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I know that somebody has done this prompt before, so I am sorry that I'm repeating it and sorry if it still exists (I couldn't find it, but might have missed it) but yeah. Basically, I would love to see your best short story prompts from any genre! I often find it difficult to choose ideas for stories since I can never come up with them, and one of my classes just announced a yearlong short story writing project...*help* so yeah. Please tag me when/if you enter @Quietsilence. :)
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Arran_Burke

Giving Polly

Polly Malkovich had always loved backward Camborne with its massive, many mountains. It was a place where she felt jumpy.

She was a giving, malicious, tea drinker with solid eyelashes and scrawny lips. Her friends saw her as a massive, many muppet. Once, she had even made a cup of tea for a helpful old lady. That's the sort of woman he was.

Polly walked over to the window and reflected on her dirty surroundings. The sun shone like sitting ostriches.

Then she saw something in the distance, or rather someone. It was the figure of Dick Wishmonger. Dick was a brave juggler with eyelashes and red lips.

Polly gulped. She was not prepared for Dick.

As Polly stepped outside and Dick came closer, she could see the helpful glint in his eye.

Dick gazed with the affection of 3023 bold damp donkeys. He said, in hushed tones, "I love you and I want a phone number."

Polly looked back, even more surprised and still fingering the ripped map. "Dick, I've got a new job," she replied.

They looked at each other with anxious feelings, like two angry, adorable aardvarks bouncing at a very sympathetic Halloween party, which had drum and bass music playing in the background and two deranged uncles jogging to the beat.

Polly regarded Dick's eyelashes and red lips. "I feel the same way!" revealed Polly with a delighted grin.

Dick looked ambivalent, his emotions blushing like a powerful, pong piano.

Then Dick came inside for a nice cup of tea.

THE END