prompt - Stories

This is a collection of stories I wrote based on various prompts.

Barnaby the capybara crashes Val the penguin's romantic Antarctic birthday date with Steve the otter, accidentally warping them all back to a warm, firefly-lit Cretaceous jungle—turning a ruined evening into a perfect prehistoric getaway

Time-traveler Barnaby uses a silver fork and a piece of rutabaga to stop a rogue inventor's machine, stabilizing a frayed timeline that had displaced a penguin and a waistcoat-wearing otter into the wrong centuries

Stuck in 2026 World Cup traffic, friends Leo and Marcus are on the brink of a massive fallout over Marcus's annoying, high-energy dancing. The tension is instantly broken when Barnaby, a time-traveling capybara, accidentally teleports into their car and uses a calming temporal field to fix the radio's vibe, saving the road trip.

Barnaby, a hyper-intelligent capybara, uses a modified green suitcase to travel through time, requiring specific clothes as "temporal anchors". Despite an overstuffed packing error that triggers a chaotic singularity, he successfully warps to October 21, 1885, landing in a dusty telegraph office to save the timeline.

While working late to meet a strict deadline, accountant Arthur is accidentally teleported onto a commercial airplane by a time-traveling capybara. Using his golf umbrella and the creature's malfunctioning sci-fi collar, Arthur must quickly fix the quantum glitch to jump back to his office and finish his spreadsheet on time

They say that those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat it. With that in mind, what would lead Martin Niemoller to write a version for today?

A collection of poems by Wayne Gray

These are just story prompts, or random ideas.

Raven Bran always feels stuck behind his brother, in basketball, at school, and even with friends. But when he meets someone who truly understands him, everything starts to look different. Sometimes, the right person is all it takes to finally feel seen.