Jacob Tomsky is a best-selling writer and host of Short Story Thursdays, a weekly email dispatch that somehow manages to be snarky and sweet at the same time. (If you haven’t signed up to receive a story a week from Tomsky yet, do it now).
Read our interview with him, talking about how he moved from a short-story-hater to one of its best champions.
As you can see from the prompt below, Jacob has Opinions. Do not disappoint him.
The Prompt
Story told in first person or third person only. NO SECOND PERSON, GODDAMN IT.
Past tense. You can do current tense or whatever it’s called but that would piss me off too.
Prompt: Main character is being interviewed on television, live, for the first time ever. Story begins at the moment the camera goes live on the main character.
Go!