Thursday, November 27, 2014

Writing prompt: the book that is more than a book

So yesterday while I was doing a final cleanup of the station before clocking out for the day, I came across an abandoned book. A usual occurrence, no big deal. Until I opened it up.

On the back page was a sequence of numbers. There was no reference to what they were for, but if I had a guess, I would say they were page numbers. With this came the following scenario, which could be an interesting tale:

What if you found a book that was ordinary in every way that had a torn piece of paper in it. This piece of paper had a partial list on it of numbers that if you went only to those pages the book would begin to do... something.

Now what would the book do and what would it compel the finder to do? And would there be others looking for the book? And what if finder found the missing numbers? Interesting ideas, no?

It's why I am putting it out there for the masses to play with. I have ideas of where it could go, but I would love to see what others could do. All I ask is that if you make a story/novel/script from it, you give me credit for the original idea.

Happy writing!

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