Writing Prompt Setting: New York, 1920s Character: 32 year old Geraldine Springer, Actor Scenario: The sky is filled with pterodactyls Dialogue: "Do you know how to get to the Empire State building?" Hello, my creepy little cryptids. We did it! We lived another week. For all of us who get to take advantage of student …
Tag: Neil Gaiman
The Anxious Class Clown
“He was painfully shy, which, as is often the manner of the painfully shy, he overcompensated for by being too loud at the wrong times.” —Neil Gaiman, Stardust Writing Prompt: Jack was shy. Well, shy was the wrong word for it. He was anxious. People made him nervous, and it was difficult to say why. To …
Ceremony
“She flipped through a book her mother was reading about native people in a distant country, how everyday they would take pieces of white silk and draw on them in wax, then dip the silks in dye, then draw on them more in wax and dye them some more, then boil the wax out in …
Being a Werewolf Sucks
“You're always you, and that don't change, and you're always changing, and there's nothing you can do about it.”― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book The problem with being a werewolf is that you have no autonomy. Your life is just decided for you. Once a month you become a killing machine unable to decide your own fate, …
Prompt: Dying Stars
“She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars.”― Neil Gaiman, Stardust Inside every star, at its very core, is an egg like object. In that egg lives the physical embodiment of the star. In some stars, there are humans, in …
Personal Gods
Everyone has their own god, but Ellie's has been banished to the physical world.
Monsters Under the Bed
There's a monster under her bed, but her parents won't believe her....
Bath Portals
he loved bubble baths except when they opened up interdimensional portals
Untouched Books
We've always had a book store, but no one has ever shopped there...
Eternity
Write about the quest for immortality
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