What Did You Hear?

Freely Written: Short Stories From a Simple Prompt

05/10/22 • 10 min

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In today's story, What Did You Hear?, Alice has a talk with her teenage daughter
Today's prompt simply came from a question I heard on a random TV show. Sometimes a phrase jumps out as a good prompt and I run with it. This was one of those times.
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Susan Quilty mainly writes novels, including two standalone novels and her current YA series: The Psychic Traveler Society. Susan's short stories for Freely Written are created during quick writing breaks and shared as a way to practice her narration skills before she dives into recording audio versions of her novels.
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05/10/22 • 10 min

Freely Written: Short Stories From a Simple Prompt - What Did You Hear?

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Below is the transcript for Season 1, Episode 59 of Freely Written, a podcast by author Susan Quilty:

Welcome to Freely Written where a simple prompt leads to a little unplanned fiction.

[Light piano music]

Hi, friends! I’m Susan Quilty and today’s prompt is What Did You Hear?

If you’re new to this podcast, it has a very simple process: I write a bit of fiction from a simple prompt, with no planning and very little editing, and then I

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