Continue the story after the first line: "Everyone in town agreed the lake was haunted, but only I knew what was actually buried beneath it." Feel free to change tense/pronoun as needed. I'll pick the winner!

...I am reexamining a book titled Adventures with Impossible Figures by Bruno Ernst, pen name of J.A.F. de Rijk. It's on the type of optical illusions in which perception of space changes, as with the well-known Candles and Profiles drawing, or the one of the Old Woman/ Young Woman portrait and others more complicated such as by M.C. Escher. I am wondering how similar effects might be created in short story form. Flash fiction, though a poem would be an impressive feat for the challenge. Thank you in advance for your creativity :)

We are so rarely seen as we really are. Mirrors only reflect the reversal of our image. Imagine the world in which your reverse self in the mirror inhabits. Allow your mirror self to completely embody the dark side of your nature that you would never actualize in this reality. Don't hold back. Be honest with your darkness. Change your name if necessary. Win goes to whoever excites the animus the most.

Short story (500 words or less). $5 for winner, $3 for runner-up, and $2 for honorable mention.

Prose

You create a custom side character taking place in a popular video game of your choosing.

I have a very unfinished project that is pretty much throw away material at this point and think it would be fun to just have other writers just add one or two chapters right after another until it comes to a conclusion. I will add the first entry.

A strange package arrives at your door with no return address. Inside is a journal filled with entries written by someone you've never met, yet they seem to know everything about you. Write the first few entries and explore the mystery of the writer and why is it they are writing you.

Pull a famous character from any media of your choosing and put them in your own fictional story.

(form of your choice)

...poetry or prose...

In my first spoopy challenge, write about an occult member raising a member from a different occult. The weirder, the better! Any style works.

Tiny tale beginning with "The day I found an... "

Write a story about running from the police to escape arrest, finally finding an open door on the sidewalk, and you've done it. They blow by, oblivious, but as you stand from under the window, turn around and see the room, at what is looking back at you, jail is starting to look pretty good. Winner is decided by likes, and will receive a crisp $10.00 -Give us the situation.

Write a story about nothing, about going through a day where nothing extraordinary happens, but make us feel. Humane, evil, humorous, sad, satirical: Just make us feel. Winner is decided by likes, and will receive a crisp $10.00 -Show the method in monotony.

You're out on a first date set up from a dating Ap that's going alarmingly well at a fabulously posh restaurant that your date is footing the bill for. Your date tells you during the course of this lavish meal that she or he or they would like to commit a crime with you following your expensive dinner. The prospect excites you tremendously. Do you go through with it? Document the results starting from the restaurant. Winner determined by most wickedly fun.

Using lyrics from the classic song by Toto, "Africa," give me a short story of less than 1000 words. You aint gotta use ALL the lyrics, but somewhere in the prose, slide in some recognizable references. Any topic. Go with prose using standard accepted spelling, punctuation, and grammar. Poetry will be mocked and set afire.

We are back for the sixth publication of the Feather Project. Now then, the rules: Write what you'd like so long as it is fiction (Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Dystopian, etc.). Word count between 3500 and 7000 words. The only no-no is graphic sex scenes; everything else is fair game. The selected winner will receive a $60 reward and a copy of the anthology in which their work is featured. However, great work still must be seen. Should you not be chosen as the ultimate winner, but your work is still able to beat out the others to make it into the Anthology, you will receive a $25 reward along with a copy of the anthology in which your work is featured. (We hope to have a top four) Please provide your author's name. We look forward to seeing those that participate.

We are back for the sixth publication of the Feather Project. Now then, the rules: Write what you'd like so long as it is fiction (Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Dystopian, etc.). Word count between 3500 and 7000 words. The only no-no is graphic sex scenes; everything else is fair game. The selected winner will receive a $60 reward and a copy of the anthology in which their work is featured. However, great work still must be seen. Should you not be chosen as the ultimate winner, but your work is still able to beat out the others to make it into the Anthology, you will receive a $25 reward along with a copy of the anthology in which your work is featured. (We hope to have a top four) Please provide your author's name. We look forward to seeing those that participate.

Over the summer I threw up a post titled 'tomato sandwich' My challenge is for someone to write the first part to what I posted. Tag me if you like, but I will get to reading them all by Halloween for your $20 treat. I will take likes into consideration, but will ultimately choose the person who sets the stage best. Should be a fun one. https://www.theprose.com/post/748676/tomato-sandwich