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September Fiction Prompts Culled from the News
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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:
Supernatural Horror: Cobra’s severed head awakes from the dead to kill chinese chef
Courtroom Thriller: Judge orders lawyer to put on socks
Action Erotica: Post-threesome hamburger meat taste test leads to bathroom brawl
Hardboiled Detective Fiction: Fugitive hides from police in oven
Softboiled Detective Fiction: Tuckered out jewel thief arrested after falling asleep mid-robbery
Eggs Benedict Detective Fiction: Man arrested after washing hair with mayo in public fountain
Animal Fable: Great Dane Gets 43 Pairs of Socks Stuck in Stomach
Corporate Fable: Restaurant serves noodles laced with heroin
