Story Prompts

​O​ne summer over 5,300 years ago, a​ neolithic man was murdered​ in the Italian Alps and preserved naturally in ice until he was discovered accidentally by two German hikers in 1991. ​"The Ice Man" had 61 tattoos, a deep cut to his right hand, a flint arrowhead stuck in his left shoulder, and an innovative copper axe.​ Write the backstory behind the real-life murder of this glacier mummy named "Ötzi".

I waited until the last ice cube melted in my glass, and then made my move.

She always ordered one scoop of vanilla ice cream with crushed salt and vinegar chips as a cool reminder.

Write a short play or parable about two lovers separated by a wall of ice broken only by their confessions to one another.

In a world where undocumented people are barred from dreaming and sleep cycles are policed by the state, a compliant worker in the forensics division of the "Imagination Corrections and Enforcement" (I.C.E.) department sorts through contraband dream fragments and suddenly discovers one with her in it.