Here are twenty-five prompts for your writing pleasure and convenience! These are geared primarily toward genre writers, but use them as you will. If you end up publishing a story written with one of these prompts, I would love to hear about it!

• The only gift the water gave was a secret.
• The bells are a source of fear: They summon the Spirit, and when it comes, it conquers.
• It is your turn to work the miracle and prove you deserve your place.
• Pick up the closest novel and flip to a random page. Point to a random sentence (or look for a sentence you find evocative) and make this the sentence right before the first sentence of your story.
• One of the plants in the garden is dug up and missing.
• The hospital can’t find someone’s medical records.
• A flood washed out the road to work.
• The old radio you’ve had since you were a kid still works.
• You just harvested the first produce from your garden.
• It all started on the journey home.
• The last keeper of the lore is dying.
• The wood has a voice; what is it saying?
• Your best friend claims there is a pattern they have been seeing everywhere for weeks.
• Things you should not see on a road trip.
• Against your better judgment, you pick up a hitchhiker. You don’t remember making the decision to do so, or even stopping the car.
• The sun is not the sun.
• Prepare to meet your maker.
• Your least-favorite song is a plague sweeping the world. How does it infect? What are its effects?
• A character discovers a critical piece of evidence in an unsolved crime.
• They say a witch lives in the nearby wilderness, but when you get there, you cannot find anyone or remember why you came.
• What are the rules for surviving the Otherworld near where you grew up?
• A change is coming. What signs mark its approach? How do you survive it?
• The office building always has the lights on. No dark places are allowed inside the office building. Even the basement is full of light, flat and empty of shadows.
• The cameras caught something strange entering an apartment building.
• What do they extract from the mine outside town? What is the substance made of? What does it do? How does it make life different?