The following is a writing prompt given at a creative writing meeting at the Perry library.. and what I pulled out of it in 10 minutes.
A man receives a package with no return address. It contains a pirate eye patch and a note.
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Cool! I always wanted an eye patch! thought Ron, when he picked it out of the box. He tried it on. The black elastic fit perfectly around his head. It was, of course, hard to see with only one eye, but that was a small price to pay for the awesomeness thereof. Maybe he'd be able to get a date now when he went to the bars.
But he was forgetting the note. He went back to the box--a surprisingly large one, considering the small size of the contents--and he picked up the note. It was unsigned as well. Too weird. He hoped it wasn't something psycho, like the anthrax scares of 15 years ago.
"Dear Ron," he read. "Have received notice of your interest in eye patches and thought to indulge you a little. This is a special one though, with powers of x-ray vision. Unfortunately, the activation phrase was reset to be 'Rubber baby buggy bumpers' and I can't figure out how to reset the backdoor."
