2024’s Hypnovember Prompt Thread, a short story for each day, each one coming from my prompt list on Tumblr, generated by other user submissions.

Kinzie is a trucker on Kandar, where spidery aliens plot galactic conquest. She works hard, plays hard, & if she can hang on for another year, she’ll buy a jumpjet of her own & fly far away. But plans change when she’s caught among rebels, and even worse? Her license is expired.

Just beyond the strawberry meadow where a young farmer tends to his crops, an old and magical well sits at the top of a hill. Beckoned by sugary sweet temptations, he ends up wandering right into the arms of an unknown spirit.

A story about a Dominatrix from the future searching, finding and enslaving her prey.

A squirrelly girl who runs a liquor store on the edge of town greets a gorgeous customer who turns out to be a lot more than she bargained for. After their positively intoxicating encounter, Ellia has a change of heart about a couple things.

“You don’t remember why you’re here. You’ve lost track of the day. You don’t know what this bar is. You’re confused. It’s okay.” A short story around memory play, vaguely-described intoxication with some good wholesomeness at the end.