[PROMPTS]

Do mention “Claimed by [Team Name]” next to the prompt that your team has selected.

1: The person whom your character has been trying to talk to for ages finally answers the phone. Who is this person? Why was your character trying to track them down for so long? How does the phone conversation progress?

2: You can see visions of the future, but you learned long ago to keep them to yourself. Now, you have to speak up or risk losing everything you love.

3: You find a portal to a fantasy world in your backyard. The trial of 12 Olympus Gods awaits you as you step foot into the new world.

4: You live in a Mars colony surrounded by high walls. One day, someone breaches the walls.

5: You thought your husband was dead. So why is he still writing you letters?

6: A man throws an elaborate party in an attempt to conceal a crime.

7: You fall in love with someone from a different dimension, so you can only see each other once a year when the portal opens. This year you have planned to propose them, only this time the portal doesn't open.

8: A group of friends takes a practical joke too far, leading to disaster.

9: Two childhood best friends stopped talking after a huge fight in high school. Five years later, they find themselves sitting next to each other on the same 16-hour international flight.

10: The doorbell rings and your character answers it – finding nothing but an envelope with nothing on it. They open it and follow the instructions to attend a secret underground event. Afterward, they become a part of a huge resistance that the rest of the world knows nothing about.

11: Your character finds an old, disposable camera on the ground. Feeling curious, they get the photos developed. What they see tells an unsettling story.

12: A man and women work for two neighboring, rival fast food companies. They always take their lunch breaks together on the bench right in the middle of the two.

13: Your main character suffers a terrible concussion. After recovering, they cannot control the vivid nightmares about the accident. However, they can also take images from their mind and project them into the real world. Doctors think they are crazy and keep them heavily sedated.

14: Your character is a host at a restaurant. A couple comes in and says they have a reservation. You look it up in the system and find that the reservation was booked 40 years ago.

15: An old time capsule is about to be opened and the whole town is present for the celebration. When opened, the only thing found inside is a detached human hand with a threatening note in the grasp. The note is written in your character’s handwriting but dated 50 years before they were even born.

16: So overcome by his nightmares, your main character attacks anyone who comes near him. He cannot distinguish between loved ones and the monsters in his head.

17: The entire town has started sleepwalking, together, every night. 

18: A spaceship that can surpass the speed of light is allowing a few humans on board to escape our solar system and it’s dying sun. How does the world decide who gets to survive?

19: World War III has come and gone. Governments are a thing of the past and money is useless. Survival is the objective. Your main character also has a medical condition to keep under control.

20: Write about a dinner party where three famous historical figures are in attendance.

21: Your character’s husband of ten years has just confessed that he has traveled through time from the fourteenth century. He decided to stay because he fell in love with her.

22: Your character wakes up one day and everything they say rhymes. They can’t control it.

23: Struggling with writer’s block, an author decides to sit at a local train station for information. They get some good material.

24: Your characters are holding a high-stakes rock-paper-scissors tournament.

25: The world is overrun with vampires and humans are dying out. Different races and factions of vampires are beginning to go to war over the limited supply of human blood.

26: Your main character has a fascination with untouched societies – such as hidden tribes in the Amazon. She sets out to study them as a living. One day she accidentally allows herself to be seen by one of the members. What this person does is beyond what your character ever thought to be real.

27: “I taught you how to pick locks, and THAT is how you’re choosing to use the skill?”

28: There are some things in this world that simply should not exist. One of them is sitting in my kitchen right now.

29: "Mischief Managed!" — Harry Potter

30: “I made a deal with Lucifer.”
“You did WHAT–”

31: Ever since childhood, a dark figure no one else can see has been following you around, whispering in your ear. Today you see it lying a few feet away, screaming and asking you to run.

32: Write a short dark comedy in which a long-unsolved mystery is finally cracked.

33: “… and that’s why dividing by three is illegal.”

34: A Republican presidential candidate and Democratic presidential candidate fall in love.

35: The Ocean becomes the sky.

36: The cocky main character of a popular book is sent to the real world. He is shocked to find that the fans of his book not only like the villain more but favor his side kick over him.

37: The stars have been watching you your whole life, as you laughed and cried, loved and suffered. Today, you’re finally going to do something that none of them can bear to watch. They blink out, the whole night sky turning dark, just as you’re about to do it.

38: Death has been flirting with you for a long time, but they’ve become a bit annoying. After another attempting to hang out with you again, you jokingly tell them, “If I was the last person on Earth, I’d maybe give you a chance.” Death believes you and will double their efforts.

39: They found out about us. They’re coming. These were the words the kingdom had feared hearing for thousands of years.

40: You work for the CIA who send you undercover in the FBI, who send you undercover in M16, who send you undercover in the CIA, who are very confused that you are back after only two weeks.

[GUIDELINES]

•• The entry should be within the word-limit of 1700-2000 words.

•• The entries can be of any genre, trope, or theme.

•• Do tag our profile – esthetiquecommunity – at the end of your entry chapter. As well as tag both the team members.

•• One is free to publish a new story containing contest entries or publish the entry in an existing collection.

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