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100 Literature Prompts

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1. Oh poor Atlas
2. Artificial heart
3. Static
4. It's alive and it's beating
5. Hanging bones
6. Fleas
7. Red
8. Leather bound book
9. Flying fish
10. What happened to the colour?
11. Shadow box
12. Pinned wings
13. Cupcake pincushion
14. Paper crane
15. Consciously unconscious
16. Sick
17. Mental midgets
18. Flutter heart, you know you're not free
19. Steampunk boots
20. Grotesque
21. Umbilical cord
22. Collocation
23. Empty metaphors
24. Silver bullets
25. TV Dinners
26. Reverberating
27. Phantasmagoria
28. Reticent
29. Frowzy mousey hair
30. Wicker basket full of water
31. Uninhabited brain
32. pig-sticker
33. Floating archipelagos
34. Pockets full of four leaf clovers
35. Unloved puce
36. Quite unbecoming of you
37. Burn down the bridge
38. Absolution
39. Rememorate
40. Gilded superciliousness
41. Tommy gun ratta-tat-tat
42. Nettle
43. Devil on your back
44. Hymnal of the falling
45. Ghosts and mothballs in the closet
46. Clothes on the floor
47. Cockerel crow
48. Worry Worm
49. Keep your shoes dry
50. Self control
51. Fireflies in your smile
52. Latticework
53. Riddle speak
54. Tongues of flame
55. Missing pieces
56. Cracking knuckles
57. Burning pine-needles
58. Modge-Podge
59. Fish tank
60. Masochist
61. Missing number 19
62. Narcissus's suicide
63. Flowers from death
64. Pseudo
65. Androphobia
66. As eloquent as an elephant
67. Sesquipedalianist
68. Kleptomaniac magpies
69. Removing teeth
70. Rain in November
71. Stuttering
72. Long eyelashes brushing skin
73. Breaking
74. Crystalline cell
75. 5th Instar
76. Philophobia
77. Invisible spectrum
78. Rusty old buckets
79. Indulging in the slime pits
80. Waterlogged lungs
81. So, this is how it ends?
82. A whale's calf washed up on the beach the other day
83. The stud and his bitch
84. Oh, what a shame
85. Cat eyes glowing
86. Cookie tin full of paper stars
87. Sidewalk cracks
88. Mush
89. Phanopoeia
90. Stained carpet
91. Seven pieces cut
92. Pricked finger
93. Belled collar
94. Silence isn't pure
95. Seeds grow and mature
96. Spiral of the time we have
97. Our toil is but dust
98. Metal lizard
99. Trench coat daggers
100. There is but sleep now
I've always wanted to do this.~
Completely up to interpretation. I think I'll do this one myself. OH. And the prompts are a lot better at the end in my opinion. The top ones are kinda' lame with the exception of a few.

Would LOVE to see what anyone does with this.


I might add more later.

If you don't want to see what I was thinking on certain ones, don't look any further. >:C



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Notes:

1. Reference to a Florence + the Machine song-- What the Water Gave Me. Inspired this whole crazy endeavor.

4. A song reference by Her Name is Calla. The song is called Motherfucker, It's Alive and It's Beating. I love that title, and the song too...though it's odd.

35. I like puce.

41. Nuther' song reference. "I Believe You But My Tommy Gun Don't" by Brand New, which is a reference to a movie. (Home alone? I don't know).

49. Misheard Florence + the Machine lyrics. Specifically the song, "Shake it Out" where she sings "Keep my issues strong" >w>

66. Lyrics to a song, Eloquent, by Sanctus Real.

82. I feel like this is from somewhere...but I'm not sure where.
*EDIT* This is inspired by the song "Whalebone" by Savoy. My dad listened to it today and I finally figured it out! He says "A whalebone, washed on the shore" and I always thought it'd be kinda neat if he had said "A whale, born, washed on the shore" if that makes sense. It would be...sad, because it makes me think of a whale calf washed on the shore. But what this could stand for... ahh! the opportunities.


83. Stud is the term for a male dog who has not had puppies (Sire is the term for one who has)
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Is there a limit to what we can do with a prompt? Like plot or character wise? 85. Cat eyes glowing could be fun but 99. Trench coat daggers sounds awesome!