Today’s writing prompt could win me eternal glory (or a few pencils).
According to the inaugural post of Promptly, a new Writer’s Digest blog penned by Zachary Petit, the person who submits the best story answering his first writing prompt will win “some around-the-office writing swag.”
I’ll take swag for sure.
The prompt:
In 500 words or less, funny, sad or stirring:
The phone rings and a low voice groans—“Why me?”
You hang up.
Twenty minutes later, it rings again. “You made a mistake.”
The dial tone throbs as the phone hangs from its cord, limp.
Here’s my entry. …

I’ve been taking a lot of photos of textures recently for a later collection. In the mean time, I thought it would be fun if I asked readers to try and guess what it was I actually photographed.
Take a crack at it. UPDATE: Answer below.

I got few great guesses: old Nerf ball, a very freckly man with no body hair, a melon, pear skin or the foam on a beer or a cava.
The last guess is right on, from Barbara Siemianiuk. It was the foamy head of a Guinness stout …