he Last Human Playlist In 2047, the final surviving human discovers an ancient server containing every song ever uploaded by humanity. The AI curator has been curating "the perfect goodbye playlist" for decades—but it refuses to play the last track until someone explains why humans stopped making new music. Echo Vendor A street seller in a near-future megacity sells "echoes"—tiny vials containing the final 30 seconds of sound a person heard before they died. Your protagonist buys one on impulse, only to hear their own voice saying something impossible. The Memory Thief's Retirement After decades of stealing and selling memories on the black market, the most infamous memory thief decides to retire. On their last night, they receive an anonymous request: steal one more memory—the client's own first memory of falling in love. But when they enter the mind, they realize it's their memory. What the Forest Kept Every autumn, people in a small mountain town leave offerings at the edge of an ancient forest to "pay rent" for living on stolen land. This year, the forest leaves something in return: a perfect wooden replica of a missing child who vanished 20 years earlier—but the replica is alive and claims to be the original. The Dream Architect In a world where dreams can be professionally designed like video games, a grieving architect is hired to build the perfect recurring dream for a terminally ill client. The more beautiful the dream becomes, the more the client refuses to wake up—and the architect starts forgetting which reality is real. Variant Vampire Vampires in this world don't drink blood—they feed on unused potential. The older a person gets without fulfilling their early dreams, the sweeter and more nourishing they become. Your protagonist is a 38-year-old who finally starts pursuing their long-abandoned passion… and suddenly becomes irresistible to the undead. The Librarian of Unwritten Books In a vast interdimensional library, there is one forbidden wing containing books that were never written—only imagined but abandoned by their authors. When a desperate writer sneaks in to steal an unwritten masterpiece, the book begins rewriting them instead. Five Minutes Dead "The strangest thing happened while I was dead for five minutes." Start your story with that exact opening line and let the narrator explain what they saw (or who they met) during clinical death—and why they begged the doctors not to bring them back. The Sun's Replacement The sun begins slowly fading. Governments race to build artificial suns, but the prototype works too well: it doesn't just provide light and heat—it starts granting small, localized wishes to anyone standing in its beam. Chaos (and miracles) ensue. Recipe for Regret Write the entire story in the form of a single, increasingly disturbing recipe. The ingredients include things like "three tablespoons of unspoken apologies," "one cup of childhood bedroom dust," and "the exact moment your mother stopped looking at you with pride." The dish is supposed to taste like forgiveness. The Scar's Story Your protagonist has a prominent scar they've never explained to anyone. One day, the scar begins to speak—quietly at first, then insistently—telling the true story of how it was made… and revealing that the person everyone thinks gave it to them is completely innocent. Spinning the Globe, 2026 Edition A broke travel blogger spins a globe blindfolded to decide their next (probably final) destination before their visa expires forever. It lands on a tiny, disputed island that doesn't appear on most maps anymore. When they arrive, the locals greet them as if they've been expected for centuries. The Plant That Remembers A biotech startup releases a houseplant that records and replays your conversations when you water it. At first it's marketed as a cute memory aid. Then people start using it to spy. Your protagonist's plant begins replaying arguments that never happened… yet. One Day in Your Wildest 2026 Imagine it's December 31, 2026, and everything has gone impossibly, beautifully right. Describe that single perfect day in vivid sensory detail—from the moment you wake up to the last thing you see before sleep. (Bonus twist: make one tiny thing feel slightly off, and let the reader wonder if it's real.) The Disappearing Stars One night people notice the constellations are slowly vanishing, star by star. Astronomers panic, religions declare omens, social media explodes. Your protagonist is one of the few who realizes the stars aren't disappearing—they're moving closer, forming a message only visible from one specific rooftop in the city., realistic style, high quality, detailed