Word for Word: Skit

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: skit.

The Spanish Inquisition makes me want to hide.

I was talking with friends when we shifted the conversation to the topic of the Burning Times — an era, lasting centuries, in which thousands of Europeans, 80% women, were accused of witchcraft and executed for it (burned at the stake, hanged, or drowned). Someone mentioned the Spanish Inquisition — that it was a part of the burning times. This reminded me of a Monty Python skit, so I said, “I didn’t expect the Spanish Inquisition!”

Sirens Call Magazine has accepted my story, “Starless Night,” and will publish it in their upcoming Spring 57zine issue.

Variety Pack published my historical story “Portrait” in their February 3, 2022 issue 7:

Issue VII