After a Variety of Strange (If Not Wrong) Turns, Novelistador Returns to Giving Away Writing Prompts

Below are seven or eight writing prompts. Do keep your responses coming to keithhoward@gmail.com


K-SOFA Means “Dreamless Sleep” in Kampuchean
Fact: If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the
air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air,
the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all
four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

Using your prior knowledge, and this fact, please make a statue of a horse and rider.

K-SOFA Means Jeff Raymond
Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has
about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the
twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize
what is occurring, relax and correct itself.

Please write a story, from the point of view of a cat, about a cat falling from the twentieth floor of a building. Use foreshadowing to build suspense.

K-SOFA Means One Math Problem with a Strange Answer
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = ???????????????????

Please show your work below. Thank you in advance for following directions.

K-SOFA Means Washing the Fruit Before Letting It Rot

Please write an essay, story or datribe about at least one of the following facts.

* 21% of us don't make our bed daily. 5% of us never do.
* Men do 29% of laundry each week. Only 7% of women trust their
husbands to do it correctly.
* 40% of women have hurled footwear at a man.
* 85% of men don't use the slit in their underwear.
* 67.5% of men were tightie whities (briefs).
* The average bra size today is 36C whereas 10 years ago it was a 34B.
* 85% of women wear the wrong bra size. (Is there a correlation????)


K-SOFA Means “Gentle Lamb” in Swedish

Please tell how YOU would respond to the following survey.

* 58.4% have called into work sick when we weren't.

YOU:

* 3 out of 4 of us store our dollar bills in rigid order
with singles leading up to higher denominations.

YOU:

* 50% admit they regularly sneak food into movie theaters to
avoid the high prices of snack foods.

YOU:

* 39% of us peek in our host's bathroom cabinet.

YOU:

* 81.3% would tell an acquaintance to zip his pants.

YOU:

* 35% give to charity at least once a month.

YOU:

* 71.6% of us eavesdrop.

YOU: