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It's the coldest Christmas Eve in history, and a poor family is out of coal for the furnace. The only child in the family has 24 hours to get on the naughty list.

Christmas

Every year, a small town has a holiday called "Burrowsday" where all the residents hunker down in communal tunnels for an entire day and night. You wake up on Burrowsday in the middle of the town, a head wound, and a note reading "good luck".

Holiday

A mother and daughter sit silently at a table, the tension thick enough to cut with a knife.

Sad

Did that painting just wink at me?

Fantasy

You work as a host at a restaurant when someone comes in and says they have a reservation. You look it up to find that the reservation was booked 40 years ago.

Horror

You come home to find all of your possessions on your front lawn and the locks have been changed. You ring the doorbell and a stranger comes to the door and casually says, Hello, how may I help you?

Dramatic

Santa is real and he's stuck in your chimney.

Holiday

Write a story about a mundane day. Use only your prose to make it exciting.

Teens

You're determined to break the world record for longest book ever published.

Funny

Every morning you receive a package delivered to your door, containing an item that you end up needing later that day.

Funny

Write a story in which the protagonist turns into the antagonist by the end.

Novel

A tiny mouse must zealously guard his tiny cube of cheese from the menacing outside world.

Funny

Write a story that uses NO dialogue.

Dialogue

You accidentally run over a bunny on your way to work. It turns out that it's the Easter Bunny.

Funny

You're shaking hands with a stranger at a networking event when you ask for their name. I have no name, they reply.

Mystery

Write a story where the protagonist dies in the first paragraph.

Novel

You open your closet one morning. Something clatters out. You pick it up. The skeletons in your closet have been made real.

Funny

You wake up 10 years younger. What do you do?

High School

You're on a blind date — with your sworn enemy.

Funny

It's 1AM at night. But the sun is out.

Fantasy

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