Bizarre Writing Prompt #17

The road, the road goes on forever. Straight, locked in course, it flows like sun through sky, never curves, never meanders. Stop for a moment, breathe, and when you look around, you realize that there is no road at all. There never was.
Write your story.

Bizarre Writing Prompt #16

When the shop across the street goes up for lease, there are some who shake their heads in sadness while others whoop cries of joy.

Write your story.

Poetic Writing Prompt #7

A light
A sound
Who’s there?
Who’s knocking?

Write your story.

Bizarre Writing Prompt #15

The hidden worker runs supported by the fire of life. He seeks the bland, the barren plain of dust or ash upon which he can carve his skyscrapers, his metropolis of dreams. In sandy soil where others wilt, he blossoms, thrives, a succulent of mind and the clay of lives as yet unlived.

Write your story.

Bizarre Writing Prompt #14

A man singing angry in his car rises to the tail of an elder crooner. The fire in his eyes is the color of denied stability, a place in the boundless sky. Nobody is buying, but even this drought will pass.

Write your story.

Bizarre Writing Prompt #13

Soldiers, soldiers, come one by one. Soldiers, soldiers, labor in the sun. Soldiers, soldiers, they cannot hear the call. Soldiers, soldiers, dying as they fall.

Write your story.

Bizarre Writing Prompt #12

A pair of wings falls upon the floor and the man with the stringy, scrawling voice yells “it’s a knockout!” Hiss of steam as hot iron touches skin, mars the beauty of soul.

Write your story.

Poetic Writing Prompt #6

When you always hop into the middle,
You’re always playing catch-up.

Write your story.

Bizarre Writing Prompt #11

When you’re in view
Do the suits
Peer at you?

Write your story.

Bizarre Writing Prompt #10

Look into the darker corners of everything. They are there. You cannot always see them, but they are there. Find the darker corners and peer into them. What do you see? What reaches back, sees you?

Write your story.

Poetic Writing Prompt #5

Flip the mirror and fall into the sky
Flip the sky and fall into the mirror
Fall into the earth and the flip-flop continues
Flip flop
Flip flop
Sky, mirror
Mirror, sky.

Write your story.

Quote Writing Prompt

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind."

-Ghandi

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Bizarre Writing Prompt #9

Twin boots touch the sky. Twin dragons intertwine in supple lines. Twin hands lace in darkness, but only a single heart throbs passionate.

Write your story.

Poetic Writing Prompt #4

When I turned myself to face me
I saw that I had no face
I saw the mask that was not
I saw the soul
Buried in the skin.

Write your story.

Bizarre Writing Prompt #8

A master of eyes sits and waits. A master of sense dances the line between the now and the un-now. A master of waste sees all and brings nothing. What does the mistress do?

Write your story.

Poetic Writing Prompt #3

When the farm becomes the prison
and civilization becomes the key
is the soul merely trading
one cloud
for the silver lining
of another?

Write your story.






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Bizarre Writing Prompt #7

Tiny beetles thread their sharp, dark little bodies through paper-thin skin, wriggle in the little spaces between muscles, seek their way toward the rich and pulsing veins of sick organs. You can feel it in the itching behind the eyes, the way the fingers tighten a little at the edges, the sides. Feeling this, you know they are not insects. Anything but.

Write your story.

Video Writing Prompt #6

Watch this, then write.

Bizarre Writing Prompt #6

Chasing demons through the labyrinthine passages of your iridescent mind, you discover that the self is nothing more than a wood block carved by the turning of the world like a lathe. Try as you might, you cannot stop the lathe, only adjust the depths to which it carves you, the parts of the block of the self that are cut.

Now, write your story.

Video Writing Prompt #5

Watch this, then write.