It’s May – or Star Wars month as Josh and L’poni and Morris reminded us in the Author Avengers server – so having a Star Wars-esque prompt seemed like the thing to do. I am a self-proclaimed no.1 Jedi fan, so I took it upon myself to find a quote from Buddha themself (the inspiration behind Jedi philosophies) for this month’s prompt: I leaned heavily into the similarities between the Jedi and Sikhism for this story, and I hope you enjoy it! The underlying message of the prompt for me and for Morris seems to be about hope for the future, even if the now looks bleak, and I think we did it pretty well. INDEX:Morris…

After a couple of months of struggling with the prompts – though I am proud of the fact that I managed to write them anyway – May brought about a prompt I was not just excited by, but also inspired by. Maybe it had something to do with the fact that I really wanted to try and write something that fell at least a little bit under the MerMay theme. I like to think I succeeded, but you can tell me better if I did or didn’t. This month’s prompt was chosen by Morris Wayts (via a writing prompt generator), and as this is going up on the blog early,…