May Fiction Prompts Culled from the News

Each month we gather some news headlines that are strange enough to be fiction. Here’s yet another batch of headlines to get your creative juices flowing along with suggested genres:

Treasure Hunt Horror: Desiccated (and surely haunted) hand found in attic with treasure map

Science Fiction Noir: Robot arrested for buying drugs online

Black Comedy: Agoraphobic grandmother ventures outside and falls down open manhole

Erotic Carnivore Crime: Couple stuff hundreds of dollars worth of meat in pants

Science-Litter Fiction: (Mad?) scientist throws preserved animal brains from moving train

Party Pooper YA: Raining human feces ruin sweet 16 party

Magical Realist Legal Thriller: Man hires stuffed toy owl with law degrees as his lawyer

Cat Fancy Romance: Woman and cat go on romantic Manhattan dinner date

Man vs. Nature vs. Nature Again: Man catches fish, then gets pulled into sea by hungry sea lion