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FOR SALE: Baby Shoes. Good Shit!

Jay Wilcox

Hello, all! I retrieve writing prompts from far-off lands where men fear to tread. My work has been featured in diverse locales, such as right here, in the substack you are currently looking at.

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PROMPT - Write about the stupidest kind of expertise.

Dr. Meiersohn readied his splash-proof clipboard and entered the porta-potty. In every connoisseur there beats a weathered hope, indefatigable in its pursuit of perfection, and our hero was no exception. He once more closed the heavy plasti...

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PROMPT: Write a story about a sentient data center--like, it’s a guy walking around and trying to do human stuff.

The sentient data center who was a guy approached the microphone. He laughed nervously. “How are we feeling tonight, folks?”

“Boo!” the assembled townspeople cried immediately.

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PROMPT: “Keep your friends close but your enemies closer.”

Dr. Robotrix dipped his pulsating neon robo-claw into the potato salad. “So you say you’re working on a freeze ray?” he said, turning to the fellow next to him.

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PROMPT: A cocky pickpocket chooses the wrong target and lifts a bizarre brass coin that they cannot let go of–and which begins burning its way through the pickpocket's hand.

“Ow, fuck!” Snatchwick cried, shaking his coin wound in the cold November air. The coin itself clanged to the cobbles. “What the fuck is going on with that coin?”

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PROMPT: "If a dragon is a mindless beast then why would it kidnap someone? And why a princess specifically?"

You sigh. Clearly this person has never heard of the dragon-to-incel pipeline. “Look,” you say, “I want you to imagine, for a minute, that you’re still living in your mother’s subterranean cave-like dwelling. You spend all day on 4chan, cli...

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    I received my MFA from Bennington College and teach at the University of Maryland. I've twice won the Malcolm C. Braly Fiction Award. In THE COTTAGER, an elderly woman travels back in time to save her son's life: https://tinyurl.com/35zhsd54

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