Magical Realism writing prompts

Magical realism doesn't explain itself. Pick a prompt and let your group treat the impossible thing like the weather — just there.

1. The town's rain has been falling upward for three weeks and nobody mentions it.
2. A grandmother's voice keeps coming out of the kettle.
3. A boy's shadow files for emancipation.
4. Every flower at the funeral starts singing.
5. A girl is born holding a folded letter for her future husband.
6. The grocer's apples taste like the customer's regrets.
7. The river runs backwards for one week a year and the village holds a festival.
8. A widow's husband returns as a wind that tidies the kitchen.