This document provides writing prompts for supernatural or fantasy-themed short stories. Some of the prompts include: accepting into a school for supernatural creatures and letting classmates guess your identity; discovering an ancient sword's magical properties in a modern butter knife; taking a high-paying but dangerous job where you do nothing in an empty room; and experiencing prophetic or recurring dreams about places and people you later encounter in real life. The prompts are intended to spark creative storytelling around themes of mystery, magic, and the surreal.

1. WRITING PROMPTS x storytelling
Exposing the hidden world in you.
A writing activity for Grade 9 -English

3. • You have been accepted into a school for supernatural creatures. You
decide to let your classmates try to figure out who you are.

4. • One day, you see a picture of yourself in a foreign newspaper, you ask
someone to translate the headline for you: “Search for the Kidnapped
Child Still Ongoing”

5. • Lon g ago, the legendary sword Excalibur was melted down and lost
to history. The mythical blade’s steel ended up in your butter knife,
with all its magical properties still intact.

6. • The more dangerous a job is, the more it pays. You just took a job
offer to stand in an empty room and do nothing for $100K an hour.

7. • A woman has been dating guy after guy, but it never seems to work
out. She’s unaware that she’s actually been dating the same guy over
and over; a shapeshifter who’s fallen for her, and certain he’s going to
get it right this time.

8. • You’re vacationing in a city you’ve never been before, when you
suddenly find yourself in a place you’ve seen hundreds of times in
your dreams. The person you always see in those dreams is there too,
and they slowly turn and ask,” is it really you?”

9. • One day, you see a picture of yourself in a foreign newspaper, you ask
someone to translate the headline for you: “Search for the Kidnapped
Child Still Ongoing”

10. • Your bestfriend goes missing while on an expedition. They are
assumed dead. In reality, they are alive and message on their phone
like a diary to help their loneliness. One year later, their phone gets
signal and their messages send.

11. • It’s 3.a.m. An official phone alert wakes you up. It says,” do not look at
the moon”. You have hundreds of notifications. Hundreds of random
numbers are sending, “ It’s a beautiful night tonight. Look outside”

12. • House is on fire. Family runs out front, you run out the back. When
not accounted for by rescuers, you are pronounced dead. You’ve
accidentally faked your own death and you decided to roll with it.

13. • For a creative type essay, you reluctantly choose weaponized time
travel for oyur topic. When submitting it online a minute before the
deadline, you are hit with a 100% plagiarism match to a dissertation
made in 1941.

14. • A local bartender regularly willingly hosts monsters and demons in his
bar. When terrorists kidnap his children, they learn the hard way how
close he is to them.

15. • You are a brain surgeon, everytime you perform a surgery, you have
the ability to see memories of the patient you are operating on.

16. • Every baby is taken away by the government and returned when they
are ten years old. They never remember what happened in those
years, but they always recognize their parents. You however,
remember everything. And those aren’t you parents.

17. • You live in a world where your soulmate is unable to hurt you,
intentionally or otherwise. You are fighting a war, when one of the
enemy’s knives harmlessly glances off you.

18. • A few selected minds are gifted with dream about the “ library of all
books”. In only one night, they experience a full year of reading and
learning. You are one of them, but instead of once in a lifetime, you
wake up in this same library library every single night. Today is your
9th birthday.