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Guides & Prompts from Issue 71 Noir

Noir.  A private eye, a plainclothes policeman, an aging boxer, a hapless grafter, a law-abiding citizen lured into a life of crime. So, it’s a man’s story, then. Only a part, the woman are beautiful, mysterious, and always have a hidden agenda.  And, someone, man or women, is always looking for the big payoff.  Someone is always played for the sucker.  And, under it all the power of desire moves the story closer to the edge.

 HAYWARD FAULT LINE:  Leila Rae, editor (shake us up) 

1. Maximum length: 450 words.

2. The sub-theme is:  craving.

3. The setting is:  Cincinnati, OA.
4. Within the story, you must use this bit of text: the best of everything.

Write a story and post it in comments or send to Cairo Room doorknobsandbodypaint@gmail.com

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Guides & prompts from issue 66

The work issue is often very personal.  This issue, however, takes work beyond your narrator’s experience and focuses on other people’s work.  Whether it’s watching a small child choose between fireman or baker; whether it’s someone in a mid-life crisis choosing to continue in a profession or start something new; whether it’s an end of life decision of how best to finish one’s life and work.

HAYWARD FAULT LINE (shake us up) 

1. Maximum length: 450 words.

2. The sub-theme is: restore.

3. The setting is: Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

4. Within the story, you must use this bit of text:  back into existence.

Write a story and post in comments or send to the Cairo Room at doorknobsandbodypaint@gmail.com