Prompt #172

                  Aliens, suicide, a pink ballet tutu.  Go!

Prompt #171

                Your character is cleaning their house with their significant other or roommate, when one of them finds something in a pile of clutter that causes a huge argument.

Prompt #170

               Your yoga class is winding down.  The instructor tells everyone to get in the lotus position and closed their eyes for the unison "ohm" that ends her every class.  You open your eyes during the chant, and see the instructor doing something shocking.

Prompt #169

                Let's try something uplifting for a change.  Your character is met with obstacles at every turn, and continues to doggedly pursue their desire, whatever it may be.  Their success doesn't necessarily lie in the accomplishment of the goal.

Prompt #168

              A couple finds a lovely spot for their picnic and sets up.  Suddenly, the blanket is sucked into the ground along with their lunch.  They barely escape.

Prompt #167

               Your character has to go back to a job they swore they'd never return to, and is confronted by a startling first day back.

Prompt #166

             Your character is on line at the DMV, the twitch in their eye growing more maddening with every second.  Every person at a window in their range of hearing is either a moron, or a jerk, and the heat and stress is getting hard to bear.  Suddenly, someone snaps.

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.