What does a dragon’s dream look like? Is there a ghost inside your clock? And how could a ceramic urn be venomous? All these ideas and more will be dug into, with the dual power of pen and imagination…

Join award-winning fantasy and dreampunk author, Anna Tizard, in a journey into unexpected stories using the surrealist word game of Exquisite Corpse. Listeners’ words are drawn from the legendary Socks of Destiny and mixed into weird writing prompts which end up making more sense than they should! Post-Halloween, the spooky themes are still cropping up in these inspired short stories. Grab a blanket – grab a pen! – and switch your imagination on with these stories and ideas for the ultimate writing prompt challenge.

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INTRO: Hello imaginative people! I’m Anna Tizard and this is episode 67 of Brainstoryum. Now if you're still in the Halloween mood I’ll be sure to have some stories for you, as I’m still in a bit of a spooky mood and, well, the socks of destiny seem to respond to that. The writing prompts might be randomised but there’s often a little extra something that I suspect is going on – serendipity, or possibly just the power of the imagination, although we all know there’s no “just” about that.

Before we get started on the new story brainstorms, I’ll share with you my listeners’ ideas on the “crystalline zombie” which was the prompt from the last show, so there’s a ghoulish flavour before we’ve even started – but before that, I have some very exciting news...