“She… she’s like an everything bagel.”
[Crush comes up from behind] “Well, while I don’t particularly like being compared to breakfast food, that was really sweet.”
The stone’s light was pulsing weakly. She cursed and looked back the way she had come just in time to see a monster bash down the door.
“God damn it!” She stood up once more and stuffed the stone into her bra before starting to climb. Thank god she’d worn her sports bra today.
Time machines exist, but they can only be used once. If a person time travels to 2057 or 1922 or any other time, they are stuck there, forever, and you can’t change history. While tinkering with your machine in order to find a way around that, you accidentally teleport yourself to the time of the dinosaurs. It’s a lot different than anyone ever thought. And it offers hope that you may be able to return to the present.
- Lynn
“We both know you would never kill me, darling.”
“That may be true but I would not hesitate to cut off a limb or two.”
“I’m sorry, please forgive me.”
“What the hell have you done?”
“I ate your burrito. I swear I regret it.”
“Damn it, kiddo, I thought you murdered somebody again, like you did last summer.”
And then they said…
Have a character say this and build on from there. Where the conversation and the story goes is up to you!
Prompt from a wonderful anon. Thanks!
“So that’s what he looks like without his mask on… I honestly don’t know what I was expecting.”
“Please, for the love of god, put it back before he wakes up”
“…too late”
If you write one short story a week, it’s guaranteed improvement. Short stories can be anywhere from 1,000 to 30,000 words, but for the sake of sanity, the stories I write will be under 10,000 with a cap of around 7,500. Here’s some ideas!
1. Write entirely in second person. Someone is instructing your character to do something they’ll regret.
2. Write a first person story from the point of view of an inanimate object.
3. Write about a character trapped in the body of a kid about to start kindergarten.
4. Write about a high schooler trying to run away from a dangerous situation.
5. Write about a witch trying to find her lost familiar.
6. Write about a detective who uses questionable methods but always gets the right answer.
7. Write about a marching band who decided to block traffic for one whole day. Why?
8. Write about a character from the future. They aren’t trying to save anyone, they just want to live in a better time.
9. Write about a character with depression who’s desperate to help their friend, who suffers from the same thing.
10. Write about a middle school student going on their first date.
11. Write about a student who was trying to work at a coffee shop when a super villain attacks. Superpowers weren’t supposed to be real.
12. Pick a meme song and write a story based on it.
13. Look at your favorite old emo music and select the angstiest lyric you can find. Go wild.
14. Write with one oddly specific color in mind. Lavender. Fuschia. Carolina blue.
15. Write a story from the villain’s point of view, at the final battle.
16. Write about a character who plays music at a street corner and what they witness.
17. Write about a student who falls asleep in class and wakes up in a sterilized room.
18. Write about an elementary school ‘breakup’ between two fifth graders.
19. Write about two people who live in an RV and travel the country. They hate each other.
20. Write about a person who can talk to food. How do they eat?
21. Write about someone who breaks animals out of zoos.
22. Write about someone who can jump into books, and why they stay in normal life.
23. Write about someone who can’t go a week without almost dying, and what happens when they have their first quiet week.
24. Write a high school scenario that you heard about through gossip, or a scenario you overheard in real life or from a job. Dramatize it.
25. Write about a werecat who takes pleasure in being endlessly pampered by humans.
26. Write about a superhero who’s only power is making anything last forever. Their phone never breaks, and their toilet paper never runs out. Neither does their ammunition.
27. Write about two twins, one who’s a superhero and one who’s a super villain.
28. Write about a thief who hangs out with rich people but never steals their stuff.
29. Write about someone who can fly, but is too scared of heights to have ever tried it.
30. Write about a friendship about to break apart after ten years. Why?
31. Write about a sentient city, and how it helps out travelers and lost tourists.
32. Write about children running an actual rat race for fun.
33. Write from a zombie’s point of view of the zombie apocalypse.
34. Write about the skeleton inside you. It’s completely sentient. Watch out.
35. Write about a boy who has actually weaponized Axe, and sells it to people as a replacement pepper spray.
36. Write about a villain who can manipulate ice. They stab people and the weapon melts, leaving no fingerprints. How do you stop them?
37. Write about a student who decides to do anything except study before exams, and ends up bungee jumping and skydiving the day of.
38. Write about an invisible hitchhiker. They travel the country for free, by climbing into people’s cars at gas stations.
39. Write about a child who lives inside an amusement park, but never gets noticed. Another kid sees her. It’s the first time she’s been seen.
40. Write about a weredog touring a city in human form and trying their absolute hardest not to pee on the poles.
41. Write about a student who goes cold turkey on coffee the week before final exams.
42. Write about a pet turkey on Thanksgiving. They’re horrified.
43. Write about your phone, which is sentient. It finally decides to notify you in hopes you stop watching the exact same vine compilation at 2 in the morning every day.
44. Write about a girl who lives in the woods—30 minutes away from a huge city.
45. Write about someone trying to steal a giant monument, such as the giant peach in South Carolina or the world’s largest rubber band ball.
46. Write about cartoon characters suddenly faced with realistic risks from their actions.
47. Write about a warlock whose curse backfired on them—on their job interview at a respectable company.
48. Write about the sentient Chuck E Cheese costume that lives at the store, and whether it truly loves children.
49. Write about a dead forest, and the arsonist who caused it that visits every week.
50. Write about a couple that meets after they get in a street fight over a dropped twenty dollar bill. They’re actually perfect for each other.
51. Write about a genie trapped in a bottle of Axe.
52. Write about the craziest thing that ever happened to you.
Your protagonist is a hero who values their own life over others. This never got in the way of them saving people until their life was threatened.
Your hero is a character who will gladly lay down their life for others. Too easily. Even people they never knew.
They never should’ve met.
Your job is to supply Pokémon to people unable to catch their own. Strong, weak, they don’t care. You’ve delivered hundreds of Pidgey to small children who want a best friend. You’ve given a weak Vulpix to a grandmother whose children don’t visit her anymore. You provide friends.
In return for your services, you get specialized candies for Pokémon. You use these to make your own stronger. They understand their job isn’t to be sent away to help those who want a friend. Their job is to protect you, to work with you, and eventually be sent away to live a happy life when you find Pokémon stronger than them.
I really want a super hero story where the hero’s girlfriend is constantly kidnapped for ransom (never harmed, just inconvenienced from her actual day job) and so the hero gets super over protective and starts hiding her away in more and more elaborate safe houses (which the villain always seems to effortlessly get into).
Hero gets *super* overprotective and starts being abusive to their girl to the point where her new safe house is an airless and lifeless locker and the girl just wants OUT. Hero won’t let her leave out of some misguided notion of love and traps her there.
The girlfriend deteriorates mentally and emotionally, to the point where she wants out(!) and if she can’t get out, she’ll take the only exit available to her.
Villain finally cracks the latest safe house, only to find a young woman so stripped of her freedom they don’t know entirely how to proceed.
“Kill me this time.” She’ll beg, and the villain’s heart breaks a little.
Instead the villain rescues the girl, hides her away and destroys the safe house entirely. The Hero believes their girl was obliterated and prepares memorials and speeches and self-pitying public appearances.
Meanwhile the villain gives the girl her freedom, telling her she has free reign and can choose to stay or go as long as she pleases.
She recovers after a time, a new name and a new job and a new lease on life.
One day she finds herself watching the news out the front of an electronics store, the Hero is proposing something preposterous and the people of the city blindly rally around them because *its the hero*.
She walks straight into the Villain’s *super secret* complex because she’s crazy smart.
Bursts open the door to the villain watching a bowl of cereal (full cream milk, please), smacks her hands down on the table, stares the villain in the face and says
“I know *Hero*’s weaknesses. Stop them.”
And the Girl teams up with the villain who is surprised at just how talented this girl is with plans, and after an initiation, weaponry.
They team up to stop the Hero’s self-righteous and self-serving plan and fall in love in the process.
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Anonymous asked:
1) The kiss was lingering, consuming, crowding up every atom of the protagonist’s brain. The antagonist finished with a bite to the protagonist’s lips, pulling back with a slow, lazy grin.
The protagonist blinked at them, momentarily stunned, eyes glazed and lips parted softly still. Then they realized how deliberately and obviously they’d been distracted from the matter at hand as the antagonist stepped away with a wink, not even bothering to say anything.
2) It was a savage kiss. Teeth nipping yielding lips, scraping, ungraceful and devouring each other whole as fingers tugged and grabbed and nails raked into soft skin as if they were afraid of losing contact if they didn’t bury deep enough holdings. A kiss for all the words in the world when words had absolutely never been enough for the two of them to understand each other.
3) “I do like you all roughed up,” the antagonist murmured. “It suits you.” They leaned in, slow and deliberate, the kiss one of admiration before it turned to a hard bite. The protagonist’s breath caught as they felt a bead of blood bloom on their lip.
“You bit me.”
“I don’t know how you don’t get bitten more.” The antagonist leaned in, soothing with kisses only to nip again at that sensitive mouth. “You’re delectable.”
The protagonist kissed them so hard it was like they were trying to leave the memory of it imprinted forever.
“And you,” the protagonist breathed. “Still owe me information.”
The antagonist laughed.
