Word for Word: Imitate, Imitation

I’m in a writers’ group that meets on Zoom, though before the pandemic we met in person. Every week, we do a writing prompt: someone gives a page number, and our organizer picks a word from a huge dictionary. We write for five minutes. In this example, the word is: imitate, imitation.

Front cover of _Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft & Mary Shelley_ by Charlotte Gordon

Today is Mary Shelley’s birthday, so today I shall attempt to imitate her writing style or at least work on a gothic story.

Thunder crashing outside my windows awoke me. I opened my eyes to darkness, aside from the glare from flashes of lightning. I never can sleep through lightning, so I sat up and fumbled for the candle I knew to be on the table beside my bed.

I grasped the candlestick, when another flash of lightning revealed the tinderbox. Thunder rumbled. Lighting the candle, I noticed movement in a far corner of the room.

Cloaked Press published my story “Theater Patron” in Kaleidoscope — A Queer Anthology. Proceeds for the latter go to The Trevor Project.

Kaleidoscope A Queer Anthology: 2022 Edition

Sirens Call Magazine published my horror story, “Starless Night,” in their Spring 2022, 57zine issue,

Sirens Call Publications