Lisa Wentworth

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jan, 2021

Stories (10)

10 Stories

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“The Tourist” by Lisa Wentworth

Submitted to Contest #84

Write about someone who’s trying to accomplish a task that used to be easy but is now made complicated by a pandemic. Now, getting a visa to another country is not exactly ‘easy’ at best, but it is usually pretty straight forward. Fill out some forms, pay a chunk of money, wait an eternity, and...voila! Over the years, Claire had filed for dozens of them, paid thousands of dollars, and had a fair share of rejections as well. She was pretty savvy at it. Things had changed over the years; papers had been replaced with online in only the la...

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“Hostile in the hostel” by Lisa Wentworth

Submitted to Contest #83

Week 17 Write about someone who books a bargain vacation, only to be told when they arrive that they need to share a hotel suite with a stranger. Elise needed a getaway...someplace rich. Or at least with things to satisfy her rich tastes. She was living in the sticks without so much as a department store to get your retail therapy from, and it was getting old. There was no place to wear her designer gear, no shop for a makeover, no ladies who lunched...none of that. Just a hippie town with a lot of artisans that shunned labels and high...

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“...the fine line” by Lisa Wentworth

Submitted to Contest #82

Write a historical fiction story about someone working at a company that helped revolutionize early computers. She had beauty, brains and breeding...and I am so happy to say, is an ancestor of mine. The only [legitimate] child of Lord Byron, I often muse about that blood pumping through my veins; a historical poet and a mathematical woman had a child in society, who was highly educated. I have both the creative side and the logical side, but am far more comfortable in the former. Since Ada’s mother considered her father’s genius a kind...

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“The Power House” by Lisa Wentworth

Submitted to Contest #81

write about a first date that surprises both people, but in different ways. Lisa, although American, had all her pedigrees and ancestry documents ready for the old church ladies. They had taken such a shine to her at the pub a few months ago, and promised to get together to talk about her connection with the ‘Big House’ as locals called it. She was looking forward to it, but had to run a few errands beforehand. She decided to dress conservative; a big, floppy jumper and black trousers, and she did do her face but wasn’t trying t...

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“Taking A Stand...” by Lisa Wentworth

Submitted to Contest #80

Week 15 Write about a child witnessing a major historical event. Eleanor had grown up camping, but now at 15, she was sick to death of it. That was the ONLY kind of vacation her parents would take; camping! Never a plane/train/boat...nothing out of this realm of a tent or trailer, and generally to property they owned, so you can’t even say it was a way to see the world. No, they were stubborn in this matter, and frankly Eleanor was finding it time to be stubborn herself. The last trip was rain soaked, and for some reason, Eleanor's b...

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“Mommy Dearest” by Lisa Wentworth

Submitted to Contest #79

Your main character is approached by their long-estranged parent who wants to reconnect. How do they react? Week 14 Evelyn worked for a major high-end fashion department store. In fact, she worked several jobs, to support her young children as a single mother. She studied fashion design in college, even though she already had the kids, since she had run away to get married to someone so inappropriate it would make your head spin. It certainly did her parents, particularly her mother, but in retrospect Evelyn never would have married this...

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“Besties...” by Lisa Wentworth

Submitted to Contest #78

Start your story with one character trying to convince another to take up their favorite hobby. Ann and Jean were the best of friends. They might be what one would call “soul mates”, although not in the romantic way. They understood each other and supported each other in ways no one else ever would. Even in checking their genealogy, they probably served as ladies in waiting to some great House or Monarch. Indeed, at events, they would show up in the same colour or type of dress instinctually. They held each other's hands through ups an...

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“LifeQuest” by Lisa Wentworth

Submitted to Contest #77

Week 11 Set your story in a remote winter cabin with no electricity, internet, or phone service. Fran was a sensible girl, not generally known for flights of fancy. Francis, or “Francis-Bread-And-Jam” as her mother lovingly called her, found an early love of stories in these books. In fact, she wasn’t a bad writer; won lots of awards and even scholarships in High School. But, alas, she got a sensible job in a sensible office, and writing took a back burner. Until Fran reached an age where she felt if she didn’t get away and explore...

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“He Said, She Said...” by Lisa Wentworth

Submitted to Contest #76

Week 10 Write a conversation that takes place between two people who refuse to say what they mean. He Said, She Said They say men are from Mars, and women are from Venus, but in this marriage, there was something even more far out about the language between Casey and Leanne. She considered herself articulate; on the part of the chart as an expressive, always willing to explain and narrate with purpose her decisions. He was more educated, and considered himself to be an expressive but really wasn’t. He asked a league of inane question...

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“Bringing Home an Epiphany” by Lisa Wentworth

Submitted to Contest #75

Week 9 Start your story with one character making a vow that they never would have made the year before. “....As God is my witness, I’ll never go hungry again.” Scarlet O’Hara, Gone With The Wind” Now, Elizabeth was hardly a Scarlet; more like a Melody...sweet and a people pleaser. Even her preferred name, Beth, was taken from the most docile character in Little Women, not a strong-minded Jo. Yet fortune has made her life full of drama, which was an unexpected turn from the stable childhood she had...So why was she so disposable no...

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Author bio

I am American, living abroad in England. I have a background in fine and performing Arts, and have always had a passion for writing. Friends have always said I should write an autobiography, but when I sit to do it I never get very far. As we have this pandemic, I thought I would write these short stories. They are based on real life, as bizarre as many of them seem, so this way of writing my memoirs as fiction seems a way to get my story out. My bio https://blog.reedsy.com/creative-writing-prompts/author/lisa-wentworth/