dbschlosser
dbschlosser
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Constantly probing the line between snarky and curmudgeonly.
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“You guys are going to have to do a piece of work for the family.” Your daily fiction #writing prompt from Prompt Inspiration: www.promptinspiration.com/2026/10/myst...
“Gunfight in a vacant lot doesn’t play well. Everything’s in the name.” Your daily fiction #writing prompt from Prompt Inspiration: www.promptinspiration.com/2026/10/myst...
“We’re all in the same alphabet soup.” Your daily fiction #writing prompt from Prompt Inspiration: www.promptinspiration.com/2026/10/myst...
“Dead is not guts, dead is just dumb.” Your daily fiction #writing prompt from Prompt Inspiration: www.promptinspiration.com/2026/10/myst...
“The Gernsback Continuum is a broad arc of intersecting futures with alternative implications for public life. We can visit this continuum through various means; some are legal and safe, others illegal and dangerous.” www.sjsu.edu/faculty/wood...
“I can say I definitely didn’t do it because I know what I did or didn’t do. But I cannot definitely say that about anybody else, ’cause I don’t definitely know.” Your daily fiction #writing prompt from Prompt Inspiration: www.promptinspiration.com/2026/10/myst...
“I always say that bad women are fewer than men, but when you get one, they’re fascinating because they’re so rotten.” Your daily fiction #writing prompt from Prompt Inspiration: www.promptinspiration.com/2026/10/myst...
“If it doesn’t make sense, it’s not true.” Your daily fiction #writing prompt from Prompt Inspiration: www.promptinspiration.com/2026/10/myst...
“The two women exchanged the kind of glance women use when no knife is handy.” Your daily fiction #writing prompt from Prompt Inspiration: www.promptinspiration.com/2026/10/myst...
“You just don’t know writers. They’ll use anything, anybody. They’ll eat their own young.” Your daily fiction #writing prompt from Prompt Inspiration: www.promptinspiration.com/2026/10/myst...
“I’m just a patsy.” Your daily fiction #writing prompt from Prompt Inspiration: www.promptinspiration.com/2026/10/myst...
“Integrity is something you sell the public.” Your daily fiction #writing prompt from Prompt Inspiration: www.promptinspiration.com/2026/10/myst...
Most arousal-boosting activities didn't reduce anger, and some increased it, with jogging most likely to do that. Effective arousal-reducing activities included slow-flow yoga, mindfulness, progressive muscle relaxation, diaphragmatic breathing, taking a timeout. www.sciencealert.com/venting-does...
Melanie Daniels: On Mondays and Wednesdays I work for the Travelers Aid at the airport. Mitch Brenner: Helping travelers? Melanie Daniels: No, misdirecting them. Your daily fiction #writing prompt from Prompt Inspiration: www.promptinspiration.com/2026/10/myst...
“The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.” Your daily fiction #writing prompt from Prompt Inspiration: www.promptinspiration.com/2026/10/myst...
“I was like you once. I didn’t know who to trust. Then I chose another path . . . another life, another fate.” Your daily fiction #writing prompt from Prompt Inspiration: www.promptinspiration.com/2026/10/myst...
“When I finally caught up with Abraham Trahearne, he was drinking beer with an alcoholic bulldog named Fireball Roberts in a ramshackle joint just outside of Sonora, California....” Your daily fiction #writing prompt from Prompt Inspiration: www.promptinspiration.com/2026/10/myst...
“You never know what somebody might tell you,” Chris said, “when they think you’re somebody else.” Your daily fiction #writing prompt from Prompt Inspiration: www.promptinspiration.com/2026/10/myst...
“Life is never as long as we want it to be, and wasted time can never be recovered.” Your daily fiction #writing prompt from Prompt Inspiration: www.promptinspiration.com/2026/10/myst...
They “postpone” chronic illnesses. They stay physically active. They don’t overeat. They eat healthy foods. They feel connected. They feel respected. They enjoy the outdoors. They have purpose. They stay positive. www.thehealthy.com/aging/health...
“I’m impossible to direct. I couldn’t get myself to do anything.” Your daily fiction #writing prompt from Prompt Inspiration: www.promptinspiration.com/2026/10/myst...
“Lies! All lies! You’re all lying against my boys!” Your daily fiction #writing prompt from Prompt Inspiration: www.promptinspiration.com/2026/10/myst...
“Expect the worst and you won’t be disappointed.” Your daily fiction #writing prompt from Prompt Inspiration: www.promptinspiration.com/2026/10/myst...
“Two men entered his car from the front platform, presented revolvers at either side of his head, took his key, opened the local safe, and rifled it of all moneys.” Your daily fiction #writing prompt from Prompt Inspiration: www.promptinspiration.com/2026/10/myst...
“Grat Dalton and Bill Powers each received mortal wounds before they had retreated twenty steps.” Your daily fiction #writing prompt from Prompt Inspiration: www.promptinspiration.com/2026/10/myst...