Sometimes horrible, wacky prompts are just what you need to get your creative juices flowing again. It's never too late to turn a bad prompt into an epic story!
Without further ado, some spooky prompts for October:
1. "Jenny, I know it's been a while, but I really need to ask a favor. Can I please borrow the axe we used to kill Madison? I'll have it back to you by tomorrow night."
2. "The first time I ever went to the state fair, I got to ride the Ferris Wheel with John F. Kennedy. It was three days after he died."
3. When the grim reaper comes to guide your soul to the afterlife, you're already gone—because the grim reaper's wicked twin brother has assumed the reaper's identity and led you away.
4. At midnight every night, the doctor's clock turns back three hours and time is paused in the rest of the world until it hits midnight once again. He uses this time to scour the hospital patients' medical files. One night, right as the clock turns back and the doctor starts digging through the coroner's files, a freshly dead patient in the morgue is restored to life.
5. A man with a gun boards the bus you're on and threatens to shoot anyone who doesn't give him all the money in their wallet. To emphasize his threat, he shoots at random. The person in the seat beside you on the bus suddenly points at you, screaming. In the window behind him, you see your reflection. You've been shot in the head, but you don't feel a thing.
6. "How many times do I have to tell you, Kory? You can't kill every boy your sister invites over. The cops will start to suspect something."
7. Every Halloween at sunset, the little angel who lives on your right shoulder leaves you for two hours to go on her brief annual vacation. For those two hours, you keep yourself locked in your basement to protect your family and friends. This year, the angel doesn't come back.
8. "Mom, I think Dad might be the one who killed Aunt Becky."
9. Your brother invites you to a Halloween party at his weird friend's house, and you go. When you get there, something about the other guests feels off. Finally, alone with a werewolf in an upstairs bedroom, you go to pull off his mask. And realize he isn't wearing one.
10. While trick-or-treating with your 5-year-old sister, you're attacked by a real vampire. He bites you and starts drinking your blood, but then catches sight of your sister and lets you go. Backing away nervously, he says to your sister, "Please, Beelzebub, I didn't know it was you."
11. You decide to give out candy on Halloween night for the first time this year, but every time you answer the door, there's no one there. Finally, you stop answering, figuring it's a prank—until, twenty minutes later, you hear someone singing in your basement. You live alone.
12. One day you receive an out-of-the-blue email from your parents asking you to dog-sit for a week while they go on vacation. When you get to their house, there's no one there—just a note for you saying that you have 48 hours to find your parents before they're "dealt with."
13. Every time you go to the bathroom, you notice a little crack in the wall behind the toilet. One day, the crack has widened into a man-sized hole. What seems like miles away, you see a bright flame flickering in the darkness.
Please bless our feeds with some new spooky short stories this month. It's, like, your Halloween duty!
