February Prompts

1. Think of the person you hate most. Why did their partner fall in love with them?
2. My fingers traced the glass bottle in front of me and eventually reached the bundle of papers stuffed inside.
3. A story of forbidden love set in a world where gender doesn’t exist, but other dividing factors and prejudices do.
4. Every emotion a human feels becomes written on their body. One day a woman is found with empty skin.
5. She lived alone, so she was alarmed to see flowers and a sweating glass of champagne on the table when she arrived.
6. She lives in the old asylum now, mumbling incoherently. No one had believed her story – how wrong they all were.
7. Like clockwork, the scrabbling in the attic stopped and the screaming started.
8. The door to the yoga studio was wide open when it should have been closed. She had locked it herself last night.
9. The Earth becomes so polluted that the atmosphere starts to block the sun out. How will they survive?
10. In the future we can 3D print body parts using stem cells. The body parts don’t HAVE to replace conventional ones.
11. There was nothing left of home. So I walked, and I found myself far from where our house once stood.
12. What if the sun doesn’t rise tomorrow?
13. A woman nervously awaits her turn for an interview but discovers the interviewer is an ex-lover. What happens next?
14. She began to run, faster and faster, as quickly as her short legs could carry her. There was no turning back now.
15. The moonlight was bright and woke her. Looking out her window, she saw the taxidermist working.
16. You’ve been trying for a baby for two years. Your husband disappears, returning with a newborn after two weeks.
17. In a bookshop, she sees a book with her name on the spine. Her picture is on the book jacket. She did not write it.
18. You are mistaken for a member of a cult, when you accidentally imitate their secret greeting.
19. She wakes, uneasy. There’s a soft, regular sound coming from downstairs. The baby is gone.
20. You’re preparing for bed, you glance outside & there’s a car you don’t recognise. Then your doorbell rings….
21. Your bare feet pounds the forest floor as you realise you are not the hunted, you are the hunter.
22. You awake alone and get ready for work. You go to unlock the door and notice a strange pair of shoes by the doormat.
23. The lights of every house in the town were on that night, except for one…
24. You come home to find an old-fashioned phone sitting in the middle of your table. No wires lead to it. It rings.
25. Being chased through time and space, your only escape is to find portal after, portal wherever they might appear.
26. You wake up, only to find that the dragons have returned and have claimed you their leader in the upcoming war.
27. In the basement the marble floor was cold under her feet. She wondered why mother kept the basement door locked.
28. You are given a skill at birth, but all the good ones are gone. Now you’ve got to save people with card shuffling.