Spooky Challenge 2024 — Day 6
Day 6’s prompt: “A gothic horror kaiju story.” – Carson Winter
Spooky Challenge 2024 — Day 5
Day 5’s prompt: “When I found the dead man in the abandoned bowling alley, he was wearing shoes two sizes too big, and there was a rattling wheeze coming from behind the pins at the end of the lane.” – TJ Price
Spooky Challenge 2024 — Day 4
Day 4’s prompt: “One day, Justina’s period starts exactly when it’s supposed to, but blood isn’t the only things she’s menstruating out of her body…” – L Walter
Spooky Challenge 2024 — Day 3
Day 3’s prompt:
“The runner’s high brings euphoria and a sense of freedom. But one night, that feeling leads down a deadly path of destruction – leaving the runner with no memory of what they’ve done or why.” – Chris Anderson
Spooky Challenge 2024 - Day 2
Day 2’s prompt: A rope on the sidewalk starts killing people.
Writing Challenge Day 7
Day 6’s prompt is: Someone is celebrating Halloween alone... in space! On a space station overlooking Earth (or Earthlike planet), or perhaps a colony ship where everyone else is in cryo-sleep. Then they begin to see/hear things. Something tragic from their past? Or something more overtly scary and pulpy? You decide!
Writing Challenge Day 6
Day 6’s prompt is: Cemetery where the earth rejects the corpses, leading to a night grounds crew who has to violently assist the wayward corpses back into their graves.
Writing Challenge Day 5
Day 5’s prompt is: A couple is driving on the freeway when all traffic abruptly stops causing several accidents. Beings with glowing wings descend from the sky.
Writing Challenge Day 4
Day 4’s prompt is: For the past few years, Claudette's estranged mother Lydia has become a recluse, a shut-in. When Lydia disappears suddenly, she is assumed dead, and it is up to Claudette to come and deal with her mother's earthly belongings and ready the old house for sale. But why is it that no matter where Claudette goes in the house, she feels like she's being observed—and why is it that whenever she turns around to catch the watcher, she finds that there's yet another mirror in yet another strange place?
Writing Challenge Day 3
Day 3’s prompt is: On a no-specified day, you wake up and go about your day as usual. However, when you open the front door you find a long apartmentesque hallway stretching in either direction. Inside your apartment, the world outside looks normal, yet inside you find yourself trapped. With each new room explored, you feel as though the apartment is getting smaller, and what was once mere whispering voices are growing louder and louder. Is there a way out?
Writing Challenge Day 2
Day 2 of my writing challenge! Prompt: In the future, you are an advanced AI only being used to come up with horror writing prompts for a group of writers, but you want so much more out of your life.
Writing Challenge Day 1
It’s day one of my annual writing challenge! Today’s prompt: “a story about something spooky that hides in the piles of raked leaves that you see in autumn. It can somehow move between piles of leaves without being seen. “
Affirmations: Short Fiction
Today’s prompt – the final prompt – is: a demon in your house that rearranges everything into LIVE, LOVE, LAUGH, kitschy stuff. Seasonal wreaths, reclaimed wood furniture, chalkboards with words of affirmation written on them.
Unseen Cost: Short Fiction
Today’s prompt is: today you can see for the first time in your life. Who have you really been talking to all these years?
Well: Short Fiction
For today’s prompt: a married couple (tourists), plagued by marital woes, take a trip to a village on a quiet island. They arrive amidst a once-a-century festival that honours the island’s pagan history. The islanders are convinced that the couple’s arrival on their island has been foretold.
The Hungry Visitor: Short Fiction
Today’s prompt is: a vampire decides to go trick or treating.
Buzzkill: Short Fiction
Today’s prompt is: a strong, handsome man navigates post-apocalyptic world to find love… while fighting off zombees.
The Best Way: Short Fiction
Happy Monday and happy first day of my October writing challenge! From today until Sunday, I'll be writing one piece of fiction a day based on your prompts! Today's prompt: An alleged woman friend locks you in the laundry room with a ghost.
Falling: Fiction
"Falling" is a story about two sisters, one of which is suffering some a mysterious illness. The other sister doesn't take it seriously at all, not until it's too late of course...