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The happy couple love their imaginary daughter

You were the only person your friend could share a dark secret with

She is in love with a ghost

You are the imaginary friend

Your imaginary friend just handed in their two-week’s notice.

Your imaginary friend just asked for next week off.

When she hugs someone their painful memories are moved into her mind

When she hugs someone their painful memories are removed and placed into her mind. Her memory is now just a series of painful moments intersected with moments of…

A pacifist buys a gun

A man with a wooden leg walks into a nightclub and applies to become a pole-dancer.

You don’t remember what you did last night but now both Heaven and Hell have banned you.

Your imaginary friend has been kidnapped. The kidnappers demand a strange ransom…

Three weeks ago you met a ghost. Now you are best friends. Only you can see her.

Today your parents told you that they are time travellers

Strange Fortunes

Only you can tell us the story that links these images.

Adam and Sue in The Realm of Dreams

Your people and place Your starting stuff

It turns out that immortality is not the blessing you thought it was

A loyal dog sits and waits. He used to be a person.

An old man’s hearing aid begins picking up strange transmissions.

A lady walks into a bookshop with a flint-lock pistol in her purse.

A sad old man is walking on the beach. He has an ancient sword in his hand.

Today, you learned that the family living next door crash-landed on Earth and have been stranded here ever since.

Buying back your soul one share at a time

Due to a drunken deal you once made, your soul is not your own. Since that day you have had incredible good luck and an array of niche…

Cinderella – the automaton who would be a girl

In this reimagining of Cinderella that you are going to write, Cinderella is a clockwork automaton left to her maker’s wife and stepdaughters after he passed away. This…