Choice Morsels

Today's creativity is I'm going to write a short fiction combining two writing prompts: 1) The scene must occur in a grocery store aisle. 2) It must begin with "In retrospect, I wouldn't say it was my best idea" and end with "And that's how I wound up at the doctor's office." It's from a guys point of view. "The Encounter" by B. Nickerson. In retrospect, I wouldn't say it was my best idea. The grocery wasn't busy.  Cereal was one thing on my list. Only one lady with a cart was in the cereal aisle when I got there. She was looking over the rows of cereal, then noticed me. She brushed some of her red hair coyly behind an ear as she glanced my way. She was a pretty lady, in her mid-thirties dressed in a short jean skirt and sandals. "There's just so many cereals to choose from!" she remarked. I joined her in looking over the selection. "There certainly are," I replied. ...

The Mama Kat blog writing prompt today is a quick little fiction ending with "I should have known."  It's from a writer's prompt idea to write about a world where everyone gets a super power on their 18th birthday and your character gets one no one would ever want.         Ned woke up early, excited. Today was his 18 th birthday. Today he'd found out what his super power was!      Everyone on the planet got super powers on their 18 th birthdays--ever since the manned mission to mars came back with some unknown micro-organism that mutated the entire human race. That was 40 years ago.      Ned jumped out of bed and dressed quickly, eager to find out what his was.  He wondered what his gift might be? His Mom could see through walls. His Dad could speed read and could read through a 1000 page book in a manner of seconds.       Would he fly? Ned gave a little jump to test it. Nope.   ...