The Prompt Magazine

Jan 14, 2025 | thepromptmag.com | Sarah Razner

In the last two months of 2024, I felt myself changing—and not for the better. Optimism has never been my forte. Maybe that’s a product of watching too much news or growing up in the internet age where negativity is more potent than positivity. Lately that negative tendency has grown stronger, and when asked what I am looking forward to in 2025, I’ve struggled to come up with an answer.

Jan 13, 2025 | thepromptmag.com | Josh Bard

Hi, it’s the resolution guy back for another installment of achievable resolutions you can do for 2025. Maybe you’ve read this column before, in any grocery store checkout aisle rag or even the four other times I have written it. I am not promising any type of salvation or level ups. The point of this is to try to be optimistic and hopeful but also to give yourself some grace.

Nov 26, 2024 | thepromptmag.com | Sam Hedenberg

I turned 40 last month, and I’m not going to lie, it felt a little weird. I never really felt old in my 30s, but 40 hit different. It’s a milestone of sorts. This is 40, The 40-Year-Old Virgin. It might also be because I was old enough to remember when my dad turned 40. His sister, my Aunt Sue, got him a signed picture of ’50s TV hostess Sally Starr and a coffee mug that read 40: Over The Hill. That old term that playfully hints at the mortality that awaits you at the bottom.

Nov 25, 2024 | thepromptmag.com | Jessica Dunton Fidalgo

It’s just a checkup! Honey, you’re not getting a shot. It’s against the law to drive with that light on; you can read when we get there. It’ll make you fat. It’ll make you thin. Your face will freeze. No one ever gets caught. You’ll smash your head open. We’d need a fenced-in yard. It’ll give you varicose veins. He’s doing that because he likes you. People from that country eat dogs. We can’t afford that. I do like her. It’s not because he’s a boy, he’s just a better student.

Nov 25, 2024 | thepromptmag.com | Sarah Razner

In the days since the Presidential election, I’ve been thinking a lot about the film, Spider-Man: No Way Home. I can hear you now: Sarah, that’s a strange leap. Are you okay? The answer is of course not. When your core beliefs have been shaken, it’s easy to wonder if anything matters anymore, if anything will ever be okay again. In moments of deep heartache, loss, and disillusionment, I tend to seek answers in art. Our capacity for creativity is one of the best things about humanity.