Master Prompts List
Note, March 25: now that sign-ups are closing, the prompts list has been revised to show which prompts were claimed. There were certainly some prompts that were particularly popular. *g*

This is the master prompts list, grouped by category. Each prompt has been assigned a number, which is directly above the prompt; you'll need those when you sign up. I just wanted to thank everyone who took time to leave something. You guys absolutely outdid yourselves, and we have a total of 106 excellent and diverse prompts as a result. :) If you see anything omitted or misattributed, please let me know.

This is NOT where you sign up; comments to this post are disabled. Sign-ups will be in comments to the post following this one. As always, suggestions/comments/questions can be left here, at the intro post.



Poetry/Verse:

1. - CLAIMED by eponin10, kestrelsan, maygra, sanyin
I might lift the eaves again
and startle a small room still lit from within
and finger the traces I left there.
The considerations of days
lurk behind porous walls.
They cling there like stains.
Carpets soaked in the seepage of dreams,
flakes of skin
piled on surfaces as thick as dust.
There's a head-shape in the pillow
like a big fingerprint.

Memories flutter up like insects -
small shrieks, minor crimes inside
an inked-up window-pane
with clotted stars,
and now, outside the shut box,
this black beach with an ocean on it
breathing in waves,
tiered like plate glass,
and the whole world at night-time
a wide sea full of starfish waiting to be caught.
(Pandora's Box by Caitrona O'Reilly)


2.
"Within the house two voices arose in anger, a slender lash
Whistling delirious rage, and the dreadful sound
Of a thick lash booming and bruising, until it drowned
The other voice in a silence of blood, ’neath the noise of the ash. "
(Discord in Childhood: DH Lawrence)


3. - CLAIMED by meredevachon, maygra, sanyin
"When I’m asleep, dreaming and lulled and warm,—
They come, the homeless ones, the noiseless dead.
While the dim charging breakers of the storm
Bellow and drone and rumble overhead,
Out of the gloom they gather about my bed.
They whisper to my heart; their thoughts are mine."
(Sick Leave: Siegfried Sassoon)


4. - CLAIMED by hkath
Open the book of evening to the page
where the moon, always the moon, appears

between two clouds, moving so slowly that hours
will seem to have passed before you reach the next page

where the moon, now brighter, lowers a path
to lead you away from what you have known

into the places where what you had wished for happens,
its lone syllable like a sentence poised

at the edge of sense, waiting for you to say its name
once more as you lift your eyes from the page

and close the book, still feeling what it was like
to dwell in that light, that sudden paradise of sound.
(Moon, by Mark Strand)


5. - CLAIMED by orangesky33, traveller, annalazarus
Since you ask, most days I cannot remember.
I walk in my clothing, unmarked by that voyage.
Then the most unnameable lust returns.

Even then I have nothing against life.
I know well the grass blades you mention
the furniture you have placed under the sun.

But suicides have a special language.
Like carpenters they want to know which tools.
They never ask why build.
(Excerpt from "Wanting to Die" by Anne Sexton)


6. - CLAIMED by kat_on_table
...Man hands on misery to man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
And don't have any kids yourself.
(This be the Verse: Philip Larkin)


7.
If any question why we died,
Tell them, because our fathers lied.
(Rudyard Kipling)


8.
Et ces mots, montré comme un jeu de cartes,
où l'on gagne trop tôt.

And these words, revealed like a game of cards
in which we win too soon.
(L'Enfant (The Child) by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by A. Poulin, Jr.)


9.
Our love is a secret
like you tell your best friend
though I regret it
I don't want it to end

No one knows what we do
that's the way you want it
I should keep my mouth shut
because I love you
so I'll try not to forget
but why should I lie

When someone found out
all you did was shout
at me
but she swore her secrecy
she betrayed my trust
even though
it was only lust
(By cloex_brosluvr)


10.
"Fool," he answered, "death is sure
To those that stay and those that roam,
But I will never more endure
To sit with empty hands at home."
(Alfred, Lord Tennyson)


11.
Her eyes grew wide for a moment; she drew one last deep breath,
Then her finger moved in the moonlight,
Her musket shattered the moonlight,
Shattered her breast in the moonlight and warned him -- with her death.
(The Highwayman, Alfred Noyes)


12. - CLAIMED by flipmontigirl, technosage, luzdeestrellas
Hush, two more secrets before you sleep

I have killed for you
That you should sleep with hands clean

I have died for you
That you always sleep with hands clean
(Anitsed Elahkim)



Quotations:

13. - CLAIMED by sathinks, queenofcydonia, silverweave. dodger_winslow
Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence. -- Dorothy Dix


14.
Nothing would sleep in that cellar. -- From Root Cellar by Theodore Roethke


15. - CLAIMED by mel_b_angel
He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore. -- Sigmund Freud


16. - CLAIMED by zortified
Our souls are like those orphans whose unwedded mothers die in bearing them: the secret of our paternity lies in their grave, and we must there to learn it. - Herman Melville


17. - CLAIMED by dark_roast
"Three can keep a secret, if two are dead." - Benjamin Franklin


18. - CLAIMED by dotfic, rez_lo
“We dance round in a ring and suppose, While the secret sits in the middle and knows” - Robert Frost quotes (American poet, 1874-1963)


19. - CLAIMED by audrarose, luzdeestrellas
“Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.” - Elbert Hubbard quotes (American editor, publisher and writer, 1856-1915)


20.
“Do not put your trust in a bad companion nor even trust an ordinary friend, for if he should get angry with you, he may bring all your secrets to light.” - Chanakya quotes (Indian Politician, strategist and Writer, 350 BC-275 BC)


21. - CLAIMED by flipmontigirl, technosage
“Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.” - Leonard Cohen quotes (Canadian folk Singer, Song Writer, Poet and Novelist. b.1934)


22. - CLAIMED by innie_darling
Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got. - Sophia Loren


23.
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. - George Orwell


24. - CLAIMED by missyjack, killabeez
"What is past is not dead; it is not even past. We cut ourselves off from it. We pretend to be strangers. (Patterns of Childhood : Christa Wolf)


25. - CLAIMED by flipmontigirl, ink_stain
It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was. - Anne Sexton


26.
"But remember that my food is a pot of bitter tea.
And there is another 'I'. Will you be afraid to know it
The flylike thought crawling in the garbage?"
(Confession: Wen Yiduo)


27.
"Okonkwo's fear... was not external, but lay deep within himself. It was the fear of himself, lest he should be found to resemble his father." (Things Fall Apart: Chinua Achebe)


28. - CLAIMED by amy_star_
"I'm not frightened of the darkness outside. It's the darkness inside houses I don't like." (A Taste of Honey: Shelagh Delaney)


29. - CLAIMED by teand, vaznetti, i_naiad, annkiri
"Darkness brings home fathers, with their real, unspeakable power. There is more to fathers than meets the eye." (Cat's Eyes: Margaret Atwood)


30. - CLAIMED by technosage
"I think... that if you know someone's good, you know it in your belly. And you trust that if they had to do something, they had no other choice." - (The Black Donnellys)


31.
Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret. - Aphra Behn


32.
Friendship is constant in all other things
Save in the office and affairs of love:
(Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare)



Story prompts/ideas:

33. - CLAIMED by onci_dium, laguera25
Why did Dean's eyes bleed in Bloody Mary?


34. - CLAIMED by pyrebi
What if John had encountered a demon before the YED killed Mary?


35. - CLAIMED by pyrebi, queenofcydonia
What if Sam has had a vision he's told no one about?


36.
What sort of secret would tear the Winchesters apart?


37.
For most of their lives, John has kept secrets from his sons. What toll have they taken? (set season one, maybe, or preseries)


38. - CLAIMED by tolakasa
What if Dean knows something about a way to defeat the YED but considers the cost too high?


39. - CLAIMED by amothea
repressed memories


40. - CLAIMED by rez_lo
A secret ally


41. - - CLAIMED by trinity_clare, pyrebi, blumvale
Jessica knows Sam has been lying to her about his family ever since they first met.


42. - CLAIMED by amy_star_
Sam doesn't know what they're hunting and no matter how he asks, no one will tell him.


43.
He used to come through every now and then, sometimes with his sons, sometimes alone. Sometimes he asked her to recommend a place to stay, sometimes he took her up on the offer of a warm guest room for the night. She always wondered about him. She doesn't anymore.


44.
Ellen knew what had happened all along.


45.
Sam's secret life at Stanford follows him even when he leaves and goes off with Dean for their "roadtrip."


46.
"A laparotomy is a surgical maneuver involving an incision through the abdominal wall to gain access into the abdominal cavity."


47. - CLAIMED by r727, missyjack
Sam and Dean never look in each other's duffles.


48.
What does Dean do while Sam's at high school all day?


49.
So, was that just a side-effect of Bloody Mary's death-throes - everything within bleeding distance bled?
Or is there a secret death in Dean's past? I'd love it if this death occured while Dean was quite young, as he was protecting Sam in some way - revenge for real or perceived hurts. Did something 'normally' awful, nothing supernatural, threaten Sam - a kidnapper, rapist, burglary gone wrong kind of thing? Did Dean go to sort things out - either taking his 'lesson' too far, or mistaking the human enemy for a spirit? How does that effect Dean? How much does Sam know, or suspect?


50. - CLAIMED by sinuous_curve, isabeau
Mary Winchester was never as relieved as she was the day they put her first born in her arms and she saw that he was completely human. But her second son... now he was just like her.


51.
Sam wants to know what Dean did while he was at Stanford. Dean wants to keep it secret.


52.
The Vagina Monologues.


53.
Vulcan mind meld.


54. - CLAIMED by eloise_bright
Get Cape, Wear Cape, Fly


55.
Dean reveals to Sam the reason why he always wears his pendant/necklace when they're in bed together (could be in Wincesty context, could not)


56. - CLAIMED by meredevachon, isabeau
Mary knew she was going to die that night, but why didn't she say anything?


57.
Sam's secret love affair with the Impala behind Dean's back.


58. - CLAIMED by obeetaybee
John never spoke to his boys about the first war he was part of.


59. - CLAIMED by lunardreamed, tolakasa
Mary's uncle - the one who put up her gravestone - how much did he know?


60.
Jess had an interesting dating history before she ended up with Sam.


61. - CLAIMED by sarlev_vanisa
Jim Murphy became a pastor as a way to make up for his greatest sin.


62.
Four times Sam lied to Dean, and one time he told the truth.


63.
There's something Mary kept from John.


64. - CLAIMED by innie_darling
John lies to the boys about how he got injured on a hunt.


65.
Dean has dream visions. Why does he hide them from Sam?


66.
Sam and Dean are secretly having sex with each other.


67.
Evil!Sam - secrets and lies come out.


68. - CLAIMED by halfshellvenus
What else has Dean promised Sammy that Sam can't/don't remember?


69.
The real reason Sam went to Stanford.


70.
The real reason Dean was in a dress, August 13, 1999.


71.
What Dean actually does when he says he's going to grab at the bar up the road.


72. - CLAIMED by brynwulf, audrarose
Where Sam goes when he sneaks out at 3am and how long he's been getting away with it.


73.
Who wrote Sam's anonymous recommendation letter for Stanford.


74. - CLAIMED by meredevachon, seaoflosttime, tolakasa
Dean has his own abilities that he doesn't want Sam or his father to know about.


75. - CLAIMED by caelumi
Despite how much he loved his boys, there were times John winchester thought it would be easier to leave them behind.


76. - CLAIMED by sinoftheday
John tried his best to give Sam "the talk," but he wonders sometimes how Dean learned about sex.


77.
Dean has named his baby - the Impala. Can Sam guess it?


78. - CLAIMED by lunardreamed, unperfectwolf
In "Salvation" John yells at Dean for not telling him about Sam's visions and Dean's excuse was that "getting you on the phone, I got a better chance of winning the lottery". However, both Sam and Dean left John voicemails about other important developments (Dean dying, something being in their old house). So, why did they decide to keep the visions to themselves for so long?


79.
What really happened with that waitress in Tampa... and what does Sam know about it.


80. - CLAIMED by i_naiad
John's secret life while on hunts away from the boys.


81. - CLAIMED by sinoftheday, ninhursag
Sam loses his virginity and keeps it a secret from everyone.



Lyrics

82. - CLAIMED by sanj
Hush little baby, don't say a word
And never mind that noise you heard.
It's just the beast under your bed,
In your closet, in your head.
("Enter Sandman", Metallica.)


83.
Over in the bushes and off to the right.
Come two men talkin' in the pale moon light.
Sheriff John Brady and Deputy Hedge,
haulin' two limp bodies down to the water's edge.
(Uncle Tom's Cabin by Warrant)


84. - CLAIMED by amy_star_
Talk to me softly
There's something in your eyes
Don't hang your head in sorrow
And please don't cry
(Don't Cry by Guns'n'Roses)


85. - CLAIMED by r727, eponin10
But as the scenery grows, I see in different lights
The shades and shadows undulate in my perception
My feelings swell and stretch, I see from greater heights
I realize what I am now too smart to mention
To you
(Never Is A Promise - Fiona Apple)


86. - CLAIMED by kat_on_table, i_naiad, sinuous_curve, maygra
"I'm just a ghost in this house
I'm just a shadow upon these walls
As quietly as a mouse I haunt these halls
I'm just a whisper of smoke."
(Ghost in this House: Alison Krauss & Union Station)


87.
But I couldn't believe it, I just had to find out for myself
And I couldn't conceive it, I never would listen to nobody else
No I couldn't believe it, I just had to find out for myself
That there's some things in this world you just can't explain.
(The Legend of Wooley Swamp - The Charlie Daniels Band)


88. - CLAIMED by audrarose
i am too busy to have friends
a lover would just complicate my plans
so i will never look for love again
i'm taking matters into my own hands

i think i could last at least a week without someone to hold me
i think i could last at least a week without someone to hold me
won't you hold me?
("First Orgasm" by The Dresden Dolls)


89. - - CLAIMED by obeetaybee, scarlett_o
Well baby, I've been here before
I've seen this room and I've walked this floor
You know, I used to live alone before I knew you
And I've seen your flag on the marble arch
And love is not a victory march
It's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah
("Hallelujah" by Leonard Cohen, as sung by Jeff Buckley)


90. - CLAIMED by innie_darling
"Caught in a trap of what we're taught to believe...When night overcomes day, life's so hard to perceive..." - ("Wonder" Megan McCauley)


91.
I say my hell is the closet I'm stuck inside/
Can't see the light/
(And my heaven is a nice house in the sky/
I got central heating and I'm all right/
Yeah, yeah, yeah/
Can't see the light/)
Keep it locked up inside don't talk about it/
Talk about the weather/
("So Much to Say," Dave Matthews Band)


92.
Lies, lies in my papa's looks
Lies, lies in my history books
Lies, lies like they teach in class
Lies, lies, lies I catch on way too fast
Fire, fire upon your wicked tongue
Lies, lies, lies you're trying to spoil my fun
(The Rolling Stones)



Images:

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93. - CLAIMED by amothea, sathinks, traveller
Black/White tree under spooky sky



94. - CLAIMED by trinity_clare, ninhursag
magic items



95. - CLAIMED by amothea, vaznetti
boat on lake



96. - CLAIMED by shay_renoylds, fallenangels607, sanyin
burning letters



97. - CLAIMED by dark_roast
Impala for sale



98.
a set of jokers



99.
trick-or-treat dogs



100. - CLAIMED by ignipes, unperfectwolf, kimberlite
misty park with bench



101. - CLAIMED by sinuous_curve, innie_darling
naked woman in silhouette beside bonfire



102. - CLAIMED by innie_darling
creepy mummified baby



103.
swirly blue plasma



104.
naked boys cuddling



105.
Toy Soldiers song and vid prompt (click to link to see embedded video)


106. - CLAIMED by ignipes, shay_renoylds
View through rainy windshield