After years of gentle persuasion your best friend since childhood finally agrees to seek professional help for serious mental problems. Much to your dismay, as she begins to improve you slowly start to realize that you are her imaginary friend. Nicolas Cage is completely unaware that he is an actor. All he knows is strange … Continue reading Funny & Interesting Writing Prompts
Tag: short stories
Annie Proulx Quote
“There was some open space between what he knew and what he tried to believe, but nothing could be done about it, and if you can't fix it you've got to stand it.” Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain
A Captivating Story in Fifty Three Words
This is from a book called The Writer's Block: 786 Ideas to Jump-Start Your Imagination by Jason Rekulak. "Since 1987 the New Times in San Luis Obispo, California has sponsored an annual contest for 'Fifty-Five Fiction.' These are short stories which must be- I kid you not- fifty-five words or less. Sounds impossible, right? That's what … Continue reading A Captivating Story in Fifty Three Words
420 Characters
“After she fled he became his own wife, ironing in his underwear, dusting the shelves, moving the figurines to the dining room table then replacing them carefully when he’d finished waxing the cabinet. Wearing her apron, he often made casseroles. Sometimes he’d sit on her closet floor and move his face through her dresses, like … Continue reading 420 Characters
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