United States writing prompt
The Tracker and the Scientists
Narrate the tale of a Native American tracker in the late 1800s who is recruited to guide a group of European scientists through the uncharted territories of the West. As they journey, he must confront his past and the future of his land.
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.
- 1Write it as a letter that took weeks to arrive.
- 2End with a choice that history would never record.
- 3Let your character believe something about their world that turned out to be wrong.
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