Don't Know Where To Start?
Potential Prompts:
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When was the last or most significant time you experienced deja vu?
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When was the last time you felt like you were being watched? Has anything you’ve experienced gave you the feeling of “uncanny valley”?
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Have you experienced something unexplainable, as if it were supernatural? Share that experience.
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Describe a day when everything felt out of place.
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Write a story you would tell a group of preteens as a camp councilor around a campfire to scare them
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You inherit an antique mirror. Whenever you look into it, the reflection is just a little… wrong.
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A hitchhiker you picked up won’t stop humming a tune you’ve only ever heard in your dreams.
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A cornfield at night whispers your name.
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Something in the air changes, but no one can agree on what changed.
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The world develops a faint background hum one day. Only you notice when it stops.
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An object in your room has started moving slightly when you don’t look at it. You’re no longer sure which object it is.
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Write about your last paranormal encounter (nonfiction)
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The horizon is closer than it should be.
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You can hear a sound that no one else seems to notice. It isn’t loud, but it feels close.
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There’s a door that leads to nowhere—yet every time you open it, the “nowhere” grows more familiar.
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Every hallway seems just a little longer than it was the day before.
Try to Lean more into the ambiguous, unexplainable, abstract
feelings rather than horror!

Three Houses of the Apocalypse By Grace Brierley
