Jun 4, 2025
Writing Prompt: “You cannot trust a word I say, despite the fact that I will never, ever tell a lie.”
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Writing Prompt: “You cannot trust a word I say, despite the fact that I will never, ever tell a lie.”
Writing Prompt: A story which takes place in a world where, every time someone dies, the person/people closest to them inherits one of their characteristics. For example, if somebody had freckles, curly hair, a crooked nose, a gap in their teeth, green eyes, and a birthmark on their shoulder as some of their physical characteristics, and had three people closest to them, and they died, one of the three might get their curly hair, one might get their green eyes, one might get their birthmark, that kind of thing. Imagine the scenarios:
Maybe a parent wakes up the morning after their kid went out and when they look in the mirror they see that they’ve now got a new trait that unmistakably belongs to their kid, and they know something happened.
Maybe a group of friends is joking around about how “You better not die ‘cause I don’t wanna risk getting stuck with your whack ass hair.”
Maybe somebody dies and a person who fully expected to get one of their traits remains unchanged, and has to deal with the realization that they were not as close to that person as they thought. Maybe someone realizes how much they meant to someone else because they got a new trait when they were not expecting to.
Maybe someone has to buy and wear coloured contacts because they can’t handle the heartbreak of seeing their dead best friend’s eyes looking back at them in the mirror.
Maybe there are specific law enforcement-related things, like the fact that they know for sure whether someone is missing or dead based on whether the people closest to the victim remain unchanged or not— this could change both the way missing persons cases are handled and the way kidnappers and murderers think about and execute their crimes.
Maybe someone is shocked to find that they now have a birthmark that matches the fur pattern of their deceased pet.
Maybe someone who was born blind wakes up one day and can see for the first time in their life, only to realize it’s because they just got the eyes of someone close to them who died, and they start crying, knowing the price of this “gift.” Or, if the roles were reversed, somebody wakes up in darkness having just lost someone close to them AND their sight.
There are so many things you could write with this, and I’m sure these scenarios have only just scratched the surface.
Writing Prompt: While trying to contact your ancestor with a ouija board, you accidentally tap into a different frequency and contact your future descendant who does not yet exist.
Writing Prompt: Aliens come to Earth to abduct and study humans but accidentally abduct an Earth cryptid like Bigfoot or Mothman or something and mistakenly think that all humans are like that.
Writing Prompt: You have been isekai’d into a magical world without phones or electricity, and your phone has been isekai’d with you. Somehow you have reception and it is fully functional, and after the first time its battery ran out you managed to find a basic energy charm at a market that worked in place of a charger to restore its battery.
Throughout this journey your travel companion has become convinced that the phone is a living creature of some kind, perhaps your pet or your familiar, and that you are a practicing Necromancer since you were able to “revive” it after it died once you had the right items at your disposal. After your first attempt at explaining the actual situation failed, you decided to just go with it.
Writing Prompt: A story that takes place on earth, exactly as it is irl, with one difference: whenever someone goes “pspspspspsps” a summoning circle will appear in front of them and a cat will rise up out of it.
Writing Prompt: For a good many years of your life, you felt so alone and wished so much for things to be different that you invented an imaginary best friend for yourself. You would write about the fun times you had together in a journal, and every time something happened that hurt you, made you sad, angry, afraid, or anything else, you’d rewrite the scene as if your imaginary friend had been there, writing how it would have happened instead, how it would have been different. Every single one of these journal entries was written as if that was actually what had happened, and it made everything a little more bearable.
At some point you stopped writing in the journal. You made some real friends and your loneliness began to fade, and the journal was left closed in some desk drawer. Then one day you’re met with the most shocking interaction of your life.
The person you are now talking to is you, only, a different version of you, one from a different world. And they are very upset. Because when you stopped writing in that journal, their best friend in the whole world died.
Writing Prompt: A world where storks do, in fact, deliver babies, but instead of visibly being birds that descend from the sky with a parcel they’re magical beings that take inconspicuous human forms to bring the babies to the right home in the guise of doctors or midwives, be it at the hospital or through house calls, or under the guise of good samaritans offering help for births happening somewhere unexpected where a professional can’t arrive in time. They don’t always succeed, but they always do their best to complete the delivery no matter how exceptional the circumstances.