Office writing prompts

Office stories are quiet thrillers. Pick a prompt, decide who in your group is in HR, and write the week management cracks.

  1. The new starter is being trained by someone who left two years ago.
  2. The office plant starts giving accurate advice on Slack.
  3. An anonymous email predicts every reorganisation a month in advance.
  4. The accounts team are not, on closer inspection, the accounts team.
  5. The CEO's daughter is the new intern. The new intern is the CEO.
  6. The office Christmas party is being planned by the building, not the company.
  7. A redundancy round is announced and one name on the list is the manager's.
  8. The fire drill on Thursday wasn't a drill.

Write one of these together

Storybored is a turn-based story writing game for 2–4 players. Drop any prompt above into a new story, invite friends with a code, and write the next line each.

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