The #MastoPrompt for Friday 20 March 2026 is:
The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.
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He dug fifteen miles of tunnels beneath his estate, furnished them with a 250-foot library and a ballroom for ten thousand square feet, and never invited anyone. Servants who crossed his path were required to face the wall. His bedroom door had a letterbox so he'd never have to speak.
The #MastoPrompt for Thursday 19 March 2026 is:
The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.
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He rode a bull to fox hunts and used pigs as pointers. He built a sail-powered carriage that flung him through a shop window. When summoned to meet the king, he wrote back that he was busy training otters to fish. Jemmy Hirst — the man who kept the crown waiting and left with its wine.
„Buchmesse“, sagt Kryll. „Dann brauchen wir auch einen Preis."
Er öffnet sein Notizbuch.
„Der Alarich-von-Schwermuth-Gedächtnispreis für avancierte Sprachflächen mit minimaler Leserfreundlichkeit“
„Besonders ausgezeichnet werden Texte, die“, liest Kryll weiter, „sich erfolgreich dem Verdacht entziehen, unterhaltsam zu sein.“
Er klappt das Notizbuch zu.
„Dotierung: Gequälte Deutschschüler auf Jahre!“
The #MastoPrompt for Wednesday 18 March 2026 is:
The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.
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June awoke with a headache and a clogged nose. Her brain felt slow, and she had trouble reading her autodoc report. Apparently it had tried to fight whatever pathogen had struck her down and lost. Too ill to decide what to do next, June sent out an SOS on the ship's feed, and a minute later Ada knocked on her door and entered.
"I'm dyim!" June lamented. "Eberytim hurbs!"
"There, there." Ada gently patted June's arm, helped her sit up, and handed her a hot drink. "I take it you didn't travel a lot?"
June shook her head, sipped the beverage, and grimaced.
"It's just ginger tea." Ada smiled. "I'll also update your autodoc with the latest signatures, but station-flu is station-flu, still nothing to be done than fluids and sleep. It'll be over soon." She handed June a nasal spray. "This'll free up the airways."
"Pfanks." June finished the tea and laid back down. A minute later, loud snoring filled the cabin.
11/X
"Excuse me, your highness" the frog said. "May I implore you to give me a peck on the cheek?"
"Not a kiss?" the princess asked.
"I would not presume. A peck will turn me back into a prince for a day, so I can find a bow and arrows."
"Whatever for?"
"I'll kill the heron who's eating my friends!"
He poured infected vomit into his eyes. He fried it in a pan and inhaled the steam. He built a small closet and sat inside it, breathing. Then he drank it — and noted the taste was "very slightly acid." Stubbins Ffirth never got sick, declared victory, and graduated. He was right for entirely the wrong reasons: the man who drank the plague.
The #MastoPrompt for Tuesday 17 March 2026 is:
The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.
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Steven Cudahy
Oddlet - Lovable Weirdos
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