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Monday Mash-Up #10
Story writing prompts to spark your creativity with a challenge

Back by popular demand! We’ve read your submissions and everyone at The Kraken Lore is giddy with jubilation at all the creative stories you’ve written for our challenges!
Tally of the points earned thus far: (Mash-Ups #7–9)
- 1st place: JF Danskin and Sweet Chaos with 32 points!
- 2nd place: Sonja Glucksberg with 23 points!
- 3rd place: Rayne Sanning, and P. L. Goaway with 18 points!
- Honorable Mentions: Jonathon Sawyer with 15 points; Bradan Writes Stories with 14 points; Ben Ulansey and Kathy K with 9 points; Kirsty Mackay, Sieran Lane, and Micheal Woodruff with 8 points; Jim McDonald on the board with 2 points!
Wow! Good thing it costs me nothing to hand out all of these points, because I’d be poorer than… well, me! Check out all of their amazing stories! I’ll wait…
Welcome back! Time for the next 2 prompts, then? Here we go!
Prompt #1: (2 Points)
Write a story guest-starring my perfect Pomeranian pal, Poofie!
You can call him something else, and you can borrow this image if you like (Just credit me and Nightcafé AI ❤) What crazy shenanigans is this little ball of fur up to?
Prompt #2: (2 Points)
Write a story where the narrator is a pigeon.
Does it deliver messages? Is it also the protagonist? Or is it just observing the world from high up above while doing the birdly things that birds do?
Constraints: (Worth 1 bonus point each)
- A Volkswagon Beetle (Punch Buggy?)
- A needlessly long incantation for a simple magical effect
- A camel
- A braid of hair
Hardcore Constraint: (Worth 2 bonus points)
- A character needs to put a large thing into a smaller thing
Literary Device: (Worth a MEGA 5 bonus points!)
- An example of Onomatopoeia
Rules:
- Write a story based on one of the two main prompts.
- Include as many of the constraints in your story as possible.
- Keep your story between 100–1000 words.
- Use the tag “Mashups”. This is the easiest way for our editors to find you to score your submission!
- Tag me @ Sawyer . Jon (no spaces) Jonathon Sawyer so that I can read it and credit you for points in the next Mash-Up, please!
- Challenge your fellow writers.
- Publish where ever you want but consider The Kraken Lore.
- Add a section that tallies up your points at the end of your story. You can look here for an example. (Worth 1 BONUS point)
