Clockwork Purple: A Collection of Short Stories: Volume 1

Bye, bye boring fiction! Welcome to Clockwork Purple!

You are about to embark on a literary journey filled with adventure, humor, fantasy, and everything in between. This entertaining and diverse collection of short stories will whet every reader's appetite for a good tale while offering thought-provoking, surprising and often comical reads.

This is storytelling at its best!

Discover how each author rises to the challenge of taking a prompt from any book, on any page and forming a story using a sentence that is randomly chosen. You'll be surprised by the unique ways each prompt is utilized within a 45-minute timeline.

No two are alike!

Whether you have ten minutes to read a single story, or all day to enjoy the book, you will be entertained with 70 unique and memorable stories. Here is a sampling of some of the prompts that inspired the authors:

The Last Thing She Wanted To Do Was Leave This Place, Just Who Will You Be?, I Had Come To New York To Try Something New, One Way Or Another That Gives Poetry Its Musical Qualities, Clockwork Purple

What would happen if you closed the book saying,

Holy cow, what a juicy read?

On Monday mornings in the summer of 2016, a small group of friends began to meet on the second floor of Dudley's Bookshop in Bend, Oregon. Their purpose was to partake in a Creative Writing group, agree on a 'prompt' and spontaneously write for forty-five minutes. At the end of the forty-five minutes, they would read their stories aloud to each other without fear of criticism.
It soon became evident that the diversity of content among the authors was not only entertaining, it was healing, thought-provoking and often comical.
All were amazed what the imagination could come up with in such a short period of time! It was this enjoyment that encouraged them to publish their collection of short stories in this community book.
As you feast your imagination on the stories, you'll find how uniquely different each author has treated the prompt. It is the hope and intention of the Bend Creative Writers group that you will find pleasure, inspiration and healing within the pages of their first collection of short stories and that you will enjoy reading them as much as they have enjoyed writing them!