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Your friend invents a time-traveling machine, and invites you to enter it. Which year do you travel to?

Middle School

You get to meet a character from your favorite book. Which three do you pick, and why?

Middle School

What's your first memory? Describe it as if it were a story.

Middle School

If I were rich, the first thing I would do is...

Middle School

"I trusted you."

Sad

Write a story where a character's last words to someone are: "I wish I could forget you."

Sad

One is the loneliest number. And you're one.

Sad

"You've been staring out of the window for the last 3 hours. Why?"

Sad

"I'll be here forever," they said. But they had a different definition of 'forever' than you.

Sad

Write a story that centers memory loss.

Sad

"Some days it's hard to even get out of bed."

Sad

Write a story that follows a relationship from its start to its end.

Sad

Write a story that expands on Ernest Hemingway's famous 6-word story: "For sale: baby shoes. Never worn."

Sad

Write a story set during a visit to the graveyard.

Sad

"I thought that hatred was the worst that our relationship could devolve into. But I was wrong. Indifference is even worse than hatred."

Sad

Write a story that both starts and ends with the word, "Goodbye."

Sad

Fly by the seat of your pants and write a story without a plan.

Short Story – 68 stories

Write a story that involves the architectural plans for a building.

Mystery – 10 stories

Write about a plan that goes wrong, for the better.

Middle School – 38 stories

Write a story about a character who tries to control their life down to the most minute detail — but has to learn to let go.

Character – 24 stories

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