Collaborative Stories for the Collective Imagination

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Story Prompts

February 2026

New monthly prompts for your next collaborative fiction journey.

This month’s theme: Seventeen

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We were both seventeen when we first met on a cruise ship while trying to escape our own families. (⭐Bonus: Write with a family member or someone you would like to have met at seventeen.)

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It was still seventeen miles away in the dark forest and I was losing all power when the new moon began to rise. (⭐Bonus: Write with the person with whom you would navigate darkness.)

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Bedridden and bored, I decided to post brutally honest reviews of my online purchases—in strictly haiku form (3 lines totaling 17 syllables in a 5-7-5 count with each chapter written as a new haiku product review). (⭐Bonus: Write with the most poetic and/or witty person in your life.)

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Write a fictional account of the extraordinary travels of a lone gray wolf tagged “OR-17” that ends in getting killed by a truck on the highway, inspired by the real-life migration of legendary wolf OR-93. (⭐Bonus: Write with the creative non-fiction and/or canine lover in your life.)

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After seventeen years, I texted back my first love who I had met on a cruise ship. (⭐Bonus: Write with an intimate partner or close friend.)

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