Hello and welcome (back) to the Cafe! Grab a seat and prepare to be entertained (no fooling).
This month, the Confabulators were given the prompt: “Never trust a survivor until you find out what they did to stay alive.” We hope you’ll come visit us on the following Fridays to find out what our survivors did.
Friday, April 6: “Faithless Helen” by Dianne Williams
Friday, April 13: “100% Fatal” by Sebastian Sanchez
Friday, April 20: “Gin and Tonic, Part 1” by Andrew Putnam
Welcome to March at the Confabulator Cafe! We’ve got another great lineup of new, free fiction for you this month.
Our prompt: revenge or breaking point.
We hope you’ll enjoy where the Confabulators took this prompt. We also hope you’ll give a warm welcome to brand new guest author Sebastian Sanchez, who will have his Cafe debut later this month.
Here’s the March schedule:
Monday, March 5: “Electric-type Revenge” by Dianne Williams
Monday, March 12: “Of Sewing Shears and Budget Cuts” by Emily Mosher
Monday, March 19: “The Fastest Thing” by Sebastian Sanchez
Monday, March 26: “Blessed Omeka” by Aspen Junge
Welcome back, reader. We hope your 2018 has been wonderful so far and that our stories may have the smallest something to do with that.
This month, the Confabulators wrote to a prompt about a phone call: The phone rings. The voice on the other end says, “We need you again,” then hangs up.
We hope you enjoy the tales spun for this prompt. Also, please give a warm welcome to our new guest author Lea Orth! Her debut story will go live on Monday, February 12.
Here’s the rest of the schedule for February!
Greetings, readers! Welcome back to another year of free fiction at the Confabulator Cafe! We have an exciting year lined up for you. We’re even going to give you a little teaser by sharing the monthly prompts for the whole year on the Fiction Archive page. So take a look and make note of months you think might tickle your fancy.
As for January stories, what better way to start the new year than have our writers tell you stories about new beginnings? But, because this is the Cafe, we can never just leave it at that. For this prompt, we also wanted a twist or a catch with that new beginning.
We hope you’ll enjoy our stories this month, and this year!
Here’s the January schedule:
Monday, January 8: “Leaving the Nest” by Eliza Jaquays
Monday, January 15: “The Time of Boxes” by Dianne Williams
Monday, January 22: “Intergalactic Clown Thief” by Sara Lunberg
Hello, readers. I hope you all didn’t mind our quick catnap at the Cafe last month. With NaNoWriMo in full swing, our staff was a bit overworked and needed the time off.
But we’re back and ready to regale you with new stories this month.
For December, we like to do what we call “freestyle month.” That means anything goes. Stories can be short or long. They can use a prompt from previous months, or they can be completely original. They can be about Christmas, but they certainly don’t have to be.
We hope you’ll peek in from time to time this month and read what the Confabulators have found to share with you. Here is the December schedule.
Saturday, December 2: “The Woman who Slipped Below” by Emily Mosher
Saturday, December 9: “Princess Sparklemittens” by Eliza Jaquays
Saturday, December 23: “To Catch the Christmas Spirit” by Sara Lundberg
Saturday, December 30: “Prison of the Mind” by Dianne Williams
Hope your holidays are safe and happy, and we’ll see you next year!
Hello, reader. Welcome back to another month of free fiction here at the Confabulator Cafe.
Our prompt for October is: “one day you notice there’s a new key on your key chain.”
Here’s the October schedule:
Friday, October 6: “Hope Chest” by Emily Mosher
Friday, October 13: “Lunar Trials” by Sara Lundberg
Friday, October 20: “The Night Chats” by Dianne Williams
We hope you enjoyed last month’s stories. We were lucky enough to have a brand new guest author submit last time, so if you haven’t had a chance, go back and read the story “Nephilim” by the talented James Young.
This month, we wrote to the prompt: “the mirror’s surface remained devoid of any human reflection.” We hope you’ll delight in the different directions the Confabulators took that prompt this month.
We’re still on Wednesdays this next month. Here is the September schedule:
Wednesday, September 6: “The Humanity Mirror” by Sara Lundberg
Wednesday, September 13: “One Good Deed” by Kita Haliwell
Wednesday, September 20: “Girl in a Mirror” by Rob Conway
Wednesday, September 27: “Last Rites” by Neil Siemers
Welcome back to the Cafe. We have another month full of fresh, new, free fiction for your enjoyment. This month’s prompt: the worst person to come through someone’s door.
Please join us every Wednesday this month for a new story. Here’s the August lineup:
Wednesday, August 2: “Me, Myself, & I” by August Baker
Wednesday, August 9: “Bubblegum and Mud” by Eliza Jaquays
Wednesday, August 23: “The Next Step” by Jack Campbell, Jr.
Wednesday, August 30: “Nephilim” by James Young
Ok, readers, I’m going to be honest. This month’s prompt is a little weird.
We used a random prompt generator from the Seventh Sanctum website. They have some of the strangest, most interesting prompts we’ve ever come across. And we decided to give the Confabulators free rein this month.
So, they could refresh the page however many times they wanted until they found a prompt that inspired a story.
We asked that they use the prompt either as a first line or an intro line to their story, so you can see what they were working with.
Feel free to peruse the site yourself, if you feel so inclined: Seventh Sanctum Writing Prompt Generator.
Here’s the schedule for July. Join us every Friday for free fiction:
Friday, July 7: “Wednesday’s Child” by Eliza Jaquays
Friday, July 14: “Nicholas Does Science” by Anita C. Young
Friday, July 21: “Wayward Witch” by Kita Haliwell
Friday, July 28: “The Tower Princess” by Dianne Williams
Don’t you love a song that tells a good story?
So do we.
This month, the Confabulators were challenged to write a story based on song lyrics. Let’s see if you can recognize the songs each story is based on!
Here’s the June lineup:
Thursday, June 8: “Mansion” by Anita C. Young
Thursday, June 15: “Maxwell Edison, Werewolf Hunter” by Sara Lundberg
Thursday, June 22: “The Sands of Time” by Neil Siemers
Thursday, June 29: “Black Magic” by Dianne Williams