BEST MYSTERY WRITING PROMPTS
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This week's contest:
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A Perfect Storm
82 contest entries /
43 stories
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Write a story that ends with the narrator revealing a secret.
Mystery
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161 stories
Write a story about a rumor making its way through the grapevine.
Mystery
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47 stories
Write a story that starts with the reveal of a long-kept secret.
Mystery
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128 stories
Write a story that takes place in the woods.
Mystery
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180 stories
Write a story about someone who keeps coming across the same stranger.
Mystery
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181 stories
Write a story about a valuable object that goes missing.
Mystery
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91 stories
Write a story in which someone finds a secret passageway.
Mystery
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68 stories
Write a short story that ends with a twist.
Mystery
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154 stories
Write a story in which characters are warned not to go into the woods.
Mystery
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98 stories
