Ann Hunt

1) Image Prompt: Magic Wand

2) Describe the same character three times. The first time, get me to fall in love with the character. The second time, convince me the character is nobility. The third time, make me sick with hatred for him.

3) A little girl is terrified of the monster under her bed, but what she doesn’t know is that the monster under her bed protects her from the true monsters - her family.

1) Image Prompt: “With Me” by SansaXIX on deviantART

2) Write a short story starting with a character about to kill the nemesis. Then tell the story of how they got here - starting when they were best friends.

1) Image Prompt: From the Met Museum exhibition on luxury cards: “Only three decks of European hand-painted playing cards are known to have survived from the late Middle Ages. These include The Cloisters Playing Cards, which will form the core of this small exhibition highlighting one of the more intriguing works of secular art from The Cloisters Collection. Examples of cards from the earliest hand-painted woodblock deck as well as fifteenth-century German engraved cards, north Italian tarot cards of the same period, and the finest deck from the early sixteenth century will complete the display. Collectively, the figures and scenes depicted on these cards reflect changing worldviews during a period of tumultuous social, economic, and religious change, charting the transition from late medieval to early modern Europe.”

2) Your life flashes before your eyes, but some of the images have not happened yet.

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2) You are in a terrible accident. The doctors put you into cryosleep in a desperate attempt to save you. When you wake up, you are in a perfect world.

1) Image Prompt: NASA: Light Echoes Used to Study Protoplanetary Disks -This illustration shows a star surrounded by a protoplanetary disk. A new study uses data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and four ground-based telescopes to determine the distance from a star to the inner rim of its surrounding protoplanetary disk. Researchers used a method called "photo-reverberation," also known as "light echoes.

2) An assassin arrives at his dead drop to discover a letter written by a child and her lunch money inside.

1) Image Prompt: From the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope - “the spiral galaxy NGC 4845, located over 65 million light-years away in the constellation of Virgo (The Virgin). The galaxy’s orientation clearly reveals the galaxy’s striking spiral structure: a flat and dust-mottled disk surrounding a bright galactic bulge.NGC 4845’s glowing center hosts a gigantic version of a black hole, known as a supermassive black hole. The presence of a black hole in a distant galaxy like NGC 4845 can be inferred from its effect on the galaxy’s innermost stars; these stars experience a strong gravitational pull from the black hole and whizz around the galaxy’s center much faster than otherwise.From investigating the motion of these central stars, astronomers can estimate the mass of the central black hole — for NGC 4845 this is estimated to be hundreds of thousands times heavier than the sun. This same technique was also used to discover the supermassive black hole at the center of our own Milky Way — Sagittarius A* — which hits some four million times the mass of the sun.The galactic core of NGC 4845 is not just supermassive, but also super-hungry. In 2013 researchers were observing another galaxy when they noticed a violent flare at the center of NGC 4845. The flare came from the central black hole tearing up and feeding off an object many times more massive than Jupiter. A brown dwarf or a large planet simply strayed too close and was devoured by the hungry core of NGC 4845.“

2) Every person has a certain word that, if spoken aloud in their presence, will cause them to die instantly. While clearing out an abandoned storage unit, you stumble upon a book that contains the name of every living person - and also reveals their death word. (from promptuarium.wordpress.com)

1) Image Prompt: Oswaldo Rivas/Reuters

2) Make me hate a character that I should love.

1) Image Prompt - Starving polar bear image from Kerstin Langenberger

2) There is a colony of vampires living in the metropolitan area. They fight for power among humans. Some work in the news (but never in front of cameras) and others work in the hospitals. You are part of the cult trying to oust these killers.

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2) Three years ago, a person in London discovered an old furnace room/dungeon under her small apartment. What would you do if you discovered such a space?

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2) You were offered as a sacrifice to the gods. They weren’t interested in killing you.

1) Image Prompt: Ken-follett.com

2) The fantasy genre is filled with overused beasts and races. Create a race of humanoids. Describe their homeland, including its borders, chief exports, role in the world, the languages spoken, the dialects, the social structure, the history, the music (if it has any), the dances, the clothing, the food, and transportation. What stereotypes do other races have of this people? How are they like their neighbors, and where do they differ? List the three most popular names of children and the meaning of those names.

Today, write the first two lines of your story. Then write the last two lines of your story. Fill in the middle, but be mindful of the story ends.

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2) You arrive at a prison with no guards, no electric fences, and no escape attempts. The prisoners are always too afraid to escape.

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2) He’d seen her twice that day. Once was when he passed her in the market, and the second time was when he watched the evening news.

1) Image Prompt: Happy Caturday!

2) Tell a story from a videogame. Take on the voice of your Sim or Skyrim character. Give them (even more) life. Don’t neglect your senses.

1) Describe the moment when you held or felt new life, be it a newborn baby or a young kitten, or a spiritual new life. When did it occur? Did it change your perspective?

2) Song Prompt: TOOL “Sober”

1) Create an image for the cover of your story. You can do this by sketching it, or you can describe what you would like to see.

2) What was the most influential story for you as a child?

1) Image Prompt: Fairy Queene by Freakodo

2) TED Prompt: David Eagleman: “Can we create new senses for humans?” “As humans, we can perceive less than a ten-trillionth of all light waves. “Our experience of reality,” says neuroscientist David Eagleman, “is constrained by our biology.” He wants to change that. His research into our brain processes has led him to create new interfaces — such as a sensory vest — to take in previously unseen information about the world around us.“

Describe a scene - perhaps from your story, or a safe place you go to in times of stress - in as vivid detail as you can. Then, add more sensory information - more than the average human could perceive.