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, January 24, 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.

• Diane Trujillo Prompt: She studied the grain of the wood, wondering if…
• Tara Roberts Prompt: When she picked them up, a photo fell out and floated to the floor. She picked it up and gasped.
• Major Bedhead Prompt: You buy an old camera at a thrift store, when you get it home you discover there is still film inside. Do you get it developed? If you do, what is on the film?
• Eric Storch Prompt: We don’t need to be friends.
• Kirsten Prompt: Elements of a heist
• Chelle Prompt: A birthday cake, a forbidden love and this quote by Carrie Fisher : “instant gratification takes too long.”
• Andrea Prompt: It isn’t every day you trip and fall into the arms of…………….
• Michael Prompt: Write something inspired by this quote by Marguerite Duras: “It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.”
• Kurt Prompt: “I don’t think anger gets anything done.” -Jeffrey Tambor
• kgwaite Prompt: If death is certain, and time of death is uncertain…