Weekly Prompt: Doughnuts
Write a story about doughnuts
Who doesn’t like doughnuts?
Possibly a character in your imagination abhors the world’s greatest food, and you’re welcome to conjure that person for this week’s prompt: Write a story about doughnuts.
Feel free to write about chocolate frosted, strawberry, melon, doughnuts with sprinkles, glazed, plain, or red pepper doughnuts (and while I’ve never seen red pepper doughnuts, I’m sure they exist somewhere.) Your story can take place in Dunkin’ Donuts, Krispy Kreme, Mr. Donut (a popular shop in Japan, where I live), Honey Dew Donuts, Daylight Donuts, or any other doughnut shop, real or invented. As long as your story involves a doughnut, it can be set anywhere, in any era, country, or planet.
Your story can be something sweet (of course!), a crime story, thriller, romance, horror, science fiction, historical fiction, or any other genre. I think it’ll be fun to write a genre story about doughnuts.
The doughnut was created in 1847, but doughnuts hit their stride in 1920 when the doughnut machine was invented.
You’re allowed to do real-world research for your story, up to 1,000 calories.
By the way, you’re welcome to spell doughnut donut. Pick one or the other.
Centina Pentina is now open to microfiction of up to 250 words. Stories do not need to be exactly 50 words (a pentina) or 100 words (a centina) anymore, though they can be. In addition to centinas and pentinas, we’re also showcasing stories that are six words long and stories that are just one sentence.
Please include one of the following tags with your story:
6wordstory for stories that are exactly six words long
Pentina for stories that are exactly 50 words long
Centina for stories that are exactly 100 words long
OneSentenceStory for stories that are told entirely in one sentence
PostcardFiction for all the rest, stories that are 250 words or fewer
