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Aunt Ednas Money
By: Brian A. Klems | August 12, 2016 | Comments 114
Your wealthy Aunt Edna has died and left you all of her money. At first you're excited, as you've been living paycheck-to-
paycheck your whole life, and this newfound money offers you endless possibilities. But, in her will, Aunt Edna left one big catch
and, if you don't do it, all of the money is to...
Olympic Games Unraveled
By: Brian A. Klems | August 2, 2016 | Comments 87
After four years of training, you've finally made it: To the Olympics. Your sport (fill in the blank) is highly competitive this year.
As you take in the scene on your first day of competition, you notice that a member from another country is cheating. What do
you do? Write this scene.
A Long, Long Flight
By: Brian A. Klems | July 26, 2016 | Comments 125
After a hectic day, you are looking forward to a long flight you have planned. It's the first vacation you've taken in two years, so
you're extra excited. But when you get on the plane, you get seated next to a person who wants to tell you his/her life story
(which you're not in...
The Sword in the Ceiling
After a long, hard day of work, you return homethe only problem is, your front door is wide open, all your lights are on and
there's a sword stuck in the ceiling. The rest of your house looks normal, but you also notice several holes dug in your backyard.
What's going on?
Writers Block
With a book deadline fast approaching and an empty document tormenting you on your laptop, you realize you need a change of
scenery to get your work done. You go to the airport and take the next flight out. Your travels take you to the gorgeous country of
Ireland. But now you need a...
Love Boat
After a long, hard breakup, you decide to treat yourself and go on a two-week cruise. You get onto the boat, put your bags in your
room, and take a stroll around the deck. As you look around you, everyone seems to be in couples and everywhere you look,
lovebirds are spending time together....
Moral Dilemmas
By: Brian A. Klems | June 28, 2016 | Comments 144
Its Sunday morning. Youre ready for a relaxing day at home but you realize that youre all out of coffee. You take a quick trip to
the grocery store, and while youre in line to check out, someone comes up behind you and points a gun at the cashier. Stop
what youre doing. Give...
Surprise on the Doorstep
The doorbell rings. You check the alarm clock and notice its way too early for someone to be visiting. You crawl out of the warm
bed and scuffle across the house to the front door. You crack it open and no one is there. Upon opening the door, you notice an
unmarked package on...
Home Sweet Home
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After months of living in a bug-infested apartment, you decide its finally time to get a new place. While youre shopping for a
new place to live, you drive past a beautiful Victorian house with a large lawn. A sign in the front says FOR SALE, so you
decide to call the realtor out...
The Beautiful Voice
You've received a bill in the mail and it's incorrect. There's a phone number to call so you give it a ring. The person who answers
has a beautiful voice. After several minutes the issue is resolved, but you can't help wondering who this person is with such a
beautiful voice so you take...
Crime Log
By: Brian A. Klems | May 25, 2016 | Comments 177
Opening up the daily paper, you decide to catch up on the local news. When you check the crime log, you notice a familiar name:
yours. The log says youre wanted for a crime you didnt commit. Suddenly, you hear three loud knocks on the door, followed by
a man yelling, Police! Open up!...
Technovision
We all stare at our phones, laptops and televisions more than we probably should. But what happens when the screens have made
us go blind? Describe a morning where youve lost your sight and are forced to find your way to work without your eyesight.
Dont forget: everyone else is blind, too!
Telling Your Life Story
On the long flight to a foreign country, you wind up telling your seatmate much of your life story. Only it isnt yours. Youve
always wanted to pretend to be somebody else, just for an hour or two, and this seemed like the perfect opportunity. Only now
you find yourself falling for your seatmate,...
Post-apocalyptic Wasteland
Its 50 years in the future, and the world is at war. Luckily, when the nuclear bombs dropped, you had a bomb shelter under your
house to hide out in. When your monitors tell you its safe to go outside a year later, what do you find? Who is still alive? Have
the plants...
Cat Got Your Tongue?
By: Brian A. Klems | April 26, 2016 | Comments 171
You wake up for work one day, brush your teeth, pack your computer bag and head out the door. But when you walk into your
office building and try to say hello to the receptionist, you cant speak. Whats got your tongue? Can the receptionist speak, or is
her voice gone as well?
Angry Doppelgnger
You decide to spend the day enjoying the sunny weather. And that's great, until you see him (or her)but who? The person looks
exactly like you, but you know that you dont have a twin. And what's this, he (or she) is approaching youangrily. Who is this,
and why are is this person so...
Clown College Valedictorian
You've graduated from clown college and have been named valedictorian of your class. You must give an inspirational speech to
all the other bozos in the crowd and, after weeks of writing, you finally think you've nailed it. Show us you delivering your
speech.
Dear Me
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Opening up your lunch box, you expect to find your normal mixture of baby carrots, a slightly-mushed sandwich and a
clementine. But today's different. Instead of the food you swore you had packed that morning, there's a mysterious note signed by
yourself? What does it say, and why can't you remember writing it? Perhaps most...
Enter the Void
By: Brian A. Klems | March 29, 2016 | Comments 412
At first it's like any other day. You wake up, shower, start to brew your morning cup of coffee, and that's when you notice
outside the window, there's nothing there. Just an endless black void. What happened? Where are you? How do you get back to
reality?
Running With a Ghost
You start training to run a half-marathon. Things are going well and you've developed a route that you like to run. One day you
notice someone peeking out the window of one of the houses you pass, though you think nothing of it. But then the next day the
peeper is back again. And...
All in a Days Work
As a doctor for hire youve met a fair share of odd folks. Nothing quite like this though: A man in his mid-thirties stands before
you, clutching a wound just given to him by another man sprinting down the street. Now the perpetrator trips and lands on his
own knife. Screaming for help and...
Olympic Trip
You have been chosen to help carry the Olympic Torch for the 2016 Summer Olympics. Its finally your turn to carry the Torch
and you are so nervous you might throw up. You take the Torch from its previous carrier and start running. As cameras flash and
the world watches, you trip and go...
Wedding Crashers
You are standing at the altar waiting to marry the person of your dreams. The preacher says, Should anyone here present know
of any reason that this couple should not be joined in holy matrimony, speak now or forever hold your peace. You smile at your
soon-to-be spouse, ready to get on with the...
Alligator Whisperer
By: Brian A. Klems | February 23, 2016 | Comments 284
You are an expert at capturing alligatorsthey call you The Alligator Whisperer. Your work has helped scientists gather
extensive information on the life of alligators and you are hailed as a hero in the scientific community. Everything is going great
until one day the alligators start hunting you. What do you do?
I Can Hear You
By: Brian A. Klems | February 16, 2016 | Comments 214
You were involved in a terrible car accident and have been in a coma for the past three months. What your family and the doctors
dont know is that you can hear everything that they say. Write the scene.
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