4d • Writing Prompts
My May 2026 Writing Prompt Response
I reread the page for the third time, trying intently to focus, but knowing that my mind was already beginning to drift by the third sentence. The door to the frat house flung open. I ripped my eyes away from my dreadfully boring homework as Mike strutted into the room. A mischievous kind of smile was plastered on his face. The kind I had seen many a time before.
"Do you want to do something stupid?" he asked.
I shook my head and tossed my book onto the couch. "Screw it. My brain is fried for the night. What do you have in mind?"
Mike walked over to the big bay window and flung the curtains aside. Pristine white snow coated the ground. "You always talk about how we need to go sledding at the park since you missed it the last time."
"Give me one second." Without another word, I ran up the stairs of the house. At the top, I rapped on one of the white doors.
It opened a second later. A bearded face greeted me, a neutral expression peering up at me. "What's up?"
"Can I borrow your Santa costume?"
His brow furrowed. "My Santa costume?"
"Yeah. And a sled or something. Any ideas on that?"
His eyes widened in realization. "You're not..."
I smiled and nodded. He sighed. The next thing I knew, I had a $200 Santa jacket in my left hand, a Santa hat on my head, and a gray storage box lid in my right. I ran back downstairs. Mike hadn't moved.
"Let's go!" I said with a grin.
I threw the jacket on, shoved something in my pockets, and carried the gray lid close to me as we emerged into the cold. Mike dropped his Hummer's tow cable and I grabbed onto it. I took out my phone and sent a quick message in the dorm group chat, urging all of the freshmen to come outside immediately. Mike drove slowly, relatively speaking. It was a smooth ride. I only flipped over like twice.
As we crept closer to our dorm down the college's main street, I saw the confused guys beginning to congregate.
"Ho ho ho!" I bellowed. They began to walk towards the road, and the familiar Hummer they all knew far too well. "Merry Christmas!" I gripped the tow cable with one hand, then reached into my pocket and removed a handful of mints. I threw them as far as I could, which admittedly wasn't very far since I was sitting and only had one arm I could use. The freshmen doubled over in laughter.
One started chasing after us. We did a full loop of the main campus block before I hopped off and let the poor, eager freshman take his turn. But of course, as soon as I hopped off and joined the sidelines, a white campus security car materialized from the æther. It flashed its lights on and Mike parked his car. He got off with a warning, but I knew he was fuming. I snickered from the sidelines, heading back off in the direction of the house so I could return the untarnished Santa costume, and grab my stuff before turning in for the night. Santa Claus had come to town, and he did not disappoint.
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My May 2026 Writing Prompt Response
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