#108 Elemental
Water, air, fire, earth, and void: together, these five elements make up one of the earliest systems used to understand our world. Ancient cultures in Greece, Persia, India, and elsewhere all believed that everything they saw could be broken down into these five core categories. While the system doesn’t hold much water scientifically, we still hear echoes of these ancient classifications today — from the groups of astrological signs, to the magical systems of fantasy worlds.
For this week’s prompts, I’m going back to basics, and exploring each of the five core elements in turn. I’m excited to see what you build out of the building blocks of — well, everything!
This week's prompts
Write a story about a voyage on a boat.
Adventure
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42 stories
Write about a person or object vanishing into thin air.
Thriller and Suspense
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44 stories
Write a story about a team tunneling down into the centre of a planet.
Science Fiction
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6 stories
Start or end your story with a house going up in flames.
Dark
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55 stories