High Tech Fiction writing prompt
The Black Market for Memories
In a future where memories can be bought and sold, a young coder discovers a black market for illegal, wiped memories. They must decide whether to exploit this knowledge for personal gain or expose the dark underbelly of the memory trade.
Suggested length: A short story: 1,500 to 5,000 words, or flash fiction under 1,000
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Three ways to take this prompt somewhere nobody else will.
- 1Let the hero's plan work, and make that the problem.
- 2Tell it from the point of view of someone who thinks this world is perfectly normal.
- 3Shrink the stakes to one family, one street, one night.
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