Prompt #165

                  Reveal the story through a conversation two friends have while jogging, turning the conversation into the action of the story.

Prompt #164

                Your character is working a job that seems to everyone else to be below their intellectual level.  They have their reasons.

Prompt #163

                 Your character has never been able to come to terms with not knowing their parents.  Suddenly, a stranger shows up at their doorstep.  Go.

Prompt #162

                Write a love story in which the relationship is based around plotting out and executing the perfect murder.

Prompt #161

                 Write a thriller based entirely in realism where no one dies.  Car chases are cheating, too.

Prompt #160

                 Your character lied massively to get a job, and has to scramble to keep up appearances.

Prompt #159

             "I knew the dame was trouble the minute she stepped through the door..."

Prompt #158

             Skin starts coming off.  A lot of it.

Prompt #157

               The moral of the story is that you can't trust anyone, least of all yourself.

Prompt #156

             Your character's mother is a sleeper agent for one of America's enemies, which would be bad enough, even if your character weren't a spy in the CIA.

Prompt #155

               Your character has been incredibly preoccupied by a goal, and is moments away from achieving it, when the unthinkable happens.

Prompt #154

              Your character is visiting their very eccentric mother.

Prompt #153

               Write a dramatic tale from the perspective of an aging party clown.

Prompt #152

                 In a world where everyone has mandatory yearly mental health screenings, and compulsory psychiatric medication is the norm...

Prompt #151

                 Someone gets hit with a crowbar over the last piece of KFC.

Prompt #150

               Meanwhile, in future America, where prostitution and cocaine are legal, coffee has been banned, and there is no such thing as intellectual property law...

Prompt #149

             Where'd they go?!  Chuck?  Melinda!?!  Bonus points for anything horror.

Prompt #148

              Your character begins to experience persistent and vivid hallucinations of someone from their past.

Prompt #147

              Your character's bachelor/bachelorette party is hijacked by the "wild card" friend.  Or terrorists.  Whatever.

Prompt #146

              Begin your story with the sentence, "I should never have saved his life."

Prompt #145

                  The bulk of your story occurs during a trip to a mental hospital.

Prompt #144

               Find a reason for one of your characters to club another with a liquor bottle.

Prompt #143

Thing 1 - "Did you hear about the guy who killed his son over the last crab cake?

Thing 2 - "Crab cakes are awesome!"

            Either use this dialogue in your story, or base the plot around the concept.

Prompt #142

             Your character's spouse has a kid your character doesn't know about.  Or vice-versa.

Prompt #141

              Your character spends the night in jail with a very interesting cellmate.

Prompt #140

Your character indirectly and/or inadvertently causes the death of their best friend's lover.

Prompt #139

Thank you to Sideshowmom for providing the image!

Prompt #138

              Your character kidnaps somebody, but it's for the good of the victim.