#393 —DEAD OR ALIVE | THIS OR THAT | WRITING PROMPT

This or That or Pure Fiction

My responses to Posy’s fictional writing prompts

Nichola Scurry
Dead or Alive
Published in
4 min readApr 11, 2024

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A man who appears to be floating in air but he really has a clear board in his clothes.
This guy chose to fly. Photo & crap editing by me

I love a good writing prompt and this one from Posy Churchgate looks like it’ll get the creative juices flowing.

The caffeine from my morning coffee is coursing through whichever bodily system deals with caffeine. My head is clear since I didn’t drink booze last night. And my back is only slightly sore from planking a couple seconds more than I should have.

Let’s go!

You’re on the ocean — in a cruise ship or a small rowing boat?

I agree with Debdutta Pal and Emma that clothes with loud floral patterns are a no-go. But a small rowboat in the middle of the ocean sounds dangerous — big waves, no restaurant — so I’m going with the cruise ship.

Since this is fiction, I can dictate the sort of cruise ship and it will most definitely not be one of those giant floating cities full of people wearing aforementioned loud floral patterns and tanning like skin cancer ain’t a thing. Instead, I’ll be on a small and exclusive cruise chip with my friends being the only other passengers.

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Nichola Scurry
Dead or Alive

Australian human living in Barcelona, writing mostly about popular culture with a twist of quirky. If you like my writing, I like coffee. ko-fi.com/nicscurry