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.
Spooky Challenge 2024 - Day 1
Writing Challenge Day 1 - “Backwards Biology – a woman finds her bodily functions go backwards. Blood enters her uterus every month. She vomits up food and had to unpass a kidney stone. Fun!” – submitted by Nina Miller
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. “
Spoopy Writing Challenge - Day 3
Day 3: You are digging in your garden, and you find a body. It’s yours.
Spoopy Writing Challenge - Day 2
Day 2 of my writing challenge and the prompt is: Person’s parent or grandparent passes away. They have to clean out the house. There’s a partial bottle of whiskey. The person decides to have a drink. But the bottle of booze is haunted and now the person is possessed by their grandparent.
Spoopy Writing Challenge - Day 1
Today’s prompt: Hard boiled detective story during the heat death of the universe.
Whirlpool: Short Fiction
For my second story, I went with this prompt: a state park employee needs to work a night shift at an isolated visitor center. This location takes nearly an hour to reach by car, yet as a curious weather phenomenon occurs, an after hours visitor shows up…and they didn’t drive there.
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.