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You find yourself strangely attracted to a stranger at your local coffee shop. Before you can go over, they approach you and say, “Is it just me, or is there something between us?”

Fluff

After a friend or family member's funeral, you come home to a stranger on your doorstep, who tells you that they're not really dead.

Dramatic

Write a story where the main character thinks everything revolves around them (e.g. they always assume people are waving at them on the street, rather than anyone else).

Funny

Every day when you get home, you rant to your pet about how awful your day was. One day they start talking back — to give you a dose of tough love.

Dialogue

One of your friends is terrible at everything, but have always been convinced they're extremely talented. Today's the day they find out the hard truth.

Funny

The people in YouTube ads have started talking to you directly.

Science Fiction

You get a notepad for Christmas. Everything that you write in it comes true.

High School

A day in the life of a genie who annoyingly keeps getting summoned by inept humans.

Fantasy

Write a short story about the star-crossed love between an orc and an elf.

Fantasy

How would you describe the color blue to someone who was blind?

Kids

Where's your favorite place to hide? Why is that?

Kids

Write a letter to your future self — a letter you can only open 30 years from now.

Kids

Imagine you tell a friend a secret and then you find out they told someone else about your secret. How do you feel? What would you do?

Kids

Imagine you are the first person to walk on a moon. Write a letter to your family describing what the moon looks like, and how it feels to be in outer space.

Kids

Go look out a window for 30 seconds. Write a story about what you saw during those 30 seconds.

Kids

You and your family are going on a trip together. Where do you go? What do you do there?

Kids

Think of a subject you don't know too much about. What would you like to learn about it? Write as many questions about that subject as you can think of.

Kids

If the sky could one day rain any food, what food would you choose?

Kids

You and your friends build the ultimate treehouse — but there are some rules for the people who spend time there. What are the rules?

Kids

You are trapped in a shopping mall overnight. What do you do?

Kids

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