Prompted, Issue 04: Reedsy's Prompted Magazine

Could you write, edit, and submit a prize-winning short story in 168 hours? Pick up this issue of PROMPTED and discover what’s possible when writers face a deadline armed only with their talent, craft… and a writing prompt.

Write a story about two people falling in love via email.

Write a story about someone pulling an all-nighter.

Write a story with a big twist.

Each story is inspired by a one-sentence prompt and written in a single week — demonstrating the power of inspiration and the places our imagination can take us with the slightest nudge. Featuring winning works from the world’s most popular weekly short story contest and guest edited by David Restaino (associate fiction editor at The Maine Review and a London Library Emerging Writer), PROMPTED is Reedsy’s quarterly literary magazine.

In this issue:
Madeline McCourt’s DANGER: UNSTABLE GROUND • Niamh O’Dea’s DO NOT TOUCH • Don Fazio’s LOST AND FOUND • K.A. Murray’s THE PARTY • Honey Homecroft’s PARADISE LOST • Eliza Levin’s LOVE.EDU • Scott Christensen’s LIABILITY IN LINGOTTO • Melissa van Rensburg’s INJURY TIME • Mallory Jones’s GOLDFISH • Lonnie Russo’s MEN ON THE MOON • Aaron Chin’s THE GINGERBREAD COOKIES • Elizabeth Hoban’s YOU