Leeron Heywood

20250429 Prompt from DailyPrompt.com Inter-reality tourism sounded like such a good idea. And maybe it was for the people embarking on exciting adventures to worlds unlike their own. But when you were stuck doing customer service for them it just ratcheted all the usual minimum wage nightmares up to

20250428 Prompt from DailyPrompt.com Jack wasn’t allowed to play with dolls; it made his parents worry, and his classmates mean, and his teachers uncomfortable. So he kept his secret stash of dolls in the clubhouse he’d built on the waste ground out back. An endeavour his parents

20250427 Prompt from DailyPrompt.com The rain was light but unyielding, and his clothes were soaked through, the cheap cotton heavy and chafing against his skin. But he still hesitated. Weighing the building up. Two-story. Dull grey stone on the ground floor shifting to brick on the upper. Just like

20250426 Prompt from DailyPrompt.com “You don’t mind?” Steph whispered. She knew the answer; it was the same every time. She just… needed to hear it. “Not at all.” HEM intoned, nir synthetic voice a close proximation to reassuring. “I understand the importance of monitoring and maintaining different resource

20250425 Prompt from DailyPrompt.com When Abigail first moved to the island she hated the fog. How it smothered everything in dark damp grey. The way it stole mornings and sometimes entire days. But now, after living here three years, she’d adopted the local mindset; fog days were like

20250424 Prompt from DailyPrompt.com [Miss Teagan. I will be at the Chained Swans this evening at 20:00. If you are not interested in this opportunity no action is required.] Joan turned the embossed envelope over in her fingers. Distantly admiring the flowing cursive of the letter. Was it

20250423 Prompt from DailyPrompt.com “Hmm.” Antonio rolled the ball of clay between his hands. “What are you meant to be?” {I don’t know.} “Not to worry.” Antonio gently flattened the ball, examining where it gave and what strove to hold its height. “Let’s see… A hedgehog, perhaps?

20250422 Prompt from DailyPrompt.com It was starting again. That Conversation. Ailbhe ["AELVah"] shuddered, their twig-like fingers unable to block their long ears. The brownie was forced to wrap their arms around their head instead. It wasn’t enough. “…better for the children.” Better? How could it be

20250421 Prompt from DailyPrompt.com Grandad’s funeral was surreal. I’d never been able to tell him and Paul apart. It must be strange to see your twin in a coffin. It was strange enough for me, looking at Grandad lying peaceful and then glancing about to see him

20250420 Prompt from DailyPrompt.com Arthur knew it had to be a particularly vivid dream. What else would place him in the workshop of his beloved creation Sorceress Cecilia? “Creator!” The buxom blond elf threw her arms up and beamed. “O Weaver of All, you have answered my prayers! Praise