Welcome to the prompt exchange for this week! If you signed up, you should have received your prompt via email.

If you didn’t receive an email, please check your spam folder. If you still can’t find it, please send us an email at editors@scriptic.org and we will check it out.

There aren’t many rules. Write something that responds to the prompt. Include the footer; the information for that is in the email, too. If you are on Twitter, please tweet your response and make sure to give credit to the person who gave you the prompt. Once you are done, post a link in the comments here so we can read your work and include it in the weekly roundup. If your response to a prompt completely blows us away, we may ask you to submit a piece to Scriptic for publishing.

The deadline is Thursday, December 20th, at midnight Eastern time.

Here is a list of people who signed up for this week, and the prompts to which they’ve been assigned. If your name isn’t on the list, please visit this page to sign up for next week.

• Tara Roberts: “Write a letter to the first person who ever broke your heart.”
• Michael: “(Character name)’s contribution to the holiday cookie exchange shocked all of us.”
• Julia Mae: “‘Critics can say horrible things. It only hurts when I agree with them.’ -Jon Cryer”
• Supermaren: “He thought it would make her happy. He thought it would make things better. He was wrong.”
• David Wiley: “Underwater symphony.”
• Dani: “The thing she feared the most was…”
• Eric Storch: “A teacup, a fear of spiders, the color orange.”
• kgwaite: “Once more. With feeling.”
• SAM: “A diet of peanut butter and Ritz crackers.”
• Jordan: “It was a calm and peaceful night. Snow fell from the sky and carolers made joyful noise as they moved from house to house. It was like a picture on a Christmas card, only the inside message held a sinister surprise…”
• Diane Trujillo: “How about an image for a writing prompt? http://bit.ly/WbDbGm“
• Heather O.: “‘I’m off to the market. Do you need anything?’”