Collaborative Stories for the Collective Imagination

Story Prompts

May 2024

Every month, we release new story prompts to help you launch your next collaborative fiction journey. This month’s theme: Trucks

1

The semi-truck weighed two tons. The cargo was alive. The driver suddenly felt sleepy.

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2

A heat wave loomed and the city's garbage trucks sat still because the sanitation workers went on strike.

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3

It was her first monster truck rally and Jackie was hell-bent on making grown men cry. "I've got the devil in me," she smiled to herself in the driver's seat of her custom monster.

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4

They were former inmates with a childhood passion for cooking. Their food truck served a lunch menu that set its mostly white collar customers free in mysterious ways.

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5

A three-year-old boy loses control of his toy truck inside a café and launches an epic chain reaction of dramatic events.

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