Mystery Contests & Writing Prompts

There are always new mysteries to solve, so what're you waiting for? Challenge yourself with our latest contests and prompts. Winners will have a chance to be featured in Chills & Thrills!

Guts (the original interactive zombie apocalypse survival story)

** PREVIOUSLY A FEATURED HORROR STORY** The dead have risen. You wake up in the middle of this violent, rotting new world. The putrid stench of carnage is in the air. You flip on the news to learn that dead people are coming back and cannibalizing every living creature in sight. A never-ending cycle of death and the...

Short Horror Stories

A collection of short horror stories by Peter Headstone. Read at your own risk and if you're up to it, read these stories at night!

Prime

TOP FIVE WINNER in the Dear 2114 Writing Contest - Write the Future with Margaret Atwood. In 2114, what will it mean to be together? To be apart? What if, when the next step in evolution occurs, you get left out? Would you choose to catch up, or hold on to your existence? Approximately 3400 words *I had originally pa...

Treasure * Contest Winner*

***** Winner of Future Library contest conducted by Margaret Atwood, Katie Paterson and Future Library Project. ******** "Go throw your TV set away, And in its place you can install A lovely bookshelf on the wall" - Roald Dahl. ************* Old grandparents are out on a motive to teach some values to their bratty gra...

Dear 2114

A person thinks about a tree, and a tree thinks about everything. A winning story of the incredibly talented Margaret Atwood's short story competition for the Future Library.

Magic #Futurelibrary

It's the year 2114 . . . and the grand opening of the Future Library! Read about this amazing event from two perspectives: The girl who's never seen a real book before And the woman who wants to see the magic one last time

I Never Promised You a Moon Colony

WINNER of Margaret Atwood's 'Dear 2114' #FutureLibrary Contest! I attempt to answer the prompt: Write a story about the advice you would give the world in 2114. Listen very closely, future people. Or not. Your choice. (Cover designed by Amber K Bryant. Cover image and chapter image have no known copyright restricti...

The Happy Zombie Sunrise Home

Okie's fifteen. She lives in New York. She's got a few problems: she's failing geography, her dad's a wimp, and her mother, Sumatra, is a stone cold bitch. But things get a lot worse when Sumatra turns into a zombie and eats Okie's dad. Clio, Okie's grandmother, lives in Toronto; but since the zombie apocalypse, Toron...

the spirits changed

the is a reading / rp book . it is all about people who have connected to the spirit animal so strongly that they can transform between the two . please do not be rude in this book as i will try to find a way to ban you . the only people who may criticize are the people coming from the discord book review . the link...

Secrets and Monsters

Jacob Phillips is a self-training investigator/reporter. He believes his purpose in life is to help uncover the truth no matter where it may lie. He has helped his hometown with many mysteries and only being eighteen but he must now help with the most dangerous case yet. There has been a total of 6 homicides that has...