Last prompt words for 2022

 And the penultimate winner of the year is Jim, for ‘Something Silly’ – his variation of ‘Night before Christmas.

 My thanks to him, Antonia, David and Holly, plus all who contributed to Prediction during 2022. I wish you all a happy and joyful festive season and much inspiration for 2023.

Words for the coming week, should you need some writing inspiration: appoint coast lip

Entries by midnight  Saturday December 31st, new words  Friday 6th January 2023

 Usual rules: 100 words maximum (excluding title) of flash fiction or poetry using all three words above in the genres of horror, fantasy, science fiction or noir. Serialised fiction is, as always, welcome. All variants and uses of the words and stems are fine. Feel free to post links to your stories on Twitter or Facebook or whichever.

Blind dating?

 Apologies : I do realise that on several occasions I’ve made a mess of the deadline dates. In part it was lack of a wall calendar, a problem addressed for next year by buying myself one, but I have double checked those below and trust I do better in 2023.

 This week, three entries and a proper choice to be made. Despite the gruesomeness of Jim and Antonia’s pieces I pick David’s ‘A berry Christmas’ for the smoothness of its delivery. 

Words for the coming week: darn  scratch unconscious 

Entries by midnight  Thursday December 22nd, new words Friday 23rd. Deadline thereafter maybe a couple of weeks. Shall we say New Year's Eve?

Stroke of luck

Jim being the only Predictioneer (apart from me) to respond to this week’s words, I was extremely pleased he rectified his omission of one prompt word and thus I wasn’t put to the embarrassment of disqualifying him.

As we approach Christmas and all the time-consuming tasks that encompasses, I anticipate a few similarly quiet weeks to come, but as it’s no effort to think up prompt words, I suggest for the coming week:  berry stock tantalise

Entries by midnight  Thursday December 16th,  new words Friday 17th. After which I might suggest a couple of week's break.

Well that was a much livelier week!

Thank you all, even though it’s forced me to take the cowardly way out and declare Holly’s ‘We're All Afraid of Something’ and David’s ‘Saturday Night at the Movies’ joint winners for the visual joy and intrigue they both brought. 

Words for the coming week: flash  introduce  weave

Entries by midnight  Thursday December 8th,  new words Friday 9^th 

 Usual rules: 100 words maximum (excluding title) of flash fiction or poetry using all three words above in the genres of horror, fantasy, science fiction or noir. Serialised fiction is, as always, welcome. All variants and uses of the words and stems are fine. Feel free to post links to your stories on Twitter or Facebook or whichever.