keep away goblins.” Waldo repeated. “No offence to yourself, of course!” “Ah, yeah, none taken.” The small fey peered up at the chalk scrawls. “But… goblins don’t exist.” Waldo scoffed. “Of course they do!” “No.

The Dead Musicians' Support Group

20250323 Prompt from DailyPrompt.com This was definitely the place. Olivia examined the front of the music shop, trying to find a nicer way of saying ‘ratty and worn down, like most small businesses around here’. This was a community interest piece after all. ‘Charming traditional establishment which wears its

A Dog Degree WITH HONOURS, Mind You

20250322 Prompt from DailyPrompt.com “Tess, you’re being too hard on yourself again.” The frantic rummaging in the wardrobe paused as a haughty scoff escaped. “You would say that.” Barnaby sighed. “You know I’m right. Working yourself into a tizzy isn’t-” “I know you know nothing about

Oranges And Lemons And The Tunnel Never Ends

20250321 Prompt from DailyPrompt.com In the semi-darkness the pebbles looked like coffee beans. The dirt crumbled underfoot like rich dark sugar. The water dripping down the walls could be chocolate. No, it was too orangey. Well maybe there was orangey chocolate. Or it could be coffee with syrups added?

A Blatant Though Necessary Violation Of COI

20250320 Prompt from DailyPrompt.com Dammit, this was exactly what conflict of interest regulations was meant to prevent. But currently there wasn’t another investigator or navigation engineer on the station. Well, not one in any state to carry out duties. So here they were. Both shuffling paperwork, avoiding each

Yes I Sell Anything

20250319 Prompt from DailyPrompt.com The bell tinkled. Another customer. “Welcome, welcome.” Curl leant on the counter and morphed a polite smile. “What can I get you?” The customer lingered by the door. Examining the empty shop front. Finally he spoke. “I thought you sold everything?” “In a sense.” Curl

Why Weren't The Ducks Calling

20250318 Prompt from DailyPrompt.com The mist was so thick she barely caught the movement. It was the gentle splash which let her find the right spot, focusing just in time to see the duck folding its wings and bobbing off across the lake. She sighed. Maybe she should have

Right Hour, Wrong Year

20250317 Prompt from DailyPrompt.com Two years? Pff. You like pulling pranks on people, huh? You see someone like me and go “Ooh, flew through the Bermuda Triangle, ay? Quick, switch the network time.” Tsk. Look, I had enough fuel for that eight-hour flight and landed with expected reserves. Plus,

Your Perfect Match

20250316 https://app.dailyprompt.com/writing-prompts/details/30e4fd20-0120-11f0-9a9c-6304dd745563 Alright, she hadn’t had high hopes for a dating show, but this was a joke! The premise had been reasonable; use personality tests to match you with your ideal suitor (or at least, the most compatible person who’d also signed

Party Like The Damned

20250315 Today’s prompt is “birthday”, because it’s mine! 🥳 The sigils lit up, a foul purple miasma shooting upwards to stain the ceiling as that booming, reverberant voice filled the space. “WHO SUMMONS NOREEL, LIEGE OF FOOLS?” “It is I, Officiant Leslie, your eternal servant.” With the formalities complete

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