1. She had made them, so she unmade them. Peeling skin from flesh, flesh from bone, she stripped them down to nothingness in a heartbeat.

2. Mankind was sort of like army ants, throwing themselves en mass against obstacles until they overcame them. So it really should have come as no surprise when the rest of the galaxy panicked and started throwing up as many obstacles as they could, in the hopes we’d finally run out of bodies to throw.

3. Stubborn doesn’t begin to describe Benjamin.

4. “I wish for a thousand wishes!”
“Okay.”
“Wait, that actually works?”
“Why not? I’m immortal, I’ve got time.” The genie gave her a long look. “But no wishing for immortality yourself or the deal’s off.”

5. …and then there were penguins!

These story prompts are released into the wild per Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License, so sayth their author Martha McMahon Bechtel.

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Five more story starters from the bin… hopefully they will inspire someone else’s Muses!

1. There was a very important distinction between ‘not being a quitter’ and the definition of insanity (i.e.: ‘doing the same thing and expecting different results’), but at the moment he couldn’t quite pin down the difference.

2. The sun was only a dim glow through the clouds, a half-hearted echo of the searing desert sun she was used to.

3. It always snowed on Mondays.

4. “Life isn’t about change, it’s about avoiding change, and the sooner you realize that, the happier you’ll be.”

5. The clans of the near side of the mountains didn’t grow hair as they aged, they lost it. Children grew with a protective covering of fur, safe from the biting colds of the Frozen mountains. Only as they aged, skin turning leathery and toughed to the elements, did the protective coverings finally fall away…

These story prompts are released into the wild per Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License, so sayth their author Martha McMahon Bechtel.

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