Writeabout

A small town has followed the same unwritten rule for generations. One day, someone new arrives and doesn't know it. Write what happens next.

Write a short story about someone who discovers that the thing they believed was one-of-a-kind has been quietly replicated and the fallout from this person’s discovery.

A single moment of distraction. A glance at a phone for no good reason. Write the world-changing event that followed, and the person who caused it without ever meaning to.

A notebook is found in a second-hand bookshop, every page filled with someone else's plans, ideas, and half-finished thoughts. Write about the person who buys it.

Write a short story about a small town that discovers, after a long winter storm cuts off all outside supply lines, just how little it can actually provide for itself.

A letter arrives written in a language you don't speak. You find someone to translate it, but something in their hesitation makes you wonder if you're getting the full story. Write the scene.

Write a short story from the perspective of someone who works in the margins — a night watchman, a proof-reader, a backup goalkeeper, a B-side. What do they notice that everyone else misses?

A person is handed a box of someone else's archived life — letters, photos, receipts, a journal — and told to decide what gets kept for a museum. Write the scene where they find something that makes the decision impossible

In a future where every human decision is routed through a global AI to find the path of least resistance, one person begins making deliberately inefficient choices — and the system notices.

Write a piece told entirely in tempo — a frantic paragraph, then a slow one, then something that stutters and repeats. Let the structure carry the meaning, not just the words.