At last, three more writing prompts for those weird, unsettling stories you've been dying to tell.
1. With but one score to settle in all your long years, you pass away. Stars swirl. You are reincarnated as a creature with two heads. The other head is occupied by the person you detested in your last life. Your thoughts and identity are mingled with theirs. What happens? How does it feel to be one with and inseparable from this awful person? How does the situation resolve itself?
2. Awakening from a revolting dream, you leap out of your bed unable to believe what you felt. You look at the bed. It seems normal. You touch it. It feels like writhing maggots. With disgust, you tear off your pyjamas. They feel the same. All touch has infected with this horrible effect. What do you do? How do you live?
3. Entering a covered market complete with fruit stalls, children's cheap clothing and a whole slaughtered pig bearing an expression of hideous anguish, you hear a voice, "Hey, you've been before. Don't you remember? It was horrible! You shouldn't be here! Get away! Run!" You stare at the pig's twisted face in silent horror and then turn and bolt, but the voice doesn't stop whispering. Finally, you summon the courage to speak back. What do you say?
I hope those disturbing thoughts help you on your way! By all means comment or e-mail me with the result! You can see my other writing prompts for uneasy fiction by clicking here.
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