STORY STARTER
Submitted by The Author
'When nightmares are all you’ve ever known, dreams can be a truly frightful thing.'
Write a story or poem inspired by this phrase.
STORY STARTER
Submitted by Shadow Queen
Your protagonist walks into a room with crimson walls and red lights. Rose petals are strewn on the perfectly fitted bed. A woman lays on the fluffed pillows, facedown, blood trickling down her flesh...
STORY STARTER
Submitted by Gabby M.
You’re walking down the sidewalk when you notice everyone around you has a collection of zippers holding their skin together...
WRITING OBSTACLE
Submitted by Aster
Write from the perspective of a character that has been experimented on their entire life.
Consider how they view themselves, and how they feel about the world, after the extensive modification of their body.
STORY STARTER
Submitted by Talon
Your significant other frantically calls you. As the call continues, you notice the person on the other end of the line sounds just like them, but the way they speak is slightly off in such a way that it brings an unsettling feeling...
VISUAL PROMPT
Submitted by Klee
A character becomes friends with the grim reaper, and sees the worlds of both the living and the dead.
POEM STARTER
Submitted by Mae Bailey
“We live in a land where the footprints of ghosts linger.”
Use this line to start or end a poem. It can be any genre as long as you feel it fits the sentence well.
STORY STARTER
Submitted by J.R. Watson
As the darkness sank into her veins she felt the evil take her over…
STORY STARTER
Submitted by Shadow Queen
Your protagonist finds the diary of a little girl in the basement of their new house. She wrote of strange things, her drawings splattered in blood...
VISUAL PROMPT
Submitted by Margaret Sok
Against the stone wall of the cave, a scraping talon sounds...
VISUAL PROMPT
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Drawing from typical tropes of supernatural or ghost stories, create a short story set in an old manor house.
STORY STARTER
A group of hikers see a series of flickering lights on the horizon. They follow them and discover something startling when they reach the source.
STORY STARTER
Your protagonist visits a local vineyard that is strangely deserted, and meets the strange and eclectic owner...
Consider if you want to make this a horror, romance, mysterious thriller, or something else! How can you use the landscape to highlight your genre?
WRITING OBSTACLE
Submitted by J.L.
From the perspective of a phobia or disease, create a narrative about how you are impacting someone’s life.
Think about how you can personify this particular disease or phobia, or its motives and behaviours.