Continuing to spread the Christmas joy and offering my gift of writing prompts, I present five more writing prompts! This time all five have to do with those slender, cylindrical peppermint twists of holiday sweetness– candy canes!
1. Your point of view character is a small child at a holiday party. He or she is frightened of Santa, because who wouldn’t be frightened of Santa. Funny red suit, big dude. But this character timidly is the last to go up to Santa, he/she tells him want they want and he gives them one of those itty bitty candy canes in plastic wrap. And its broken. Your point of view character says thank you but is disappointed. He/she goes to get a cookie from the buffet table and while there a spindly hand grabs their ankle from beneath the table cloth… What happens next?
2. Your point of view character is at a wild Christmas Eve party and a voluptuous woman in a green elf suit tells him to drink down a brilliant green drink. He wakes the next day in a cage made of candy canes. What happens next?
3. Your point of view character is a vampire hunter. He/she is stalking a vampire in a suburb that has been fully decked out with Christmas lights and decorations. A woman rushes at him, he grabs a wooden candy cane decoration stuck in the ground and stakes her. What happens next?
4. After all the wrapping paper shreds have landed and the presents are all opened, your point of view character finds beneath the tree a candy cane with a note in a fine script that says: “Eat me!” The point of view character sucks on the candy cane… What happens next?
5. Your point of view character is a detective who has been called in on a murder on Christmas Day. The weapon… a candy cane. How did the murder occur? Who did it? What happens next?