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Halfway through a fierce competition, your character is given the opportunity to cheat their way to victory: do they take it?

– 52 stories

Start your story with one character telling another, “It doesn’t count if you’re already planning your defeat.”

– 131 stories

Write about someone taking a child trick-or-treating for the very first time.

– 87 stories

Write about a vampire or werewolf who moves into a quiet suburban neighborhood.

– 158 stories

Write about a group of witches meeting up on Halloween night.

– 135 stories

Write about someone’s first Halloween as a ghost.

– 205 stories

Start your story with two characters deciding to spend the night in a graveyard.

– 318 stories

Write a romance that involves one partner saving the other from a fire.

– 153 stories

Write about a family attempting to hide their secrets from someone new.

– 121 stories

Write about someone who’s been sent to boarding school.

– 119 stories

Write a ghost story where there’s more going on than it first appears.

– 224 stories

Set your story in a Gothic manor house.

– 133 stories

Write about two characters going apple picking.

– 248 stories

Write a story from the perspective of a bird migrating for the winter.

– 128 stories

Write about a character making fall decorations out of construction paper.

– 45 stories

Start your story with the line, “By the time I stepped outside, the leaves were on fire.” (Whether this is a literal fire is up to you.)

– 323 stories

Set your story in a coffee shop that’s just introduced a new line of autumnal drinks.

– 159 stories

Write about a character putting something into a time capsule.

– 140 stories

Write about a character preparing to go into stasis for decades (or centuries).

– 108 stories

Write about two characters on the verge of a life-changing event, but one has rigged the outcome.

– 90 stories

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