Fiction Prompt:
Genre: Quiet suspense with emotional undercurrent
Tone: Still, restrained, slightly haunting — not supernatural, just human
One afternoon, you find an envelope in your mailbox.
No return address.
No stamp cancellation mark. Someone must have placed it there by hand.
It’s light, almost empty-feeling.
Inside is only a single sheet of paper with a short handwritten note — a sentence or two, nothing more.
Write the moment of opening it.
Describe:
- what the envelope looks like (texture, weight, condition)
- the shaky or neat handwriting
- your immediate reaction — confusion, recognition, unease, curiosity
- the thought that flashes through you when you read the one-line message
- and what you do with the note afterward (keep it, tear it up, ignore it, hide it)
Keep it: soft, grounded, human, ambiguous — not a thriller, not spooky.
Just the kind of small mystery that lodges itself in your mind for days.
Story:
I was coming home from visiting a friend on a summer afternoon. It was one of those picturesque blue skies with a few dotted clouds here and there.
I have a mailbox that sits tall by the curb, so it’s easy to get the mail while sitting in my car. I grabbed the usual bundle of mail and drove into my garage.
Most of the mail was advertisements of all sizes—lawn mowing services, new appliances on sale, a couple of bills, and so on. There was also a large white envelope with no stamp and no return address—the kind you get when you buy a greeting card.
I opened this letter first while sitting in my car. The envelope felt light. Inside was one folded sheet of yellow pad paper.
My stomach clenched as my mind imagined the contents of the message. It could be a neighbor complaining. Did I play my music too loud? Were my lawn sprinklers encroaching their grass?
I took a deep sigh and unfolded the piece of paper. The message was written in pen in a fancy cursive style.
“We love your peonies! Your garden is a delight—keep up the great work!”
I chuckled. My garden had received an analog positive comment. Day made.
Prompt: Lumora (AI)
Story: Deepak
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