Collaborative Stories for the Collective Imagination

Story Prompts

October 2025

Every month, we release new creative writing prompts to help you launch your next collaborative fiction journey.

This month’s theme: Bus Stop

1

On the first day of school, I was waiting alone at the bus stop when a small fox sat down next me and suddenly spoke.

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2

I finally left the hospital and waited at the bus stop with some anesthesia still in my system.

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3

Sitting beside the bus stop shelter, his cardboard sign read: “Only $37 away from a ticket to PARADISE. Please help!” I drunkenly gave him the money if he promised to send me a postcard. Six months later, it arrived in the mail.

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4

It was a bus stop designed to summon ghosts and spirits who had unfinished business in the neighborhood.

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5

The chess team bus wasn’t going to make it in the snowstorm so it had to stop at the next roadside establishment.

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