A phone booth is a rarity nowadays. But there are still some around. I found this one outside a motel in Wisconsin.
Using an unusual setting like a telephone booth can make the places in our stories memorable and interesting.
Imagine the possibilities. What would happen if you inserted a telephone booth into your story?
Or try one of these ideas:
- The phone rings. Your character, walking by, answers it. What happens next?
- Your character must make an urgent phone call. But his cell phone battery is dead. He runs down the street and finds a phone booth. But now he has no change. What happens next?
- A family of Tele-Fairies lives in the phone booth. Every time a human makes a phone call, a fairy goes out into the world to do good. But no one has made a phone call for ages, and evil forces are outweighing the good. What happens next?
- As a prank, six friends decide to squeeze into a phone booth. They're packed in so tightly they get stuck. What happens next?
- An alien appears on Earth and falls in love with the first object it sees: a beautiful red and silver phone booth. What happens next?
See if YOU can find a role in your story for the humble phone booth, a nearly forgotten part of our culture.
The phone's ringing. It's for you!
