Megg Griffin

  • 365 Days of Prompts: Day 5

    Opening line: It was a trip of a lifetime, and yet It was a trip of a lifetime, and yet Veronica couldn’t bring herself to be excited about it. Logan had planned the entire trip, seven days in Scotland, seven days she could guarantee that Logan wouldn’t be called away to some unnamed part of…

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  • 365 Days of Prompts: Day 4

    Opening Line: She felt for the lock in the dark She felt for the lock in the dark, cursing herself for not charging her phone before heading out. No flashlight, and she didn’t know the layout of the apartment building without it. Then again, a flashlight would potentially alert someone in the building to her…

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  • Only Mostly Devastated

    Only Mostly Devastated

    [L]ife was too short to play chicken with something as important as the person you loved. Have you ever seen in movies where someone goes “shhh, you had me at ___” and place a finger on the speaker’s lips? That was me and this book. “[T]his boy-meets-boy spin on Grease” was my moment of “shhh.…

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  • 365 Days of Prompt: Day 3

    Opening Line: There was a legend about the well in the garden There was a legend about the well in the garden, one that no one can remember how it started. If you can successfully convince the woman who lives at the bottom of the well that you deserve a drink of water, and she…

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  • 365 Days of Prompts: Day 2

    Writing Prompt: Earl Grey: Crime Fighter Earl steps out of his car, hit with a wave of heat and humidity. He checks his watch; it’s not even 7 AM and he can feel the sweat crawling down his back. Nothing new living in the south then, it’s going to be a scorcher of a day.…

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  • 365 Days of Prompts: Day 1

    Written: March 2, 2020 Writing Prompt: Opening Line Dear Reader, I wish I could tell you that you’re going to like this story. But at some point we made a pact, didn’t we? I would write about everything that happened, no lies, and your reading it constituted your agreement for no judgement of me. Because…

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  • 365 Writing Prompt Challenge Introduction

    Recently I have come to realize that I work on organizing and plotting books, but I have slipped in my actual writing time and progress. This is also why I’ve gotten further and further behind on book reviews as even staring at a blank screen to review a book was causing blocks and anxiety. But…

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  • Things in Jars

    Things in Jars

    At best she had viewed poor Lydia as a dress-up doll, at worst an inconvenience, like February or indigestion. Thank you Netgalley and Atria for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review! A female sleuth that isn’t being marketed as somehow related to Sherlock is a great way to get my…

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  • High School and 90s Nostalgia

    Thank you Netgalley & Farrar, Straus and Giroux for an advance copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. I don’t exactly remember when I became a Tegan and Sara fan…somewhere shortly after high school I think? High School Tegan and Sara Quin Published Date: Septmeber 24, 2019 Read Date: January 2020 Format:…

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  • Reverie: Gay Persona

    Reverie: Gay Persona

    Why do you fight for a world that does not fight for you? Why do you fight to save a reality that fails so many, so often? I spent a good portion of 2019 trying to actively read more own voices and more queer books, especially books with queer male leads that are actually written…

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