Fiction Prompts

I like a good mystery. An overactive imagination is kind of my stock in trade. People-watching is an exercise in making up fictional histories for strangers. ​

This sign, however, stymies my every fictional effort.

I find nothing to add to this text to make a more vivid, surprising, or funny bit of narrative. It's already there: the stereotype and the inverted stereotype, the frustration and the showmanship, the transgression and the possibility of forgiveness.

I mean, dam, it's a zen koan of a story. Plus two mungrel dogs.