Three Additional Writing Prompts for Uneasy Fiction

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.

Three More Writing Prompts for Uneasy Fiction

Just a short post this week to give myself time to make progress with my manuscript, working title: Generic. I hope these will give you some ideas for weird or eerie fantasy fiction. Go ahead and write your response in the comments!

1. You awaken to find that your flesh has become translucent, and you can see your blood, bones and organs within yourself. Trapped in your stomach, you notice three small artefacts. What are they? What will occur as your body attempts to digest these strange artefacts?

2. Walking through a graveyard, you notice an open grave with a coffin inside, so you climb into the coffin and lie there. Passersby stop and stare silently. You find that, with a little concentration, you can hear their thoughts. What are they thinking? How long will you lie there?

3. While reading a strange book bequeathed to you by a relative you never met, you notice a peculiar smell. You get up and begin to trace the odour to its source. What will you find when you get there? Are the book and the odour connected and, if so, how?

See you again next week for more fiction or other ideas about writing!

Three Writing Prompts for Uneasy Fiction

Are you looking for inspiration for your next eerie short story? If so, I hope these odd writing prompts will get you started. By all means, share your ideas in the comments below. Alternatively, write your story in a dusty old notebook and then hide it in a deposit box in a hastily dug hole in the forest.

1. You dream of a besuited man in a desert looking away from you. No matter how you turn or call him, he is always facing away from you. What's going on? What does it mean?

2. As you leave your urban home, a pigeon shit lands on the concrete directly in front of you in a shape that reminds you of the happiest day of your life. What does it look like? What happens next?

3. As you are rummaging through the bins of your local park, looking for something to eat, you find a small metal box covered in strange runes. From within, a deafening silence emanates. What is it? What do you do with it?

Come back soon for more creepy writing prompts or one of my own short stories.