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Imagine you and your best friend hanging out ten years from now. What has changed? What hasn't changed?

Kids

If you could have any superpower, what would it be and why?

Kids

Imagine a fantastical world in which you would want to live. Set it all down on paper.

Middle School

Write a short story in which you try to predict the future — and every prediction you make comes true.

Science Fiction

Your polite new neighbors who just moved in next door have suspiciously pointed ears and speak a language that you can't find on Google Translate.

Fantasy

Your garden is being infested by a particularly troublesome family of gnomes.

Fantasy

You stumble into a dragon-fighting ring. What happens next?

Fantasy

You have the power of alchemy, but you can only transform things into useless materials — or seemingly useless, anyhow.

Fantasy

One of your parents is a vampire and the other one is a werewolf.

Fantasy

You imagined your best friend into existence, and every day you’re afraid you’ll accidentally make them disappear.

Fantasy

As you’re eating a box of Sweethearts, you realize the words are a message.

Historical Fiction

You find a note in your pocket that says “from your Secret Admirer,” though you have no idea who put it there.

Valentine's Day

You are the only person who has to go into work on a public holiday.

Holiday

An advertising firm lands a huge contract to make Easter the year’s most popular holiday.

Holiday

A shrewish woman is preventing her husband, the grand marshall of the Easter Day Parade, from leaving the house.

Holiday

You come home after a long, exhausting day of work to find your apartment empty, and a mysterious figure waiting to provide your true assignment.

Thriller and Suspense

You’re running as fast as you can, but you can’t get away — because what you’re running from doesn’t have legs.

Thriller and Suspense

Someone seems to have disappeared, but they’re really hiding in plain sight.

Thriller and Suspense

You stand atop a fifty-story ledge, clinging to the building for dear life and wondering how you got here.

Thriller and Suspense

As you turn the corner, a passing stranger palms you a set of keys. “It’s parked over there,” they whisper.

Thriller and Suspense

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