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Through the Trees with Jessica Fogleman

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Write a story that includes a character hearing their fate by a fortune teller.

Fantasy

As a joke, you put on a tinfoil hat. Suddenly your mind goes completely silent.

Fantasy

Silence is now literally golden. For every day of total silence a person completes, they receive a piece of gold.

Fantasy

You'd been saving to buy a cottage for the last ten years. Today was your first day there, and you were enjoying the peace and quiet you'd earned while reflecting on the last ten years.

Fantasy

You live in a busy and bustling city, where the sound of traffic is constant. One morning you wake up to complete silence.

Fantasy

A new candy had been invented that allowed the person who ate it to relive any memory they wanted. There was a lineup outside the shop.

Fantasy

Did that painting just wink at me?

Fantasy

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

Fantasy

Your main character has been stranded on a desert island for months. Alone… or so they thought. One morning, they wake up to a message written in the sand. What happens next?

Fantasy

You’ve learned the secret to life after death. Revealing it will help millions of people connect to their departed loved ones, but if you do an unspecified disaster will occur to someone you know. Do you spill the secret?

Fantasy

You're on a boat that should have reached undiscovered land days ago. Your compass tell you you're on the right path but there is no land in sight.

Fantasy

You're immortal and married to someone who is mortal. You've decided today is the day to come clean.

Fantasy

You're browsing at a pet store when a store employee asks if you'd be interested in seeing some of the new animals they just received. They lead you down a dark hallway and take you into a padlocked room that houses mythological creatures.

Fantasy

You're a photographer who specializes in snapping pictures of the supernatural.

Fantasy

You'd had your head down at a library all day until you suddenly felt a big gust of wind blow past you. You looked up, but no one else seemed to have noticed and you couldn't spot any open windows. Another gust blew by you, but the only thing that moved were your papers.

Fantasy

You watched in shock as the everlasting flame went out. How were you going to tell everyone?

Fantasy

You wake up in the forest by a bonfire.

Fantasy

You sat down on a Sunday afternoon to re-read your favorite book. Only when you opened it up, the book had totally changed.

Fantasy

You brought a bag of salt with you on your wanderings, because salt was said to protect from what comes out at night.

Fantasy

You are the protagonist of a novel-in-progress. Your author is experiencing intense writer's block. You decide to have a word with the author to shake them out of it.

Fantasy

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