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Storyteller Tober
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Welcome, foolish readers.
Enjoy the tricks and treats of a month long flash-writing challenge.
Story 1
Prompt: The character wakes up the after a night of were-wolfing and they reflect during their humiliating, walk of shame back to their college campus.
Story 2
Prompt: An abandoned house in the neighborhood seems to beckon the character inside it.
Story 3
Prompt: Something is chasing the character through the woods. Out of nowhere, they trip, and have to decide: run or hide?
Story 4
Prompt: A child’s imaginary friend turns out to be a serial killer.
Story 5
Prompt: A character meets a friendly wolf on a walk one night, but then it suddenly becomes… a human?
Story 6
Prompt: A house haunting from the POV of the ghost.
Story 7
Prompt: A character alone in a graveyard, until their not alone in a graveyard.
Story 8
Prompt: Three goblins roam the streets of New York.
Story 9
Prompt: A scarecrow comes to life and befriends a friendly crow.
Story 10
Prompt: Weird new neighbors with a secret.
Story 11
Prompt: A mysterious dark void that seems alive. The character is lost in it.
Story 12
Prompt: Someone follows the character home… it’s themself.
Story 13
Prompt: Characters in a corn maze and something spooky happens to each of them.
Story 14
Prompt: A speculative introduction for a potential Beetlejuice sequel.
Story 15
Prompt: People in masks stand outside of the character’s house. Who are they?
Story 16
Prompt: A new species of insect gets discovered. Is it too late?
Story 17
Prompt: The character comes home late and sees their furniture moved/stacked and other such odd things. There are no signs of a break-in. What happened?
Story 18
Prompt: A swarm of vampires overtakes the earth while a Christian youth group holds a lock-in event.
Story 19
Prompt: A cable late-night slot TV advertisement to sell a haunted house.
Story 20
Prompt: Urban exploration has the characters encounter a creepy and unexplainable monster.
Story 21
Prompt: A new spin on The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe.
Story 22
Prompt: The character hails a taxi, only to realize the driver is a skeleton cabbie.
Story 23
Prompt: A group of middle school friends take on the zombie apocalypse.
Story 24
Prompt: Skinny-dippers come across something moving near the shore… the Creature from the Black Lagoon!
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