1. Don't look at the topic until you actually have 5 or more minutes to write.
2. After you look at the topic, write as fast as you can whatever comes into your head, no matter how weird. DO NOT EDIT OR REWRITE AS YOU GO.
3. Write for 5 minutes straight, more if you feel like it.
4. After you finish your 5 minutes, go back and edit or rewrite to your heart's content.
5-Minute Story Challenges: Whatever is in the challenge must appear in the story.

1. Homesick, crystal, dreams, rolling

2. Soaring, Snort, Snorkel

3. Blossom, Sorrow, Song

4. Perks, friends, exhaustion

5. Compassion, pink, longing

6. Absolution, faith, violet

7. Ghosts, scream, adrenaline

8. Blue, explosion, sinking.

9. Fire, Certainty, Clock

10. Mine, Misappropriate (to embezzle or use illegally.) Pearly  

11. Soaring, Snort, Snorkel 

12. Solitaire, Tenuous, Green 

13. Blossom, Sorrow , Song 

14. dreams, Rolling, Waves 

15. Hope, fortune, novel 

16. Heroes, Broken, Red 

17. time, chicken, best 

18. Pieces, brook, love 

19.Laughter, gobble, despair 

20. eagles, music, cry 

21. alibis, melody, star 

22. seasons, river, history 

23. prayer, Knight, Shame 

24. money, torrent, spring 
 
 

1. I am dead. The inevitable cannot be changed.

2. I did it again. Will they disown me this time?

3. He laughed so hard that his stomach seized and he fell backward onto the floor. Snorting and gasping, he took the hand offered him.

4. All I had left was despair, blind, empty and cold, like a whirling dervish of a blizzard in my soul.

5. My Mother was such a...

6.Please, don't --

7. Come-on, you know you need me.

8. For years I felt dirty, like I couldn't wash enough.

9. I am death incarnate. I am vengeance. 

10. My Father never...  

11. Giving him a playful smile, she stepped into the rainbow of light and vanished. 

12. "Fine," she snapped, "no more sex." 

13. She stared up into the concerned eyes of her lover, falling deeper and deeper, until she let go. 

14. He used his fingertips to softly stroke the contours of his true love's face, taking care not to wake her. 

15. "I will NEVER surrender!" he shouted and fell to his knees. 

16. "This is where I watched you die," she whispered. 

17. She slipped back into the living shadows, longing and trepidation at war in her heart. 

18. The mud and water cascaded down around her, swallowing the very air.

19. My Dad always said Grandma saw a ghost. 

20. I lost the one love of my life and didn't find him/her again for years. 

21. It was late Fall. The rainbow leaves swirled around me, sparking hope in my empty heart. 

22. I fell to my knees, unable to stand before him, pleading silently for forgiveness. 

23. I awoke to burning eyes, itching and watering. My throat seized. I could not breathe. Did Death himself stalk me? 

24. Finish this: There are ghosts in these halls. I see them flit from the corners of my eyes. When I turn, I am utterly alone... and terrified. 

25. Don't touch – 

26. If I could have just one wish granted… 

27. Just close your eyes and let me… 

28. I did it again. Will they disown me this time? 

29. The memory burns…. 

30 Careful… he might hear you! 

31 Don't tell me no! 

32. Take my hand. 

33. Don't drop it! 

34. Let me… 

35. Don't let go. 

36. But, my heart belongs to –  

37. So, they got away 

38. Don't shoot! 

39. What have you done? 

40. But I can't stop!