Writing Prompt 1
You’re walking your (or your friend’s) dogs one day in a rural area, far from any civilisation, when a tiny meteorite shoots into a nearby field. You go to investigate it. When you arrive you see the ground smoking with a green-ish haze masking the crash site. It is unclear what lays beyond the haze.
Do you:
a) Send one of the dogs into the haze to see if it’s lethal, with the intention of immediate close-inspection if it’s safe?
b) Keep the dogs away, tie them to a nearby tree and go to investigate without testing whether the haze is lethal?
c) Observe the crash-site from afar with the dogs, and call help from a friend who would take a few hours to reach you?
Entries:
From Belinda and Andrew
C) After a few calls your friend answers and he says he’ll be there in two hours. You sit down and try and calm your nerves (around the dogs). After twenty minutes you hear a noise coming from the greenish haze. At first you hear movement, and then talking . You see foggy distant figures start walking towards you. What do you do?
a) Hide with the dog in a nearby bush?
b) Run and hope the dog follows?
c) Approach the figure and leave the dog behind?
You’re crouching with the dogs, trying to keep your breath steady when suddenly a hand grabs your shoulder, screeches of a van accompany the cacophony of the dogs barking as a swarm of figures approach you. Do you?
a) Run?
b) Go with the men?
c) Fight the man next to you?
You run… run far far away. When you find shelter. You breathe heavily and turn around to see a figure , scream, and then wake up.
Writing Prompt 2
You go back to your accommodation after a long-lecture, to find a bouquet of roses on your pillow with a note reading ‘Meet me at the drop-off point outside the Ritz at 19:30. You’ll know who I am, don’t be late’.
Do you:
a) Call security (if you live on campus then campus security, if off-campus then the police), you really don’t want to risk it?
b) Dress smartly and head there for the time given?
c) Dress casually and purposefully turn up to the spot after observing the people in the area for a little while?
d) Call your friend who looks like you, and tell them to head to the spot for that time, and ring them once they got there?
Entries:
By Kristina, Shelby and Jewel
C) You are curious and want to know who left the note/flowers, but you want to do so safely. You turn up to the Ritz at 19:30 and watch the people going in and out. You notice a few off things/people who stand out but you don’t know anyone; you don’t know which person sent the flowers. Do you…
A) Go up to a guard and ask them if they have any information/have seen anyone odd
B) Approach one of the random people and ask them if they’ve sent the note
C) Go home
D) Continue to observe
You approach a random person who seemed to be dressed smart casual, he had brown hair with slightly sweaty strands, a white shirt, leather jacket and jeans. He seemed nervous. After you approach him you offer a soft,
“Hello…excuse me.”
However, you were greeted with a violent yell and a dash of luke-warm coffee on your top.
“Get the fuck away from me.”
Do you…
a) Walk away?
b) ask the Ritz to use their bathroom?
c) slap the guy and make a scene?
d) Apologise?
You slap the guy. Hard. Across his face. It’ll definitely leave a mark. His anger will definitely leave a mark on you. He screams, curses at you. Words you’ve never even heard! Ritz security comes to dissolve the situation. They pull you apart. The guy is still yelling. As security asks you to leave, you glance at the hotel entrance. There, standing with a bouquet of flowers, the same as on your pillow, stands your crush crying. Well, you fucked up. Big time.
By Dave, Liona and Hannah Dyett
C) and you call your friend (who looks like you) – you brief them on the situation – and they’re ok to observe the situation. When you arrive a tall man in a detective style disguise turns up and stands next to you. He hesitantly says out the corner of his mouth, “it’s in the end cubicle of the ladies toilet. Go and get it then meet me at the bus stop across the road in five minutes. He walks off. Do you:
a) Leave with your friend?
b) “Play along” and head into the Ritz to attempt to have a look for something in the end cubicle of ladies toilet?
c) Go to the police station to report the strange situation?
And then as you found “that” package you become hysterical. ‘Who is this man?’ you wonder. You then go across the road to meet him at the bus stop. Before he sees you, you quickly put red lipstick on. You then walk towards him and all of a sudden he turns around and as you go to say his name a flood of acid hits your face.
“Omg Ethan! What the hell – why the hell are you doing this, you’re my ex boyfriend I –‘ before you can say anymore he’s dragged you into a van and whispered the words ‘once a slapper always a slapper, once a gold-digger always a gold-digger. I can’t believe you were willing to meet a random stranger for money – you don’t change do you missy!’
“I hate you!”
“I love you more missy,” he laughs hysterically. Your face is burning like hell, all you can say is…
“let me die Ethan, let me die”.
By Christian Hurley, Bryan Taim and Elliot Thompson
A) After calling security you throw away the flowers and plop down on the bed and turn on the TV. You doze off for a while but you wake up to a breaking news story on the news. Headline “Security guard abducted by an unkown person, looking for any leads or clues!” Do you:
A) Try this and forget everything an change the channel
B) Realize you might have important evidence and go digging through the trash for the flowers/note.
C) Go to find the person. You really did know who it was from the beginning.
After changing the channel you realize that no one watches cable TV and turn on Netflix. You spend some time watching Black Mirror but after a while you get bored. You decide you want to do something more interactive. So instead of watching TV, you play videogames. You turn on the Xbox but have to make an important decision. Do you play:
A) FIFA?
B) Call of Duty
C) Halo
You begin Halo and want to chat online. You put on your headset and begin a 1 v 1. The voice on the other end breathes heavily. Very ominous. You begin to taunt the voice. Then he speaks, “why weren’t you at the Ritz?” You scream and jump out the window, you use your trusty clothing hanger to travel on the electricity lines. Using the wind you deduct that the xbox reception was coming from the north. You travel by the electricity lines to the house of… your ex Brad! He’s sitting on the couch playing xbox, next to him is the kidnapped bodyguard. You open the door. Brad gets up. “Baby?” You shoot Brad, then the guard. “No witnesses,” you whisper as you put on sunglasses and the CSI Miami music plays. You jump up and hop onto the electricity line, and ride off into the sunset.
Writing Prompt 3
You’re being followed by someone who looks very much like a leprechaun on the way back home. After a while you turn to face him and ask what he’s deal is. He holds three differently-coloured marbles out to you, and says that he has been told to grant you a superpower, the options being: invisibility, flight or super-strength. People gather round, both amazed and puzzled at the spectacle.
Do you:
a) Choose invisibility?
b) Choose flight?
c) Choose super-strength?
d) Burst into hysterical laughter before making an exit?
Entries:
By Christian Hurley, Bryan Taim and Elliot Thompson
D) Everyone erupts in boos and anger. The leprechaun’s eyes begin to well up with tears,, and the crowd gathers around him to comfort his time of pain. You pay no attention and walk home, happy that you didn’t get fooled. You sit at home, alone as usual. The house has a quiet uneasiness when there’s no life in it but your own, so you give it the only life you know. TV. It’s on, and as you sit you hear a quiet humming coming from outside. On the TV is the crowd, they’re balling their eyes out. A headline reads below, “Dying leprechaun fails to give away magic marbles and save himself”. Then an image of the dead leprechaun. The humming turns into a motor. A search light goes through your window. The sound of the police. Do you…
a) Escape through the backdoor?
b) Surrender
c) Use your portal gun to enter a new dimension?
Shit! You forgot that your portal gun was set to the “confront your guilt” setting. You are transported to the leprechaun dimension and are surrounded by thousands of them, tens of thousands actually, it’s actually Leprechaun Time’s Square. All of them are crying. You basically killed their leader ( who was on a diplomatic trip to the human dimension when he fell ill). Do you…
a) Go on a search for a leprechaun to human power adapter for your portal gun?
b) Escape to the leprechaun underground
c) Say, ‘fuck it I’m finding the gold at the end of the rainbow’?
You’re being selfish and want to leave, but as it turns out there is no such thing as a leprechaun to human power adapter! Stuck in this dimension you’re forced to accept your guilt. You’re forced to confront the leprechauns with your sins. After much deliberation they accept you for who you are. Seventy years later, you have gained leprechaun citizenship, have six beautiful half-leprechaun children and a happy marriage. One day while looking through your attic you find your old portal gun. Reminded of your human past you try to turn it on one last time… It blinks then lights up. Overwhelmed with the time wasted on this leprechaun planet you take the machete you always carry in your backpack and destroy the portal gun. A tear streaks down your eye. ou look out your attic window, jump … and die.
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