✒️ 5-Minute Writing Prompt:

You find an old notebook on a park bench with a note on the first page: “Whatever you write in here will come true.”

Book of Fate

I chuckle at what I wrote in the notebook. How could a notebook possibly make all of my wishes come true? And I’m sure if it did, it would have some sort of monkey’s paw effect anyway.

I sip my coffee quietly, watching the pigeons peck away at the concrete when a man suddenly sits next to me. I pay him no mind at first, only looking up to return his gentle and kind greeting.

After a few minutes, he leaves, leaving an envelope in his stead. I look to catch him, but the man has long disappeared to God-knows-where. I glance at the name written on the envelope, “Emile Grace Parks.” I’m astonished. The envelope has my name on it!

I tear open the yellow envelope and look at the contents inside. A single rectangular piece of paper. A check addressed to me for the one million dollars I requested from the notebook.

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